A lot of people feel extremely frustrated about the rampant voter suppression going on as evidenced by the many comments on my last post.
Diane Tucker | Posted 11.24.2008 | Home
Republicans intend to place GOP recruits inside Ohio polling places on Election Day to challenge the qualifications of certain voters. The Obama campa...
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
The issues of ACORN and voter fraud are a smokescreen designed to cover a much more serious issue with a long and ugly history: the suppression of the vote of groups that tend to vote Democratic.
Diane Tucker | Posted 11.23.2008 | Home
"Will Mississippi election officials accept a Czech-language notarization?" Brian Reagan, an American citizen living in Prague, asked OffTheBus. Reaga...
WBBM | Posted 11.22.2008 | Chicago
Suburban Cook County will likely set a new record for voter registration, WBBM reports: Cook County Clerk David Orr tells Newsradio 780 that all the...
Natasha Chen | Posted 11.18.2008 | Home
Political expression became the new spice in pumpkin pie this year at the annual Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival. The annual weekend event draw...
Warren Goldstein | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
Fifteen of my sixteen students are planning on voting. In the five previous presidential elections, that number has only once (in 2004) gone higher than 50%.
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 11.16.2008 | Chicago
Voter registration levels here have hit what is likely a near-term record level -- a possible sign that Sen. Barack Obama's hometown is preparing to ...
Joss Stone | Posted 11.16.2008 | Entertainment
Have a say! You each individually have a mind and a mouth that finally you have a right to use. This vote is your only weapon, so go ahead and use it .
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 ...
Ryan Rivera | Posted 11.15.2008 | Home
As goes Washoe County, so goes Nevada? "If Kerry had carried this county, he would have carried Nevada," said Curtis-Weber. And with Nevada, he would have won the White House.
AP | BRAD CAIN | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
SALEM, Ore. — Led by a surge in Democratic voter signups, Oregon voter registration has set a record for the Nov. 4 election. The secretary of ...
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...
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
The right to vote is protected by more constitutional amendments than any other right we have, yet if 2004 is any indicator, we can expect many more voter suppression tactics this Election Day.
The Telegraph | Catherine Elsworth | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
Analysts are predicting so-called "millennials" - voters aged between 18 to 29 - could turn out in record numbers on November 4th following the surge ...
Ben Fractenberg | Posted 11.13.2008 | Style
Can I subvert corporate capitalism with my clothing choices and sardonic detachment? Probably not. Can I register people to vote by sincerely telling them why I think it is important? Most definitely.
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.
AP | Posted 11.10.2008 | Chicago
CHICAGO - Election officials throughout Illinois are digging out from under a record number of last-minute voter registration requests. Tuesday was t...
Andy Bernstein | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media
When producers from ABC's 20/20 called, it was naïve of us to believe that they would do anything but use the worst interviews of the dozens at their disposal.
Stefan Deeran | Posted 11.10.2008 | Green
Voting for the top of the ticket is obviously important on November 4th. But do you know where your state legislative candidates stand on environmental issues that directly affect where you live and work?
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.
Alec Brownstein | Posted 11.10.2008 | Entertainment
You know that the race is heating up when the household night lights start discussing it. In this video, Lady Liberty discusses "The War," George W. Bush, and why you should vote this year.
Kamala Lopez | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics