Reply #14: DU babylonsister: Whose Election Fraud? Great background article.

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babylonsister Wed Mar-28-07 01:03 PM
Whose Election Fraud?
Barbara Burt and Jonah Goldman
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/03/28/whose_election_fraud.php

DU Discussion: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x469917

Barbara Burt is director of election reform programs for Common Cause. Jonah Goldman is director of the National Campaign for Fair Elections with Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

The scandal involving Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, some for alleged lack of vigor in pursuing voter fraud, provides us with a peek into the machinations of politicians who attempt to manipulate the election system for their own benefit. The rapidly unfolding facts highlight how unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud are used as a proxy for political decision-making designed to disenfranchise eligible Americans. It is a shame that some in the Justice Department, an agency with a noble history of defending the rights of all Americans to cast a ballot, are focusing instead on strategies to remove politically “undesirable” voters from the process.

Unfortunately, it is not just the Department of Justice that is taking advantage of this nefarious strategy.

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