Protect Our Elections
-By Amanda Terkel November 15, 2012- Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) is heeding President Barack Obama's election night call to "fix" the problems voters faced at the polls this year, by…
-By Dan Froomkin November 12, 2012- On first hearing, voter ID laws sound like an obvious and innocent idea. After all, don't you need ID for everything else these days?…
-By Aviva Shen November 9, 2012- Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted is fast becoming one of the most despised election officials in the country for his many attempts to…
-By Ian Millhiser and Josh Israel November 9, 2012- Last year, Pennsylvania’s Republican Gov. Tom Corbett proposed rigging the Electoral College vote in his state through a plan that would…
-By Jason Cherkis November 8, 2012- On Election Day, Leo Kim, 34, drove a group of elderly Korean Americans to the polls in Annandale, Va., a Washington suburb. They quickly…
-By Ari Berman November 6, 2012- I attended a briefing in Washington this morning with voting rights advocates hosted by the Election Protection Coalition, which runs the 1-866-Our-Vote hotline. They…
-By Josh Israel November 6, 2012- Volunteers with True the Vote, a Tea Party group that claims it is trying to fight voter fraud by challenging the right of voters…
If you are having problems at the polls, please report it! As of 10:00 EST, voter suppression reports are already in the tens of thousands. Ohio: 1-855-VOTING HELP (1-855-868-4644) or…
-By Margaret Cronin Fisk November 5, 2012- The U.S. presidential contest, marked by two dozen lawsuits in the past six months over voter rules including photo ID requirements and limited…
-By Judd Legum November 3, 2012- A last-minute directive issued by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) could invalidate legal provisional ballots. Ohio is widely viewed as the most…
-By Ethan Bronner November 2, 2012- CLEVELAND — Thousands of lawyers from both presidential campaigns will enter polling places next Tuesday with one central goal: tracking their opponents and, if…
-By Carol D. Leonnig and Tom Hamburger November 2, 2012- The investigation into the arrest of a man on charges of dumping voter registration forms last month in Harrisonburg, Va.,…