Stop Voting. Uh, Fraud. That's it.
Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:54 pm
DOUG
The GOP is so scared of how badly their going to get whooped in November, they are pretending that voting fraud is widespread and using this as an excuse to pass laws that make it harder for the poor and the elderly to vote.
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Report skeptical of fraud at polls
Little evidence found despite pending bills
By Richard Wolf
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — At a time when many states are instituting new requirements for voter registration and identification, a preliminary report to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission has found little evidence of the type of polling-place fraud those measures seek to stop.
USA TODAY obtained the report from the commission four months after it was delivered by two consultants hired to write it. The commission has not distributed it publicly.
At least 11 states have approved new rules for independent voter-registration drives or requirements that voters produce specific forms of photo ID at polling places. Several of those laws have been blocked in court, most recently in Arizona last week. The House of Representatives last month approved a photo-ID law, now pending in the Senate.
...“There was a division of opinion here,” Chairman Paul DeGregorio says. “We've seen places where fraud does occur.”
The consultants found little evidence of that. Barry Weinberg, former deputy chief of the voting section in the Justice Department's civil rights division, reviewed their work. “Fraud at the polling place is generally difficult to pull off,” he says. “It takes a lot of planning and a lot of coordination.”
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The GOP is so scared of how badly their going to get whooped in November, they are pretending that voting fraud is widespread and using this as an excuse to pass laws that make it harder for the poor and the elderly to vote.
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Report skeptical of fraud at polls
Little evidence found despite pending bills
By Richard Wolf
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — At a time when many states are instituting new requirements for voter registration and identification, a preliminary report to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission has found little evidence of the type of polling-place fraud those measures seek to stop.
USA TODAY obtained the report from the commission four months after it was delivered by two consultants hired to write it. The commission has not distributed it publicly.
At least 11 states have approved new rules for independent voter-registration drives or requirements that voters produce specific forms of photo ID at polling places. Several of those laws have been blocked in court, most recently in Arizona last week. The House of Representatives last month approved a photo-ID law, now pending in the Senate.
...“There was a division of opinion here,” Chairman Paul DeGregorio says. “We've seen places where fraud does occur.”
The consultants found little evidence of that. Barry Weinberg, former deputy chief of the voting section in the Justice Department's civil rights division, reviewed their work. “Fraud at the polling place is generally difficult to pull off,” he says. “It takes a lot of planning and a lot of coordination.”
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Here.
