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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty -- Thomas JeffersonDixychiknoreply@blogger.comBlogger12891100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-22980017859660669662008-11-07T03:10:00.002-05:002008-11-07T03:19:10.035-05:00Ohio Judge derails 2008 election fraudIt's not over until Rove & Co. are in jail A funny thing happened on the way to a McCain "victory" in Ohio and other states. Karl Rove's computer guru got hauled into court the day before election day and was ordered to testify about what he did during the 2004 vote count in Ohio. Republican IT "Guru" Mike Connell Ordered To Give DepositionSteve Heller Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-33503208911892694922008-11-01T22:47:00.001-04:002008-11-01T22:49:23.023-04:00Oprah's Vote for President Disappearson Electronic Voting MachineDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-79737886262768661262008-10-30T02:12:00.000-04:002008-10-30T07:38:29.864-04:00Stealing America - Vote by VoteThe Full-Length Movie STEALING AMERICA: Vote by Vote from Concentric Media on Vimeo.Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-16739784768746761622008-10-29T07:56:00.000-04:002008-10-30T07:58:07.500-04:00Ballots picked up, then disappearThe disappearance of some absentee ballots, picked up under unusual circumstances, has raised some serious questions.MiamiHerald.com Three Hialeah voters say they had an unusual visitor at their homes last week: a man who called himself Juan, offering to help them fill out their absentee ballots and deliver them to the elections office.The voters, all supporters Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-48120628417409584552008-10-28T09:41:00.000-04:002008-10-30T09:42:47.215-04:00West Virginia Machines Flipping VotesRead More >>Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-39894238857173899552008-10-28T07:58:00.001-04:002008-10-30T08:00:19.167-04:00Drinking the ACORN Kool-Aid:How Cries of Voter Fraud Cover Up GOP Elections TheftRobert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast - October 28, 2008 Virtually the entire mainstream electronic media drank ACORN Kool-Aid this month brewed up by the Republican National Committee. Almost no one seriously challenged John McCain's comical assertions that ACORN, a grassroots voter registration group, "is now on Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-89341574823399664392008-10-28T07:42:00.000-04:002008-10-30T07:44:12.909-04:00Lawsuit: Thousands of voters illegally purged in ColoradoRaw Story - October 28, 2008 Election watchdog groups are accusing the Colorado Secretary of State of purging up to 30,000 voters in violation of federal law.Common Cause of Colorado, Mi Familia Vota, and the Service Employees International Union have filed suit in U.S. District Court in Denver. The suit seeks to prevent any more voters Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-10208779991121332862008-10-27T08:02:00.001-04:002008-10-30T08:03:57.058-04:00Republican Operatives Step Up Attempts to Purge VotersJames Parks, Oct 27, 2008Seems like every day, we hear about more efforts by Republican operatives to suppress the vote. Kyla Berry, a college senior in Georgia, received a letter three weeks ago telling her that she is not a U.S. citizen and is not eligible to vote. That came as a surprise to Berry, who was born in Boston and has a U.S. Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-26581309664068272262008-10-27T08:00:00.000-04:002008-10-30T08:01:43.732-04:00ALERT!! Confusing North Carolina Ballot Leaves off Votes for President!!October 27, 2008Please contact ALL your friends and family in North Carolina and alert them to the confusing ballots with which some voters have already encountered difficulties, particularly among new voters and the elderly. Voting the straight Democratic party ticket on the ballot DOES NOT include voting for the President!Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-43068859075890498812008-10-27T07:52:00.000-04:002008-10-30T07:54:01.393-04:00This Year’s Butterfly BallotNYT Editorial - Oct 27, 2008In Florida’s “butterfly ballot” debacle of 2000, voters in Palm Beach County were so confused by the odd layout that many appear to have voted for the wrong candidate by mistake. At the time, there was a lot of talk about improving ballot design. Eight years later there are still far too many badly done ballots. North Carolina may have the Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-9816891824705665972008-10-27T07:49:00.000-04:002008-10-30T07:51:38.638-04:00Party Lawyers Ready to Keep an Eye on the PollsNYT - October 27, 2008 With heavy voter turnout expected on Election Day, both parties are amassing thousands and thousands of lawyers to keep an eye on the polls. Senator Barack Obama’s campaign is expected to send at least 5,000 lawyers to Florida alone. The first recruitment e-mail message the campaign sent out nationally received 6,000 responses Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-51925791425826485782008-10-27T07:48:00.000-04:002008-10-30T07:49:13.945-04:0050,000 purged from voter rolls in GeorgiaRAW STORY - October 27, 2008 With reports of voting problems rife in the media, and instances of vote flipping seen in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Texas, elections watchdogs are on their toes for any more foul play. In spite of their activism, 50,000 voters have been lopped off Georgia's rolls.Read More >>Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-10354403313380453462008-10-27T07:46:00.000-04:002008-10-30T07:47:10.631-04:00Indiana Sec of State Part of GOP "Fear Campaign" On VotingZachary Roth - October 27, 2008Last week, Indiana's Republican Secretary of State, Todd Rokita, sent a letter to federal, state and local authorities asking for a criminal investigation into over 1400 suspicious voter registration forms submitted by ACORN in Lake County, a key Democratic stronghold. Now, the Obama camp has responded. The Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-53192747992519270082008-10-27T07:41:00.000-04:002008-10-30T07:42:25.340-04:00Thousands