GOP "Voter Fraud Scam Fails in Milwaukee Test Market"

[kster]

Its nice to see this article on the Milwaukeedems.org website.

May 4, 2007 - 12:32pm.

Did Bush Commit Election Fraud? (Part 2)
Michael Collins, Scoop
Monday, 30 April 2007

"...The Milwaukee scheme relies on the largely invented phenomenon called voter fraud that occurs an average of 8 times a year (2002-2005 data). Think of that city as a test market for the next new thing in the Republican bag of tricks. Voter fraud charges weren't new, but systematic packaging represented a new level of sophistication for voter suppression. The strategy was two pronged. First establish the brand identity, then let the legal system establish brand credibility (i.e., pervasive voter fraud is epidemic) through massive prosecutions...

"The Republicans would make a voter fraud charge, the media would cover it, and then the coverage was used as evidence of impending vote fraud. All the while, the most vulnerable voters in Milwaukee, minority voters targeted in the articles, were in a position to question what might happen on Election Day were they to be challenged or otherwise investigated. At the same time, the mainstream media coverage served to promote the myth of corrupt urban (read minority) Democratic machine control and manipulation of elections.

"There's no need for a back room conspiracy between the Wisconsin Republicans and the press. This insidious strategy was made possible by the notion of equal coverage without critical review. Thus, these articles in the mainstream media might just as well have been Republican press releases. They served that function well, as indicated by the sampling above and the entire body of releases in the original document. Very few of these charges have been substantiated despite the combined efforts of FBI, the U.S. Attorney, and the cooperative local District Attorney.

"All the Wisconsin Republicans had to do was make a charge, no matter how unfounded, and that charge entered the public dialogue as part of the political mix with built in credibility provided by the coverage. After all, there're always two sides to every story as in this case the great lie goes..."

http://milwaukeedems.org/node/169

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. and 5.

Spread the word.

[kster]

2. HERE IS A LINK THAT WORKS

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x835400

[L. Coyote]

3. Found this cartoon

at http://www.truthaboutfraud.org/