Nov 12 2012
In addition to the need for a non-partisan federal agency to run and control our elections, here’s another change that needs to be made: Elected officials should not be in charge of drawing new congressional districts every ten years. Both parties use that power, when they’re in charge, to draw bizarre districts that make little …
Nov 11 2012
I could not agree more with David Frum, who points out the madness of allowing partisan elected officials to run our elections, something no other stable democracy in the world does. When you see problems with too few voting machines, battles over long lines and early voting periods, this happens because those elected officials, especially …
Nov 10 2012
Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s campaign manager in 2008 and now an MSNBC contributor and analyst, admitted the other day that voter fraud is essentially non-existent. Here’s the transcript and the video:
Nov 10 2012
Right Wing Watch dug up this old video of Paul Weyrich, the founding father of the religious right, bluntly saying that he wants fewer and fewer people to vote because the more people who vote, the less leverage the Christian right has. If you don’t know who Weyrich was, he was easily the most important …
Nov 06 2012
The Huffington Post reports what anyone who has ever covered elections could already tell you, that the Republican “poll watchers” and vote challengers go almost exclusively to districts with high percentages of poor and minority voters. Because those voters will tend to vote Democratic.
Nov 06 2012
Here’s yet another example of a Republican campaign or group putting out misleading robocalls that help suppress the vote, this time telling people to go to the wrong polling place. A local TV station has the audio and the real polling places:
Nov 05 2012
Ohio Republicans, especially Sec. of State Jon Husted, are pulling out all the stops to suppress voting as much as humanly possible, even if they have to break the law to do it. At the last minute, Husted has issued instructions to election clerks on how to deal with provisional ballots that are cast — …
Nov 05 2012
The voting problems continue in Ohio. Some sort of computer glitch is being blamed for causing thousands of absentee ballots to be rejected because the information in the state’s Qualified Voter File didn’t match information in county databases.
Nov 05 2012
The investigation into the destruction of valid voter registration forms by an RNC employee working for one of the many sockpuppet companies Nathan Sproul keeps creating to cover his tracks and former problems with voting rights violations is expanding to cover Sproul and perhaps even more. The Washington Post reports:
Nov 05 2012
As has been widely reported, the lines for early voting in Ohio and Florida, two very important swing states, have been astronomically long. People are waiting hours and hours in line to take advantage of early voting, largely because the lines will likely be even longer on election day. And none of this is a …
Nov 02 2012
This sort of thing is becoming epidemic. ThinkProgress reports that the Romney campaign has been training poll watchers — people whose job is to challenge the eligibility of voters and muck things up at polling places so it takes longer to vote and people will be forced to leave — and has been giving them …
Oct 24 2012
The Virginia Board of Elections, which is controlled by Republicans, is refusing to request a formal investigation by the state attorney general into allegations that the state GOP has been dumping valid voter registration forms rather than turning them in.
Oct 23 2012
The more that comes out about Republican voter registration efforts around the country, the more the whole thing stinks. It’s already been reported that the GOP “fired” Nathan Sproul’s company, Strategic Allied Consulting, after fraudulent registration forms and illegal conduct were found in several states, and that the company just changed names and kept operating …
Oct 22 2012
More details are emerging on the situation in Virginia, where an employee of the Republican National Committee has been arrested on several felony counts of trashing voter registration forms. First of all, more people are now coming forward in other parts of the state saying that their registration forms were apparently not turned in.
Oct 21 2012
The Supreme Court denied a last-ditch appeal from Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican, asking them to give immediate consideration to his petition to allow the state’s early voting restrictions, which were invalidated by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, to remain in place for this year’s election.
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