Here’s a story of potential voter registration fraud in Virginia, where a store employee in Harrisonburg saw someone dump a bag of trash that turned out to have completed voter registration forms in it. Elections officials and the police have been notified.
Category Archive: Voting Rights
Oct 16 2012
GOP Voter Registration Operation Changes Names
Remember Nathan Sproul, the former Arizona Republican chairman whose various companies have been caught repeatedly engaging in voter registration fraud while on the GOP payroll? The RNC suspended one of his front companies a few weeks ago after investigations in several states found registration fraud going on, but now he’s back with yet another name …
Oct 09 2012
Appeals Court Upholds Ohio Early Voting Ruling
Remember that outrageous lie the Republicans told about the Obama campaign trying to deprive military personnel from voting in Ohio? The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the district court ruling that rejected that lie and restored early voting for all Ohio residents.
Oct 09 2012
New Mexico GOP Caught Distorting Law in Poll Training
One of the ways the Republican party has long tried to suppress the vote is by having poll challengers at voting sites — in Democratic districts only, of course — to pick people out that they claim may be ineligible to vote and challenge their right to vote in front of poll workers. Progress New …
Oct 05 2012
Florida Downsizes Its Voter Purge
Remember a few months ago when Rick Scott’s administration in Florida sent a list of 180,000 names to county clerks that they thought were non-citizens who had illegally voted? It was full of so many names of legitimate voters that the clerks refused to use it and Scott blamed it on not having access to …
Oct 02 2012
GOP Caught in Massive Voter Registration Fraud Scheme
The Republican party has been caught red-handed paying millions of dollars to a company owned by a longtime GOP operative with a track record of committing voter registration fraud. Remember the girl caught on video saying she was registering voters, but only Republicans? Turns out she worked for that company, Strategic Allied Consulting, which has …
Sep 30 2012
Republicans Still Searching for Real Voter Fraud
As we’ve documented many times, the Republican party is constantly claiming that voter fraud is rampant in America. And from time to time, a specific Republican official will come up with a scary sounding number, a list of thousands, or tens of thousands, of names that may have committed voter fraud. And then that number …
Sep 28 2012
Voter Registration Fraud in Action
Here’s a Youtube clip of a woman in El Paso County, Colorado who is registering voters — but only ones who are going to vote for Romney. I’d really like to know who she was actually working for. If it was the county, as she claimed, some elected official is in a world of trouble. …
Sep 24 2012
Voter ID May Be Overturned in PA
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is sending signals that the photo ID law passed by the state legislature is likely to be struck down. A lower court upheld the constitutionality of the law, but the high court vacated that ruling and remanded the case back, with orders for the state to show how — if — …
Sep 20 2012
Texas Purges Living People From Voter Rolls
The Republican efforts to keep as many people from the polls — especially if they’re likely to vote Democratic — continues in many states. Texas is trying to purge its voter rolls of “dead” people but keeps hitting people who are very much alive. And here’s what happens when someone is wrongly purged from the …
Sep 17 2012
Republican Group Behind Military Voting Lie
I’m sure you remember a few weeks ago when the Romney campaign and every wingnut on the planet dishonestly claimed that the Obama campaign was trying to keep members of the military from voting in Ohio. I’m sure you’ll be shocked to hear that a military group that filed briefs in the case telling that …
Sep 13 2012
Suit Filed Against Ohio Sec. of State
Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted finds himself going to court yet again for his constant and blatantly partisan attempts to make voting more difficult in that state. Two members of a county board of elections that Husted fired for trying to make it easier to vote in their county are now suing him for …
Sep 13 2012
The Worldnutdaily’s Latest Smear Job
The Worldnutdaily specializes in two things: fake “adverticles” that are really just ads for books they’re selling wrapped around a flimsy “news” item, and articles that are little more than long, detailed examples of the argumentum ad labelum. This piece is a perfect example, a long article that does nothing more than apply the label …
Sep 04 2012
Judge Rejects Ohio Voting Restrictions
A federal judge has overturned Ohio’s new restrictions on in-person early voting as unconstitutional on equal protection grounds, noting that the law didn’t even apply uniformly to military voters, much less to the general public, because the time available would vary by county. In the text below, UOCAVA stands for the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens …
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