According to a 2004 study, former prisoners who vote are half as likely to reoffend.

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Strong opposition to disenfranchisement in Iran with a "...strong turnout appeared to be driven in part by a broad movement against Mr. Ahmadinejad that has spurred vast opposition rallies in Iran's major cities over the past few weeks.

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Norm Coleman's lawyers tried to stop the counting of hundreds of wrongly rejected absentee ballots and now we know they had good reason: those ballots are breaking for Al Franken who is winning nearly 60 percent of them.

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Senate candidate Al Franken will not appeal a decision by the Minnesota State Canvassing Board, which today rejected the Democrat's request that rejected absentee ballots be included in the race's hotly contested recount.

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We came from all over the country. We were eager to come up with a way to make voting easier and reduce the size of the lines on Election Day.

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Republican officials across the country have engaged in wholesale voter-purging of hundreds of thousands of Americans from the voter rolls. These are felony crimes that should be prosecuted Federally.

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Conspiracy, coincidence, or skullduggery. When is a coincidence too much of a coincidence to be one? One tilted election? Two? Four? How many players constitute conspiracy?

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From carefully targeted denial-of-service attacks to fake websites with false polling place addresses, online voter-suppression tactics could wreak unprecedented havoc on the November election, according to a new report released Monday by a group of privacy and election protectio …

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McCain and Republican Lies about Acorn are attempts to hide GOP Election Fraud

Every election, Republicans claim that there is voter fraud occurring that benefits Democrats. This year, Republican ire is focused on Acorn.

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These days, the old west rail hub of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is little more than a dusty economic dead zone amid a boneyard of bare mesas.

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There are two varieties of election fraud: illegitimate voters out to cast ballots and legitimate voters whose ballots are cast out. From this vantage point, the latter is far more prevalent. And far more likely to occur with the weighted voter ID laws in Florida and elsewhere.

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The Michigan Republican Party is demanding, via press release, a retraction of the Michigan Messenger story "Lose your house, lose your vote."

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Punch cards in Florida left the 2000 presidential election in limbo. Ohio's voting-machine shortage became a source of continuing controversy in 2004.

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"While a high black turnout will obviously help Obama, whether he becomes president will hinge on the decisions of white voters.

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The 2008 presidential election in the US may well leave us all waxing nostalgic for the good old disaster days of 2000 and 2004.

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You might think you have the right to vote. You might think your vote counts. You might think that there's a problem here or there, but that they're the exceptions. You might think that the 2000 presidential election was an aberration, in which the U.S.

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Voting rights are under systematic attack in the United States. Techniques include: * Outright disenfranchisement. * Vote switching in election machines. * Refusal to allow the public to see how votes are counted.

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Evil In High Places

Once upon a time in this country, when corruption in high places was exposed, something was done about it.

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Small article discussing the decision of the DNC to cut in half the votes of Florida and remove all practical power from Michigan, all in the aim of solidifying Obama's chances to win their nomination.

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Missouri's Secretary of State weighs in on the recent controversy surrounding Indiana's Voter-ID law and efforts to instituted similar requirements in Missouri.

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At least 10 retired nuns in South Bend, Ind., were barred from voting in Tuesday's Indiana Democratic primary election because they lacked photo IDs required under a state law that the Supreme Court upheld last week...

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The Man's Got Me Down: Why I'm Not Voting Today

It's not dissatisfaction, nor apathy, not even cynicism that's keeping me from exercising my civic duty. What is it then you might ask? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. That is, except for the institution and the boon that is my state's Democratic Party.

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Modern Democratic presidential primaries do not usually devolve into allegations of voter suppression. And it's particularly rare for a former U.S.

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In June of 2005, John Tanner, the chief of the voting rights section, wrote Columbus, Ohio's election officials to publicly assure them that the Justice Department had found no evidence of intentional African-American voter disenfranchisement in the 2004 election.

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Dems Disenfranchise Florida in 2008

In 2004, John Kerry and John Edwards told their constituents that the Republicans stole the 2000 election by disenfranchising black voters in Florida, and that they were intent on doing it again in 2004 Stories of hanging chads and police roadblocks, not to mention the absentee c …

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