Reply #19: SLATE: Fraudulent Fraud Squad - The incredible, disappearing American Center for Voting Rights

[L. Coyote]

The Fraudulent Fraud Squad - The incredible, disappearing American Center for Voting Rights.
By Richard L. Hasen - May 18, 2007
http://www.slate.com/id/2166589/


... ACVR—the only prominent nongovernmental organization claiming that voter fraud is a major problem, a problem warranting strict rules such as voter-ID laws—simply stopped appearing at government panels and conferences. Its Web domain name has suddenly expired, its reports are all gone (except where they have been preserved by its opponents), and its general counsel, Mark "Thor" Hearne, has cleansed his résumé of affiliation with the group. Hearne won't speak to the press about ACVR's demise. No other group has taken up the "voter fraud" mantra.

The death of ACVR says a lot about the Republican strategy of raising voter fraud as a crisis in American elections. Presidential adviser Karl Rove and his allies, who have been ghostbusting illusory dead and fictional voters since the contested 2000 election, apparently mounted a two-pronged attack ...