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Duran investigating whether dead people have voted in New Mexico

By | 11.10.11 | 6:19 pm | More from The New Mexico Independent

Photo: Chris Steller

The office of Secretary of State Dianna Duran says that the names of 641 dead people are still on the voter registration rolls in New Mexico.

Vets press Colorado Secretary of State Gessler to drop voter ballot case

By | 10.13.11 | 6:16 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Image by Matt MahurinRichard Allen Smith, Afghan war veteran and vice chairman of national soldier and veteran advocacy organization VoteVets, on Thursday hand delivered a petition with more than 9,000 signatures asking Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler to drop the lawsuit he filed seeking to prevent counties in the state from More…

At KSP, Perry lauds fiscal policies; protestors rally against ‘hateful’ immigration bills

By | 05.17.11 | 3:48 pm

Rick Perry (Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/eschipul)“Hey, hey, ho, ho our racist governor has got to go!” chanted demonstrators Monday night outside the grand opening of the new headquarters for Houston tea party group King Street Patriots (KSP). Inside, before attendees and Republican officeholders, Gov. Rick Perry celebrated his “pro-growth” policies steaming through the state Legislature More…

Clerk behind disputed Wisconsin election results has similar discrepancies in her past

By | 04.12.11 | 11:39 am

A Daily Kos user diary posted late last night reveals that the current dust-up over misplaced votes in the recent Wisconsin State Supreme Court election isn’t the first time Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus — who worked for Republicans in the state legislature while the incumbent judge More…

King Street Patriots set fundraising goal of $500K

By | 04.05.11 | 12:15 pm

Fresh off the heels of its national True the Vote summit, Houston tea party group King Street Patriots (KSP) is seeking to raise $500,000 to achieve its goal of recruiting 1 million volunteers across the nation to monitor polling places during the 2012 presidential election.

A letter to More…

True the Vote speaker: ‘leftists don’t want free and fair elections’

By | 03.31.11 | 10:30 am

In a column recounting the recent national True the Vote summit, featured speaker Warner Todd Huston contends that the Houston tea party-led effort is not motivated by partisanship — illustrating his argument with attacks on liberals and a photo of another event speaker holding a cartoon of More…

Norm Coleman: Voting rights are a ‘privilege’

By | 03.30.11 | 10:21 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

Former Sen. Norm Coleman stopped to talk with Pajamas Media at last weekend’s True the Vote conference hosted by the King Street Patriots in Houston. The conference trains conservative activists in how to monitor polls and push for tighter voter ID laws. In the interview, Coleman downplayed assertions that More…

Andrew Breitbart to headline True the Vote National Summit

By | 01.24.11 | 3:10 pm

King Street PatriotsConservative publisher and pundit Andrew Breitbart is slated to headline the King Street Patriot’s “True the Vote National Summit” in Houston in March. The two-day election integrity event is the followup to the tea party group’s recent statewide summit.

In addition to Breitbart, featured speakers also include More…

How many Americans are aware of anonymous campaign spending?

By | 11.04.10 | 3:17 pm

I’ve been covering anonymous campaign spending and concerns about the possibility of voter fraud or vote suppression in the lead-up to the midterm elections for quite some time, but what percentage of Americans have been listening? It turns out the number, according to a new Pew Research Center Poll, More…

102 Complaints of Voter Intimidation Thus Far

By | 11.02.10 | 5:33 pm

Want a rundown on all the incidents of voter fraud and voter intimidation that have been reported thus far today? The New Republic’s Eliza Gray has set up shop at the command center of Election Protection, a nonpartisan coalition of legal groups that monitors voter complaints as they come More…