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It was surprising that law enforcement officials appeared suddenly at our Las Vegas offices Tuesday, because ACORN and its attorneys have already been proactive in providing information about problematic cards and any employee suspected of misconduct. In July, ACORN staff and our attorney set up a meeting with Clark County elections officials and a representative of the Secretary of State’s office to urge them to take action on information ACORN had provided. Since then, and as recently as September 29^th , ACORN has provided officials with copies and—in some cases—second copies of many of the personnel records and the "problem...

As the investigation of voter registration applications continues, the Nevada Department of Corrections said today that it was unaware of any voter fraud when it asked a contractor to stop allowing inmates to work as canvassers. The Corrections Department sent out a statement today that said on July 31 the department learned inmates from the Casa Grande Transitional Housing Facility in Las Vegas were conducting vote registrations. The inmates, put to work through contractor Choices Group, were participating in a work release program that provides job development and placement services for the department's re-entry program. The contractor had sent 59...

For the past several weeks, Republican operatives have been stepping up their efforts in critical swing states claiming voter registration groups have been engaged in a massive voter fraud effort in an attempt to influence the outcome of November’s presidential election. The allegations took on a new sense of urgency Tuesday when law enforcement authorities in Nevada raided the offices of The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), an organization that advocates voter registration and participation among low-income people and minorities.

<p>Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.</p> <p>Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.</p>

Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud. Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN. The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote. "Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were...

As we fly headfirst into election 2008, it is worth noting how big Nevada figures in the outcome. Our measly five electoral votes are not only up for grabs, they could be the difference. There's no greater proof of that than how many times the presidential candidates have been to Nevada -- and not just in the population centers of Las Vegas and Reno. By my count, Sen. Barack Obama's been to Elko three times, and he even granted the editor of the Elko Daily Free Press a one-on-one, sit-down interview. Elko? Three times? If anything tells you how tight...

"..removed from her post Saturday, after she said the Democratic Party made black people "dependent on the government." "I'm very much afraid that the Democratic Party is going to do the same thing that they did with the African-American culture and make them all dependent on the government and we don't want that," she said.

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The spokeswoman for the Republican Party in Nevada's most populous county was fired Saturday, after she said the Democratic Party made black people "dependent on the government." Didi Lima, the Clark County GOP communications director, also was removed from her volunteer role as a Hispanic community liaison for Republican John McCain's presidential campaign over the remarks made earlier in the day while working at a McCain campaign booth. "We don't want (Hispanics) to become the new African-American community," Lima told The Associated Press. "And that's what the Democratic Party is going to do to them, create...

Former New Hampshire Sen. Warren Rudman has been tapped by Republican presidential nominee John McCain to co-chair a new campaign committee that will deal with voter fraud issues as the election nears. Rudman and his fellow co-chair, former Missouri Sen. John Danforth, told reporters on a conference call yesterday that voting and registration issues are already surfacing in many states, although New Hampshire was not among them. Rudman said that the election "ought to be decided by voters, not lawyers." The McCain-Palin Honest and Open Election Committee wants to ensure that "every qualified citizen has a right to vote in...

In an appearance in Nevada, anti-gun presidential candidate Barack Obama told his followers: "I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face," he said. "And if they tell you that, 'Well, we're not sure where he stands on guns.' I want you to say, 'He believes in the Second Amendment.' Barack Obama has gone beyond lying about his long anti-gun record. Now he is inciting...

(09-17) 18:57 PDT LAS VEGAS, (AP) -- Barack Obama sharpened his attacks on John McCain and mocked the Republican's recent calls for reform in two stops in Nevada on Wednesday after days of listening to nervous supporters fret about the Democrat's chances of taking the White House. "Sen. McCain bragged about how as chairman of the Commerce Committee in the Senate, he had oversight of every part of the economy. Well, all I can say to Sen. McCain is, 'Nice job. Nice job,'" Obama said at a rally at a baseball stadium in Las Vegas. "Where is he getting these...

The Republican National Committee (RNC) today announced that its new radio advertisement, titled "Change Or More Of The Same?" will begin running on radio stations in Las Vegas and Elko, Nevada on Wednesday, September 17, 2008. The ad highlights the choice voters have this election between real reform in Washington and more of the same, especially on the issue of government reform and pork-barrel spending. While John McCain has never sought an earmark during his career, Barack Obama has requested nearly $1 billion in only three short years in the Senate.

