Colorado elections director resigns amid inquiry
By Myung Oak Kim, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Saturday, September 6, 2008
The abrupt resignation Thursday of a top elections official at the secretary of state’s office happened in the midst of a watchdog group’s investigation into her relationship with a local businessman who has contracts with that office.
Holly Lowder, 66, resigned […]
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Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win
By ANN ZIMMERMAN and KRIS MAHER
August 1, 2008;
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they’ll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to unionize companies — including Wal-Mart.
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In recent weeks, thousands of […]
May 7, 2008 8:22
UPDATE: Nuns strike back.
Posted by Karen Tumulty
Surely, our majority-Catholic Supreme Court should have known better than to get on the wrong side of the Sisters. As we wrote earlier, the first victims of the new ruling on Voter ID were elderly nuns in Indiana. This just in, in my emailbox: The nuns […]
Catholic bishops instruct voters
By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer Wed Nov 14, 10:54 AM ET
BALTIMORE - Roman Catholics voting in the 2008 elections must heed church teaching when deciding which candidates and policies to support, U.S. bishops said Wednesday.
And while the church recognizes the importance of a wide range of issues — from war to […]
In an statement which shocked voters, presidential candidates and the news media, Iowa Secretary of State H. Bifter Herkemayer announced that the Iowa caucuses have already occurred. Mr. Herkemayer noted that the continued movement of states’ primaries as a means of gaining meaning forced his hand.
“Yep, we held it yesterday morning,” he said at a […]
Obama wants official fired for comments
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
Fri Oct 19, 5:50 PM ET
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said Friday the head of the Justice Department’s voting rights division should be fired for saying voter ID laws hurt the elderly but aren’t a problem for minorities because they often die before old age.
John […]
Now, who in the heck could have formed that impression?
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Debate No-Shows Worry GOP Leaders
Candidates Are Urged to Attend Forums Sponsored by Minorities
By Perry Bacon Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 19, 2007; A01
Key Republican leaders are encouraging the party’s presidential candidates to rethink their decision to skip presidential debates focusing on issues important to minorities, […]
Voter Purging: A Legal Way for Republicans to Swing Elections?
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet.
Posted September 11, 2007.
Now the Department of Justice, like the Republican Party, wants fewer registered voters in 2008.
Looking toward the 2008 election, it appears the purges could be a new and legal way to accomplish a controversial longstanding Republican Party electoral tactic — […]
PBS
7.27.07
Voter Caging
Was there a White House plot to illegally suppress votes in 2004?
Is there a similar plan for the upcoming elections?
This week NOW examines documents and evidence that points to a Republican Party plan designed to keep Democrats from voting, allegedly by targeting people based on their race and ethnicity with key battleground states like […]
Was campaigning against voter fraud a Republican ploy?
By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Sun, July 1, 2007
WASHINGTON - A New Mexico lawyer who pressed to oust U.S. Attorney David Iglesias was an officer of a nonprofit group that aided Republican candidates in 2006 by pressing for tougher voter identification laws.
Iglesias, who was one […]