Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: Karl Rove and the Republican Dark Art of Election Theft | Alternet

Billionaires and Ballot Bandits: Karl Rove and the Republican Dark Art of Election Theft | Alternet
"An excerpt from Greg Palast's new book runs through the electoral dirty tricks we've endured at Rove's hands since the Bush years."

Republican war on voting most intense in few crucial states

3 Ways the GOP Has Already Disenfranchised Thousands of Swing-State Voters | Alternet

3 Ways the GOP Has Already Disenfranchised Thousands of Swing-State Voters | Alternet
"The Republican Party’s war on Democratic voting blocks is like a game of three-dimensional chess in which their strategies are intended to remain dormant until Election Day, and in the following days when votes are officially counted.

But their game plan is simple. They want to discourage voters by complicating every step for new and existing voters from specific blue cohorts, such as students, poor people and minorities. They’ve adopted new laws or rules that target pathways surrounding polling place voting, while keeping voting by mail—a longtime GOP strategy—free from similar rules. And they are spreading fears that there will be vastly more policing of the process to scare away voters, when in reality that’s not likely to be the case."

Ohio Secretary of State Refuses To Comply With Early Voting Court Order

Ohio Secretary of State Refuses To Comply With Early Voting Court Order: Jon Husted, Republican Secretary of State in Ohio, is refusing to change his restrictive early voting schedule even after a federal court restored in-person early voting to all Ohioans during the three day period before the general election. Husted claims expanding hours before an appeals court hears his case will “only serve to confuse voters.” [...]/p

GOP Targets African-American Women in Voter Suppression Efforts | Alternet

GOP Targets African-American Women in Voter Suppression Efforts | Alternet
"How will the American Presidential election be won in November 2012? By the Republicans buying the election? Perhaps. But money cannot always buy an election. That is why Republicans have spent the last 4-6 years passing a spate of voter suppression laws in “swing states” that will make it more difficult and costly for the young, the elderly, minorities, union members and single and elderly women to cast a vote for Barack Obama.

Although the Republican effort is not exactly a secret, few Americans are discussing it with the urgency it deserves."

Voter caging...should Rep. Tim Griffin be in jail?

One of the speakers who took to the stage earlier today at the RNC was Congressman Tim Griffin - who really should be sitting in a jail cell right now. Why's that?