This idiot just got done speaking in my town of Elko NV. He was condescending and had that arrogant attitude while he read off the teleprompters. Mentioned the 2nd amendment, says he supports it for us dumb a$$ rural peons. Mentioned the mining industry which is what we do here along with ranching. Said he understood it....unlike his opponent. Never said HOW he understood it! The messiah went on to say he was a Democrat who could have spent his time campaigning in Las Vegas, but he cares sooo much about us and that he needed to come here. Then...

The following is a photo essay on Sarah Palin's first "solo" campaign rally held at the Pony Express Pavillion, Carson City, Nevada. The beautiful Carson Valley as seen from Spooner Pass. The waiting line snaked through the adjoining park. Local politicians worked the waiting crowd. My wait in line was just under two hours. No Obama worship here. This woman made her own shirt and gave one to Palin as a gift. People brought many great tributes. This man told me his wife drew the picture and, "she is a schoolteacher." There were a lot of great signs! You will...

OK folks, here is my report on the Sarah Palin rally held in Carson City, NV on Saturday, September 13, 2008. The day the Palin visit was made, I called the Carson City Republican HQ to get information. The poor woman who answered the phone was tearing her hair out as they had zero information, phones ringing off the hook and people just dropping by. I picked my daughter up from school at 11AM - she's a senior in HS and won't be able to vote in this election (she hasn't forgiven me for having her 6 months too late)....

Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Denny and Melanie Doyal got in line Saturday three hours before Sarah Palin's first solo campaign rally outside Alaska. They were among the latecomers. Terril Tungate was at a Carson City, Nevada, park by 10:30 a.m., seven hours before the Republican vice presidential nominee took the stage. When Palin finished, Tungate emerged from the throng clutching an autographed campaign sign. ``It was the bomb,'' the 52-year-old legal secretary shouted over the cheers. While she's long supported Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Tungate said, ``now it's 10 times better.'' (snip) After the speech, the Nevada crowd stuck...

On Saturday, at her first solo campaign stop in the lower 48 as the G.O.P.'s vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin compared breaking the glass ceiling to breaking the sound barrier, while Chuck Yeager looked on with approval. To the handful of curious Democrats in the crowd, it may have seemed like they had fallen through the looking glass into a place where Palin can do no wrong. Inside the open-air Pony Express Pavilion in Mills Park in the state's capital, Palin introduced Yeager, the American pilot who in 1947 became the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound,...

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CARSON CITY, Nevada – Sarah Palin made her debut in this swing state with many of the same well-rehearsed lines she’s used to excite Republicans across the country since her rocket rise to political prominence. This time, though, she didn’t have to appear as an opening act. After a week of campaigning side-by-side with John McCain, and often overshadowing him in the process, Palin made her first solo campaign appearance outside Alaska with an upbeat confidence, plainly comfortable being the main attraction. Introduced by Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki as “a hockey mom with attitude” to about 5,000 people in an...

WASHINGTON -- Ratcheting up his role as a Democrat attacker, Sen. Harry Reid delivered another blast Friday at Republican presidential candidate John McCain. In a Senate speech, the Nevada lawmaker repeatedly linked McCain to "foreign policy mistakes" of President Bush, and charged McCain promises nothing different. "Our country deserves more than token shifts and lip service to change," Reid said. Repeating his criticism that McCain's personality is unsuited for the presidency, Reid said: "Our dangerous world calls for leaders with sound judgment. Not those with a temperament prone to recklessness." Conversely, Reid said Democratic nominee Barack Obama has "called the...

With just 15 minutes to go before Sarah Palin's event was to start Saturday, the Pony Express Pavilion was only about a quarter full. The hold-up: The Secret Service had just one metal detector to run a line of some 3,500 people through. At 4:45 p.m., they gave up. They moved the metal detector out of the way and the crowd flooded into the pavilion. As one McCain backer said, the Alaskan Governor isn't in serious danger in Carson City.

