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86 Is Not a Large Number
That’s the total of voter fraud convictions the Bush Administration has won over the past four years, since making its prosecution a priority. Few of these cases had even the slightest indicator of being a conspiracy to change the results of the election. Most were simply careless errors. None suggested the massive, cataclysmic threat to our democracy that I’ve been assured the voter fraud epidemic represents.
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How great would it be if ACORN got as much positive publicity now that it has been vindicated of voter fraud as it did before the elections when Karl Rove was ginning up false charges?
This week’s Newsweek story, “Rove: A Moving Target,â€? as well as other recent news reports, have quoted Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ former chief of staff, D. Kyle Sampson’s testimony that “during the run-up to the midterm elections,â€? A.G. told him Rove “complainedâ€? that David Iglesias, the U.S. attorney in New Mexico, and two other federal prosecutors, were not doing enough to prosecute voter fraud—a top GOP priority.
Iglesias told Newsweek he had been pressured to prosecute ACORN workers who were registering voters in minority neighborhoods, but Iglesias had found no cases worth pursuing.
In 2006, ACORN volunteers and staff helped more than 540,000 low-income, young and minority citizens to apply to become registered voters. ACORN has helped more than 1.6 million people register to vote since 2003.
So-called “voter fraudâ€? is a myth used to suppress the minority vote. A report, “The Politics of Voter Fraud,” released in March by Project Vote found that fraudulent voting is extremely rare.
An analysis of federal government records concluded that only 24 people were convicted or pleaded guilty of illegal voting between 2002 and 2005, an average of eight people a year.
ACORN President Maude Hurd said: “While ACORN members are disturbed to learn that helping African Americans and Latinos register to vote invites harassment from the White House, ACORN will continue to fight for the right to vote for every American citizen and spare no effort to encourage voter participation in our communities
It’s all how you interpret the law. Either it’s illegal that a person is falsely listed as a felon with the intent of subverting their Constitutional right to vote, or its not. Until people go to jail for the horrible fraud committed in Florida year 2000, then I consider Democracy under Threat. Apparently there seems to be a lack of concern that people are being cheated out having their vote counted. Many times the excuse, “well it wouldn’t have made a difference anywayâ€? , comes out. Since we use election win/loss percentage differences to argue politics until the next election and make political decisions and announcements based on those ratios, I darn well beg to differ! It does matter! Besides, in this country, above all countries, an individual’s right to vote and it’s meaning, should be sacred above all else.