Yesterday Tova Wang, co-author of the federal Election Assistance Commisssion report on voter fraud spoke out against the gag order the EAC placed on her.   Wang claims the fed's prohibited her from talking about the original draft of the report.

GothamGazette.com published an article examining the EAC report and also looks at how voter fraud claims are being used as a means to justify voter identification requirements and the effect this has on voter disenfranchisement.   To view the article click here: http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/vot ing/20070427/17/2158

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By Nathan Henderson-James and Michael Slater

This New York Times front page reports that the Elections Assistance Commission(EAC) altered a report to exaggerate the prevalence of voter fraud, contrary tothe authors' findings.

"A federal panel responsible for conducting election research played down the findings of experts who concluded last year that there was little voter fraud around the nation, according to a review of the original report obtained by The New York Times."

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US Election Assistance Agency releases but fails to endorse report finding voter ID requirements reduce turnout.

By Michael Slater and Nathan Henderson-James

The US EAC tasked with, among other things, serving as a clearinghouse for election research decided to play politics today with the release of a study documenting the impact of voter identification requirements on voting. The study, conducted jointly by the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University and the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University for the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC), found that documentary ID requirements lower voter turnout, particularly for minority voters. Researchers examined voting in the 2004 election. Several states have adopted more stringent voter ID requirements since 2004.

The EAC, however, despite commissioning the study and setting the guidelines for its completion took the unusual step of declining to endorse it.

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