Block the Vote
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast have a great article on voter suppression tactics at Rolling Stone:
These days, the old west rail hub of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is little more than a dusty economic dead zone amid a boneyard of bare mesas. In national elections, the town overwhelmingly votes Democratic: More than 80 percent of all residents are Hispanic, and one in four lives below the poverty line. On February 5th, the day of the Super Tuesday caucus, a school-bus driver named Paul Maez arrived at his local polling station to cast his ballot. To his surprise, Maez found that his name had vanished from the list of registered voters, thanks to a statewide effort to deter fraudulent voting. For Maez, the shock was especially acute: He is the supervisor of elections in Las Vegas.
, and was thoroughly impressed. It is partly a history of the Netroots- the progressive online movement that powered Dean, winning back the Senate and House in 2006 and now Barack Obama. But it is mainly a guide to online (and offline) activism in the Internet age. Ultimately it demonstrates that activists can use the modern web tools of citizen journalism to bypass the traditional gatekeepers- in political parties, in the media and everywhere else.
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