The Daily Show's "field reporters" have dealt with a fair amount of hilariously oblivious responses from interviewees over the years, but on last night's show, correspondent Aasif Mandvi appeared to have been caught off-guard by just how hilariously oblivious his interviewee was.
Young people are bad at voting, but very good at boozing. So what's one reliable way to get them to the polls? The promise of a free drink.
When we asked people to share their stories of voting irregularity earlier today, dozens of people shared this video — currently on the Reddit front page with nearly 20,000 up-votes — of a Pennsylvania voting machine seemingly altering a man's vote from Obama to Romney. We reached out to Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Senior…
Robocalls attributed to the Senate campaign of Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) have allegedly been encouraging Democrats to get out and vote — in the wrong polling location.
Several days after a man was spotted in Harrisonburg, Virginia, allegedly discarding several completed voter registration forms in a private home accessory store dumpster, deputies in Rockingham County arrested a 31-year-old Pennsylvania resident affiliated with the Republican Party of Virginia and charged him with…
"Your Jewish friend" Sarah Silverman is still on her political kick, this time setting her sights (literally) on voter ID laws and their potential to disenfranchise millions of voters — especially those likely to vote for the incumbent.
Wisconsin Republicans recently passed a controversial bill requiring that voters provide valid photo identification at the polls. Those IDs are free, if you ask—if you don't, they're $28. And that Department of Transportation memo recommending that staffers not tell applicants that state IDs are free? Just a…
The Texas House has passed a bill requiring voters to bring ID to polling places. Which is great! If your aim is to surpress minority and low-income voters, without even addressing the problem you made up as an excuse.
Minnesota Majority, one of the groups behind the anti-voter fraud initiative called "Election Integrity Watch," told supporters in an e-mail last night to go ahead and wear their "Please I.D. Me" buttons and Tea Party apparel to the polls today.
Hey look, Fox News has set up a tipline you can email to inform them about acts of voter fraud. Could this have anything to do with conservatives' thinly-veiled attempts at voter intimidation in minority-heavy precincts?
Man what a wonderful hopey week for America. Let's see how hopeful Robert Novak is, shall we? The headline is promising: "No mandate for Obama, no lopsided Congress." Hah! It's funny because we thought Obama became the first Democratic president since Carter to win with more than 50% of the vote, winning by a larger…
Tomorrow is Election Day, the famous American Holiday in which people are not given a day off of work but are still expected to wait in lengthy lines outside elementary schools during business hours in order to have their provisional ballots thrown away or watch their electronic voting machines helpfully select the…
If the Democrats pull this off and win the presidential election, the Republican "noise machine" will not simply give up and devote themselves to charity. They will need to undermine and delegitimize President Obama as much and as loudly as possible, non-stop, for the entirety of his term. Early predecessors of this…
