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Churches Urge Members to Register to Vote

Posted on October 2, 2012 by admin

Many African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states are passing out voter registration cards and pledging caravans of “souls to the polls” to deliver votes in November’s election, according to the Miami Herald. Read more.

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Consulting Firm Tied to Republican Party

Posted on October 2, 2012 by admin

Salon.com offers a brief history of Strategic Allied Consulting, a consulting firm that has been repeatedly employed by the Republican Party, with sometimes controversial results. Read more.

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Opinion: Florida’s Voter Purge More of a Molehill than a Mountain

Posted on October 2, 2012 by admin

A Florida Sun Sentinel columnist contends that Florida’s non-citizen voter purge tackles a problem that largely doesn’t exist. Read more.

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Florida Counties Find Suspicious Voter Forms

Posted on October 2, 2012 by admin

Ten Florida counties have reported suspicious voter registration forms connected to Strategic Allied Consulting, the firm hired by the state Republican Party to sign up new voters, according to a report in The New York Times. Read more.

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Voting Rights Battles Concentrated in Contested States

Posted on October 2, 2012 by admin

The most intense battles over new restrictive voting laws is taking place in key presidential battleground states led by Republicans, including Wisconsin, Florida and Ohio, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Times. Read more.

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Opinion: Republicans Playing Defense over Voter Registration Fraud

Posted on October 2, 2012 by admin

The Miami Herald discusses the fall-out from the Republic Party’s insistence that presidential battleground states hire Strategic Allied Consulting for voter registration drives. Read more.

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Voter Registration Problems Traced to Consulting Firm

Posted on October 2, 2012 by admin

A firm that is under fire in Palm Beach County for filing potentially flawed voter registration forms also filed forms in at least eight other counties, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Times. Read more.

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Opinion: Could Voter ID Laws Help Democrats?

Posted on October 2, 2012 by admin

Slate.com considers whether strict new voter registration laws could actually motivate voters concerned about disenfranchisement to show up at the polls. Read more.

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A Reading Guide to True the Vote

Posted on September 28, 2012 by admin

ProPublica offers a guide to True the Vote, the controversial watchdog group that has been gaining national attention for its aggressive efforts to weed out voter fraud. Read more.

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GOP Fires Vendor Over Voter Registrations in Florida

Posted on September 28, 2012 by admin

The Associated Press and the Herald-Tribune newspaper report that Republicans have fired a vendor suspected of submitting questionable new voter registrations in Palm Beach County. Read more.

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In this year's News21 project, two dozen top student journalists from 11 universities are investigating the impact of recent changes in election laws and voting procedures across the country.

Is voting fraud a problem in America? Will new identification requirements at the polls disenfranchise prospective voters among minorities, college students or the elderly? Should ex-felons who've served their sentences be allowed to vote? Are voting machines reliable?

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