Election Stealing, Voter Fraud, and Voter Supression
Broken Elections, Stolen Votes – Part Five
BY Susan Q. Stranahan | July 07, 2008
With another Election Day bearing down on an electorate whose trust has been shaken by the spectacular disarray of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, what is being done to fix what’s broken, and what’s impeding reform efforts?
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BY Susan Q. Stranahan | July 03, 2008
A week before the Election Day 2004, election experts were making no secret of their concern.
“I am really, really worried,” Doug Lewis of the nonpartisan Election Center, an advisory group for election officials, told The Wall Street Journal. “We’re all on our knees — ‘Dear Lord, let the winner win big, whoever it is.’”
Broken Elections, Stolen Votes – Part Three
BY Susan Q. Stranahan | July 02, 2008
By all outward appearances, Manuel Yip of Miami was a dedicated public citizen, unfailingly casting his ballot. Yip voted in local elections in 1994 and again in the general election. A year later, he dutifully voted in a referendum to relocate Parrot Jungle, a Miami tourist attraction starring Dutchess, the bicycle-riding cockatoo. In November 1997, he voted in the city’s mayoral election.
Broken Elections, Stolen Votes – Part Two
BY Susan Q. Stranahan | July 01, 2008
Election tampering has a rich history in the United States. So does vote buying. George Washington spent almost 40 pounds to supply more than 140 gallons of rum and beer to his supporters when he ran for the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1758. Even so, according to historian Tracy Campbell, Washington worried that his campaign manager had “spent with too sparing a hand.” Apparently not; he won. In 1777, his fellow Virginian James Madison balked at “swilling the planters with bumbo.” He lost.
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BY AND Susan Q. Stranahan | June 30, 2008
Were the chaotic presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 an anomaly or a harbinger of things to come this November? Is democracy, as Karl Rove warned the Republican National Lawyers Association in 2006, under siege?
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