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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Over the weekend Senator McCain said that there were “serious allegations of ‘voter fraud’ in the battleground states across America,” and that ACORN was to blame.
These allegations, unfortunately, are nothing new. But there is something funny about them - they tend to pop up every two years like clockwork and the organization that is targeted […]
“Voter Fraud”: Zero to 60 in 3.5 Seconds
Monday, October 13th, 2008Election Reform Needs Media Reform
Thank you, Mark Crispin Miller, for succinctly writing what I have been fuming about all day. In an introduction to an incredible piece in OpEdNews called, “The False Narrative of ‘Voter Fraud,’” by Kenneth Anderson, Mark writes: “Amen, amen. And what it makes entirely clear is that we need not just […]
Democrats Demand Answers in Wake of Greene County Voter Suppression Controversy
Monday, October 13th, 2008In response to Sheriff Gene Fischer and Prosecutor Stephen Haller (a former law partner of McCain campaign chairman Mike DeWine) seeking “the un-redacted voting records of every Greene County voter who registered and cast a ballot between September 30th and October 6th - including driver’s license numbers and social security numbers,” the Ohio Democratic Party […]
McCain and Company Co-opts Election Integrity
Monday, October 13th, 2008After 4+ years of activists and independent journalists trying - with little success - to get Democratic party leaders to take the issue of election fraud and voter suppression seriously enough to bring it out of the shadows, it’s officially too late.
ACORN: Responsible for Stolen Elections, the Mortgage Crisis, the Firing of David Iglesias, and That Insidious Growth on Your Big Toe
Sunday, October 12th, 2008One of the four statements in the title of this post is not like the others in that it is, you know, true.
ACORN. You thought they were a community-based organization of 400,000 families in neighborhoods across the country fighting for the rights of the oppressed and powerless. You thought they were empowering citizens by […]
Election Day 2000 (Learning from the Past So We Are Not Condemned to Repeat It)
Friday, October 10th, 2008We’re getting close - early voting has already begun in some areas of the country and Election Day ‘08 is less than four weeks away (find your polling place). So with that in mind, here’s a clip from Uncounted - a little history from the year 2000 - to remind us why we need […]
Ask These Questions, Hand-Picked Undecided Town Hall Audience, I Dare Ya
Friday, October 3rd, 2008The two major presidential candidates make their way to UNCOUNTED’s hometown of Nashville, TN and Belmont University on Tuesday for the second of three presidential debates, and we have a few suggestions for questions:
What can we do to stop the systematic disfranchisement that has plagued recent elections?
How can we assure that the person who wins […]
Election Day Resources
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Election Day Resources that can be used to help you register, find legal help, volunteer, check the rules that govern the elections in your state, etc., can now be found on our blog (Look over there, under the clip —->).
Check Your Voter Registration
Make sure you are registered to vote! Doesn’t matter if you’ve lived in […]
Homer Simpson’s Election Odyssey
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Homer Simpson tries to vote for his candidate of choice on an electronic voting machine and D’oh! and behold, the Election Integrity issue gets exposed to a whole new donut-eating demographic.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…paper ballots…
Real Americans Don’t Cheat
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008I can’t tell you how many times we get asked, with dripping skepticism, the following question, “If >>INSERT MOST OBJECTIONABLE PRESIDENTIAL OR VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF YOUR CHOICE HERE
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