NY Times OpEd: The Myth of Voter Fraud
October 9, 2011- It has been a record year for new legislation designed to make it harder for Democrats to vote — 19 laws and two executive actions in 14…
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…
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…
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…
The Brad Blog: Ohio’s Anti-Voting Law Suspended as 300,000 Petition to Put it Onto the Ballot in 2012
-By Brad Friedman September 30, 2011- Now THIS is what democracy looks like. Some really great news via Ian Millhiser at ThinkProgress... Earlier this year, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R)…
Washington Post: Op-Ed: The GOP is trying to rig the electoral college
-By Harold Meyerson Like Poe’s purloined letter, the Republican plan to heist the 2012 presidential election sits before us in plain view. And going Poe one better, it is perfectly…
Al Jazeera: Vote suppression in the US revs up
In recent years, the Republican Party has accelerated its efforts to make voting more difficult for Americans. -by Heather Digby Parton September 19, 2011- In the 1964 presidential elections, a…
Huffington Post: GOP-Led States Move To Change Voting Rules Ahead Of 2012
-By Ann Sanner, Associated Press September 19, 2011- COLUMBUS, Ohio — After years of expanding when and how people can vote, state legislatures now under new Republican control are moving…