When the big city newspaper calls you out, you know you’ve been caught for fair. Whether it does any good or not is another story. Extended hours on nights and weekends that made it easier for nearly 9,000 voters to cast early ballots in the 2008 presidential race at the Hamilton County Board of Elections …
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Don’t take my word for it, either. Take the state’s own stipulation in a current trial testing a new Pennsylvania voter ID law’s constitutionality. Talking Points Memo quotes the agreement: there “have been no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania; and the parties do not have direct personal knowledge of any such …
Talking Points Memo: New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran said earlier this year that her state had a “culture of corruption” and referred 64,000 voter registration records to police that she thought were possible cases of voter fraud. Now a new report from her office proves she was completely right, 0.0296875 percent of the …
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Hey, the NYT suddenly recognized the Republican party’s war on Democratic voters. In an unsigned editorial titled “The Myth of Voter Fraud” it says: It has been a record year for new legislation designed to make it harder for Democrats to vote — 19 laws and two executive actions in 14 states dominated by Republicans, …
Every election year the Republican party howls “voter fraud” and tries to discredit Democratic efforts to get out the vote. Sometimes it succeeds in scaring the public and Congress (see ACORN) and manages to diminish those efforts. This year, however, with newly-elected Republican legislatures in many states, it’s gone beyond howling and is passing new …
From today’s Washington Post: The events in Charlottesville and the president’s apologia for the right-wing extremists there should mobilize anyone passionate about civil rights. There would be no better target for their energies than the clear and present danger to the most fundamental right in any democracy: the vote. Absolutely correct. We need to start …
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Good grief. If the Voter ID law Pennsylvania passed is judged constitutional, nearly half of eligible voters in Philadelphia could be denied the opportunity to vote in November. About 437,237 registered voters in Philly either lack a state-issued ID or have one that has expired before Nov. 6 of last year, which would make it …
Now NPR has taken up the story. The sanctimony of the Kansas Secretary of State is infuriating: Kobach says there have been 221 incidents of voter fraud since 1997 in Kansas, evidence that he calls “the tip of the iceberg.” About 30 of those cases were investigated and seven people were convicted. So, in 13 …
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Go read Ari Berman’s article at Rolling Stone. This year there have been significantly more attempts to disallow Democratic constituencies like inner-city residents and college students from voting through the passage of stringent voter ID laws and the reduction of early voting periods. This is all done in the name of preventing voter fraud, of …
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I wrote a bit about electronic voting machines below. Now comes a Detroit News