Protect Our Elections
-By Scott Bauer August 16, 2011- MADISON, Wis. — Two Democratic Wisconsin state senators targeted by Republicans survived their elections Tuesday, ending a tumultuous summer of recalls spurred by anger…
-By Andrew Kreig Recent events show why election theft deserves much more scrutiny than it receives from either government officials or news reporters. Most dramatically, a federal judge has released…
-by Paul Blumenthal and Jason Cherkis August 13, 2011- WASHINGTON -- Texas Governor Rick Perry is set to officially jump into the Republican presidential primary race with unmatched backing from…
New ID laws combat an imaginary crime wave. -By Roger Bybee August 12, 2011- Voter fraud is virtually nonexistent in America, but this imaginary crime still serves to justify a…
-By Nicholas Confessore and Jim Rutenberg August 11, 2011- Gov. Rick Perry of Texas won’t officially announce his presidential campaign until Saturday. But his fund-raising team isn’t wasting any time.…
-by Susan Crabtree August 11, 2011- Two campaign-finance watchdogs want the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice to crack down on the so-called phantom companies that are sprouting up…
-by Kenneth P. Vogel August 9, 2011- If anyone had doubts about the role that anonymous and untraceable money will play in the 2012 campaign ad wars, a flurry of…
As Wisconsin progressives fight to recall Scott Walker's allies in the state senate, here are some of the conservative groups funding their right-wing agenda. -By Sarah Jaffe August 8, 2011-…
-By Del Quentin Wilber August 8, 2011- A three-judge federal panel on Monday upheld a ban on campaign donations by foreigners. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by two…
-By David Edwards August 5, 2011- Fiscal responsibility has been a battle cry for Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, but his voter photo ID law is going to cost the…
-By Josh Gerstein on HamptonRoads.Com August 5, 2011- A prominent Los Angeles trial lawyer has agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanors for giving employees and a relative a total…
-By Maggie Haberman August 5, 2011- The anonymous donor behind the headline-making $1 million contribution to a pro-Mitt Romney super PAC is a former Bain Capital official with long ties…
EFF and Vegas 2.0 proudly present Hack the Vote 2011, an election about and for hackers, to be held on a Diebold AccuVote TSx electronic voting machine. The objective is…
-By Sarah Jones August 3, 2011- Justice moves slowly but surely forward in Wisconsin as the DA refers the Prosser choking incident to a Special Prosecutor. After reviewing the Dane…