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September 18, 2012- In a potentially significant victory for Democrats, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated a lower court's decision to uphold the states's restrictive new voter ID law on Tuesday,…
Conservative Groups Focus on Registration in Swing States -By Sthepanie Saul September 16, 2012- It might as well be Harry Potter’s invisible Knight Bus, because no one can prove it…
-By J.F. September 11, 2012- POLITICO led this morning with a piece arguing that Mitt Romney's clay feet on the subject of national security threaten to turn him into John…
-By Scott Keyes September 7, 2012- After previously trying to restrict early voting, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) today reversed course on his decision to block county boards…
Republicans going 'whole nine yards' to suppress vote in OH, says former President in advance of DNC speech -By Brad Freidman September 5, 2012- "Do you really want to live…
The GOP's war on voting rights isn't new. It harks back to past efforts to alter the political process. -By: Sherrilyn A. Ifill September 4, 2012- In states from Florida…
-By Ian Millhiser August 31, 2012- Last month, President Obama’s reelection campaign filed a lawsuit claiming that a recently enacted Ohio law eliminating early voting in the three days before…
-By Ryan J. Reilly August 31, 2012- A federal judge in Ohio on Friday restored early voting rights in the three days before the election, ruling in favor of the…
-By Gene Demby August 31, 2012- As the Republican National Convention drew to a close, Michael Steele, the party's former chair, said that his party needed to do a better…
-By Luke Johnson August 31, 2012- A federal judge sided with the Obama campaign and ruled Friday to order Ohio to restore three days of early voting before Election Day,…
-By Nathaniel Persily August 31, 2012- In the space of two weeks, two different courts have come to two different results in evaluating the legality of two similar voter identification…
-By Sari Horwitz August 30, 2012- A federal court on Thursday blocked a Texas law that would have required voters to show photo identification, ruling that the legislation would impose…
-By Robert Barnes August 27, 2012- The decision could mean that thousands of votes that otherwise would have been rejected — most of them cast in urban areas where Democrats…