They were trying to cheat black and Latino soldiers out of their right to vote.
Archive for the ‘Vote fraud’ Category
In six years of vigorous effort, DoJ has discovered no systematic vote fraud. It has, however, managed to ruin the lives of people who made innocent mistakes.
The Election Assistance Commission pays experts (one Dem, one Rep) to figure out how much voter fraud and intimidation exists. The team says fraudulent voting isn’t much of a problem, but intimidation is. The Commission rewrite the report to say something different, suppresses the original, and holds the contractors to their contractual gag order.
Hearings, please.
The FBI couldn’t find any forgeries, and the U.S. Attorney decided that he couldn’t prosecute people for voting fraudulently when they’d gotten ballots in the mail, sent by the state. But the Republicans had lost a close election, so the U.S. Attorney got fired for not convening a grand jury to harrass innocent people. Next time you read about “vote fraud,” think about this case.
Irony? You want irony? How about a clearly false result in the election for Katherine Harris’s old seat? Of course the Democrats in the House shouldn’t put up with it.
OK. The Justice Department won’t investigate. But can’t Kweisi Mfume sue? To review the bidding (which Josh Marshall has been all over): Bob Ehrlich and Michael Steele brought in busloads of homeless African-American people from Philadelphia to black precincts in Prince George’s County, Maryland, to hand out fliers headed “Ehrlich-Steele Democrats” and showing the pictures [...]
For a Voting Rights Act of 2007, covering everybody’s right to vote and have that vote counted.
I guess that’s what you call it when you recruit black folks from homeless shelters in Philadelphia for $100 each and send them to black precincts in Prince George’s County, Maryland, to hand out phony “Democratic” fliers for Republican candidates and claiming falsely that they have the endorsement of local black leaders. Some of the workers claim they weren’t even told they were going to be working for Republican candidates.
Keeping track of the day’s outrages. So far, we’ve got phone calls threatening Virginia Democrats with arrest if they try to vote and armed intimidation of Latino voters in Arizona. If you see something, please send it in.