Huffington Post: Democrats Ramp Up Calls For Ethics Probe Of Clarence Thomas
-by Jennifer Bendery October 5, 2011- House Democrats are ratcheting up the pressure for a formal investigation into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for failing to disclose information relating to…
The New Yorker: State for Sale
A conservative multimillionaire has taken control in North Carolina, one of 2012’s top battlegrounds -by Jane Mayer October 10, 2011- In the spring of 2010, the conservative political strategist Ed…
Chatanooga Times-Free Press: 96-year-old Chattanooga resident denied voting ID
-by Ansley Haman October 5, 2011- Dorothy Cooper is 96 but she can remember only one election when she's been eligible to vote but hasn't. The retired domestic worker was…
Talking Points Memo: Voter ID Under Fire At Progressive Conference; Obama Calls Restrictions A ‘Big Mistake’
-by Ryan J. Reilly October 4, 2011- A few dozen progressives sat in a room in the Washington Hilton on Monday during the Take Back the American Dream Conference discussing…
Mediashift: Attack of the Attack Ads: Citizens United and the 2012 Elections
-by Evelyn Messinger October 3, 2011- In 2012, two tidal waves will reconfigure the American electoral system and the news media that cover it. A tsunami made of money will…
Salon: The truth about voter suppression
The GOP is pushing restrictive voting legislation unlike anything since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 -By Ed Kilgore September 30, 2011- The national trauma of the 2000 presidential election…
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Fee waiver pushed for copies of birth certificates
-By Larry Sandler October 3, 2011- Reacting to a new state law that requires photo identification for voting, some state and local officials are pushing to waive the $20 fee…
RAW Story: New GOP laws could suppress five million Democratic voters: study
-By David Edwards October 3, 2011- A study released Monday found that millions voters could be kept from the polls in 2012. The Brennan Center for Justice report, titled “Voting…
POE Sends Letter to FBI & SEC Demanding Criminal Investigation of Koch Industries Under FCPA
October 3, 2011- In a blockbuster story broken today by Bloomberg, it has been revealed that Koch Industries has been flouting the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, paying bribes to foreign…
Pueblo Chieftain: Gessler: No to mailing ballots to inactive voters
Secretary of state's view extends to inactive military voters. -By Peter Roper September 30, 2011- Pueblo County Clerk Gilbert "Bo" Ortiz wanted an answer Thursday from Colorado Secretary of State…
AlterNet: Colorado Secretary of State Bars Overseas Soldiers from Voting
-By Joan McCarter October 3, 2011- In a very determined effort by Colorado's Republican Secretary of State, Scott Gessler, to make sure as few people as possible actually get to…