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OPINION

Beck Could Be
'Major' Factor
in 2010 Vote

If he combines angry right-wingers with libertarians, look out

Oct 16, 09 10:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don't look now, but Glenn Beck could turn out to be a big factor in the 2010 elections, writes Marc Ambinder. Beck is cooking up some kind of voter mobilization project, which is a "tricky proposition" given that "conservative talk radio audiences—and Fox News viewers—tend to... More »

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Congress • Fox News • Ron Paul • Republican Party • Glenn Beck • libertarians • voter registration • conservatives • Election 2010 • midterm elections • Marc Ambinder • 9/12 Project

Coulter Faces Voter Fraud Investigation

Pundit voted in Conn. while living in NYC, accusers say

Feb 8, 09 2:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Officials are probing whether Ann Coulter committed voter fraud by casting ballots in Connecticut while keeping a residence in New York City, the New York Daily News reports. A blogger prodded the Connecticut election commission over the possible wrongdoing after a private eye brought it to light. “For over... More »

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Ann Coulter • voter fraud • New York • Connecticut • Bill Maher • voter registration • Bill Maher Grid

 Voter Board: 
 Hey Tim, 
 Wanna Do 
 a PSA?

Actor hasn't minced words in aftermath of Election Day polling snafu

Nov 19, 08 9:14 AM CST
(Newser) - The New York City Board of Elections, headed up by a man Tim Robbins has termed a "corrupt scumbag," is reaching out to the prickly actor with an offer he might well resist—turn his Election Day voting tantrum into a civics lesson. TMZ reports that the board... More »

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voting • activist • voter turnout • Election 2008 • PSA • voter registration • Tim Robbins • Board of Elections

Robbins, Officials Still Sparring Over Voting Snafu

Actor may have been in the wrong location

Nov 11, 08 1:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Actor and political activist Tim Robbins, who filed a court order to vote after his name wasn’t in the poll books on Election Day, may simply have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. The election commissioner now claims Robbins filed a change-of-address form when he moved... More »

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voting • activist • Election 2008 • voter registration • Tim Robbins

 Turnout Looks to 
 Hit Century High 

130M headed to polls as trends favored Obama

Nov 5, 08 7:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Though the official percentage isn’t in, yesterday saw what could have been the highest voter turnout in a century, the Wall Street Journal reports. One expert foresaw 64% of Americans casting ballots, the AP notes, as some 30 million voted early, with 100 million more thought to have stormed... More »

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voter turnout • Election 2008 • voter registration

ACORN Inflated New Voter
Count by 850K

Almost a third of its registrations
have been rejected

Oct 24, 08 2:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - The community organizing group ACORN and Project Vote's boast of having signed up 1.3 million new voters was off by 850,000, reports the New York Times. Just 450,000 of the registrations represent genuine new voters. Another 450,000 were already-registered voters who changed their address, and 400,... More »

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voter fraud • Election 2008 • voter registration • Project Vote • Acorn

 State Databases Drop 
 Thousands of Voters 

Centralized registration information was intended to clear up discrepancies, but propagated them instead

Oct 18, 08 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of Americans nationwide are facing reams of red tape after new state registration systems booted them from voter rolls, the Washington Post reports. Yesterday the Supreme Court rejected a challenge of 200,000 Ohio voters whose data conflicted with state records, but states such as Montana, Colorado, and Wisconsin... More »

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Ohio • voting rights • database • records • US Supreme Court • Election 2008 • voter registration • Help America Vote Act • disqualification • centralization

 Voters Say They Were
Tricked Into Joining GOP

Party contractor called registrations 'petitions,' they say

Oct 18, 08 8:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - California voters who signed what they thought were petitions were surprised when they ended up registered Republicans, they told the Los Angeles Times. The Times called some of the hundreds of people newly re-registered as Republicans by GOP contractor Young Political Majors, and found that 37 of 46, or over... More »

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Republican • Election 2008 • voter registration • petition

Justices Won't Force Ohio to Check Voter Registrations

Ruling is blow to state Republican party

Oct 17, 08 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court ruled today that Ohio does not have to verify hundreds of thousands of new voter registrations, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The court did not assess the Ohio Republic Party’s claim that registration needs cross-checks to prevent fraud, but rather ruled that the party did not... More »

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voter fraud • Ohio • US Supreme Court • Election 2008 • voter registration • Acorn

ANALYSIS

 Obama Forces Battle for Va. 

