The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced that it will no longer ban voter registration drives for veterans living at federally run nursing homes, shelters for the homeless and rehabilitation centers across the country. The VA did not however decide to designate VA facilities as voter registration agencies. For the fourth time in six months, the VA has changes its policy on allowing voter registration drives at VA facilities. This announcement came the night before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee was scheduled to hold a hearing on S.3308, the Veteran Voting Support Act.

Earlier this week, we mentioned that American's United Against the Separation of Church and State filed an IRS complaint ($$) against Atlah World Missionary Church in Harlem, New York for engaging in prohibited electioneering. Several videos posted on the church's website and on YouTube show Rev.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has helped to launch NoVoterLeftBehind.net, a project of Democrats for America's Future (DAF). The site is designed to monitor voter registration and to monitor the voting process during the November 2008 election. The goal is to bring attention to any irregularities that occur and to urge "every Democratic candidate to pledge not to concede a single race until every last vote is counted."

The Center for Civic Policy, a 501(c)(3) organization in New Mexico, distributed a series of mailers regarding the voting records of some members of the state legislature months before the June 3 primary. After losing the primary election, three lawmakers have sued Aug. 1, asserting that the group committed fraud in the financing of campaigns against them, alleging that the group's efforts crossed the line into political activity. They also want the group to register as a political action committee to fully disclose its funders.