[Fred Nerks]

...The best vetting of an opposition candidate ALWAYS comes from the people who are running against him and want the job as badly as he wants it.

Sounds like blaming the victim to me; when is fraud not fraud?

When the perpetrator has been successful.

[Nero Germanicus]

There is no “victim” when a candidate is vetted before an election. The opposition parties are looking for anything damaging that they can use against their opponents.