Department of Election Frauds
BY Scott Horton Sept. 18, 2007
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001238It’s extremely revealing that in the area of voter’s rights, the Gonzales Justice Department (he’s gone; his ghost lingers) does not uphold the right of citizens to exercise their democratic franchise. Instead it engages with limitless energy in efforts to secure partisan advantage for the G.O.P. It has conjured up completely fraudulent threats of voter fraud in America’s inner cities, among fringe communities, among Native Americans. This threat is always supposed to exist in communities that oppose the G.O.P.; the evidence for it is spun from whole cloth.
But what about cases of genuine, honest to goodness voter fraud? Like the tampering with voting machines in Baldwin County, Alabama on election night 2002, which produced a mysterious shift of ballots permitting the election of Bob Riley. DOJ did nothing to investigate this. It’s adopted a similar attitude of indifference over systematic voting fraud allegations in Ohio and Florida, where the G.O.P. was the transparent beneficiary of the fraud. But out of all these cases, perhaps the New Hampshire phone fraud case is the most telling. Here’s the New York Times account (
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/opinion/17mon3.html?_r=3&th&emc=th&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin) of this fraud and the duet danced in it by the White House and the Justice Department–from today’s edition:
On Election Day in 2002, when New Hampshire voters were going to the polls in a hotly contested Senate race, the phone lines in Democratic get-out-the-vote offices were jammed. The executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party pleaded guilty ..........
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