I found a live feed for todays rally. She hasn't spoken yet. http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080913/NEWS18/80913017

She was accompanied by her husband Todd Palin on the official campaign plane with "McCain-Palin" painted on the side. She was met by Reno Mayor Bob Cashell and airport officials before quickly leaving in a motorcade. More than 8,000 people are waiting the Pony Express Pavilion in Carson City to see Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at 6 p.m., according to Carson City Sheriff's Office estimates.

Vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has just arrived at the Pony Express Pavilion at 5:08 p.m. Palin is expected to take the stage about 6 p.m. There has been some scanner talk this afternoon about complaints about protesters at the rally. Palin flew into Reno and brought to Carson by motorcade. Roughly 6,000 people are at Mills Park. Watch Sunday's Appeal for more coverage.

In Nevada, John McCain continues to hold a very slight advantage over Barack Obama. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows McCain attracting 49% of the vote while Obama earns 46%. That three-point advantage is unchanged from a month ago. The two candidates have been within three points of each other for four straight monthly polls, but McCain has held a slight advantage in five of the last six. Crosstabs with more detailed results and demographic breakdowns are available for Premium Members. Nevada is one of three southwestern states targeted by the Obama campaign. Like New Mexico and Colorado it...

In Nevada, John McCain continues to hold a very slight advantage over Barack Obama. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows McCain attracting 49% of the vote while Obama earns 46%. That three-point advantage is unchanged from a month ago. The two candidates have been within three points of each other for four straight monthly polls, but McCain has held a slight advantage in five of the last six.

What: Carson City, NV Rally with Governor Sarah Palin When: September 13, 2008 2:00 p.m. Where: Pony Express Pavilion in Mills Park 1111 East William Street Carson City, NV 89701 Join Governor Sarah Palin for a Rally in Carson City, NV this Saturday September 13th! Come be a part of this historic event! Saturday, September 13th 2008 Pony Express Pavilion in Mills Park Doors open at 2:00 p.m. Programming starts at 5:00 p.m. For more information, RSVP click here. Parking is available at Carson City High School (1111 N. Saliman Rd, Carson City,NV 89701). Shuttles will be running between the...

More details are out on Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin's scheduled visit to Northern Nevada this weekend. The Alaska Governor will appear Saturday afternoon at an open pavilion in Carson City. Officials say the venue can hold up to 3500 people. A spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign says Northern Nevada is a "very important region" for the Republican ticket in a state that's targeted by both major parties. There's no word on when John McCain will visit the Silver State again. A spokeswoman for Barack Obama's campaign says the Democratic nominee and his running mate Joe Biden will be...

CNN: Harry Reid releases statement, attacking Palin's speech as "shrill".. The talking heads are somewhat aghast, noting the sexist implications of the term "shrill"..

Carson City, NV - Pat Cattell, 71, is John McCain's contemporary and a lifelong Republican who switched to support Barack Obama. She said as she watched him accept the Democratic nomination for president that sees him as the future and presumptive Republican nominee John McCain as the past. She has her feet on the ground but her eyes stay fixed on the prize of an Obama victory in November. She was among nearly 30 Democrats at a house party Thursday evening here to hear and watch Obama's speech. She isn't anti-McCain. "A fine decent man," she said of the senator...

Nevada voters favor Republican John McCain over Democrat Barack Obama, but a sizable number who plan to vote remain undecided about the presidential race, according to a new Review-Journal poll. As both parties aim to put the diverse and growing swing state into play, McCain has taken the lead by a margin of 46 percent to Obama's 39 percent, with 15 percent undecided, according to the poll. The poll, conducted in concert with other news organizations in six Western states, found McCain enjoying an edge throughout his home region. Taken as a whole, voters in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico,...

If Republican presidential candidate John McCain picks Mitt Romney as his running mate, it could give him a boost in Nevada, according to a new Review-Journal poll. The number of Nevada likely voters who said Romney's presence on the ballot would make them more likely to vote for McCain was double the number who said they'd be less likely to vote for a McCain-Romney ticket, 26 percent to 13 percent. Most, however -- 59 percent -- said it would have no effect on their vote. The telephone poll of 400 Nevada voters was conducted Aug. 13-15 by Washington, D.C.-based Mason-Dixon...

