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Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher reports voter intimidation in Harris County, Texas (Houston) by volunteer poll watchers trained by King Street Patriots, a local non-partisan group who started the True The Vote campaign. Tommy leads with this inflammatory paragraph saying: In a story that’s sure to draw comparisons to the New Black Panther Party member who brandished a nightstick at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008, a Tea Party group called the King Street Patriots has been accused of “1960s style” voter intimidation in primarily minority precincts on the first day of early voting in Texas. The group is being sued by...

Voting machine malfunctions may delay election results from four towns in New York's 23rd district, reports the Johnson News Service. The breakdowns, in Louisville, Waddington, Rossie and Clare, happened earlier today on new voting machines, according to the St. Lawrence County Board of Elections deputy commissioner. And in Fulton County, results won't be posted online and likely won't be available to the media until tomorrow. The polls in NY-23 closed at 9 p.m. ET.

A New Jersey hospital is denying accusations that ACORN workers have been inside collecting absentee ballots for the state's gubernatorial race. East Orange General Hospital CEO Kevin Slavin said Tuesday that "all proper protocols" were followed as part of its program to allow patients to vote via absentee ballot, and that no third-party groups were signing up patients. "Other than the specifically designated and trained staff to hand out and collect these ballots, no advocacy groups were authorized nor allowed access to the hospital to hand out absentee ballots to patients as has been recently reported in unsubstantiated blogs and...

Contrary to what is being said by many FReepers, Congress has indeed given the Department of Justice ('DOJ') the tools necessary to deal with vote fraud.  However, Congress can only pass laws; it is the job of the DOJ to take action.If you have five minutes, and you really, really want to do something to help stop vote fraud and the impact it will have on this election, then PLEASE call the Office of the Attorney General at the number below and tell them (nicely) that the public is demanding that an investigation be launched into all of the instances...