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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

Excerpts from this story referencing "voter registration":

"… atic secretary of state who replaced Blackwell in Ohio, rejected scores of voter registration forms distributed by the McCain campaign. The forms included an optional c …"

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

Excerpts from this story referencing "voter registration":

"… f Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) for turning in fallacious voter registration forms. During Wednesday’s debate the GOP presidential candidate said tha …"

"… n 13,000 individuals, employed by the organization, went out and collected voter registration forms, according to ACORN’s website. It’s likely that a few of these i …"

"… ers working for ACORN in Missouri and Washington state admitted falsifying voter registrations. But ACORN also says it hired anywhere from two to 20 employees per offic …"

"… f the unique identifier of each registration form distributed to them. The voter registration organization is required to return every form it takes, whether completed …"

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

Excerpts from this story referencing "voter registration":

"… of controversy during the 2000 recount.In the last weeks of the campaign, voter registration has become a heated issue. Secretaries of state across the country accused …"

"… ssue. Secretaries of state across the country accused ACORN, a third-party voter registration group, of falsifying registrations and leaving the door open for individua …"

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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.

Excerpts from this story referencing "voter registration":

"… They come after at least a dozen states enacted GOP-backed laws tightening voter registration requirements.Democrats fear that the laws will complicate their party’s …"

"… ned Parenthood are also pouring tens of millions of dollars into their own voter registration and mobilization drives.Voters in many states already have been bombarded …"

"… that about 100 million Americans own guns.“We’ll go door to door to do voter registration, education and outreach,” said Cox in describing how the NRA is mounting …"

"… registration is a very expensive and difficult undertaking.”Most of the voter registration funding comes from the NRA’s Freedom Action Foundation, a nonprofit arm …"

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 …"

Election-fraud not as common as recent voter ID laws suggest

By Natasha Khan and Corbin Carson

The first in a multi-part voting rights investigation by college journalism students from across the country.

Excerpts from this story referencing "voter registration":

"… stration at Rutgers University.There is more fraud in absentee ballots and voter registration than any other categories. The analysis shows 491 cases of absentee ballot …"

"… t one case of registration fraud — many were associated with third-party voter registration groups.The most noteworthy involved the voter registration group, Associat …"

"… ith third-party voter registration groups.The most noteworthy involved the voter registration group, Association for Community Organization and Reform Now (ACORN).The g …"

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Student ID cards far from sure ticket to the voting booth

By Jack Fitzpatrick

New voter ID requirements in many states may blunt the clout of young voters who rely on student ID cards for identification.

Excerpts from this story referencing "voter registration":

"… mentioned voting restrictions that would affect students, such as same-day voter registration, and then attacked how he presumed students would vote.“Voting as a libe …"

Voting turns into frustrating ordeal for college student

By Kassondra Cloos

A North Carolina student is fired up and ready to vote, only to encounter obstacle after obstacle.

Excerpts from this story referencing "voter registration":

"… se my off-campus residence did not receive mail, two attempts to send me a voter registration card had failed.Anyone can register and vote on the same day during the on …"

"… . I told the poll worker I needed a provisional ballot and was sent to the voter registration line. I completed another voter registration form and more than half an ho …"

"… al ballot and was sent to the voter registration line. I completed another voter registration form and more than half an hour later I explained my situation, again, to …"

Arizona and feds clash over voter registration

By Jack Fitzpatrick and Khara Persad

Court ruling has state voters in a tricky situation with different registration requirements — based on which form they fill out.

Excerpts from this story referencing "voter registration":

"… orm and the state can still require voters to show ID at the polls.Federal voter registration forms, which must be accepted in all 50 states, were created as part of a …"

"… in all 50 states, were created as part of a 1993 federal law meant to make voter registration easier.The federal motor voter law — so named because it allows registra …"

"… ng to vote in Arizona or you have moved to another county in Arizona, your voter registration form must also include proof of citizenship or the form will be rejected. …"

Florida once again at center of debate over voting rules

By Ethan Magoc

The state that ignited a battle in 2000 is ground zero for another partisan debate over who should be allowed to vote.

Excerpts from this story referencing "voter registration":

"… tack. Republicans there wrote a law in 2011 that they said would eliminate voter registration fraud by more closely controlling third-party registration, early voting h …"

"… g from 10 days to 48 hours the time that third-party groups had to hand in voter registrations and cutting early voting days from 14 to eight, including eliminating the …"

"… been here before.”Miami-Dade Public Schools became a Florida third-party voter registration group in March. Sixty district schools registered more than 10,000 high sc …"

"… — Florida’s third-largest registration group total.Under the 2011 law, voter registration groups that formerly had 10 days to turn in completed registration forms w …"

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