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The Story Of The American Center for Voting Rights
slate.com — The disappearance of "The American Center for Voting Rights" gives incredible insight into the right-wing world of organized vote suppression.
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- JenniferInMO, on 10/14/2008, -1/+16FTA:
"The death of ACVR says a lot about the Republican strategy of raising voter fraud as a crisis in American elections. Presidential adviser Karl Rove and his allies, who have been ghostbusting illusory dead and fictional voters since the contested 2000 election, apparently mounted a two-pronged attack. One part of that attack, at the heart of the current Justice Department scandals, involved getting the DoJ and various U.S. attorneys in battleground states to vigorously prosecute cases of voter fraud. That prong has failed. After exhaustive effort, the Department of Justice discovered virtually no polling-place voter fraud, and its efforts to fire the U.S. attorneys in battleground states who did not push the voter-fraud line enough has backfired. Even if Attorney General Gonzales declines to resign his position, his reputation has been irreparably damaged."
I have seen hundreds of right wing blogs and articles about the horrible ACORN and related voter fraud, yet there is no evidence of more than two or three incidents of voter fraud at the polls in the past decade. This is despite the radical talk and the determined Karl Rove to find it. They wanted to find it because it would bolster their efforts to pass laws under the guise of "voter protection" which actually have the effect of disenfranchising and deterring many poor and minority voters (i.e. those likely to vote Democrat).
This article was written in 2007. Here is another mention of the fraud of the ACVR http://www.netrootsmass.net/2008/09/181-american-c ...
Just one more piece of damning evidence that the Rovian neocons have pursued a strategy to disenfranchise segments of the Democratic vote. - johnnr2, on 10/14/2008, -1/+11And they continue the Rovian tactic of blaming your opponent for doing what you yourself are doing. If McCain's team is pointing a finger at the Dems for something, you can be sure that they are doing that something, be it voter fraud, smear, lying, etc.
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