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A look at some of the voter troubles in battleground states:...

Politicians create scapegoats and use them for their goals. Politicians manipulate the population because it is easier to govern with scapegoats....

Members of the Furious Five Revolutionary Collective, based out of San Jose, CA, analyze the ABB trend and respond with their own perspective....

Lawyers in five states geared up Tuesday for a series of voter challenges that promised to mark this Election Day with as much contentiousness as the presidential race it was intended to resolve. . The most dramatic court battle was playing out here in Ohio. After a short period of seesawing court decisions, a federal appeals court ruled early Tuesday that the Republican Party could place thousands of people inside polling places to challenge the eligibility of voters, a blow to Democrats w...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Tuesday allowed Republicans to challenge voter qualifications at the polls in Ohio, a key battleground state that could determine the presidential election. Stevens acted on an emergency request shortly before polls opened in Ohio and across the nation. He refused to set aside a U.S. appeals court order that allowed political parties to send challengers to polling places across the state....

Did you know that John Kerry and John Edwards are active opponents of media consolidation and active supporters of campaign finance reform? (Did you expect corporate-owned media to tell you about this?) And is it possible that this is why the top executives of most major media corporations--FOX, Viacom, etcetera--oppose (and fear?) a Kerry presidency?...

Now is the time to make sure everyone gets to the polls and casts their vote. But we also know that there also have already been major voting rights problems, and that’s why tens of thousands have already signed the No Stolen Elections! pledge....

The typical pattern, according to Election Protection folks, is that the county has only a couple people working at each of these polling stations, despite the fact that there are waits of up to six hours day after day....

As the newest videotaped message from Osama bin Laden is broadcast four days before the election, we speak with veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk, who has interviewed bin Laden three times. Fisk also discusses Iraqi civilian casualties, kidnapped humanitarian worker Margaret Hassan, Palestinian leader Yasser Araft's ailing health and much more....

A federal judge in Cincinnati early Monday morning issued an order barring political party challengers at polling places throughout Ohio Tuesday. US District Judge Susan Dlott found that the presence of challengers inexperienced in the electoral process would impede voting. She ruled that application of Ohio's statute allowing challengers at polling places is unconstitutional. Dlott ruled on a lawsuit by a black Cincinnati couple who said Republican plans to deploy challengers to lar...