purged from voter rolls in GeorgiaRAW STORY - October 27, 2008 Update: Federal panel tells state to let those flagged vote anyway, ballots can later be challenged; GA sec. of state says screening to continueWith reports of voting problems rife in the media, and instances of vote flipping seen in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Texas, elections watchdogs are on their toes for any more Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-89761505033814025632008-10-27T07:38:00.000-04:002008-10-30T07:40:51.896-04:00Phony Virginia Flier Tells Dems To Vote November 5TPM - Zachary Roth - October 27, 2008A phony flier, purporting to be from the Virginia Board of Elections, is circulating in the African-American-heavy Hampton Roads region of the state, falsely informing people that, because of expected high turnout, Democrats should vote on November 5th. The election is November 4th. State election officials Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-15309653990447342342008-10-26T01:47:00.001-04:002008-10-26T01:50:19.534-04:00McCain Thugs - Possible use of illegal aliens who can barely speak English to register votersRead More >>Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-65451494226374459052008-10-25T01:38:00.000-04:002008-10-26T01:39:34.948-04:00Denver Elections trying to find location of 11,000 mail ballotsRocky Mountain News - October 25, 2008Denver elections officials are trying to determine what happened to more than 11,000 mail ballots that are unaccounted for.The U.S. Postal Service said Friday afternoon that its Denver mail processing facility received 10,364 ballots on Oct. 16 and delivered them within a couple of days.But the Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-74217855119962860192008-10-25T01:35:00.000-04:002008-10-26T01:37:41.026-04:00Colo.'s Katherine Harris threatens '08 electionDavid Sirota - 10/25/2008Colorado, as anyone following the election campaign knows, is a major presidential battleground state. Both John McCain and Barack Obama have visited the state multiple times, including in recent/coming days. Though a new poll shows Obama taking a commanding 12-point lead, everyone expects both the presidential and U.S. Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-20143577471717689482008-10-25T01:29:00.001-04:002008-10-26T01:59:05.607-04:00Bush asks Justice Dept to look into Ohio voter-registration disputeHe does so at the behest of House GOP leader John Boehner. The partisan fight centers on discrepancies in state data.Mary Pat Flaherty - October 25, 2008Reporting from Washington -- The White House has asked the Department of Justice to look into whether 200,000 new Ohio voters must reconfirm their registration information before Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-33548139625308090092008-10-24T06:36:00.001-04:002008-10-26T06:42:24.659-04:00Another Corrupt Republican Blocks People from VotingDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-85978586153761787932008-10-24T05:15:00.002-04:002008-10-24T06:51:02.721-04:00Early Voting Sees Reports of Voter Intimidation, Machine MalfunctionsDemocracy Now!'s Amy Goodman interviews professor Mark Crispin Miller on election fraud, voter intimidation, voting machine malfunctions and the Bradley Effect. Miller is the author of "Loser Takes All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008." [Amy Goodman reads a few headlines at the beginning, for a minute Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-66813742366668343622008-10-24T01:54:00.001-04:002008-10-26T01:56:16.411-04:00ES&S Touch-Screen Votes Now Flipping in TX Too!Obama/DNC Attorneys Still AWOL!Brad Friedman - 10/24/2008State After State, ES&S iVotronics Are Flipping Democratic Votes to Republican!What You Can Do About It, And Where the Hell Are Those 'Thousands' of Obama/DNC Attorneys?...This is just getting worse and worse. Now it's happening in Texas. (And in MO, if you read to the end of the article). And Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-18689719845953534092008-10-24T01:51:00.001-04:002008-10-26T01:53:06.530-04:00Project Vote Says NY Times Report on ACORN ErredProject Vote - October 24, 2008.Project Vote responds to a New York Times report suggesting ACORN's voter registration errors were much bigger than anyone believed.An article appeared in the October 24 New York Times that misrepresents comments made by Project Vote about the total number of registrations gathered through the organization’s joint Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-49600549376151440512008-10-24T01:44:00.000-04:002008-10-26T01:46:57.556-04:00Long lines, glitches reported during early votingOctober 24, 2008(CNN) -- In many states across the country, voting has begun, and in some cases, so have the headaches.With the issues that marred the 2000 election singed into the electorate's collective memory, the reports of problems are troubling signs for many who are skeptical of whether their votes will count.Forty-two percent of those Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-77188810302685760412008-10-24T01:34:00.001-04:002008-10-26T06:59:02.897-04:00Bush Orders DOJ to Probe Ohio Voter RegistrationsJason Leopold - The Public Record - October 24, 2008 President George W. Bush late Friday asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate whether hundreds of thousands of newly registered voters in the battleground state of Ohio would have to verify the information on their voter registration forms or be given provisional ballots, an issue Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-51599003887515148282008-10-24T01:27:00.000-04:002008-10-26T01:29:33.151-04:00Both sides gird for legal challenges in US electionCINCINNATI, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Americans used to wait for problems on election day before crying vote fraud, but both sides have already launched charges of disenfranchisement and cheating ahead of the Nov. 4 U.S. presidential election.