Bracing for the Ballot Battle

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Oct 29, 2008 Next Tuesday, don’t be shocked if the Republicans roll out their familiar tactics of intimidating Democratic voters, challenging their eligibility and subjecting them to long lines at polling places. If the election is close, these shady maneuvers might pay off. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Who’s Afraid of ACORN?

Staff / Truthdig Oct 21, 2008 Who knew that "community organizing" and "ACORN" would become two of the most mischaracterized and maligned terms during this election season? Well, as a few key members point out in this must-see clip from Brave New Films, ACORN had some idea this might be coming. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fact-Checking the ACORN Flap

Staff / Truthdig Oct 19, 2008 Not a moment too soon, here's FactCheck.org's assessment of the recent hullabaloo over ACORN, the beleaguered community organization that has been yanked into the epicenter of the election battle since Team McCain seized upon it as a Campaign Talking Point™. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

GOP Affiliate Accused of Duping Voters to Register as Republicans

Staff / Truthdig Oct 19, 2008 The Los Angeles Times randomly contacted dozens of voters who were recently re-registered as Republicans and found that over 80 percent of them didn't know they had joined the party's ranks. How did this happen? Looks like a GOP contractor called Young Political Majors, or YPM, had something to do with it. Update: The cops are on it. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Team Obama Asks for Special Prosecutor to Investigate Voter Fraud

Staff / Truthdig Oct 18, 2008 By way of a response to the McCain camp's claims about Barack Obama's ties to ACORN, Obama's campaign has put in a request to Attorney General Michael Mukasey to "turn over any investigations of voter fraud or voter suppression to Special Prosecutor Nora Dannehy, the same special prosecutor recently appointed to investigate the U.S. attorney firing scandal," according to CNN. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Investigation Finds Massive Bid to Steal the Election

Staff / Truthdig Oct 18, 2008 As John McCain and GOP operatives rattle their sabers about ACORN's alleged "voter fraud" tactics, tag-team investigators Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have released some truly scary findings, in the latest Rolling Stone, from their investigation into Republican efforts to steal the 2008 presidential election. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Another Round of Dirty Tricks in Ohio

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Oct 17, 2008 After Wednesday’s big debate, McCain-Palin volunteers celebrated what they considered a big victory for their presidential candidate. But the real action was taking place in courts miles away. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

More Dirt on the GOP’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Campaign

Staff / Truthdig Jul 2, 2007 Ousted U.S. Attorney David Iglesias says he believes he was fired, in part, for failing to meet the obsessive demands of a nonprofit organization with ties to the Republican Party that allegedly sought to limit the voting rights of minorities. Is there a more heinous political practice than the disenfranchisement of minority voters after so long a struggle? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Impeach Gonzales: Part 2

Staff / Truthdig Jun 1, 2007 Check out Robert Greenwald's latest effort to get a review of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' shenanigans in the U.S. attorney/voter fraud scandal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Watergate Without the Break-In

Marie Cocco / Truthdig May 17, 2007 It is time to stop referring to the "fired U.S attorneys scandal" by that misnomer, and call it what it is: a White House-coordinated effort to use the vast powers of the Justice Department to swing elections to Republicans. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Selective Definition of Voter Fraud

Joe Conason / Truthdig Apr 19, 2007 Even as Alberto Gonzales rehearsed his excuses for the strange dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys, which he performed in public at a Senate hearing this week, he was looking like a marginal player in this scandal. In keeping with his presidential nickname "Fredo," the attorney general probably never understood the broader plan originating in the Bush White House. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )