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Double standard on allegations of voting fraud?

Tags: Newt Gingrich, Virginia, election petitions, Brad Friedman, Bradblog, acorn, double standard, Voting, voter fraud

A Virginia tea party activist is seeking to have Newt Gingrich's name placed on the state's March Super Tuesday primary ballot.

The Tea Party activist filed the suit yesterday. It contends that Gingrich met the requirement of filing 10,000 signatures and that many of those were improperly excluded by the Republican Party. Gingrich turned in more than 11,000 signatures.

The suit also takes issue with how the Republican Party of Virginia determined that not enough signatures were valid. ...

Brad Friedman (Bradblog) on conservative journalists' arrests for phone tampering

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Tags: acorn, SEn. Mary Landrieu, Bradblog, Brad Friedman

According to the Washington Post, the conservative activist accused last week in a plot to tamper with telephones in the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) admitted to the scheme Friday, conceding that he "could have used a different approach" in trying to determine whether she was avoiding calls from opponents of the health-care reform bill.

Federal prosecutors allege that James O'Keefe helped carry out a plot in which two friends impersonated telephone repairmen to get access to Landr...