South Carolina's Anti-Voter Fraud Law Stirs Controversy
Ahead of the 2012 presidential election, a fight is brewing on voter identification laws. At stake is the question of whether the problem is serious enough to threaten the results of the elections....
View ArticlePolitics at the Polls: The Photo ID Requirement to Vote in South Carolina
Lottie Spencer started registering voters about four decades ago, when she was inspired as a young woman to join the Civil Rights movement. Now 71, after living her whole life in Sumter County, South...
View ArticleThe Process is Political: Alleging Voter Fraud in WV Special Election
Our daily look at the details that can change everything. Dem Wins in West Virginia Gov's Race, GOP Leader Worries about Voter Fraud: When the count was done, Democrat Earl Ray Tomblin won a special...
View ArticleReports Reveals Vast Discrepancies in Voter Records
A new report by the Pew Center on the States reveals that one of every eight active registrations is either invalid or inaccurate. Along with voters with registrations in multiple states, their...
View ArticleJustice Department Blocks Texas Voter Identification Law
On Monday, the Justice Department blocked a new Texas voter identification law on the basis that the law would disproportionately affect Hispanics and that it violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The...
View ArticlePhoto ID Law Comes to Swing State of Pennsylvania
Monday was the deadline to register to vote in the presidential primary in Pennsylvania on April 24. These primary voters will be greeted by a coming change in Pennsylvania election law. They’ll be...
View ArticleOpinion: Voter ID Laws are the New Poll Tax
As a liberal, I spend a lot of time talking in favor of taxation and the role that well-considered revenue plays in strengthening our country. Well, I finally found a tax I don't like: the tax that...
View ArticleOpinion: Crying Wolf on 'Voter Fraud' and Other Dirty GOP Tricks
Minority voter suppression isn’t anything new. When I read the story on WNYC about a Bedford-Stuyvesant church getting misleading voter registration information, my initial thought was disbelief, but...
View ArticleObama Campaign Recruiting Voting Law Watchdogs
Just before former President Bill Clinton left the stage in Charlotte, he made sure to add voting rights protection to his list of reasons to reelect President Obama. “If you want every American to...
View ArticleExplainer: Why Don't Both Parties Search for New Voters?
Here is a number on which to chew: seventy three million. This week we found out that’s how many eligible voters are not REGISTERED to vote in the United States! For months I have been asking both...
View ArticleOpinion: Voter ID Laws Saw a Setback this Week, But the War Rages On
Six weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued a wrongheaded ruling upholding that state’s new voter ID law. On appeal, however, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court sent the case back for further...
View ArticleKansas May Be The Toughest Place to Vote in America
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.Of the 239 million American people who are of voting age, a little more than half—only about 142 million—were registered to vote in 2014. For...
View ArticleIn-person voting fraud is rare, doesn’t affect elections
A voter with her dog casts her ballot in the Pennsylvania primary at a polling place in Philadelphia on April 26. Photo by Charles Mostoller/ReutersWASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s newest campaign ad begins...
View ArticleArmed Men Once Patrolled the Polls. Will They Reappear in November?
November 7, 1981, CBS News: "There's a new complication tonight in the still unsettled race for governor of New Jersey...The Democratic National Committee today charged that a group calling itself the...
View ArticleComing Clean on Voter ID Laws
Though nearly half of Americans believe that voter fraud is a pervasive occurrence, it rarely actually happens. A study found that out of the one billion of votes cast from 2000 to 2014, there were...
View ArticleCould hackers compromise November election results?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Concern has been growing about possible cyber-manipulation of the U.S. election since revelations in June that the Democratic National Committee and...
View ArticleWhy Trump ‘rigged’ vote claim could leave lasting impact
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a Bollywood-themed charity concert put on by the Republican Hindu Coalition in Edison, New Jersey, U.S. October 15, 2016. Photo by Jonathan...
View ArticleCould rigged election talk backfire on Trump? Do FBI email notes damage...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: And staying on politics, we are joined now, as we are every Monday, by Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR.Hello to both of...
View ArticleWhy Trump’s ‘rigged election’ claims are wrong and dangerous
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Back to this country now.As we heard earlier, Donald Trump continues to claim that the presidential election process is rigged against him. That claim...
View ArticleU.S. Justice Department to dispatch fewer election observers
A sign is taped to a brick wall outside a polling station for the Wisconsin presidential primary election in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, April 5, 2016. Photo by Jim Young/ReutersWASHINGTON —...
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