RENO, Nev. | Sen. Barack Obama is taking his campaign to the rural backroads that helped him win early primaries but later slipped from his grasp. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's small town-hall meetings are aimed at showing voters that he understands their economic plight. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama listens to a question at a rally Sunday at a high school in Reno, Nev. Rural voters delivered Nevada delegates to him in January, but abandoned his campaign in later primaries and caucuses. (Associated Press) "This election is about whether or not we are going to sustain and maintain...

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Email to a Friend The race for Nevada’s Electoral College votes remains close, but for the fourth time in the last five months John McCain has a slight advantage. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows McCain attracting 45% of the vote while Obama earns 42%. This is the third straight month to find Obama’s support at the 42% level. Two months ago, McCain was at 45%, but his support slipped to 40% in July. When “leaners” are included in the current Nevada totals, McCain is on top 48% to 45%. Crosstabs with more detailed results...

Clinton sets campaign dates for ObamaClinton to host events in Las Vegas and South Florida Wednesday, August 06, 2008 at 10:42 a.m. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to campaign for Barack Obama in Nevada and Florida this month. The events are expected to be her first solo campaign appearances on Obama's behalf since she lost the Democratic nomination contest. The Obama campaign said Tuesday that Clinton will host rallies and voter registration events this Friday in Las Vegas, Nevada, and again in South Florida on Aug. 21. In June, Clinton and Obama appeared together in Unity, N.H.,...

As the presidential candidates square off for the general election, Nevadans are closely divided between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, according to a statewide poll. If the election were held today, 44 percent would vote for McCain, 42 percent for Obama, while 14 percent of likely voters remain undecided, according to the poll of 625 likely voters, conducted Monday through Wednesday by Washington, D.C.-based Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. for the Review-Journal and reviewjournal.com. The presidential contest is well within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. It confirms the conventional wisdom that...

[The following is an optical character recognition transcription of the PDF file] the Committee wishes to bring to your attention information we have received evidencing a premeditated and predesigned plan by the Obama campaign to engage in systematic corruption of the Party’s caucus procedures. Compounding this blatant distortion of the caucus rules was an egregious effort by the Obama campaign to manipulate the voter registration process in its own favor, thereby disenfranchising countless voters. Finally, the Committee has received a vast number of reliable reports of voter suppression and intimidation by the Obama campaign or its allies....Senator Clinton and the...

"Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) poses for a photo with supporters after a discussion on home ownership at the College of Southern Nevada in North Las Vegas.""Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) talks with supporter Peggy Pound after a discussion on home ownership at the College of Southern Nevada in North Las Vegas.""Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama listens to Felicitas Rosel during a discussion on home ownership at the College of Southern Nevada."

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Nevada shows John McCain holding a modest lead over Barack Obama in the race for the state’s Electoral College votes. McCain attracts support from 46% of the state’s likely voters while Obama earns 40% of the vote. A month ago, McCain had a five point advantage. Obama currently attracts just 65% support from Democrats in the state. That is at least partly a reflection of the ongoing competition between Obama and Clinton. The Nevada election poll found a continuing major divide among the state’s Democratic voters. While 32% believe it is time for...

Jeff Greenspan, Ron Paul's paid out-of-state political operative who helped engineer last weekend's fiasco at the Nevada Republican Party convention in Reno, is tying himself in knots trying to spin his way out of responsibility for the embarrassment he caused. The story line that the Paul people desperately want to believe - as it fuels the already abundant level of paranoia that flows uncontrolled through their ranks - is that the Nevada GOP had been conspiring behind closed doors to block any Paul supporters from going to the Republican National Convention in Minnesota later this summer. In their conspiracy-addled minds,...

The Nevada Republican party suspended its convention on Saturday night with no delegates elected to attend the party's national convention in September. The state party chairman, Sue Lowden says that the party will reconvene to nominate the state's 31 delegates in Las Vegas at a later date. An argument over the delegate nominating process sent the party into disarray. The nominating committee put forth a list of candidates and called for a vote. Ron Paul supporters on the floor were unhappy with the list of candidates. Through a rule change, delegates were able to start nominating candidates from the floor...

RENO, Nevada (AP) — Outmaneuvered by raucous Ron Paul supporters, Nevada Republican Party leaders abruptly shut down their state convention and now must resume the event to complete a list of 31 delegates to the GOP national convention. Outnumbered supporters of expected Republican presidential nominee John McCain faced off Saturday against well-organized Paul supporters. A large share of the more than 1,300 state convention delegates enabled Paul supporters to get a rule change positioning them for more national convention delegate slots than expected. "I've seen factions walk out. I've never seen a party walk out," said Jeff Greenspan, regional coordinator...

