Karl Rove's big election-fraud hoax

Salon by Garrett Epps | May. 10, 2007 (Opinion)

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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by Dr. Anthony R. Peluso - Oct. 1, 2008

The main constitutional point and the threat to that CONSTITUTION is how thw AG office/staff are no longer seen as or operating as the "people's" lawyers but as a political weapon of the "governing party", in this case the Republican party and as lawyers for the president. Whatever the task/program emanating from this, it is a distortion/abortion of the basic reason for the existence of the AG office/department and the "voter fraud crusade" is an unfortunate, to say the least, consequence of this politicization.