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Nearly half the U.S. attorneys slated for removal by the administration last year were targets of Republican complaints that they were lax on voter fraud, including efforts by presidential adviser Karl Rove to encourage more prosecutions of election- law violations, according to new documents and interviews.

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ameliog
May 14, 2007, 10:32 a.m.
Certain elements in a certain political party cannot afford to have anyone looking too closely into voting fraud (or voting "irregularities" for those too sensitive to call it what it is).
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BravoSierra
May 14, 2007, 6:32 p.m.
A problem is how to get government IDs to people who don't drive anymore. Large numbers of people don't drive or need to drive, yet the driver's license is considered a primary form of ID. Get everyone a legitimate ID that is not driver's license based and you can start checking photo IDs.
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time4change
May 14, 2007, 12:53 p.m.
Voter fraud ?? Complaints by the GOP ?? LOL< LOL....What is now emerging from Florida (1st Bush non-win) and the destruction of absentee ballots of Black soldiers in Iraq....and Ohio (2nd Bush non-win) and disenfranchising of poor/black voters....the Repubs have brought voter fraud to a science....and Rove complaining is the pot calling the kettle black/evil.
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scott4261
May 14, 2007, 4:29 p.m.
Are they?
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bubba2
May 14, 2007, 6:09 p.m.
It is the Republicans that have committed voter fraud. They wanted to replace US Attorneys that did NOT pursue Democrats for voter fraud even when there was NO case.
There was blatant voter fraud committed by Republicans in Arkansas in 2004, and it was even committed against troops in Iraq and Afghanistan!
Here's how the scheme - caging - worked. The Bush campaign mailed out letters, particularly targeting African-American soldiers sent overseas. When the letters sent to the home addresses of the soldiers came back "undeliverable" because the servicemen were in Baghdad or elsewhere, the Republican Party would, "challenge the voter's registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted."
The Republicans successfully challenged at least one million votes of minority voters in the 2004 election. Can you spell "disenfranchisement"?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/09...
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pebrero33
May 14, 2007, 6:23 p.m.
what's with the link in your post? I think It's possible to say what you want in the confines of the message thread. Otherwise we'd be throwing links at each other: not too precise.
Yes, the Dems have horrible history, not nearly like the recent history of GOP, but isn't it also true that looking decades back the Dems had far more power and the GOP was not always a top 2 party?
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mamasan
May 14, 2007, 9:12 p.m.
Casper the Rove
you have been a very naughty boy.
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kedirian
May 14, 2007, 11:42 p.m.
And don't forget, Karl Rove, yes the very same Presidential Advisor, is the same Machiavellian "Genius" who is supposed to deliver a Republican majority in US Politics for ...generations to come! I can find at least twenty homeless drunks downtown who wouldn't give a damn about that college-dropout's opinion!
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truthiness
May 15, 2007, 12:09 a.m.
you want proof of election fraud
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/evan/40755/
and remember the man testifying before congress in this video says he was hired by a florida state rep. (republican), while he worked for diebold, in the autumn if 2000.
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jordan11
May 15, 2007, 10:03 a.m.
The republicans ignored, completely ignored, ELECTION fraud (not individual voter fraud) investigation. Election fraud costs races. And as the ELECTION fraud gave them races, they have been trying to divert the attention to a spattering of so called individual 'voter fraud' cases. The attorneys didn't have the evidence for republi'cons' to use those cases against democrats before elections, and the little thugs got mad at the attorneys for not playing ball.
Letters to thousands of minority voters, putting those thousands of voters on suspect status for voting and then discarding their votes, machines going wacky on the side of republican candidates.....any investigations there? Nope.