By attempting to discuss tangentially related issues, Conason's piece comes off as a partisan attack, rather than pointed criticism.

This pieces unfairly asserts the motives of others and makes numerous unsubstantiated claims, not what I am used to from reading Joe Conason in Salon. While Barry Goldwater famously opposed the Civil Rights Act, I find no evidence anywhere that he opposed the Voter Rights Act, as this piece claims. The allegations of Republican fraud are accurate, but it does not include a comparison with Democrat fraud.

For all their braying about finding voter fraud, it appears the GOP is not interested in finding it in their own ranks. If anybody was unconvinced that the US Attorney firings were politically motivated, this should convince them.