Voting Rights Watch

October 24, 2008 - The Gainesville Sun reports on how Florida's new "no-match" rule is affecting students at the University of Florida:

October 24, 2008 - In a recent interview with a British newspaper, Mississippi Gov.

October 24, 2008 - Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel is reporting that a computer programming glitch is responsible for the high number of voter registration checks Georgia ran this year through the Social Security Administration.

October 24, 2008 - A settlement reached this week will allow a minister to continue registering eligible voters currently incarcerated in Alabama's prisons.

October 23, 2008 - A conflict has arisen in Florida between elections supervisors and the Secretary of State over how to deal with new voters whose registration hasn't been verified.

October 22, 2008 - A new report released today by the Pew Center on the States' Electionline.org details how voters could face long lines, new technology and registration challenges in a number of states in the upcoming election.

October 22, 2008 - Everyone knew 2008 was going to be big. Since early spring, when voter registrations started zooming up during the hard-fought primaries, election officials across the South and country have known they needed to be ready for an election with potentially record-setting turnout.