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NV: GOP Voting Fears Unfounded
In Nevada, where the state GOP had raised concerns about possible voter fraud if election officials didn't take a more restrictive approach to voting -- and where authorities had raided an ACORN office -- everything seems to have gone smoothly....
GOP Voter Suppression: More Miss than Hit
Yesterday we posted a quick round-up of the various voter-suppression schemes being pushed by Republicans in swing states around the country. And after looking at the list, one thing quickly becomes clear: most of the efforts have failed. There's no...
Republican Voter Suppression: A Guide
There are so many Republican gambits designed to make voting more difficult -- specifically for Democrats, of course -- that it can be hard to keep track of them all. So here's a handy -- and by no means comprehensive...
The FBI ACORN Investigation: What Do We Know?
Earlier this month, senior law enforcement sources leaked to the Associated Press the fact that the FBI has launched a nationwide investigation into whether ACORN is involved in a co-ordinated scheme to commit voter-fraud across the country. In response to...
Nevada Secretary of State Rebuffs Latest GOP Effort To Suppress Vote
Yesterday we told you about the latest GOP effort to make voting more difficult -- a letter sent by Nevada GOP chair Sue Lowden to Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller, arguing that people should not be able to correct...
Nevada GOP Cracking Down On Urban Voters
The GOP effort to suppress the vote has reared its head in Nevada. Yesterday, Sue Lowden, the state Republican chair, sent a letter to Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller, asking him to prevent some from voting, because their registrations...
FBI Probing ACORN Nationwide
The FBI is looking into whether ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud across the country, the Associated Press reports. According to the wire service, the Feds are looking at recent raids on ACORN offices for evidence of a coordinated nationwide...
A Dose of Reality on the ACORN Hysteria
It's worth taking a moment to step back from the slew of charges leveled over the last week at ACORN, the community-organizing group that Republicans and the McCain campaign have been trying to turn into a bogeyman for fears about...
McCain Camp's Anti-ACORN Campaign Goes Nationwide
It looks like the effort by the McCain campaign and the Republican party to make an issue out of ACORN's voter registration activities has gone national. We've seen reports from several states in recent days that the group, which works...
Nevada GOP Contacted State About ACORN Before Raid
The Nevada Republican Party raised concerns with the Secretary of State's office about potential voter fraud in ACORN's voter registration efforts before Tuesday's raid by state authorities on ACORN's Las Vegas office, according to the party's executive director. Zachary Moyle...
What's Behind The ACORN Raid?
Yesterday, we told you about the raid conducted by Nevada state authorities on the Las Vegas office of ACORN. The office of Democratic Secretary of State Ross Miller has been telling reporters that the raid was prompted by complaints by...
State Official: "Tony Romo Is Not Registered To Vote in the State of Nevada."
We're starting to get a little more information about the raid on ACORN's Las Vegas offices conducted by Nevada authorities earlier today. FoxNews.com reports that, according to Bob Walsh, a spokesman with the Nevada Secretary of State's office, the raid...
Nevada ACORN Office Raided By State Authorities
Nevada investigators today raided the offices of ACORN -- a group that works to register minorities and low-income people to vote -- looking for evidence of voter fraud, reports the Associated Press. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform (ACORN)...
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GOP Rep. Faults White House on Iraq Site "House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra [R-MI] criticized the Bush administration on Sunday for its handling of a trove of once-secret documents from Saddam Hussein's covert nuclear program disclosed on a federal Web...
