Court Rules Against Bush Administration: DoJ Failed To Show ‘That Any Voter Fraud Occurred’
Court Rules Against Bush Administration: DoJ Failed To Show ‘That Any Voter Fraud Occurred’
For the past six years, the Bush administration and the Justice Department’s political appointees have “pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates. … On virtually every significant decision affecting election balloting since 2001, the division’s Voting Rights Section has come down on the side of Republicans.”
In 2005, the Justice Department sued Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (D) for not keeping the state’s voting records up-to-date. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey sharply criticized the Justice Department’s weak case and ruled in favor of Carnahan:
Laughrey said it was difficult to gauge the scope of the problem “because the United States has not presented the actual voter registration lists and shown who should have been included or excluded and why.”
“It is also telling that the United States has not shown that any Missouri resident was denied his or her right to vote as a result of deficiencies alleged by the United States,” Laughrey wrote. “Nor has the United States shown that any voter fraud has occurred.”
The case was led by the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, Bradley Schlozman, who earlier served in the Justice Department’s civil rights division. In 2005, he reversed the career staff’s recommendations to challenge a Georgia photo-ID law that a federal judge later likened to a “modern-day poll tax.”
Courts are increasingly dismantling the Bush administration’s attempts to go after political adversaries at the state and local levels. Earlier this month, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an aide to Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle “was wrongly convicted” of public corruption. The federal judges, acting with “unusual speed,” “assailed the government’s case” and said that U.S. attorney Steven Biskupic’s evidence was “beyond thin.”
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JJ,
You should just stick to the origanl moniker you have used in the past.
You are nothing new.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:07 pmDOJ failed to show that any voter fraud occured…
wait, isn’t this a blow to the Democrats who claim when ever they lose an election that there was voter fraud.
let us remember the Democrat mantra…
Republican wins, voter fraud
Democrats win, no voter fraud.
please thinkprogress.org how stupid do you think your readers are?
oh wait, you actually know they are quite stupid since most of them are liberal.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:09 pmHow is it that the state of Missouri’s suppossed failure to update state voter rolls a federal issue?
Where do states’ rights figure in here? How did Missouri come to be bullied by the DOJ
April 19th, 2007 at 6:11 pmOh no, they forgot to install Bushie judges everywhere. Their quest for world domination may have hit a bump in the road.
Hey Karl, it looks like you f*cked up again.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:11 pmj.j. grow up. Your stupid rantings just expose your stupidity.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:12 pm#2 j.j.
wait, isn’t this a blow to the Democrats who claim when ever they lose an election that there was voter fraud.
Uh no, it’s not. You’re confusing “voter fraud” (bogus GOP charge) with “election fraud” (real GOP ploy to rig elections). They’re two very different things. Look it up.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:13 pmNo voter fraud?
Has anyone gotten the problems in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 in front of a judge?
Where has that controversy gone?
April 19th, 2007 at 6:13 pmComment by j.j.
Care to try to accually refute the article with anything resembling a fact?
Didn’t think so….
Moron.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:19 pmlet us remember the Democrat mantra…
please thinkprogress.org how stupid do you think your readers are?
oh wait, you actually know they are quite stupid since most of them are liberal.
Comment by j.j. — April 19, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
Jesus H. Christ on a Motorcycle! What do we have to do to get some decent troll talent around here?
J.J., we told you before you’re not getting paid anymore, so you might as well pack it in.
Any of you TPers want to earn some quick cash over the next few weeks while the RoboTroll 2000 is getting reprogrammed? It’s not hard work, you can do it n your bathrobe (or nightgown and panties, Jake..) we’ll give you a script every day, you just need to stick to the script and not try to say clever things on your own.
Anybody?
Anybody?
Okay, well, if you change your mind, contact “Karl” at krove@rnc.org
April 19th, 2007 at 6:21 pmOne more time:
“Voter fraud” = someone intentionally voting in the wrong location or under someone else’s identity — rarely happens.
“Election fraud” = tampering with electronic voting machines, disseminating false information to a group of voters, interfering with someone’s lawful right to vote, altering election returns, destroying voter registration cards, destroying provisional ballots, etc. — happens much too frequently as part of GOP ‘winning strategy’.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:22 pmComment by joe sixpack
Wait.
The Joe Sixpack?
Naaaah.
Can’t be.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:25 pmI doubt that Schlozman was one of the recently-fired attorneys. Looks like his stellar work on voter fraud and the national I.D. card got him another two years of employment. After that, I’m sure that Gonzo and GDumbya will find him a plush job on K Street.
“You’re doing a heckuva job, Schlozty!”
April 19th, 2007 at 6:28 pmDid Mann Coulter refuse to cooperate in an investigation about whether she voted in the wrong precinct last year?
April 19th, 2007 at 6:28 pm“And the walls came tumbling down!”
Here today–impeached tomorrow! They are all Gone-zo!
