WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Marble Falls Georgia makes just about anyone’s list of battleground states for the November US presidential election, but there’s every indication that it’s a battleground for voters simply trying to get on the voter rolls and then stay on the rolls without being purged either deliberately or through technical sloppiness. Most recently, reports by …
Marble Falls Having been organizationally involved in voter protection, voter registration, and getting people to vote, I guess I would have to admit that I take it personally, not just professionally. I read a well-meaning piece by reporter Michael Wine in the Times that sought to document some of the efforts in states like …
Pearl River The end of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court has moved the battle over choice to the states, and it’s a fierce back and forth, no-holds-barred contest. We almost need a scorecard to keep up with this campaign. Where voters have the right, largely in Western and Southern states, to petition …