Stories by Steven Rosenfeld
Steven Rosenfeld is a senior fellow at Alternet.org and author of Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting (AlterNet Books, 2008).
Unlike other candidates who say what they will do for you, Obama says "Yes, we can" and pledges to work together.
Posted on Jan 8, 2008, Source: AlterNet
GOP-backed election laws in many states pose barriers to Obama's supporters.
Posted on Jan 5, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Horserace journalism obscures caucuses' true value: How Iowa Democrats settle on a candidate.
Posted on Dec 30, 2007, Source: AlterNet
New legislation, if passed, would spend millions to replace controversial all-electronic voting systems before the 2008 presidential election.
Posted on Dec 27, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Arizona: Activists move closer to proving electronic vote count theft. Florida: A law disenfranchising thousands of new voters is blocked.
Posted on Dec 21, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Election officials in the presidential battleground state will have no one but themselves to blame because they ignored real solutions for months.
Posted on Dec 19, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The Justice Department and other GOP partisans argue states can adopt new barriers to voting to combat imagined threats to elections.
Posted on Dec 13, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Democrats and others say access to electronic voting records may prove fraud. But local officials say releasing the data will show hackers how to rig votes.
Posted on Dec 3, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Indiana's voter ID law, facing Supreme Court review, is a bureaucratic nightmare that disenfranchised voters this November. Could it -- and similar laws in several states -- affect the 2008 election?
Posted on Nov 20, 2007, Source: AlterNet
As City Hall hand tallies ballots, city attorneys are heading to court to seek refunds for defective products.
Posted on Nov 8, 2007, Source: AlterNet
NAACP officials in Georgia and Michigan report new voter ID laws stopped people from voting.
Posted on Nov 7, 2007, Source: AlterNet
In a half-dozen states voting today, civil rights activists and Democrats expect to see voter intimidation and suppression.
Posted on Nov 6, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Attorneys and activists say taxpayers are due refunds for buying products that manufacturers knew were defective.
Posted on Nov 2, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Civil rights attorneys say the DOJ has turned away from suing on behalf of minority voters that tend to support Democrats.
Posted on Oct 22, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The Republican Party plans to continue a legal tactic that targets the right to vote of likely Democrats -- often minorities.
Posted on Sep 27, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The House may regulate electronic voting this week, but a compromise curtailing the most controversial machines use may not be debated.
Posted on Sep 17, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Now the Department of Justice, like the Republican Party, wants fewer registered voters in 2008.
Posted on Sep 11, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Thousands of electronic voting machines will be out of circulation in California after the secretary of state pulls them -- and the House Democrat in D.C. in charge of electronic voting reform applauds the decision.
Posted on Aug 8, 2007, Source: AlterNet
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen will remove most touch-screen electronic voting machines before next February's presidential primary.
Posted on Aug 4, 2007, Source: AlterNet
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen will decide today whether to ban new electronic voting machines for next February's presidential primary. No matter what she decides, it will make waves from Capitol Hill to county election offices.
Posted on Aug 3, 2007, Source: AlterNet
In 56 of Ohio's 88 counties, ballots and election records from 2004 have been "accidentally" destroyed, despite a federal order to preserve them -- it was crucial evidence which would have revealed whether the election was stolen.
Posted on Jul 30, 2007, Source: AlterNet
After the wave of successes in 2004 voter registration drives by groups like ACORN, a half-dozen states passed severe laws that scared off voting activists -- and now the Senate is weighing in.
Posted on Jul 25, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The Justice Department is pressuring 10 states to purge their voter rolls, while states are ignoring laws to help low-income Americans register to vote.
Posted on Jul 17, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Elections have been stolen in America since the 18th Century -- and top elections experts are warning that Congress's latest attempt at regulating voting machines won't change a thing.
Posted on Jun 4, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Maybe the House Judiciary Committee needs a refresher course in treacherous Jim Crow election tactics.
Posted on May 29, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Did the most powerful Republicans in America have the computer capacity, software skills and electronic infrastructure in place on Election Night 2004 to tamper with the Ohio results to ensure George W. Bush's re-election?
Posted on Apr 23, 2007, Source: Free Press
A law regulating voting machines making its way through Congress lacks an explicit provision allowing voters to sue -- a right that was a cornerstone of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
Posted on Apr 13, 2007, Source: AlterNet
While a proposed law in Congress does not try to ban touch-screen machines outright, it may just regulate them out of existence -- but that's not good enough for some election activists.
Posted on Mar 19, 2007, Source: AlterNet
It's a tricky issue to bring up the possibility of voter fraud in 2006 because most election protection activists are liberals who have waited six years for the Bush administration to be stopped.
Posted on Nov 10, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Progressives tend to be distracted by electronic voting machines when old-style election thuggery is the bigger problem.
Posted on Jun 30, 2006, Source: TomPaine.com
The DNC's 2004 Election Report is well, just like the rest of the Party: tepid, afraid to address the real issues, and unprepared to avoid the same failures in 2006 and 2008.
Posted on Jul 12, 2005, Source: The Free Press
An effort led by Common Cause and the Alliance for Democracy is underway in Ohio to conduct a statewide recount.
Posted on Nov 12, 2004, Source: AlterNet
Did you know that in
Bush v. Gore the Supreme Court wrote: "the individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote" in presidential elections?
Posted on Nov 2, 2004, Source: AlterNet
John Kerry showed the nation he has practical ways to deal with America’s problems. Meanwhile, Bush dodged all the difficult questions.
Posted on Oct 14, 2004, Source: AlterNet
In the second of three debates, Bush sticks to his guns while Kerry reaches out to talk about making America stronger and safer.
Posted on Oct 9, 2004, Source: AlterNet
John Kerry came across as a mature candidate during the debate, while George Bush squirmed repeatedly at challenges to his record.
Posted on Oct 1, 2004, Source: AlterNet
We got mea culpas from the media for shoddy reporting about Iraq, but the presidential election coverage from this summer shows that the same mistakes are being repeated.
Posted on Sep 10, 2004, Source: AlterNet
The way to get a progressive platform for the Democratic party is not through negotation or coalition building. It's about winning.
Posted on Jul 23, 2004, Source: AlterNet
A Bush official who worked with both Jay Garner and Paul Bremer claims that we did have a post-invasion plan for Iraq -- the White House just never paid any attention to it.
Posted on Apr 2, 2004, Source: TomPaine.com
Three cases that are coming up for review in front of the FCC challenge public interest regulations on telephone services.
Posted on Feb 12, 2004, Source: TomPaine.com
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