McCain forced to defend GOP stronghold

Oct 17, 08 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia hasn’t swung Democrats’ way since Lyndon Johnson, but suddenly it’s a battleground, the Washington Post reports, and Obama appears to have all the tactical advantages. The Dem has three times as many campaign offices, and his army of volunteers has registered almost a half-million new voters.... More »

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Virginia • Obama 2008 • volunteer • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • voter registration

Ohio Must Check Voter Registrations: Court

GOP wins fight to have new registrations cross-checked with government info

Oct 15, 08 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal appeals court has sided with the GOP and ordered Ohio to set up a computer system by Friday to verify new voter registrations, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Registrations must now be cross-checked with other government information. Ohio's secretary of state, accused of partisan bias by Republicans, had argued... More »

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Ohio • voting • voting irregularities • voter registration • swing states • Acorn

Liberal Group 
Files Fake
Voter Forms

ACORN under scrutiny in several states; used names of the dead

Oct 10, 08 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities have discovered more than 2,000 phony registration forms filled in by a liberal activist group in an Indiana county, CNN reports. The forms from ACORN—already being probed for alleged fraud in Nevada and Missouri—included the names of dead people and sandwich shop Jimmy Johns. A lawyer... More »

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voter fraud • Indiana • election fraud • Election 2008 • voter registration • Acorn

Swing States
Are Illegally Blocking Voters

NYT finds thousands wrongly removed from rolls, mostly Dems

Oct 9, 08 6:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tens of thousands of voters in at least six battleground states have been illegally removed from the rolls or blocked from voting, a New York Times investigation has discovered. The actions appear to stem from errors in complying with a 2002 federal law rather than from partisan bias, but it... More »

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voting rights • Election 2008 • voting process • voter registration • swing states

Foreclosed Homeowners May Lose
Voting Rights

Dems: GOP plans to challenge addresses

Sep 25, 08 5:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many of the million Americans who lost their homes through foreclosure in the last couple of years may discover at the polls that they've lost their right to vote in the upcoming election as well, the New York Times reports. Election officials and voter rights groups fear that failure to... More »

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voter fraud • foreclosure • voting • voters • election monitors • ballots • voter registration • swing states

Early Voting Law May
Help Obama in Ohio

One-step voting window could boost youth turnout

Aug 13, 08 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Ohio voting law that allows residents to register and vote simultaneously one month before the election may benefit Barack Obama, the AP reports. With one-stop voting available on college campuses Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, thousands could be added to the voter rolls—and Obama leads McCain 2-to-1 among... More »

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Barack Obama • Democrats • Ohio • voting • youth • Barack Obama supporters • voting process • young voters • voter registration

 Dems, GOP
 Battle Over
 New Voters

Issue becomes focus as huge turnout expected

Aug 12, 08 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Voter registration has become a hot-button election issue in a year that’s seen millions of new voters, the Wall Street Journal reports. In line with party trends, Democrats are working to register as many people as possible and deploying vote-protection legal experts, while Republicans keep a wary eye on... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • voter fraud • Election 2008 • voter registration

Advocates Work to Get Ex-Cons in Voting Booths

New laws make
tens of thousands eligible to vote again

Aug 11, 08 1:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Grass-roots activists in states across the country are working to register an unusual bloc of potential voters: former felons. While nearly all states limit the right of convicted criminals to vote, most offer avenues back to the voting booth in varying degrees, the Washington Post reports. In the potential swing... More »

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prison • voting • civil rights • voting rights • felon • voter registration

GOP Voter Enrollment in Sustained Freefall

Year-on-year declines highly uncommon

Aug 5, 08 7:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Disenchanted voters have left Republican Party enrollment in freefall since 2005, with more Americans registering either with the Democrats or no party at all. While changes in party membership are common, a sustained drop like that is remarkable, say psephologists. The shift might have little effect on this year's presidential... More »

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GOP • Republican Party • demographics • voter registration • party identification

 Housing Bill Funds
 Democratic Ally

Group sets out to register the poor

Jul 31, 08 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nestled in the housing bill President Bush signed yesterday is an acronym Republicans don’t like one bit: ACORN. The Wall Street Journal reports that the group is among the many housing-related nonprofits the bill hands cash to, but Republicans grumble that it does more than housing. It’s also... More »

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Congress • Latino voters • Democratic voters • activist • African-American voters • minority vote • the Hispanic vote • low income voters • voter registration • housing legislation • black voters • Acorn

Obama Looks to Tip Scales by Boosting Black Vote

Army of volunteers fans out, targeting young people, African Americans

Jul 28, 08 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama campaign’s national voter-registration effort has deployed 3,000 volunteers, with one major focus on expanding the African-American voter base dramatically. One volunteer hits the sweltering streets of Macon, Ga., with the Washington Post in tow. "You see how mentally shackled and jaded people are, because they've... More »

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Florida • Barack Obama • Ohio • Georgia • Nevada • voter registration • black voters

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