Voter Fraud, Purges and Voter Disenfranchisement #2

There have been numerous articles, protests and court challenges of voter fraud and irregularities. Since my friends and the media mostly ignore the facts when it's a widespread problem intended to reduce registered voters, I'll continue to post those articles.
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The integrity of the vote represents the foundation of democracy and deserves attention and protection.
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The LA Times reports:
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Voters say they were duped into registering as Republicans

YPM, a group hired by the GOP, allegedly deceived Californians who thought they were signing a petition. YPM denies any wrongdoing. Similar accusations have been leveled against the company elsewhere.

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The Washington Independent reports:

Breaking: Obama Demands Special Prosecutor Investigate GOP Voter Fraud Activities

Charging that the FBI probe of ACORN represents an “unholy alliance” between Republican operatives and potentially illegal conduct by law enforcement targeting voter fraud, the Obama campaign demanded Friday that the U.S. special prosecutor looking into the U.S. attorneys scandal investigate the matter.
General counsel Bob Bauer sent a letter to Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey charging that coordinated “misconduct” by McCain campaign representatives and GOP officials were relevant to the special prosecutor’s work, because the activities may relate to the dismissal of seven U.S. attorneys in late 2006.
The letter requests that the special prosecutor’s inquiry “include a review of any involvement by Justice Dept. and White House officials in supporting the McCain-Palin campaign [and RNC's] systematic development and dissemination of unsupported, spurious allegations of vote fraud.”
To advance the effort, the Obama campaign convened a conference call with national reporters, though Friday afternoon is not a time that campaigns usually push priority messages.

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The NYT reports:

The United States Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court’s order requiring state officials in Ohio to supply information that would have made it easier to challenge prospective voters.

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Republicans vowed to fight on and quickly filed a similar lawsuit in the State Supreme Court.

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Those officials could use information to require voters to cast provisional ballots rather than regular ones.

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Voting experts and state election officials have raised concerns about treating flagged voters differently because the databases used to check registrations are prone to errors. Most non-matches are the result of typographical errors by government officials, computer errors and use of nicknames or middle initials, not voter ineligibility, they said.

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Provisional ballots in Ohio are held for 10 days before being counted while workers check eligibility, and they are often subject to partisan wrangling and legal fights.

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Bill Moyers Journal offered Mark Crispin Miller, author of Loser Takes All, commenting on election fraud.