Greg Palast (known for his coverage of the illegal voter purges before the 2000 election in Florida) and Robert Kennedy Jr. (son of RFK, voting-rights advocate, environmental lawyer) teamed up to write a Rolling Stone article to be released in its October 30th issue.Block the Vote: Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ( Read more... )

Dammit. They try every trick in the book.

Ohio Secretary Of State Will Fight Republican Challenge (HuffPo):Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner told the Huffington Post on Thursday that she is ready not only to fight the state's current election law battle in front of the Supreme Court, but is also willing to wage a new fight, if necessary, to ( Read more... )

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/13/judge_says_mich_policy_violate.html#more

THis is a victory for our side, hopefully more cases like this will get through in other states

Horrible. If you, your friends, or your families are in any one of these states below, please check that you all are STILL registered to vote. Let's not have any last-minute surprises:Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana.
States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear Illegal (NYT):

Tens of thousands of ( Read more... )

The Center for Media and Democracy has posted a new wiki on election protection. This looks like a good place to post any news about potential voter suppression, caging, absentee ballot issues, etc.

I think people here are aware of these issues, but I wanted to post this anyway:
The deadline for registration is immanent and I certainly hope that everyone here is registered to vote!  Then the next important step is making sure your vote counts.  In Danny Strong's Recount they mention that the only votes that can be counted are the ones that are ( Read more... )

It was 1996, and there I was, in a seminar room with maybe fifteen students, not knowing that I was learning from the man who might be the next President of the United States.And he was ... different.  For one thing, better dressed.  Sleek sweaters and blazers as opposed to ill-fitting, coffee-stained suits with mismatched ties.  But he was also ( Read more... )

Signaling that things haven't changed all that much at the Justice Department, the DoJ has filed an amicus brief (pdf) with the Supreme Court in support of Indiana's voter ID law.The decision to file the brief in and of itself will prove controversial, but beyond that, opponents say that the brief's argument would set a standard that stacks the ( Read more... )

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said Friday the head of the Justice Department's voting rights division should be fired for saying voter ID laws hurt the elderly but aren't a problem for minorities because they often die before old age ( Read more... )