Voting Rights vs Voting Fraud

[Anonymous]

Interesting article in the WSJ about this subject:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124451552193396877.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting article in the WSJ about this subject:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124451552193396877.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

I was going to read this article until I saw that the author is Hans Von Spakovsky. He is well-known on the topic of "voting rights" and was Bush's point man on "purging" voter rolls and promoting the myth of voter fraud. He has little credibility on this topic.

[Anonymous]

More interesting still is the author:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/opinion/14thu2.html

As a voting-rights appointee in the Justice Department, he promoted Republican initiatives to crimp the ballot power of minorities and the poor who typically favor Democrats.

In one of his party missions, Mr. Spakovsky overrode the recommendations of the department’s staff professionals and approved a regressive law in Georgia that required voters to provide photo identification. The law, a voter suppression tool worthy of the Jim Crow era, was later blocked by the courts. A former G.O.P. county chairman in Georgia, Mr. Spakovsky failed to recuse himself from such an obvious conflict of interest. He also pushed for department approval of Tom DeLay’s Texas gerrymandering plan — the plan that the Supreme Court ruled violated the Voting Rights Act.

Feverish for the Republican edge, Mr. Spakovsky drove career lawyers from the Justice department and constantly parroted the (Karl) Rovian line that voter fraud is rampant, though studies have found otherwise.