Protect Our Elections
April 14, 2011- As President Barack Obama kicks off the 2012 money race with a series of well-publicized re-election fundraisers in Chicago, Democratic operatives are quietly crisscrossing the nation to…
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Independent political organizations that can accept unlimited and undisclosed contributions are being formed by Democrats, who rebuked Republicans for the use of such groups in the 2010 midterm election April…
April 13, 2011- Democrats are launching a new outside group designed to combat the independent conservative organizations that pumped tens of millions of dollars into the 2010 election and helped…
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NGOs VelvetRevolution.us and ProtectOurElections.org, whose work in the field of election integrity is national in scope, today called upon Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General JoAnne…
April 6, 2011- Talk about an idea whose time has come. Today, the Fair Elections Now Act is being re-introduced. Actor Alec Baldwin, who was present at the bill’s introduction,…
April 11, 2011- The 2010 midterm elections were the first of a new era, one in which campaign finance rules no longer limit the amount of money special interests can…
April 6, 2011- Last night voters in Madison, WI and Dane County, WI voted on two seperate resolutions to support a United States Constitutional Amendment that would declare that only…
April 4, 2011- BuzzFlash at Truthout suggests you read the well-received first column on ALEC, "Smart ALEC: Dragging the Secretive Conservative Organization Out of the Shadows." Nearly forty years after…
April 8, 2011- On Thursday, April 7, in the required statewide canvas of election results, the Milwaukee County election clerk reported 7,500 more votes discovered in West Allis for JoAnne…
April 8, 2011- Kevin Kennedy, director and general counsel of the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB), announced today he is dispatching staff to inspect and review the election night procedures…
For Immediate Release: ProtectOurElections.org Calls for Department of Justice Investigation into Vote Count Irregularities in Waukesha County, Wisconsin WASHINGTON, April 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a stunning development Thursday, 14,315…
April 3, 2011- The billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch have drawn sharp criticism for their extensive giving to libertarian causes. Though some of their organizational ties are public,…
April 1, 2011- With voter ID laws popping up in Republican-controlled statehouses across the country, could a federal bill be far off? According to data from the Democratic Legislative Campaign…
Groups argued against provision that gives candidates extra money if outside spending reaches threshold March 31, 2011- A federal judge in Madison on Thursday dismissed two challenges to Wisconsin's law…