Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. November 12, 2004. An effort led by Common Cause and the Alliance for Democracy is underway in Ohio to conduct a statewide recount.
AlterNet. November 2, 2004. Look here for updates on voter intimidation, turnout, exit polls from these crucial battleground states. REPORTED NOW: Election Protection News in PA, OH, FL
Laura Flanders, Air America Radio. November 2, 2004. Will John Ashcroft be able to stop the democracy movement that's stirring with his powers under Help America Act? Not likely.
Andrew Gumbel, The Independent UK. October 28, 2004. Voting machines have already begun to break down, accusations of systematic voter suppression and fraud are rampant, and thousands of lawyers have flocked to court to cry foul in half a dozen states.
Joshuah Bearman, LA Weekly. October 26, 2004. Joshuah Bearman tagged along on author Stephen Elliott's Operation Ohio with some of America's best and most famous writers.
Laura Flanders, Air America Radio. October 25, 2004. Republicans have announced that they're dredging up some dusty old law to send thousands of recruits to polling places in Ohio on Nov. 2 to challenge the qualifications of Americans as they try to cast their votes.
Steve Cobble, Charles Shaw, AlterNet. October 25, 2004. It's time to get prepared for Nov. 3 and the following weeks – the counting and manipulation could really get started after election night.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. October 25, 2004. Celebrities – including Marisa Tomei, Gina Gershon and Daphne Zuniga – describe their get-out-the-vote strategies for Battleground Ohio at an L.A. fundraiser, and Elvis Costello rocks.
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. October 20, 2004. All indications point to a radical turnaround in young voter turnout in the coming election – a turnaround fueled by a force more powerful than all the electoral hurdles placed in young people's way.
Harry G. Levine, Craig Reinarman, AlterNet. October 19, 2004. As we saw in 2000, and as we're seeing now, no poll can accurately predict who will win the popular vote in such a close election.
Rose Aguilar, AlterNet. October 18, 2004. In the adult entertainment industry, discretion has always trumped politics – until the Bush administration gave them a reason to get organized.
Adrienne Maree Brown, WireTap. October 14, 2004. "Kerry is three for three with 18 days left for these boys to drop it like its hot in every battleground state in the country. May the best Skull & Bones Yalie boy rise victorious."
Michael Gaworecki, WireTap. October 14, 2004. One enforces standardized tests, the other promises a federal trust fund; one pushes shame, the other promotes equality. Contrast and compare the Bush and Kerry approaches to education in America.
Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange.com. October 14, 2004. A voter registration outfit largely funded by the Republican National Committee is being accused of destroying the registration forms of hundreds of newly registered Democratic voters in Nevada.
Stephen Elliott, AlterNet. October 4, 2004. Follow author Stephen Elliott's journal as he travels with Dave Eggers and a group of writers to conduct voter registration readings across Ohio college campuses.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. September 30, 2004. Amid debate hoopla, campaigns and supporters are making a final push for Nov. 2 – and some of it smells rather fishy.
J. Caleb Mozzocco, Columbus Alive. September 14, 2004. An interview with Larry Fahn, president for the board of directors for the Sierra Club on their door-to-door GOTV efforts.
Bridget Whelan, Athens News. September 14, 2004. "America cannot stand another four years of George W. Bush," Springer declared. "He's wrong, he's horribly wrong. He's running on 9/11. How dare he... He's taking America's worst day and making it his best day."
Ursula White, AlterNet. September 12, 2004. An Ohio resident writes about the economic struggles in her state brought on by the Bush administration, and why she joined a labor group to bring change.
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