Secretaries of state drawing political fire

By Sarah Laskow

Election Day is creeping closer, which means we’re due for some fights over voter rolls in battleground states. And right on schedule: Terri

ACORN: Stuck between a law and a hard place

By Sarah Laskow

The McCain campaign is skewering the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) for turning in fallacious voter registrat

As America votes, it ain’t pretty

By Sarah Laskow

Election junkies who’ve already checked every poll three, four, 10 times over can now monitor the travails of individual voters, thanks to t
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Lines at the polls: A tale of two neighborhoods

By Sarah Laskow

I waited almost two hours to vote today in Mt. Pleasant, my neighborhood in D.C. Andrew, our web editor, lives one neighborhood over in Colu

Voting procedure

By The Center for Public Integrity

What should a lawmaker with personal stakes in a bill do when the time comes to vote on it?

Internet voting project cost Pentagon $73,809 per vote

By John Dunbar

Details about the two-and-a-half-year project come as the concept of cyberspace voting takes a beating
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Consultant profile: Mark Mellman (The Mellman Group)

By Chris Landers

Major clients in 2003-2004 include Democratic National Committee, John F. Kerry, Barbara Boxer

Excerpts from this story referencing "Elections":

"… t a June 2006 conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Campaigns & Elections magazine."Unfortunately, the ethics really come down to winning and losing …"

NRA, Ralph Reed group plan get-out-the-vote efforts

By Peter H. Stone

Conservative groups are gearing up to spend millions on efforts to bring Republicans to the polls in November.

Beer and wine wholesalers behind legislators pushing controversial voter ID laws

By Paul Abowd

Wholesalers among those behind legislators pushing controversial new election rules.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Elections":

"… n early 2009, though, ALEC formed a committee within its Public Safety and Elections Task Force to focus on election fraud.Sean Parnell, the former president o …"

"… ut he declined to identify them.By summer 2009, the full Public Safety and Elections Task Force, including the beer and wine wholesalers, formally approved the …"

"… nizations say their groups have been members of ALEC’s Public Safety and Elections task force to foster efforts aimed at preventing underage drinking. The ta …"

"… wine wholesalers would say how they voted when the ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force approved the model voter ID law.Indeed, cash from the beer and …"

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