[...] There are now complaints or legal challenges over voting lists, absentee voting and erratic voting Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-48417778701424171302008-10-24T01:23:00.000-04:002008-10-26T01:26:15.873-04:00Big Setbacks for GOP Voter Suppression Efforts in Swing StatesBrad Blog - Guest blogged by Steven Rosenfeld of AlterNetRepublican Party efforts to stop thousands of voters from casting meaningful ballots in 2008 because their registration information does not match government databases with high error rates was set back by legal rulings in Wisconsin, Ohio and Nevada on Thursday.In Wisconsin, a Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-53149265746297909182008-10-24T01:20:00.000-04:002008-10-26T01:23:22.166-04:00Administration to Bypass Reporting LawNYT - October 24, 2008 WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has informed Congress that it is bypassing a law intended to forbid political interference with reports to lawmakers by the Department of Homeland Security.The August 2007 law requires the agency’s chief privacy officer to report each year about Homeland Security activities that affect privacy, and Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-66436254743663464092008-10-23T17:50:00.000-04:002008-10-23T17:51:58.959-04:00Court Throws Out WI AG Voting SuitKate Klonick - October 23, 2008It looks like some of the state and local efforts led by Republicans to stymie voters, aren't panning out. The latest loss for the GOP comes in Wisconsin. Where the suit filed by Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen requesting confirmation on thousands of voter registrations, has been thrown out by a county circuit judge.From Wisconisn Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-31712829492631097702008-10-23T13:02:00.000-04:002008-10-23T13:03:42.413-04:00Help spread the truth about ACORNDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-73546768510425837242008-10-23T12:26:00.001-04:002008-10-23T12:32:17.305-04:00Indiana judge allows early voting to go onChicago Tribune - October 23, 2008 A Lake County Superior Court Judge on Wednesday ordered early voting sites in heavily Democratic Hammond, Gary and East Chicago to remain open in a decision that could affect the presidential election in the battleground state of Indiana.In her decision, Judge Diane Kavadias Schneider dismissed complaints from local GOP Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-88413149087560800512008-10-23T12:20:00.001-04:002008-10-23T12:20:51.641-04:00Fight For Your VoteDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-46717550357012267012008-10-23T06:48:00.001-04:002008-10-26T06:50:52.097-04:00Computer error cited in Georgia’s voter registration checksState says it sent 747,000 verification requests, not 2 millionThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution - October 23, 2008A computer programming glitch is responsible for the high number of voter registration checks Georgia ran this year through the Social Security Administration, Secretary of State Karen Handel said.The commissioner of the Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-59537354958903826142008-10-23T06:42:00.001-04:002008-10-26T06:45:42.446-04:0010,000 absentee ballots in Gwinnett are flawedVotes will have to be transferred to new ballotsThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution - October 23, 2008Gwinnett County elections officials will have to hand-copy votes from at least 10,000 absentee ballots onto new ballots that can be read by a machine.The original ballots, designed to be filled out by hand, are flawed because of a printing error. The Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-17038435255759828642008-10-23T02:15:00.001-04:002008-10-24T02:21:11.976-04:00Voters Sue Pennsylvania, Election Official ScoffsAmerican News Project - October 23, 2008PHILADELPHIA, PA - Earlier this week, ANP reported that, come November, Pennsylvania voters could face substantial delays at the polls. We spoke with the man running the election in Philadelphia, who scoffed at long lines and tales of lost votes. Now, voters are suing the state of Pennsylvania. With the help Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-83036917108455411402008-10-23T02:14:00.000-04:002008-10-24T02:15:28.043-04:0012 Ways You Can Safeguard the VoteBAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. - October 23 - YES! MagazineAre you worried that we will wake up November 5th to find that, once again, election results in key races are in question? Here's what you can do.These recommendations from the staff at YES! Magazine are simple ways you can protect your own vote-and the fairness of the system, based on the recommendations of Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-83389754485071292222008-10-23T02:09:00.000-04:002008-10-24T02:13:38.937-04:00How to Stop the Rigging of Election '08Sarah van Gelder - October 23, 2008Don't be fooled by all the accusations about ACORN. The real voting scandal is the voter suppression methods that likely swayed election results in 2000 and 2004, and are in process again as you read this.Most of the news has focused on John McCain's accusations that ACORN is perpetrating a major vote fraud. The problems Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-1078755597850364662008-10-23T01:40:00.000-04:002008-10-26T01:43:30.238-04:00GOP lawyer refuses to deny private eye visitsTwo in ACORN controversy say investigator's visits were intimidating Gwyneth Doland - 10/23/08ALBUQUERQUE – Republican Party attorney Pat Rogers refused to say Thursday if a private detective who visited the addresses of two of the 10 Albuquerque voters cited at a news conference last week about voter fraud was working for the GOP.Project Vote, a Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-42063912500723504172008-10-23T01:07:00.000-04:002008-10-24T01:08:52.748-04:00Federal Lawsuit Finally Filed Against PA to Demand Emergency Paper Ballots for VotersBrad Friedman - 10/23/2008NAACP, Voting Rights Coalition Demand Paper Ballots If 'Majority' of Voting Machines FailSec. of the Commonwealth Had Previously Decried Paper Only Necessary if ALL Voting Machines Break Down in a Precinct...Finally! A lawsuit [PDF] has finally been filed today in federal District Court Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-34895295265850271722008-10-22T17:49:00.000-04:002008-10-23T17:50:41.287-04:00Votes Reportedly Flipping from Repub to Dem in TNBrad Friedman on 10/22/2008Yesterday we reported the problems experienced at the Davidson County (Nashville), TN polls by Election Integrity filmmakers David and Patricia Earnhardt. Patricia, like so many others before, in so many elections past, saw her vote flip before her eyes on the ES&S iVotronic touch-screen system from her intended candidateDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-46455776112186206262008-10-22T12:36:00.000-04:002008-10-23T12:40:14.225-04:00Massive E-Mail Campaign Freezes Absentee BallotsWashington Post - October 22, 2008 Efforts by elections officials in Fairfax County and several Virginia jurisdictions to distribute absentee ballots to military members and others living overseas ground to a halt Tuesday after a group concerned about the state's voting system crashed e-mail servers with a massive letter-writing campaign. Rokey W. Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-17177666934328939082008-10-22T06:45:00.000-04:002008-10-26T06:48:07.971-04:00No compromise reached on voter verificationThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution - October 22, 2008Civil rights lawyers and state attorneys failed to agree Wednesday on a solution to make sure qualified voters whose citizenship has been mistakenly questioned can vote on Nov. 4.A three-judge court told the lawyers to get together over lunch during a break in a day-long hearing. The judges considered Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-73664713312572742972008-10-22T01:06:00.000-04:002008-10-24T01:07:04.381-04:00Early Voting Sees Reports of Voter Intimidation, Machine MalfunctionsOctober 22, 2008Early voting has begun, and problems are already emerging at the polls. In West Virginia, voters using touchscreen machines have claimed their votes were switched from Democrat to Republican. In North Carolina, a group of McCain supporters heckled a group of mostly black supporters of Barack Obama. In Ohio, Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-35878380204681275202008-10-22T01:04:00.000-04:002008-10-24T01:05:50.136-04:00Sorry, I Can’t Find Your NameNYT Editorial - October 22, 2008 Before Mississippi’s March presidential primary, one county election official improperly removed more than 8,000 voters from the eligible-voter rolls, including a Republican Congressional candidate. Fortunately, the secretary of state’s office learned of the purge in time and restored the voters. It’s disturbing that a single official Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-9893959792110410252008-10-22T00:58:00.000-04:002008-10-24T01:04:23.190-04:00Nevada Secretary of State Rebuffs Latest GOP Effort To Suppress VoteZachary Roth - October 22, 2008Yesterday 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 incomplete registrations on the spot when going to vote. Lowden claimed thatDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-10681295349893756872008-10-21T13:00:00.000-04:002008-10-23T13:01:36.436-04:00Voter Challenges Hit Sen. McCain's Ohio StaffPartisan Games Should Lead To Bipartisan Prosecution or Be Dropped; Voter Challenges Hit Sen. McCain's Ohio StaffBuzzflashCOLUMBUS - ProgressOhio.org today called on the Franklin County Board of Elections to investigate and refer to the Franklin County Prosecutor evidence that out-of-state McCain/Palin campaign workers have registered to vote in Ohio Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-84932181925023840062008-10-21T12:51:00.000-04:002008-10-23T12:52:46.346-04:00NM GOP Lawyer Pushing Voter Fraud: It's "Single Greatest Wedge Issue Ever."Zachary Roth - Oct 21, 2008[...] Consisting of little more than a post-office box and some staffers who wrote reports and gave helpful quotes about the pervasive problems of voter fraud to the press, the group identified Democratic cities as hot spots for voter fraud, then pushed the line that "election integrity" requiredDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-3810269572072863652008-10-20T12:53:00.000-04:002008-10-23T12:55:02.851-04:00Obama Assembles U.S.'s `Largest Law Firm' for VotingJames RowleyOct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama and John McCain have a litigation game plan to accompany their election strategy. Both candidates have armies of volunteers to ring doorbells and get voters to the polls. They are also forming squadrons of lawyers who are filing challenges and preparing in case Election Day doesn't settle the Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-83286902211237855632008-10-20T12:40:00.000-04:002008-10-23T12:43:33.754-04:00McCain Employing GOP Operative Accused Of Voter Registration FraudSam Stein - Oct 20, 2008John McCain's campaign has directed $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states. According to campaign finance records, a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-39376402592670828002008-10-20T12:12:00.000-04:002008-10-23T12:18:26.089-04:00Death Threats, Hack Attempts 'Barrage' OH Sec. of State's OfficeBrad Friedman - 10/20/2008 The website of the Ohio Secretary of State is being set to "static mode" following a recent series of "security breach" attempts, as well as suspicious packages and a number of death threats sent to the office, according to a press release issued late this afternoon.The threats against Secretary of State Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-48639069845667746152008-10-20T03:22:00.002-04:002008-10-20T03:30:53.742-04:00GOP Voter Registration Fraud Case Leads to ArrestOntario police arrest man in voter fraud caseEvan Halper, Los Angeles Times - October 20, 2008 SACRAMENTO -- The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud.State and local investigators allege that MarkDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-84262289200024963792008-10-18T21:48:00.002-04:002008-10-18T21:55:46.905-04:00Death threat, vandalism hit ACORN after McCain's Irresponsible, Duplicitous and Inciting CommentsMcClatchy - 10.18.08[...] Kettenring said that a senior ACORN staffer in Cleveland, after appearing on television this week, got an e-mail that said she "is going to have her life ended."A female staffer in Providence, R.I., got a threatening call from someone who said words to the effect of "We know Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-90091147828259312982008-10-18T12:43:00.000-04:002008-10-23T12:46:46.198-04:00More W.Va. voters say machines are switching votesThe Charleston Gazette - October 18, 2008WINFIELD, W.Va. -- Three Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week. This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-2340036685199761562008-10-18T12:33:00.000-04:002008-10-23T12:34:54.113-04:00Is Your Vote Safe?RFK Jr., Mike Papantonio - 22 Sep 2008Transcript from Ring of Fire on Air America Radio Bobby: "There are about 30 scams the Republicans are deliberately using, particularly in the swing states to get Democratic voters off the rolls. These scams originate in the so-called Help America Vote Act which was passed after the Florida debacle in the year 2000. It was originally Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-81167362965124312922008-10-18T04:29:00.003-04:002008-10-18T04:34:53.868-04:00Block the VoteWill the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president?ROLLING STONE - ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. & GREG PALAST[...] Suppressing the vote has long been a cornerstone of the GOP's electoral strategy. Shortly before the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, Paul Weyrich — a principal architect of today's Republican Party — scolded evangelicals Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-80747769854457221532008-10-18T03:37:00.002-04:002008-10-20T03:40:43.305-04:00Thousands face mix-ups in voter registrationsMany are wrongly flagged as ineligible in new databasesOct. 18, 2008Thousands of voters across the country must reestablish their eligibility in the next three weeks in order for their votes to count on Nov. 4, a result of new state registration systems that are incorrectly rejecting them. The challenges have led to a dozen lawsuits, testy arguments Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-29711568961839691252008-10-18T03:31:00.000-04:002008-10-20T03:36:01.819-04:00Voters say they were duped into registering as RepublicansLos Angeles Times - October 18, 2008 SACRAMENTO -- Dozens of newly minted Republican voters say they were duped into joining the party by a GOP contractor with a trail of fraud complaints stretching across the country.Voters contacted by The Times said they were tricked into switching parties while signing what they believed were petitionsDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-33151902763027035632008-10-17T13:25:00.002-04:002008-10-17T13:28:34.889-04:00High court rejects GOP in Ohio voting disputeRepublicans had won order that state do more to check eligibilityWASHINGTON - The Supreme Court sided Friday with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations. The justices overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-81977416745834188252008-10-17T12:06:00.000-04:002008-10-23T12:12:08.027-04:00Counting Electronic Votes in SecretFreedom to Tinker, October 17, 2008Professor Andrew Appel of the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University has released a previously-suppressed report finding that electronic voting machines in New Jersey make it easy to engage in undetectable election fraud. "It takes about 7 minutes, using simple tools, to replace the computer Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-1279826602952542512008-10-17T09:51:00.002-04:002008-10-17T09:55:36.090-04:00Report: Kentucky not ready to voteLexington Herald-Leader - Oct. 17, 2008The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University has issued a report, "Is America Ready to Vote ?" Kentucky is listed as one of the 10 least prepared states in the country, according to the report. They base their conclusion on how states fare in four areas: polling place contingency plans; sound ballot accounting andDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-74406921975451048782008-10-17T04:47:00.001-04:002008-10-18T04:49:35.249-04:00Obama Demands Special Prosecutor Investigate GOP Voter Fraud ActivitiesThe Washington Independent - 10/17/08Charging that the FBI probe of ACORN represents an “unholy alliance” between Republican operatives and potentially illegal conduct by law enforcement targeting voter fraud, the Obama campaign demanded Friday that the U.S. special prosecutor looking into the U.S. attorneys scandal Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-18078230440079348712008-10-17T04:37:00.000-04:002008-10-18T04:47:10.651-04:00Ex DOJ Voting Rights Chief: "It's Going to Take a Long Time to Cleanse" DepartmentBy Zachary Roth - October 17, 2008A former top Department of Justice voting rights official -- who once worked with John McCain in defense of the senator's campaign-finance reform bill -- has added his name to the growing chorus that is denouncing the department's investigation of ACORN as a shameful and Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-14718883189054762212008-10-16T14:34:00.001-04:002008-10-17T14:37:14.240-04:00Returning to the Scene of the CrimeJosh Marshall - 10.16.08So now we hear leaked word that the FBI is beginning an investigation into whether ACORN "helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election" and where there is "any evidence of a coordinated national scam."Let's note a few points. DC Republicans have been aggressively lobbying the DOJ to open an Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-46552236130101905022008-10-16T12:56:00.001-04:002008-10-23T12:59:32.464-04:00The Acorn StoryNew York Times Editorial - October 16, 2008In Wednesday night’s debate, John McCain