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".
New Orleans The Ohio vote on the efforts by the Republican-dominated legislature to raise the bar on initiative amendments to the constitution by citizens was an almost 3 to 2 beat down with the NO votes at over 1.7 million and the YES votes hardly 1.3 million. Conservatives had tried to pitch this vote …
Marble Falls Voters in Ohio are trying to protect their ability to bring initiative petitions to the ballot in a closely watched election in August of all times. In an ongoing trend, Republican legislators are trying to make the process harder, in the Ohio case to keep voters from having their say about …
New Orleans It’s not perfect, but it’s about the best we have when it comes to a collaborative database of voters, shared state by many states. When it comes to real, not imagined, voter fraud or duplicate voting, it’s time to ask ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center. Our Voter Purge Project …