Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

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Battle for the West: Dems ahead in Washoe

October 15th, 2008 · No Comments

RENO - Heidi B. Smith, chairwoman of the Washoe County Republican party, flips through a stack of emails and phone messages she’s received about voter registration errors — people who registered as Republicans but are showing up as Democrats, misspelled names, bad addresses — when the phone rings. It’s a call that’s seemed more and [...]

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Battle for the West: ACORN Raid, Debate Reviews

October 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

ACORN Office Raided in Las Vegas

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Nevada authorities raided the Las Vegas offices of a group registering voters in low income communities seeking evidence of voter registration fraud on Tuesday. Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now organizers are accused of forging signatures of names picked out of phone books and NFL players.
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Update on Arizona: Fears of Latino Voter Fraud Lead to Massive Disenfranchisement

October 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Disenfranchised voter Shirley Preiss, 97. (Photo by Stokely Baksh)
In an article for The Indypendent, former News 21 reporter Renee Feltz revisits Arizona, where thousands of potential voters have been unable to register due to new identification requirements. These voters, most of whom are poor, elderly and/or Latino, would have tended to vote Democratic. Thus it [...]

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