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 More…
Earlier this month, Republicans in Ohio lost their lawsuit challenging a state rule that allows voters to register and vote early on the same day. But the state party had no intention of conceding the point. GOP officials demanded records from all 88 county boards of election identifying every person More…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Dusk was falling in Upper Arlington, an affluent Columbus suburb, as members of the Wicked Investment Club gathered in the back dining room of Old Bag of Nails, a bar tucked into a stone strip mall. It looked like the kind of place that Alaska Gov. Sarah More…
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, More…
After weeks of escalating Republican attacks on the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, for alleged voter registration fraud, it turns out the McCain campaign has its own fraud charges to respond to.
The Huffington Post reports that McCain has paid $175,000 to Lincoln Strategy Group, a More…
Possibly to rebut media reports that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and the state’s Republican Party are distancing themselves from the McCain campaign’s recent negativity, Crist put in a quick appearance on a hastily scheduled campaign conference call with reporters this afternoon.
The call, announced two minutes in More…
Michigan Democrats and Republicans reached a settlement Monday in a lawsuit charging that the Republican Party planned to illegally use lists of foreclosed residents to challenge voters on Election Day. The case was brought based on statements made to a reporter for TWI’s sibling publication, The Michigan Messenger.
The Brennan Center for Justice, a self-described “part think tank, part advocacy group” at the NYU Law School, just held a news conference at the National Press Club on voter suppression.
The presentation was mostly a rehash of now-familiar talking points: minorities are targeted; Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (aka Joe the More…
So is voter fraud really a problem or not?
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in, not answering the question, exactly, but ruling unanimously that the Ohio GOP probably doesn’t have the right to challenge how closely Ohio’s secretary of state scrutinizes new voter registrations.
It was a contentious More…
Charging that the FBI probe of ACORN represents an “unholy alliance” between Republican operatives and potentially illegal conduct by law enforcement targeting voter fraud, the Obama campaign demanded Friday that the U.S. special prosecutor looking into the U.S. attorneys scandal investigate the matter.
General counsel Bob Bauer sent a letter More…
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