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Nevada shows John McCain leading both potential Democratic opponents in the race for the state’s Electoral College. McCain has a five-point edge over Barack Obama, 48% to 43%, and a double digit lead over Hillary Clinton, 49% to 38%. In both match-ups, McCain has a solid lead among men and is essentially even among women. McCain has far more support from Republicans than either Democrat enjoys from their partisan base. These figures reflect a significant improvement for McCain compared to a month ago. At that time, Obama had a four-point advantage over McCain...

Controversy over his concealed carry permit Gov. Jim Gibbons' 10-year-old permit to carry a concealed firearm has been in the news, of late. The governor temporarily surrendered his permit after it was found he hadn't re-qualified with each of the nine handguns listed on his permit, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported earlier this month. The Washoe County sheriff's office renewed the governor's permit in December, after Gov. Gibbons and a certified firearms instructor signed an application reporting he'd demonstrated competence with each of the nine weapons he's licensed to carry, the paper reported. But the governor carried only seven guns to...

This letter is not intended as a response to the Obama campaign’s letter. However, in the interest of a complete record, and in contrast to the alleged minor procedural problems noted by the Obama campaign, the Committee wishes to bring to your attention information we have received evidencing a premeditated and predesigned plan by the Obama campaign to engage in systematic corruption of the Party’s caucus procedures. Compounding this blatant distortion of the caucus rules was an egregious effort by the Obama campaign to manipulate the voter registration process in its own favor, thereby disenfranchising countless voters. Finally, the Committee...

Convention ends in chaos, so Dems need a do-overBy J. Patrick Coolican, Michael Mishak Sun, Feb 24, 2008 (2 a.m.) Rory Reid, right, Hillary Clinton’s Nevada campaign chairman, is besieged by supporters who don’t want the vote on delegates to the Democratic state convention delayed. Sam Morris The Clark County Democratic Convention turned into a fiasco Saturday, with a host of problems that were entirely predictable but blithely ignored by county party leadership. The convention was supposed to elect delegates to this spring’s state convention in Reno, where delegates will be selected for the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Instead,...

[Obama campaign] "These reports suggest the possibility of activity conducted in violation of Party rules and the rights of voters—activity that, as the volume and distribution of those complaints indicate, may have been planned and coordinated with the willful intention to distort the process in the favor of one candidate, Senator Clinton. A sheet of instructions provided by the Clinton campaign to its precinct works captures its program for the Caucus: “It’s not illegal unless they [the temporary precinct chairs] tell you so.” (See attachment). This certainly suggests that, for the Clinton campaign, the operative standard of conduct was, simply...

US Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign on Sunday said that it had received reports of voting irregularities in Nevada's nominating caucuses, which were won by rival Hillary Clinton. Spokesmen for Obama's campaign told reporters that a Clinton party handout urged registration lines for the caucuses Saturday to close at 11:30 am, whereas state party rules said anyone in line until 12:00 pm was to be allowed to participate. "Despite clear rules and timelines laid out by the Nevada Democratic Party that caucus doors should remain open and voter registration should continue until noon, the Clinton campaign encouraged their operatives to...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton were victors in contentious nominating contests, but neither party can claim front-runners as early presidential contests give way to big-state battles. McCain, an Arizona senator, bested Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, in a South Carolina fight that focused on the economy. McCain was defeated here in 2000 by George W. Bush. "Thank you, my friends, and thank you, South Carolina, for bringing us across the finish line first in the first-in-the-South primary. It took us a while. But what's eight years among friends," McCain told a boisterous...

Vows to 'Directly Confront Bill Clinton' Over 'Statements That Are Not Factually Accurate' Sen. Barack Obama says he's ready to confront former President Bill Clinton, calling his advocacy on behalf of his wife's presidential campaign, "troubling." In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts to air Monday on "Good Morning America," Obama, D-Ill., directly engages Bill Clinton on a series of issues. You know the former president, who I think all of us have a lot of regard for, has taken his advocacy on behalf of his wife to a level that I think is pretty troubling," Obama said....