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Federal Appeals Court Rules for GOP in Ohio Matching Case

By | 10.15.08 | 9:55 am

Yesterday, the full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed a surprising victory to state Republicans by requiring Ohio election officials to check all new voters’ registration information against existing databases by Friday.

As the Associated Press reports, the court, sitting en banc (all 16 judges), reversed the ruling just last More…

Florida 2000 Redux?

By | 10.01.08 | 6:30 am

You know it’s going to be a heated election when a state attorney general sues his own state agency for not cracking down on voter fraud. But that’s just what’s happened in Wisconsin. It’s indicative of the kinds of legal challenges now being brought in hotly contested states around the More…