Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White can no longer serve in that position after he was found guilty of felony voter fraud charges. The verdict was delivered at 2:20am this morning. White, the state’s chief election officer, was found guilty of six out of seven felony counts. The jury found him not guilty on a [...]

Here’s what we can now say. Of the hundreds of millions if not billions of electoral ballots processed over the past decade, the two most prominent cases of voter fraud involve the Republican Secretary of State of Indiana, and accomplices of James O’Keefe. Yesterday in New Hampshire, O’Keefe had the bright idea of getting some [...]

Concerned about a nonexistent threat to the integrity of the caucuses, the Iowa Republican Party will move their ballot-counting operation to an “undisclosed location.” The state party has not yet told the campaigns exactly where the returns will be added up, only that it will be off-site from the Iowa GOP’s Des Moines headquarters. The [...]

So here’s a wild end-of-the-year situation: Charlie White, the Secretary of State of Indiana, has been ruled ineligible to serve by a judge in Marion County. White has been battling charges that he was illegally registered to vote at the wrong address. In other words, he would be the most high-profile perpetrator of voter fraud [...]

Eric Holder gave an address at the LBJ Library in Austin yesterday billed as the opening salvo in a Justice Department counter-attack against disenfranchising voter laws, particularly in states which just turned over to conservative legislatures and governors. We saw legal action taken yesterday by the ACLU against Wisconsin’s voter ID law, so this speech [...]

Protests in Russia over the weekend, after a rigged Parliamentary election that still saw Vladimir Putin’s party lose ground, has led to an additional challenge for Putin in next year’s Presidential race. Tens of thousands of Russians protested in Moscow and elsewhere over the weekend, the largest such demonstrations in 20 years, shouting “Putin is [...]

In Arizona, State Senate President Russell Pearce, who authored and was the driving force behind the anti-immigrant SB 1070 last year, faces a recall election next month. He immediately faced some challengers, including Olivia Cortes, a naturalized immigrant from Mexico who used the familiar “Sí, Se Puede!” as a campaign slogan. Just one thing, though: [...]

Here’s a slick little two-step from Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. He knows that he has caused himself and his party tremendous damage by pursuing a radical right-wing agenda. He is desperate to cling to power so these policies don’t get rolled back. So one of his ideas was to pass a voter ID law to [...]

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin is stepping up their efforts to disqualify three recall petitions against Democratic state Senators. They submitted a formal challenge to the petitions today, arguing that while their recall efforts have been volunteer-led and above-board, the Republican campaigns featured fraud perpetrated by out-of-state sources. And they hold evidence from “hundreds” of [...]

I actually feel a little better that Randy Hopper has released a panicked, factually inaccurate radio ad in his defense in advance of a potential recall election in Wisconsin. It means that he might actually have the notion that he can save his job instead of resigning. Hopper has also called in a big gun [...]

I’ve received some interesting responses from my ground game post. Atrios sees positives in the fact that Republicans seemingly have had no coordinated voter registration strategy this cycle, and have appeared to rely on organic changes in the national environment rather than GOTV. Those organic changes probably mean more overall than turnout, but turnout can [...]