warned that a group called Acorn is “on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history” and “may be destroying the fabric of democracy.” Viewers may have been wondering what Mr. McCain was talking about. So were we. Acorn is a nonprofit group that advocates for low- and Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-29990717821426569722008-10-16T07:05:00.001-04:002008-10-16T07:08:04.570-04:00Stealing OhioDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-39193651289318314002008-10-15T14:27:00.001-04:002008-10-17T14:33:39.430-04:00Montana GOP Executive Director Resigns After Failed Voter-Suppression AttemptsAfter a failed attempt to challenge the voting rights of thousands of young people in Montana, the ED of the Montana GOP resigned today to "pursue other interests." A video at the link describes the entire controversy. There was a lot of kick-ass voter protection work done here by Forward Montana, a local progressive Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-71656775261982259812008-10-15T14:14:00.000-04:002008-10-17T14:16:38.105-04:00Crist: GOP may be exaggerating voter fraudTALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida's governor says his fellow Republicans may be exaggerating claims of voter fraud in the state.Gov. Charlie Crist said Wednesday that he has confidence in Secretary of State Kurt Browning, who says there's only been a scattering of isolated incidents.Crist said in the closing days of any campaign "there are some who sort of Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-24814251433637889402008-10-15T03:48:00.002-04:002008-10-15T03:52:28.043-04:00Court orders Ohio to verify newly registered votersThe federal appeal court ruling in Ohio on voter registration is a legal victory for the Republican Party.(CNN) -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered Ohio's secretary of state to establish a system to verify hundreds of thousands of newly registered voters by Friday.Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner also has to make the eligibility Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-10141037595715369832008-10-15T03:46:00.000-04:002008-10-15T03:48:31.281-04:00Federal court: Ohio must check voter registrationsCINCINNATI (AP) — A federal appeals court has ordered Ohio's top elections official to set up a system by Friday to verify the eligibility of new voters.The full 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must use other government records to check thousands of newDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-216671540190705832008-10-15T01:38:00.001-04:002008-10-15T01:41:25.992-04:00Stealing America: Vote by VoteDorothy Fadiman invites the public to make free downloads of "Stealing America: Vote by Vote" beginning October 21stRead More >>Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-71425552731076891682008-10-14T14:19:00.000-04:002008-10-17T14:27:21.350-04:00Florida Dems Told to Vote by PhoneOpEdNews - 10.14.08Adding to a lengthening string of vote suppression tactics, the GOP has now been accused of telling Democrats they can call in their vote for Barack Obama. In the Florida Panhandle county of Okaloosa, Democratic Party headquarters received a report last week from a voter who claimed that she received a phone call advising her she could vote Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-28600706809918522462008-10-14T09:37:00.002-04:002008-10-15T09:50:36.075-04:00Obama campaign: GOP targeting ACORN to 'intimidate, suppress' votersNick Juliano - October 14, 2008 Barack Obama's campaign is pushing back at what's been a concerted effort from John McCain, the Republican Party and conservative media outlets to drum up outraged accusations of voter fraud on the part of an independent organization that has been spearheading efforts to register low-income Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-53027300089765393822008-10-14T03:12:00.000-04:002008-10-15T03:14:49.339-04:00Defending ACORN and the Right to VoteLaura Flanders - October 14, 2008 Barack Obama's poll numbers are up - and the McCain campaign's gloves are off. This time the GOP's target isn't merely the Democratic candidate -- it's a poor people's group - and if we're not careful, the impact of the targeting may be felt long after the '08 election.In a new ad running online, the John McCain campaign Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-15275407139853975822008-10-14T03:06:00.002-04:002008-10-15T03:11:35.893-04:00Ex-GOP Operative in New Hampshire IndictedZachary Roth - October 14, 2008Former Republican operative James Tobin has been indicted for making false statements to the FBI in connection with the bureau's investigation of a phone-jamming scheme in New Hampshire in 2002, according to court filings examined by TPMmuckraker.Details to follow...Update: Here's the indictment. It contains two counts, bothDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-83980654388004138022008-10-14T03:02:00.000-04:002008-10-15T03:05:19.065-04:00FOX Alert: Hans On the LooseTPM - 10.14.08Since last Friday, Fox News has mentioned ACORN 342 times, according to Media Matters. It's all ACORN all the time over there (which by itself should tell you a little bit about the credibility of the allegations of widespread voter fraud). But I wanted to draw your attention to one of the so-called voting experts Fox has been using lately. Everyone Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-82949842433483722912008-10-14T02:58:00.001-04:002008-10-15T03:01:15.922-04:00More on the Acorn ScamJosh Marshall - Talkiing Points MemoIf you have any question what this ACORN/vote fraud con-job is about. Here's an episode of TPMtv from April 2007. It includes video from a speech Karl Rove gave in April 2006 about claims of election fraud. Rove reels off what he calls the "hot spots". And surprise, surprise: half of them are cases where the US Attorneys ended up getting Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-73988415317930802802008-10-14T02:52:00.000-04:002008-10-15T02:57:10.090-04:00Never Another Hanging