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Citizen Voter Purge Frustrates Florida Election Officials

Posted on September 28, 2012 by admin

Florida election officials react to the state’s efforts to remove some noncitizens from the voter rolls less than six weeks before the presidential election, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Times. Read more.

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Opinion: Florida Newspaper Critical of Efforts to ‘Suppress Votes’

Posted on September 28, 2012 by admin

The Tampa Bay Times criticizes Gov. Rick Scott for what it calls efforts to suppress the votes of minorities and low-income Floridians. Read more.

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GOP Consulting Firm Investigated for Fraud

Posted on September 28, 2012 by admin

Florida election officials are investigating hundreds of cases of suspected voter fraud by a GOP consulting firm employed by the Republican National Committee, according to a report on nbcnews.com. Read more.

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Tea Party Seeks to Purge Ohio Voter Rolls

Posted on September 27, 2012 by admin

According to the Los Angeles Times, a tea party group in Ohio has come up with a list of at least 2,100 names that it is seeking to remove from state voter rosters. Read more.

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Breaking Down the Voter ID Battle

Posted on September 27, 2012 by admin

The website Newsbound offers a slideshow and links to help voters understand the current controversy over voter ID laws. Read more.

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Florida Produces List of Suspect Voters

Posted on September 27, 2012 by admin

The Miami Herald reports on a list of 198 potentially ineligible voters produced by Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s elections department. Meanwhile, state attorneys may begin examining whether to bring criminal charges against noncitizens who may have voted. Read more.

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Arizona Discovers Nine Cases of Voter Fraud

Posted on September 26, 2012 by admin

Cronkite News reports on Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett’s announcement that officials have found nine new cases of election fraud involving people who voted in more than one state in the 2008 presidential election. Read more.

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Opinion: Right to Vote is Under Assault

Posted on September 26, 2012 by admin

In a column in The Washington Post, Eugene Robinson argues that voter ID laws are not a solution to the problem of voter fraud because there is no voter fraud problem. Read more.

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Florida Early Voting Plan May Proceed

Posted on September 26, 2012 by admin

The Associated Press reports that a federal judge has refused to halt Florida’s plan to cut the number of early voting days from 14 to eight. Read more.

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Absentee Voting More Prone to Fraud

Posted on September 24, 2012 by admin

The Tampa Bay Times examines the possibilities for fraud when people vote by mail, an increasingly popular way for people to cast their ballots. 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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