Pollworker Press Clips
September 2008
Florida criticized for voter registration law
Voter rights' advocacy groups criticize new voter registration laws in Florida and predict that new restrictions will keep thousands of people, mostly the poor and minorities, from voting in the Presidential Election.
Voting Seminar Held Today to Help Ease Voting Anxiety Over New Machines, Disabilities
Civic organizations organize a seminar in Texas that helps citizens navigate the Help Americans Vote Act (HAVA) that passed in 2002 and changed the landscape of elections in the US.
It's near the campaign's end--send in the lawyers
Both parties are sending lawyers to states with problematic histories and asking them to sort out problems before election day arrives.
Voter Registration by Students Raises Cloud of Consequences
Student-registration controversies have been recurring in states leading up to the election, incorrectly suggesting that students will face negative consequences for registering to vote at their colleges, such as loss of health insurance and accusations of voting illegally.
Phil Lindsey To Go To Trial in Voter ID case
A voting rights' activist from MO is prevented from casting a primary vote, though he had proper forms of identification, and arrested for insisting on his voting rights.