Could a "national threat" possibly be less plausible? Vilifying ACORN and other voter registration groups that seek to enfranchise and empower the socially marginalized serves several purposes.
Dave Johnson | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
Volunteers at the Center for Media and Democracy's Election Protection Wiki have collected unbelievable reports of voter suppression nationwide in the nine days since it went online.
Bob Starks | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
We cannot take this election for granted and begin to believe that Senator Obama is already elected. We must fight to the last minute and leave no stones unturned.
Think Progress | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics
As the 2008 election process draws near -- and with early voting in many states having already begun -- conservatives are raising a great hue and cry ...
AP | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
Florida's governor says his fellow Republicans may be exaggerating claims of voter fraud in the state. Gov. Charlie Crist said Wednesday that he has ...
Chris Goldberg | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
The day you can show me evidence that Mickey Mouse votes have tilted the election we can talk about voter fraud in a serious way. I won't hold my breath.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 11.15.2008 | Home
In an exclusive interview, the two men explain at breakneck pace what they're afraid of this year and what they hope voters will do to make sure the 2008 election is fair, open, and small-d democratic.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
First published at WashingtonTimes.com The accusations against ACORN keep on coming, with more and more examples piling up of fraud in critical battl...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
After days of withering attacks against ACORN and implications that the Obama campaign was using the community organizing group to perpetuate voter fr...
Brad Friedman | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
In case you're wondering, this is the real reason -- about 1.3 million of them, actually -- for the GOP's desperate ACORN "voter fraud" scam...
Tom Matzzie | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
Conservatives are scared of a progressive majority. And they're going to lie, cheat and steal to prevent it from happening. But they can only be successful if we let them.
Rick Hasen | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
Obama is running way ahead in the polls, and if he wins in a landslide it is not because Donald Duck has voted thousands of times in key swing states.
Ryan Rivera | Posted 11.10.2008 | Home
(AP photo) Colorado and Nevada officials responded on Thursday to Wednesday's New York Times story alleging thousands of voters have been removed fr...
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 11.10.2008 | Chicago
ACORN, along with Project Vote, just announced that they had registered 1.3 million poor people this year. No wonder the GOP is up in arms. They're scared of too many poor people preparing to vote this year.
Cheryl Howard Crew | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics
Don't fool yourselves, we may be the good ole' US of A, but we need international election monitors as much as any third-world government today.
Erica Jong | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
Not everyone agreed, but I thought the debate was boring because the real questions were, as usual, unasked. Here are the ones I'd like to hear next time.
Ryan Rivera | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home
(AP photo) Nevada authorities raided the Las Vegas offices of a group registering voters in low income communities seeking evidence of voter registr...
Brad Friedman | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
[The GOP has] decided to intensify their unsubstantiated assaults on the community organization, given its effectiveness at registering millions of low-income voters across the country.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
Throughout the US, Republican operatives are working overtime to decimate the Democratic turnout and it's crucial to remember that favorable polling numbers will not guarantee a fair election.
James Sample | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
Former Montana State Representative Kevin Furey (photo) , a First Lieutenant in the Army Reserves, is presently in New Jersey preparing to return to I...
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics
The presidency could again be decided here by how well what's left of the American democratic process can be protected.
Colorado Independent | Posted 11.01.2008 | Home
From reading tests and ID challenges to felon disenfranchisement laws and the endless purging of voter rolls, the U.S. is almost alone among industrial world democracies in having no uniform federal voting law.
Robert Koehler | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics
The most crucial news of the 2008 election season is that "Goo-Goo America," if you will -- good-government, democracy-committed America -- is up and out of its complacency in growing numbers.
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
Helping people register to vote, working as a polling monitor, volunteering to be a vote count observer after the polls close are three ways to prevent the presidency from being stolen again.
Mark Crispin Miller | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
If Recount had told the truth about that stolen race (and what is still happening right now), and calling it by its true name, that movie would have done us all tremendous good.
Robert Koehler | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics