"Myth" of Voter Fraud Focus of Senate Hearing

[EFerrari]

Myth" of Voter Fraud Focus of Senate Hearing
by Jason Leopold

Last year, during the height of the Congressional investigation into the firings of US attorneys David Iglesias and John McKay, two of the nine federal prosecutors who were ousted revealed that they were pressured by Republicans to bring charges of voter fraud against people who intended to vote for Democrats in separate elections in New Mexico and Washington state several years ago.

Iglesias and McKay said they investigated the allegations but did not find evidence to support charges of voter fraud leveled by Republicans. Both men believe their refusal to convene a federal criminal grand jury to pursue the allegations led to their ouster.

There is no concrete evidence of voter fraud in the United States. Many election integrity experts believe voter fraud is a ploy by Republicans to suppress minorities and poor people from voting. Historically, those groups tend to vote for Democratic candidates. Raising red flags about the integrity of the ballots, experts believe, is an attempt by GOP operatives to swing elections to their candidates as well as an attempt to use the fear of criminal prosecution to discourage individuals from voting in future races.

Now a Senate panel chaired by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein is investigating whether the myth of voter fraud has led to "disenfranchisement" among individual voters.

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2008/031008Leopold.shtml

[diva77]

1. too bad the panel won't be chaired by a more upstanding senator

:eyes:

[EFerrari]

2. If I can summon the moral energy, I'm calling to find out who is on

that panel.

God, the discussion is so retrograde. Where ever we find a voter fraud investigation, we'll likely find an election fraud operations. This could be useful if it ever gets out of the sandbox.

[sonias]

3. Yowza

Let's keep it in the limelight. We know there have been thousands of people disenfranchised over this hyped up voter fraud scam. In AZ alone the crazy strict registration rules have caused over 35,000 new voters to be rejected.

This is not what America is about. This is a shame. :cry: Let our people vote!


Sonia