Karl Rove's big election-fraud hoax

Republican manipulation of the polls long predates the U.S. attorneys plot -- and the U.S. voting system needs an overhaul.

But the assault on voter fraud was a solution looking for a problem. As part of the Help America Vote Act, Republicans insisted on creating the Election Assistance Commission, which commissioned studies of the asserted problem. When the studies failed to turn up evidence of fraud nationwide, appointed Republican officials on the EAC insisted that the language say only that "there is a great deal of debate on the pervasiveness of fraud in elections" -- the ... Full Story »

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David McMillan
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by David McMillan - Oct. 1, 2008

The story comes across to me as a one sided. Even the conventional wisdom in the story is wrong. This statement, " It's widely known that Republicans do better when the turnout is lighter, whiter, older and richer; minorities, young people and the poor are easy game for hoaxes and intimidation.", has been proven wrong in the 2004 elections. The highest voter turnout in recent memory and the republicans did very well.

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