Voter fraud has been used by Republicans to obtain legislation in various states requiring citizens to show restrictive and specialized IDs in order to vote. The laws had little effect on the integrity of voting, but they did prevent some poor people and minorities from voting - most likely for Democrats. John Fund even wrote a book he called, "Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy."
Democrats stealing elections through voter fraud is one big lie. Republicans do not like to hear this, which is why these value-saturated people altered a research report that said so:
A federal panel responsible for conducting election research played down the findings of experts who concluded last year that there was little voter fraud around the nation, according to a review of the original report obtained by The New York Times. Instead, the panel, the Election Assistance Commission, issued a report that said the pervasiveness of fraud was open to debate... Though the original report said that among experts “there is widespread but not unanimous agreement that there is little polling place fraud,” the final version of the report released to the public concluded in its executive summary that “there is a great deal of debate on the pervasiveness of fraud.”
Standard Republican procedure: if you don't like reality, just change it.
The next day the New York Times presented a big report on the same subject, labeled, "In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud":
Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.... About 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.
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Most of those charged have been Democrats, voting records show. Many of those charged by the Justice Department appear to have mistakenly filled out registration forms or misunderstood eligibility rules, a review of court records and interviews with prosecutors and defense lawyers show.
“There was nothing that we uncovered that suggested some sort of concerted effort to tilt the election,” Richard G. Frohling, an assistant United States attorney in Milwaukee, said.
Another Republican accusation with no merit. "So what," Republicans say, "we won the midterm and presidential elections, didn't we?" As the party of religion and values, no less.
However, the party is over. The public is catching on to fraudulent Republican lies, obfuscations, and accusations. This is why citizens voted Democrats into power in the last election.
Republican accusations of voter fraud is a fraud. As long as Republcan frauds continue citizens will switch to the Democratic side. The net result will be that 2008 will bring a landslide victory for Democrats.
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