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ACORN Cleared of Voter Fraud Charges in Connecticut
As the Right revs up its efforts to discredit and defund Planned Parenthood, it’s important to remember its last attempt to bring down a national organization through sheer force of repeated...
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Update from the Frontlines in Ohio: Voter ID Bill Could Affect Poor and...
Poor and minority populations are again under attack in Ohio. With Ohioans putting all of our efforts into stopping Governor Kasich and Republican leaders from destroying workers’ rights, we’re being...
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Republicans Across the Country Work to Disenfranchise Voters
In the buildup to the 2012 election, Republican legislatures across the nation are implementing a tactic many hoped would die with the signing of the Voting Right Act of 1965 -- silencing the voices of...
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NH and OH Reject Voter-Disenfranchisement Bills
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch vetoed a proposed voter-ID law that would have required voters to show a photo ID before casting a ballot. In rejecting the proposal, Gov. Lynch called out the law for...
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Ohio Republicans End All Pretense that Voter ID is About Fraud
As if Republicans’ stated justification for Voter ID laws – to prevent the non-existent epidemic of voter fraud – wasn’t weak enough, a new proposal in the Ohio House has eliminated any pretense that...
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PFAW Denounces Voter Suppression Laws
At yesterday’s press conference on Capitol Hill, People For the American Way joined with Rev. Jesse Jackson, 12 other national civil rights organizations and numerous members of Congress to denounce...
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Stephen Colbert Takes On Repressive Voter ID Laws
Earlier this week Omari told us about Stephen Colbert's excellent "It Gets Better" video, in which Colbert dropped his hyper-conservative character and adopted a more serious approach to give teens...
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Another Dirty Trick in Wisconsin? AFP Sends Out Absentee Ballot Applications...
This one is particularly shameless:Americans for Prosperity is sending absentee ballots to Democrats in at least two Wisconsin state Senate recall districts with instructions to return the paperwork...
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To Defeat Obama, A Simple, Dishonest Plan
We’ve been covering a number of attempts by state GOP lawmakers to prevent traditionally Democratic voters from casting votes that count – including a flood of new laws requiring photo ID to vote.But...
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Think you can help people register to vote? Tell that to Florida and South...
South Carolina would like to follow Florida’s lead in passing a law that makes it more difficult for community groups to help register voters.Teaser Image: South Carolina would like to follow...
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Victim of James O’Keefe’s Voter Fraud Isn’t Buying It
In early April, after she went to cast her ballot in Washington, DC, NBC Latino contributor Alicia Menendez found out that someone else had also tried to cast a ballot in her name. The perpetrator was...
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Governor McDonnell set to make decision on voter ID in Virginia
Amid the ongoing voter fraud myth, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is set to make his final decision on voter ID.Teaser Image: Amid the ongoing voter fraud myth, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is set...
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Wisconsin’s Walker Tells a Big Lie About Voter Fraud
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who’s currently in a tough recall election battle, has a new line about what could tip the election against him. From the Weekly Standard via Dave Weigel:"I’ve always...
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Florida Poised for Another Voter-Purge Disaster
Shortly before the 2000 election, the state of Florida undertook a massive purge of its voter rolls, eliminating the names of 12,000 residents who the state believed ineligible to vote because of...
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Restrictions on Early Voting and Voter Registration Used for Partisan Gain
Florida members of the African American Ministers Leadership Council said they were "appalled but not surprised" by the report and the claims that the restrictions exclusively targeted minority...
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