Voter Suppression

Senator Allen's campaign is linked to Voter Suppression

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Voter Supression, Dirty Politics, or Just Plain Buying Opinion Fair and Square?

..You decide..and please leave your opinion and reasoning below...

Is it wrong to play psychological warfare with the Voting Process? We have already seen campaigns designed to keep legal hispanic immigrants from voting in California...

...is this the same thing? is smear just good tactics, or dirty politics?



In a Tense Election Year, Push Polls Flourish

In increasingly tight races around the country, voters are receiving telephone "push poll" calls, a classic dirty trick designed to suppress turnout on election day. One calling firm in particular, with White House ties and an impressive ability to fire off millions of automated calls per day, is benefiting from the strategy.

Gabriel Joseph III, president of the robo calling company FreeEats.com, may be the king of the push poll, in which real-sounding questions with ludicrous premises are asked to plant negative ideas in voters' minds. His company, which is better known under its business alias ccAdvertising, has impressive Republican ties: According to a recent piece in Mother Jones, the group has, on at least one occasion, drawn on its White House ties to get business. And its founder, Donald Hodel, is a veteran of the Reagan administration and a former president of Focus on the Family.

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eVoting

Your Votes Are Completely Safe

Proponents of electronic voting have found themselves again on the defensive following the unauthorized release of software for voting machines used by the State of Maryland and manufactured by Diebold Election Systems.

and in a related article there are eVoting machines that are cutting off the name of the candidate on the verification page for some voters.