Posted on 04/10/2007 11:13:04 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Panel Said to Alter Finding on Voter Fraud
By IAN URBINA
WASHINGTON, April 10 — 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.
The revised version echoes complaints made by Republican politicians, who have long suggested that voter fraud is widespread and justifies the voter identification laws that have been passed in at least two dozen states.
Democrats say the threat is overstated and have opposed voter identification laws, which they say disenfranchise the poor, members of minority groups and the elderly, who are less likely to have photo IDs and are more likely to be Democrats.
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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Ping!
Duh, I am stuned!
Apparently Karl and his Boss's "solution" to this problem is to admit even more invaders to this country so that they can become instant Democrat voters.
Republicans look the other way and lose election after election!
ping
Well, they seem to be doing a great job of that! The mind boggles at Republicans voting to allow citizenship to illegal aliens....all 30 to 40 million of them.
There would be no doubt of election fraud if they just came to Washington State and observed what some call “elections”.
If voters are not committing fraud individually, then perhaps public officials are. But no one has been arrested or indicted for this recently.
People are not going to take voter fraud seriously unless there is concrete evidence that real people have committed specific acts.
Except, of course, when they lose.
Lets overturn every election where a RAT was elected, just on general principles. After all, at least half of them were probably stolen.
I believe you're right on the money with that number.
Isn’t this the same paper that called allegations of election fraud a method for suppressing the minority vote?
(Rhetorical question.)
“......at least half of them were probably stolen.”
BINGO!!!!The Dems have, IMHO, been masters of fraud for decades. The Pubbies ought to ride this horse hard...but they’ll probably just pour another drink for one another...and mutter TSK!TSK! under their breath.....
bump.
Notice that there is NO EVIDENCE of this claim by the democrats....
To the best of my knowledge, though, EVERY time a voter_ID law comes up there are “claims” of tens of thousands (sometimes the democrats us the “hundreds of thousands” of poor and aged supposed people with no ID!) there has only been ONE PERSON nationally who they could actually show had “no photo id + no money + no drivers license”.
It was a single person in AZ. That’s it. ONE PERSON nationally has a example. And the local republicans promptly offered that person a ride to the driver’s license office and money for the ID!
In many states, without blatant voter fraud, there would be fewer elected Rats.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.