April 19th, 2007 at 6:53 pmLittle one, this is Missouri dumb a$$, not Ohio or Florida. Get your facts straight son.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:56 pmPoor JJ. In his rush to type some clever dig at democrats, he got a little mixed up. Thanks to all of you for explaining the difference between election fraud and voter fraud.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:56 pmjoe: “Has anyone gotten the problems in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 in front of a judge?
Where has that controversy gone?”
Two republican election workers were convicted of election fraud and vote tampering over their “fixing” of the recount in Ohio recently.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:58 pmjoe: “Has anyone gotten the problems in Florida in 2000…”
The state of Florida settled the NAACP suit out of court, admitting that it improperly disenfranchised thousands of african-american voters.
Bottom line: Republicans stole the last two presidential elections.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:59 pmStop with all the facts.
Somebody in 1883 something something.
Sorry, I can’t even pretend to be as dumb as a troll.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:10 pmYes, the facts are troubling. And, as Colbert said, they have a well-known liberal bias.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:16 pmWhat about Ann Coulter?
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April 19th, 2007 at 7:23 pmDOJ failed to show that any voter fraud occured…
wait, isn’t this a blow to the Democrats who claim when ever they lose an election that there was voter fraud. Comment by j.j. — April 19, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
You should ask your GOP friends, that keep whining about losing elections because dead people vote. Hypocrite.
let us remember the Democrat mantra…
Republican wins, voter fraud
Democrats win, no voter fraud.
Comment by j.j. — April 19, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
BAHAHA, really funny, considering Georgia, and much of the purple/red states claim voter fraud is such a problem they need ’special-ids’ to confront it! Hypocrite.
More hypocrisy, and self criticism.
please thinkprogress.org how stupid do you think your readers are? Comment by j.j. — April 19, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
Well you’re here, so that pretty much says as st*pid as they get!
oh wait, you actually know they are quite stupid since most of them are liberal. Comment by j.j. — April 19, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
Says the st*pid troll… Ah, the irony!
See, you CONs simultaneously claim there isn’t voter fraud, while claiming you need ID laws to combat voter fraud. Stop projecting your own insane attitudes…
April 19th, 2007 at 7:25 pmAnn Coulter’s problem actually IS voter fraud as opposed to election fraud.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:26 pmThe Republican 25% Strategy of divide, suppress and conquer:
First, fire up the base with red meat issues, while using the proven conservative “distribution” channel of churches and single issue advocacy groups to get them to the polls. Second, drive down the participation of potential Democratic and independent voters through unprecedented redistricting, curbs on registration, onerous new ID requirements, and polling place eligibility challenges. Last but certainly not least for the Republican party of Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman, when in doubt, just cheat.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:45 pmBluedog49 — April 19, 2007 @ 7:26 pm
That’s what I’m saying.
BradBlog has all the evidence. When’s the trial?
?
April 19th, 2007 at 7:45 pmwith a smile and teeth like that ,
bradley schleezeman shouldn’t have any trouble getting a job as
a used car salesman.
or maybe as one of those jolly “suits” that go around to doctors offices handing out pharma pills and clocks.
but,
if all else fails,
he can work for the republican national committee for sure - maybe in their document retention section..
April 19th, 2007 at 8:49 pmOh please!
This is so Rovian of the GOP to complain of voter fraud when it was the GOP that inacted massive voter fraud - can you say Ken Blackwell?
April 19th, 2007 at 9:19 pmRe: #2
J.J., you’re not in a really good position to be calling others stupid when it’s you who doesn’t know (or cannot comprehend) the difference between voter fraud and election fraud.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:50 pm[i]with a smile and teeth like that ,
bradley schleezeman shouldn’t have any trouble getting a job as
a used car salesman.
or maybe as one of those jolly “suits†that go around to doctors offices handing out pharma pills and clocks.
but,
if all else fails,
he can work for the republican national committee for sure - maybe in their document retention section..
Comment by orionATL — April 19, 2007 @ 8:49 pm[/i]
Thanks orion, I was waiting for someone to post something about that guy’s SULEAAZEEY freakin’ shait-eating grin. You did quite well with it! I have to add that he is possibly the ugliest and most frightening person I have seen in many weeks. Strikingly so! I see a lot of ugly, frightening people on the bus twice a day. And 1 every time I look in the mirror. But still, I count myself lucky. At least I don’t have to work for the Republican Party or apparatus in any way or form.
April 20th, 2007 at 2:57 amMeg Scott Phipps was convicted by the feds in NC - They went after her with a vengence. I hope they begin to look more into those cases that were successfully convicted. What were the rewards in those instances?
April 20th, 2007 at 12:13 pmA poll tax initiated by a pole cat.
I am just sick and tired of these criminals. They have almost succeeded in absolutely destroying everything this country was founded on and turning it into some sort of bizarre feudal system.
April 27th, 2007 at 6:50 pm