On the morning of November 2, 1859—Election Day—George Kyle, a merchant with the Baltimore firm of Dinsmore & Kyle, left his house with a bundle of ballots tucked under his arm. Kyle was a Democrat.

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State election officials on Thursday began restoring about 5,500 names to the voter rolls after a federal appeals court rejected arguments from Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land that the names were legally removed and it will be a burden to restore them before Tuesday's election …

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Both issues have been studied. Only one is an actual problem, but it's not getting the attention. - by David Morris

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Our nation's economic foundation is crumbling like sand beneath our feet. Middle-class families are losing their jobs, homes, savings accounts and college funds.

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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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Berry is one of more than 50,000 registered Georgia voters who have been "flagged" because of a computer mismatch in their personal identification information.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A woman has filed a complaint, claiming her 67-year-old mother was reduced to tears by a man who told her he was a private investigator with ties to the state Republican Party and questioned her right to vote.

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Anti-ACORN Hysteria, Racism and Anti-Americanism

We need to know the full extent of Sen. Obama's relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy. --John McCain, 3rd Presidential Debate, October 15, 2008

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The GOP is going all out in their ridiculous assault on ACORN. The Buckeye Institute, a conservative think tank in Ohio, has filed suit in a state court on behalf of two voters.

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The Obama campaign and many objective observers have shown the link that exists between the GOP voter-suppression and disenfranchisement efforts, the phony Republican political Acorn probe, and the illegal firings of United States Attorneys as punishment for failing to trump-up e …

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David Iglesias says he's shocked by the news, leaked today to the Associated Press, that the FBI is pursuing a voter-fraud investigation into ACORN just weeks before the election.

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Richard L. Hasen is an expert in Election Law. He wrote this op-ed in June of 2007.

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Let me say up front that every statement made here was confirmed by my investigation of the group for the article I wrote at the Michigan Messenger, not just by ACORN but by independent and non-partisan voter rights experts.

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Election officials and watchdog groups are bracing for the wave of sneaky or suspicious phone calls, leaflets and emails that typically hit battleground states in the final 30 days of the presidential campaign.

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The Republican party is grasping on to the ACORN story as a way to delegitimize what now looks like the probable outcome of the November election.

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Such registration problems don't mean people are committing voter fraud, however. Experts point out that even if someone moves and registers to vote at their new address without canceling their old registration, there's no evidence that they actually vote twice.

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A clip of the upcoming November 2 Simpsons show is leaked here, along with an article about that leak, and the stir it has created.

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In the wake of allegations about the use of foreclosure lists to challenge voters at the polls, the Michigan GOP and the McCain campaign are issuing charges of voter fraud against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a national nonprofit group that h …

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It was a mainstay of Jim Crow segregation: for 100 years after the Civil War, Southern white Democrats kept eligible blacks from voting with poll taxes, literacy tests and property requirements. Starting in the 1960s, the U.S.

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Snoop Dogg narrates this talking-heads rap with America's black youth.

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Before President Bush fired his sorry ass, US Attorney David Iglesias of New Mexico, in a last sad attempt to suck up to his Republican padrones, allowed his chief mouthpiece, Norm Cairns, to speak with me. He shouldn't have.

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Three African-American women from southeast Fort Worth joined three other Texas residents in filing a lawsuit in federal court Thursday calling a 2003 voter-fraud law unconstitutional and accusing the attorney general's office of racist and heavy-handed prosecution of the law.

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