7 Pa. ACORN workers charged in voter probe

Seven Pittsburgh-area ACORN workers were charged with falsifying voter registration forms, with six accused of doing so to meet the group's alleged quota system before last year's general election.

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Senator urges govt. to enforce law aimed at voting

A Senate chairman on Tuesday urged Attorney General Eric Holder to sue any states that aren't helping needy citizens to register to vote.

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Dead goldfish offered the vote in Illinois

The only "agent of change" Princess ever supported was the person who freshened the water in her fishbowl. So election officials in Chicago's northern suburbs want to know why voter registration material was sent to the dead goldfish.

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Ohio governor accuses GOP of scare tactics

Ohio Republicans are trying to scare newly registered voters by filing numerous lawsuits that question their eligibility, the state's Democratic governor said Monday.

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High court rejects GOP bid in Ohio voting dispute

The Supreme Court sided Friday with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.

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Democrat surge helps set Ore. registration record

Led by a surge in Democratic voter signups, Oregon voter registration has set a record for the Nov. 4 election.

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Federal court: Ohio must check voter registrations

A federal appeals court ordered Ohio's top elections official to set up a system by Friday to verify the eligibility of newly registered voters and make the information available to the state's 88 county election boards.

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So many new NJ voters, so little time to log them

With the registration deadline only a day away, New Jersey election officials say they're struggling to keep up with a record tide of new voter registrations.

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Groups: Extend voter sign-up in Ike-hit counties

A coalition of citizen groups urged Gov. Rick Perry on Friday to use emergency powers to extend the Oct. 6 voter registration deadline for Texas counties hit hardest by Hurricane Ike.

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Massive Latino voter registration drive launched

A coalition of Spanish-language media and community organizations kicked off a massive voter registration drive Thursday, aiming to register nearly one million Hispanic voters.

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Democrats post big gains in voter registration

Five days a week, Linda Graham trolls tattered neighborhoods of this once thriving steel city outside Pittsburgh for unregistered voters she can sign up as Democrats — one of thousands of unknown volunteers whose work outside the limelight has already altered the basic arithmetic of the November election.

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AP IMPACT: More than 3.5 million new voters, AP survey finds

Voter excitement, always up before a presidential election, is pushing registration through the roof so far this year — with more than 3.5 million people rushing to join in the historic balloting, according to an Associated Press survey that offers the first national snapshot.

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NC Voter Registrations Surge

More than four times as many blacks have registered to vote in North Carolina during the first few months of 2008 as four years ago, a sign that bodes well for Sen. Barack Obama in the state's May 6 Democratic presidential primary.

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Voter Rolls Swelling in Pa.

Voter registration for Pennsylvania's April 22 presidential primary is close to setting a a new record, and a surge of Democratic sign-ups has reversed years of Republican domination in two suburban Philadelphia counties.

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Pa. Dems Set Enrollment Record

Democratic Party enrollment surged past the 4 million mark Monday, setting a state record on the last day Pennsylvanians had to register to vote in next month's presidential primary.

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Web Voter Registration Still Bogged Down

Arizona began allowing voters to register online in 2004. Three years later, Washington became the second state to do so.

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ACORN Accused of Bogus Forms in Mo.

Hundreds of fraudulent voter address changes have been submitted to St. Louis County election officials by ACORN, the activist group that has been criticized for its voter sign-up work elsewhere in the nation.

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Fraud Alleged in St. Louis Voter Sign-Up

Election officials say hundreds of potentially bogus registration cards, including ones for dead and underage people, were submitted by a branch of a national group that has been criticized in the past for similar offenses.

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MySpace Launches Voter-Registration Plan

The youth-heavy online hangout MySpace.com is launching a voter-registration drive to engage its members in civics. In partnership with the nonpartisan group Declare Yourself, MySpace is running ads on its highly trafficked Web site and giving members tools such as a "I Registered To Vote On MySpace" badge to place on their personal profile pages.

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ACORN wants people to register to vote – as long as they're Democrats. Republican registrations go into the trash.  Here is a first-hand account of how it happens.

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After the 2008 election, voter registration has become a focal point for legislators and advocates from all ends of the spectrum. Whichever way it is sliced, the number of registered eligible voters has still declined since 2004.

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California Republicans spend much of their weekend convention soul-searching over the battered party's future and debating a plan of attack for 2010, when they hope to capitalize on anti-tax protests.

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excerpt: "" That was paranoid Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa, today, railing against the community organizing group ACORN, and falsely accusing President Obama of being ACORN's lead chief organizer.

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Using the controversy over the community group ACORN, this study illustrates the way that the media help set the agenda for public debate, and frame the way that debate is shaped.

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A stressed-out trainee with Deutsche Post has admitted to burning election documents and brochures instead of delivering them, police in the southern town of Göppingen reported.

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Jacoby and Young Political Majors was hired by the California Republican Party to head up their voter registration efforts in the state.

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The United States is one of few democratic nations that place on individuals the entire burden of registering to vote on individual citizens. Today, one-quarter to one-third of all eligible Americans remain unregistered — and thus are unable to cast ballots that will count.

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accusations in court and messaging on attack

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Several prominent non-Republicans and ex-Republicans have been all over the media giving advice to Republicans about how they should re-brand themselves and which issues they should talk about. Among this unsolicited advice is that Republicans should stop criticizing Acorn.

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Tens of thousands of immigrants spilled into the streets of Atlanta and other cities Monday in a national day of action billed as a "campaign for immigrants' dignity."

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Seven Pittsburgh-area ACORN workers were charged with falsifying voter registration forms, with six accused of doing so to meet the group's alleged quota system before last year's general election.

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Nevada authorities filed criminal charges Monday against the political advocacy group ACORN and two former employees, alleging they illegally paid canvassers to sign up new voters.

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Ballots of Afghan women in conservative districts are vulnerable to fraud in August's presidential election, the country's top human rights official said Sunday.

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Detroit election officials confirmed Monday what an analysis of census and population records shows: The city has more registered voters than it has residents over the voting age of 18.

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When three newly elected Chinese-American city supervisors climbed on stage in Chinatown, flanked by dragon dancers and lit up by camera flashes, they were hailed for making history in a city their forebears have shaped since the Gold Rush Days.

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A community grantmaking arm of the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops has cut off all funding for a group embroiled in controversy over claims of voter registration fraud and embezzlement .

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Ian Walter! Where are you? Just read this article, could not help but think of you and your wife. Please update on the final outcome of your wife's "status" according to the Secretary of State in CO. Perhaps Tim Robbin's can help spread the word.

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On Election Day, college students are hoping to make their voices heard despite voter registration issues.

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Students attending colleges in Virginia are getting the runaround when attempting to register to vote.

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This is disgusting. Republicans in New Mexico are alleged to have illegally used voter registration data, including Social Security numbers, to run credit checks and other inquiries high school students who registered to vote in a drive organized by ACORN.

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The Republican secretary of state insisted Monday he has evidence that left-leaning ACORN broke the law by submitting fraudulent registration cards in Lake County -- cards that ACORN says it had to submit or it would have broken a different state law.

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TIME Magazine looks at some of the concerns that exist about voting irregularities in the days before a critically important election.

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The American Underclass and Political Process

For the first time in my life, American politicians in a race for the Presidency are talking about the American Underclass in a new way.

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We can go to the moon, split atoms to power submarines, squeeze profits from a 99 cent hamburger and watch football highlights on cell phones. But the most successful democracy in human history has yet to figure out how to conduct a proper election.

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