ChadFeminist Peace Network - October 14th, 2008Could the 2008 U.S. Presidential election be stolen? Every time I see Karl Rove on television with his spooky botox calm, I can’t help thinking this is not a guy who is planning his retirement and let’s face it, when Dick Cheney takes a powder in the middle of a major crisis, it’s probably not a a good sign. There is substantialDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-58991564424035014292008-10-14T02:45:00.000-04:002008-10-15T02:50:28.984-04:00Queen of the LiarsJosh Marshall - 10.14.2008Sarah Palin denounces the "unconscionable voter fraud" going on in Pennsylvania ...Needless to say Palin's record leaves little doubt that she'd be canning the next round of US Attorneys who confirmed that the charges of voter fraud were bogus. Link >>Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-55321220359379814132008-10-14T02:37:00.002-04:002008-10-15T02:43:46.456-04:00Obama on ACORN Controversy"A Distraction... We Don't Need ACORN's Help"ABCNews - October 14, 2008ABC News noted that "Senator McCain today said that 'there has been voter fraud going on in the battleground states. ACORN is tampering with Americans' most precious right; there has to be a full and complete investigation.' And he also said that you need to disclose your full relationship with ACORNDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-15564304790039350582008-10-14T01:47:00.000-04:002008-10-15T01:49:29.415-04:00Voters surprised by closuresMichelle Guffey| South Carolina Bureau - Oct 14, 2008AIKEN --- The Aiken County Registration and Elections Commission voted Monday night to suspend absentee voting in three satellite locations across the county pending further review. About 30 residents attended the special meeting to voice their anger about a last-minute change of location for absentee voters and to Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-61940513191987838752008-10-14T01:44:00.001-04:002008-10-15T01:47:14.182-04:00We Be Jammin'David Kurtz - 10.14.08The new indictment of Jim Tobin in the 6-year-old New Hampshire phone jamming case, which we first reported today at TPMmuckraker, requires some reconsideration of whether the Justice Department has been insufficiently aggressive in the case -- or perhaps whether new hands at DOJ are taking a more aggressive tack.The big question in the case has always been how Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-54057837498616240802008-10-13T08:51:00.000-04:002008-10-14T08:54:21.181-04:00McCain Hearts Acorn!Was Keynote Speaker at Group's 2006 Rally!Brad Friedman - 10/13/2008 Golly, for a group that's committed so much "voter fraud" for so long (if you're gullible enough to believe the lies that RNC/FNC has been telling you) it's mighty strange that, as News One notes, "McCain attended an ACORN convention just two years ago."The once-honorable Republican's campaign has even seen Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-62167136668742473562008-10-13T03:43:00.001-04:002008-10-14T03:45:05.665-04:00Judge: GOP's voter purge a 'violation of federal law'Stephen C. Webster - October 13, 2008The American Civil Liberties Union is trumpeting a judge's decision in Michigan which brings to a halt the practice of eliminating voters from rolls if their mailing address is found to be invalid.Recently, the GOP chairman in Macomb County, Michigan, detailed a plan to use a list of foreclosed homes to Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-57921018395218157532008-10-12T23:52:00.002-04:002008-10-13T00:18:55.258-04:00Obama to go on Offense on Voter ProtectionOn Monday, Obama's communication's shop is expected to go on the offense on issues of voter protection after a week in which Republicans cried foul about registration efforts in various states and painted the community organizing group ACORN as a criminal enterprise.Obama aides will attack Republicans over efforts to disenfranchise voters in several Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-9752881244371249802008-10-12T23:46:00.002-04:002008-10-12T23:51:38.079-04:00How McCain Will Steal the Election from Obama (Sort Of)Tom Matzzie - October 12, 2008 Imagine an election where one of the participants calls foul. Investigations are launched or at least called for. Prosecutors raise the specter of charges, the U.S. attorney and FBI get involved. No voter fraud is ever actually found. But by the time that conclusion is reached, the myth has been solidified both Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-49335128876009606952008-10-12T03:39:00.006-04:002008-10-13T00:19:45.696-04:00Absentee Ballots Printed Osama instead of ObamaA few days ago, the New York Times reported that tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls, or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, and that it was "apparently the result of mistakes". Nobody's fault ... just a series of coincidental 'mistakes' in AT Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-38679095462438053952008-10-11T03:57:00.001-04:002008-10-15T04:01:02.029-04:00Elections IrregularitiesWantToKnowBelow are many highly revealing excerpts of important elections articles from the mainstream media. These articles present key, little-known information showing that the U.S. elections system is filled with irregularities which have not been adequately investigated. Links are provided to the full articles on major media websites. For what you can do about this Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-61795338250953318432008-10-11T00:08:00.000-04:002008-10-13T00:14:08.854-04:00Ohio sheriff rekindles voter suppression fearsAttempts to probe new registrants jeopardize system Dennis J. Willard - Beacon Journal Columbus Bureau - Oct 11, 2008 COLUMBUS: Greene County, in Ohio's southwestern corner, is home to Xenia, the little Americana town that was devastated by a tornado in 1974 that killed 32 people, destroyed more than 300 homes and blew the roof and windows right off Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-73943214716917401282008-10-10T23:58:00.001-04:002008-10-13T00:01:13.946-04:00The