Interminable Problems
Christopher Edley Jr. shares the frustration of those of us who don’t understand why we can’t quite figure out to run elections competently and fairly in this country: Suppose in your neighborhood...
View ArticleFlyers Give Voters the Wrong Dates (pt. II)
Boy, this just never gets old, does…oh wait, I wrote that last year: A forged flyer going to voters in a closely fought Virginia congressional district seems aimed at suppressing Democratic turnout on...
View ArticleTexas Voters: Don’t Vote Straight Ticket
Some voting rights advocates were already warning voters to avoid straight-ticket voting, and now reports are filtering in that voters in Texas are experiencing problems with voting machines flipping...
View ArticleAn Historic Election
Without a doubt this election is historic in it’s scope. For the first time in history, an African-American could be President of the United States. The impact this possibility is having on the...
View ArticleMore Voting Problems in Texas?
So Wired’s Threat Level reports today: Add Bexar County to the growing list of Texas counties where voters say they are having trouble with touch-screen machines flipping their votes. A computer...
View ArticleA brief history of vote fraud
This is an interesting article and it gives a few titles you might want to check out for further reading. He talks about the history of worries about voter fraud in the US and reveals that it goes back...
View ArticleTexas Progressive Alliance Round-Up, Election Eve Edition
It is Monday, November 3, 2008. In less than 24 hours, the United States will have elected a new President and Texas will–hopefully–send Rick Noriega to the U.S. Senate and a host of new State...
View ArticleIrving Voter Rights lawsuit continues going forward
I’ve mentioned this lawsuit before. Basically a group is suing the city saying that at-large representation forestalls Hispanics from electing a representative. Per the Dallas Morning News: A U.S....
View ArticleD.C. denied voting rights over gun amendment
This sucks: Hopes have evaporated for passing a bill giving the District of Columbia voting rights in the House, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday. The district’s leaders can’t reach consensus...
View ArticleEnforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws Dropped During Bush Administration
The NY Times reports that Congress is set to release a report by the Government Accountability Office that indicates that enforcement of civil and voting rights laws by the DOJ’s Civil Rights division...
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