Subject: Voting Rights

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About…Voting Machines

    I suppose post-election time is as good a time as any to talk about voting machine flaws, particularly following a decisive presidential election. But, just like falling gas prices in the short-term are no indication of an ebbing crisis, decisive…

  • The Vote Rocked Me

    I arrived at my polling place this morning, not knowing what kind of scene to expect. After days of TV images of snaking lines, hours long, in early voting states, I brought plenty of reading material and excitement at maybe…

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    Too Young to Vote, But Not Too Young to Engage

    The Obama campaign headquarters were bustling five days before the election and two high school journalism students I brought there to report for their school paper were enthralled. They came from Little Village Lawndale High School in a mostly immigrant…

  • DOJ Passes on Ohio

    Well, not so fast. After a report in The Washington Post last weekend indicated that the White House had requested that the Justice Department look into 200,000 names on the voter rolls that were in question, the DOJ has reportedly…

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    It’s The Great Election, Charlie Brown

    Halloween approaches and, as always, we’re found waiting for the Great Pumpkin, er, Election. Immediately following the broadcast Tuesday of the Peanuts classic that tells the story of the mythical Great Pumpkin that Linus van Pelt waits for year after…

  • Doesn’t Voter Fraud Require Actual Voting?

    John McCain’s peculiar, over-the-top attacks on ACORN were initially a little hard to take seriously. Even when he kept on, it just left us asking, “Where is he going with this?” But when McCain slurred the grass-roots group during the…

  • Uncage the Voters!

    Here at Rooflines, we’ve been tracking recent reports from key swing states uncovering a coordinated GOP election strategy for suppressing votes of foreclosure victims. ACORN yesterday released a report that examines the facts and potential impact these challenges can have…

  • Frayed Democratic Fabric? Try Tissue of Lies

    In his post today on Rooflines, my colleague Matthew Hersh lays out the “What If” scenarios aswirl in the zeitgeist in the weeks leading up to the election. With the memories of the 2000 and 2004 elections still painfully fresh…

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    The “What If” Scenario

    At the third and final presidential debate, when John McCain proclaimed that, Acorn, the darling target of conservative advocacy groups like FOXNews, could have committed voter registration fraud, he said the group “may be perpetrating one of the greatest frauds…

  • Got a House? Cast Your Vote.

    Sounds scary, right? With the foreclosure crisis ushering over a million people into homelessness in the last two years, we’re seeing, again, political machinery go into high gear looking for capital at the expense of the folks who have lost…

  • DOJ Keeps An Eye On Michigan

    Following reports out of Michigan earlier this month as outlined on this Rooflines post that state Republicans there were planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of an…