voter fraud

On a morning conference call, I got a chance to ask Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) about voter registration, voter fraud, and his new PAC’s political adviser Sara Taylor. In the Bush administration, as a White House political director, Taylor got tangled in the scandal over the firing of U.S. attorneys who, the attorneys claim, were [...]

Zachary Roth at TPM Muckraker has a terrific roundup on how hyped-up fears of “voter fraud” in swing states never came to pass.
The secretaries of state in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Wisconsin, where claims of voter-registration fraud were rampant, report that all went well. Despite long lines and technical miscues, none of the GOP [...]

Never have lawyers been so busy skirmishing over an election  — and it probably won’t end on Election Day.
Today’s lawsuits and rulings include:
The Ohio GOP filed a lawsuit it had previously dropped against Jennifer Brunner, the Democratic secretary of state, claiming she hasn’t done enough to ensure that all provisional ballots are counted fairly and [...]

On conference calls throughout the day, the McCain-Palin camp has been warning of Democratic efforts to intimidate voters, including Black Panthers allegedly scaring off Republicans in Philadelphia and GOP poll-watchers being thrown out of precincts in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.

As the presidential campaign draws to a close, election reformers, best known for battling GOP-led vote suppression efforts, are tuning out any talk of a Sen. Barack Obama landslide. They are focusing instead on Democratic elected officials in Virginia who, they say, are ill-prepared for tomorrow’s vote.
“You have an unprecedented turnout in a historic election,” [...]

As Republican charges of “fraud” and Democratic claims of “voter suppression” have escalated in the home stretch of the presidential election campaign, liberal activists have started blasting Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential team’s “voter protection” effort for not doing enough to ensure that all Democratic votes are going to be counted on Election Day.

Despite evidence that voter fraud is extremely unlikely to occur in high enough numbers to affect an election outcome — and mounting concern that GOP cries of foul are a mask for voter suppression efforts — the fraud issue continues to rear its head.
TWI’s Daphne Eviatar, who has blogged on the issue periodically, now provides [...]

Republicans insist voter fraud is rampant. To combat it, they are challenging laws in states that make it easier to vote. But some legal scholars and voting experts worry that this broad-based attack could lead to serious and continuing challenges to the legitimacy of the next president.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio played a pivotal role in the last two presidential elections. With its primary concern — the economy — the nation’s primary concern, all eyes are sure to be on what its voters say on Election Day. But with charges of voter fraud swirling in the air, could the state be Florida 2008?

GOP officials in Ohio, Florida and Indiana –- in addition to Michigan, where the Obama campaign sued -– have acknowledged plans to challenge voters on Election Day based on foreclosure lists.
According to local media in counties in each of these states — in Columbus, Ohio, Marion County, Ind., and Volusia County, Fla. — GOP operatives [...]