An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
No Fraud?
Whose Ox Is Gored
After Bush’s victory, liberals shouted “Voter fraud!” Why have they changed their tune?
Just before the 2004 election, the influential blog DailyKos.com warned of a “nationwide” wave of voter fraud against John Kerry. After the election, liberal blogger Josh Marshall urged Mr. Kerry not to concede because the election had been “too marred with voter suppression, dirty tricks and other unspeakable antics not to press every last possibility” of changing the outcome. When Congress met in January 2005 to certify the election results, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.) and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D., Ohio) challenged Mr. Bush’s victory and forced Congress to debate the issue. Months later, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean maintained that blacks had been the victims of “massive voter suppression” in Ohio.
But now liberals are accusing the Bush Justice Department of cooking up spurious claims of voter fraud in the 2006 elections and creating what the New York Times calls a “fantasy” that voter fraud is a problem. Last week Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Judiciary Committee chairman, claimed that the administration fired eight U.S. attorneys last year in order to pressure prosecutors “to bring cases of voter fraud to try to influence elections.” He said one replacement U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo., was a “partisan operative” sent “to file charges on the eve of an election in violation of Justice Department guidelines.” But the Kansas City prosecution was approved by career Justice lawyers, and the guidelines in question have since been rewritten by career lawyers in the Public Integrity section of Justice.
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You need to read beyond the headlines to tell the difference. It all boils down to voter supression.
What the loyal Bushies were calling “vote fraud” were thinly disguised attempts to intimidate and disenfranchise voters. It all rolls up into one handy little easy to understand scandal.
Uh huh, and if you read ‘beyond the headline’ back then, there was NO voter suppression. On the other hand, there HAS been documented suppression by the Dhimmis, but sadly, I can’t find it right now. Big shock, since it got very little coverage at the time. Wasn’t it the Dhimmis who didn’t want the military vote counted? Isn’t that suppression?