Gist of the ACORN StoryJosh Marshall - 10.10.08The Republican party is grasping on to the ACORN story as a way to delegitimize what now looks like the probable outcome of the November election. It is also a way to stoke the paranoia of their base, lay the groundwork for legal challenges of close outcomes in various states and promote new legal restrictions on legitimate voting by lower incomeDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-25394388082626338402008-10-10T23:55:00.000-04:002008-10-12T23:57:49.320-04:00States Deny Problems with Voter RegistrationKate Klonick - October 10, 2008States reached out to reassure voters yesterday, after a story in the New York Times said that tens of thousands of voters were being blocked from registering or purged from state rolls.Colorado, one of the states named in the story, has said they will review the process that has removed an estimated 37,000 voters from theDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-62682229680895024012008-10-10T23:54:00.000-04:002008-10-12T23:55:49.236-04:00Double and Triple Checking in Swing States Could Lead to Voters Blocked from PollsKate Klonick - October 10, 2008As state officials scramble to rebut claims of voter purging and blocked registrations made in a recent report, they're also revealing their missteps. Officials in two swing states have admitted that they are double -- and sometimes triple -- checking new voter registrations, which Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-33673082612748638482008-10-10T10:47:00.000-04:002008-10-11T10:49:25.586-04:00GOP Attacks on American Voters Turn Desperate, Ugly and DangerousBob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman - Oct 10, 2008The GOP assault on American voters has hit full stride as the economy and John McCain tank in synch. With just over three weeks until election day, the Republicans have mounted an all-out attack against newly registered voters and the organizations working to sign them up. As many as Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-13141986624183439432008-10-10T10:44:00.002-04:002008-10-11T10:51:58.558-04:00Attacks on ACORN Based Not on Facts, But on Fear of 1.3 Million Poor People RegisteringJesse Jackson, Jr. - Oct 10, 2008The Republicans tried to make fun of Barack Obama as a community organizer at their national convention in Minnesota, which I guess just goes to show how little Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have to fear from right-wing "humor."Now they've gone further: Now they're attacking Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-40338482930846562962008-10-10T10:39:00.000-04:002008-10-11T10:44:32.856-04:00ACORN Is Not the Nut HereDavid Swanson - 10.10.08From 2000 to 2003 I was the communications coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. I don't know whether to be sorry or relieved that I don't have my old job now.ACORN has been through some scandals of its own making, but it is currently all over the news because of a pair of absolutely fraudulent and Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-6237859302710158092008-10-10T04:09:00.000-04:002008-10-12T04:11:27.102-04:00The Purge Surge: Why the GOP Is Nuts About ACORNRick Hasen - Oct 10, 2008What explains the Republicans' fixation on ACORN in recent days? From Sen. McCain's campaign manager to GOP luminaries to the McCain campaign's own new web ad, ACORN appears to be target #1 of the GOP campaign against Senator Obama, surpassing even a focus on William Ayers. The claims are that ACORN is engaging in massive Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-59055397007343058152008-10-10T00:02:00.000-04:002008-10-13T00:04:44.728-04:00GOP lawmaker compares ACORN to the KKKDavid Edwards and Nick Juliano - October 10, 2008 The organized assault from the Republican party on an organization dedicated to registering low-income and minority voters continued in full force Friday, with a prominent Republican lawmaker comparing the community organizers at Acorn with the Ku Klux Klan. The Association of Community Organziations for Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-25298162179972115732008-10-09T12:28:00.002-04:002008-10-09T12:33:24.508-04:00Judge blasts GOP voter registration challengesJennifer McKee - Missoulian State BureauHELENA - U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy issued a scathing order Wednesday lambasting the Montana Republican Party for challenging the registrations of thousands of Montana voters, but stopped short of an actual ruling in the case.In his 19-page order, Molloy denied a temporary restraining order to the MontanaDixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-76221269955827893622008-10-09T10:32:00.000-04:002008-10-11T10:38:29.025-04:00GOP's ACORN 'Voter Fraud' Scam Rolls Out in MO...Right on Schedule...Brad Blog - 10.09.08[...] "It's par for the course," [Ordower] said. "When you're doing more registrations than anyone else in the country, some don't want low-income people being empowered to vote. There are pretty targeted attacks on us, but we're proud to be out there doing the patriotic thing getting people registered to Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-83068495837354755532008-10-09T06:58:00.000-04:002008-10-09T07:00:26.934-04:00States’ Actions to Block Voters Appear IllegalNYT - October 8, 2008 Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times.The actions do not seem to be coordinated by one party or the Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5215206.post-25876116417234816802008-10-09T06:54:00.001-04:002008-10-26T06:56:39.303-04:00Feds slap Georgia’s voter ID checksThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution - October 09, 2008The U.S. Department of Justice has told Georgia officials that their efforts to verify the identities and citizenship of registered voters amount to substantial changes to state policy and are unenforceable without approval under the Voting Rights Act.Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker received the letter Dixychiknoreply@blogger.com0