Item 1: Jill Lepore’s excellent essay on the history of voting in America, Rock, Paper, Scissors. Includes when it was a blood sport & when we voted with beans.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/13/081013fa_fact_lepore
Item 2: Mother Jones, How to Protect your Vote. The threats include “In Virginia, a phony flier instructed voters that due to heavy turnout Republicans would vote on Tuesday and Democrats would vote on Wednesday. In Florida, voters were informed by an unknown caller that they could vote by phone.”
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/10/10605_how_to_protect_your_vote.html
Item 3: My centerpiece story for poynter.org ‘Using Twitter Vote Report’ in your Coverage
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=153443
Barbara K Iverson 