Showing posts with label voter fraud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voter fraud. Show all posts
Monday, May 21, 2007
During four years as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, Hans von Spakovsky went so far in a crusade against voter fraud as to warn of its dangers under a pseudonym in a law journal article.
Writing as "Publius," von Spakovsky contended that every voter should be required to produce a photo-identification card and that there was "no evidence" that such restrictions burden minority voters disproportionately.
Now, amid a scandal over politicization of the Justice Department, Congress is beginning to examine allegations that von Spakovsky was a key player in a Republican campaign to hang onto power in Washington by suppressing the votes of minority voters.
First, the guy is a total dick for pretending he was Alexander Hamilton writing a federalist paper as his pseudonym. I have nothing obviously against online anonymity. Hubris on the other hand amuses me. This asshole was trying to make sure too many brown skinned people didn't vote.
If I was Aaron Burr, I would be king of Texas. But, I might also have to challenge this guy's ass to a duel in order to defend the honor of the justice department. I also want to thank McClatchy for continuing to be ahead of the rest of the pack on this story. Please read the entire article.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
As a report authored this spring by Lorraine Minnite, a political science professor at Barnard College of Columbia University, for the voter-rights program Project Vote makes unmistakably clear, the government's failure to prosecute or convict more than a handful of people for voter fraud isn't for lack of trying. Since 2002, the Justice Department's Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Initiative has, as Gonzales put it, "made enforcement of election fraud and corruption offenses a top priority." And yet between October 2002 and September 2005, just 38 cases were brought nationally, and of those, 14 ended in dismissals or acquittals, 11 in guilty pleas, and 13 in convictions. Though a Justice Department manual on election crime states that these cases "may present an easier means of obtaining convictions than do other forms of public corruption," federal attorneys have failed to rack up those convictions, for the simple reason that incidents of fraud have been few and far between.
Now think about the pressure Rove was putting on justice with his willing
What are real problems are phone jamming,purging voters from the rolls, not setting up enough machines in poor districts.
Karl Rove wanted to suppress minority votes by threatening them of prosecution for vote fraud. In the wake of 9/11, a new citizen from Mexico might be wary of voting, if they weren't absolutely sure that it was legal. Felons who had their voting rights returned, don't want to go back to jail.
In a way this is like the 9/11 Saddam Hussein connection that the administration pulled. They wanted to intimidate the disenfranchised from voting by targeting people for voting fraud, confusing voters with not enough information into thinking they were next.
Those twenty six people who broke the law though are menaces. A few were long time green holders who were confused and thinking they could vote. A danger to our way of life, or Karl Rove trying to scare the poor into staying home in November?
Monday, May 14, 2007
The Negroes Are Stealing The Votes! A Fox News Alert!
TPM caught footage of Fox News "exploring" voter fraud in South Carolina. They ran some b-footage tape, and wouldn't you know it, it was uppity black people exercising their constitutional right to vote. Of course, none of the people in this video are actually accused of voting illegally, but they are black, and they look awfully happy voting, so you know there must be something "shady" going on.Josh John Gibson might be traumatized by this. How is he expected to vote accurately when somebody darker than Oprah is sharing the same booth with him and apparently voting twice?
Perhaps, we should be thankful to Fox. Apparently, South Carolina, which is dominated by the GOP, would have every single job in the state run by Republicans if it wasn't for the black menace.
Is it now time for legitimate journalists to get off the fence and denounce Fox News' practices?
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