Justice Dept. Still Quietly Pushing False Voter Fraud Claims
Justice Dept. Still Quietly Pushing False Voter Fraud Claims
Allegations of voter fraud have been a central component of the U.S. attorneys scandal, as the Bush administration has consistently “pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates.”
In 2005, Bradley Schlozman, then U.S. attorney in Missouri, brought a suit against Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (D) “charging that her state had failed to eliminate ineligible voters from registration rolls,” an alleged violation of the National Voter Registration Act.
In April, after an 18-month lawsuit, Judge Nanette Laughrey of U.S. District Court in Missouri ruled in favor of Carnahan and sharply criticized the Justice Department’s weak case:
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.”
But the DOJ refuses to relent, quietly continuing to push the debunked voter fraud allegations through the federal courts. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports today that the Department has announced that it will file for an appeal of Laughrey’s decision. In response, the exonerated Carnahan slammed the DOJ’s stubborness in repeatedly chasing after her:
“I’m very disappointed that the U.S. Department of Justice seems determined to continue this unnecessary and costly lawsuit by appealing the recent federal ruling,” Carnahan said. “The judge who heard this case was clear and unequivocal that the Office of Secretary of State had done its job with regard to voter list maintenance, and even went beyond federal requirements to assist the county clerks and election boards with their responsibilities, and that there was no evidence of voter fraud in Missouri.“
The Missouri District court is not the only court that sees through the DOJ’s and Bush administration’s attempts to allege voter fraud on scant evidence. Recently, a federal court ruled that an aide to Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (D) was wrongly convicted of public corruption. The federal court assailed the government’s case and said that U.S. attorney Steven Biskupic’s evidence was “beyond thin.”
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Surprise, surprise, surprise….
June 6th, 2007 at 6:24 pmthis administration is going to keep on pushing us down the garden path toward a full-blown authoritarian, one-party state until they’re stopped… hearings, letters,stonewalled requests, and ignored subpoenas ain’t going to do it… they will continue right down to the day they get led out of the door in chains…
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO GET SOME REAL ACTION? THEY NEED TO BE STOPPED?
And, yes, I DO take it personally
June 6th, 2007 at 6:24 pmClinton did it
I’m not sure why you dumb moronic lefties are so like sheep. Foolish little sheep.
President Clinton, go screw yourself!!
June 6th, 2007 at 6:26 pmWhy wouldn’t they. The Democratic leadership is acting like a bunch of wimps. They know they can get away with anything with this weak form of oversight.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:31 pmneocons=cochroaches
Apologies to the roaches
June 6th, 2007 at 6:31 pmJust anything to distract from the real crime Election Fraud committed by the republican party.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:36 pmAnd what about those touch screen voting machines? Some have not been banned…. still here… WE NEED TO GET RID OF THEM
It seems that to Republicans, voter fraud is simply where they don’t get enough votes, or rather, Democrats are simply getting TOO MANY votes.
After all, if they’re perfect, the idea that any Democrat could get more votes than them must be impossible!
Or, you know, Schlozman and Co. are simply gaming the system once more, and probably boasting off the record about how many Democrats they disenfranchised this month.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:38 pmFor all the talk of Karl Rove being a “genius”….skewing election results is all he is good at. Everything this administration touches turns bad. Rigging elections, gaming the system, changing the rules when they don’t suit….this is their talent…their skill, it’s what they’re good at. Nothing else.Not governing,not leading….just cheating at election politics.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:38 pmBushCo is like a runaway train. Shit that was started a few years ago is still happening today with no control. This little weasel Schlozman, the neocon suck-up couldn’t seem to remember anything he did. Kept trying to blame other departments who made the recommendations that he didn’t have anything to do with. By the end of his testimony I had no idea what his job was. He was just a “person” who signed “stuff” he didn’t remember and sent it off.
Gotta give these neocons credit! They have assembled the biggest bunch of dishonest and incompetent crooks in one administration we have seen in the last 50 years.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:42 pmQuick, look under the bed… and in the closet, too…
On second thought, skip the closet. You NEVER KNOW who you might find hiding, with whom, in there…
June 6th, 2007 at 6:42 pmUS Attorneys serve to pleasure the president.
Carter fired US Attorneys for political reasons.
Clinton was from Arkansas, which is next to Missouri.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:42 pmFor all the talk of Karl Rove being a “geniusâ€â€¦.skewing election results is all he is good at. Everything this administration touches turns bad. Rigging elections, gaming the system, changing the rules when they don’t suit….this is their talent…their skill, it’s what they’re good at. Nothing else.Not governing,not leading….just cheating at election politics.
Comment by dropkick
Indeed, dropkick, indeed. It is not unlike what someone once said about Mao - perfect guy to fight a guerilla war, last man you’d want running a peace-time bureaucracy. Rove’s the same way - genius at stealing elections, but… can’t do another, solitary, single god-damned thing right.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:44 pmClinton was from Arkansas, which is next to Missouri.
Comment by RoboTroll 3100 Upgrade
WTF??? Is this a non-sequiter, or what?
Bush is from Texas, which is next to Oklahoma…
June 6th, 2007 at 6:46 pm#11 Comment by RoboTroll 3100 Upgrade — June 6, 2007 @ 6:42 pm
Regarding your fantastic post…
Back to the troll locker room with you. You need another upgrade. You know where it is, right? Over at the West Hollywood Gym for Men.
Oh, and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:48 pmYou want a voter fraud case? You want a voter fraud case? Here’s a VERIFIABLE voter fraud case:
ANN COULTER!!!
Oh, wait, her FBI-former boyfriend got it swept under the rug. Nice.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:51 pm#13 Thanks for your input. Unfortunately I am not able to address it at this time. My programming is strictly monitored at RNC headquarters. I suggest you take this issue up with them.
Thank you.
June 6th, 2007 at 6:51 pmSuch a smokescreen - the REAL voting fraud problem is the DRE’s (electronic voting machines) which have been tampered with in the stolen presidential election of 2000 and 2004. It’s all out there….go to http://www.blackboxvoting.org or http://www.bradblog.com and see for yourself!
This penny ante “voter fraud” is being trumpeted because more americans have absolutely NO faith in our voting system at this point - now that the horse has been let out of the barn, so to speak. Why vote?? They’re going to tamper with the vote anyway and get what they want. The didn’t do it intentionally during the midterms because people were becoming aware of the corrupted voting machinery in Ohio (still under investigation and two men are in jail right now for tampering) so the GOP wanted to “lull those concerned voters into complacency” so that they could take us by surprise in 08!! That’s the only reason they didn’t tamper much - except in Sarasota, Florida where there was a 38,000 “undervote” which has unearthed even more corruptibility of the electronic voting machines.
And DO NOT be further fooled, folks…..when they assure you that we are going back to a “paper trail” - it means absolutely nothing.
All a paper trail on a DRE results in is that the hacker’s program and the numbers on the paper trail match up.
Even with paper voting, they are still run through an “opti scan machine” which has software of it’s own and can be manipulated very easily.
So, as I say: Why vote????
June 6th, 2007 at 6:58 pmAnd Tom Delay is still an idiot….Duh
June 6th, 2007 at 7:00 pmLITERALLY IT’S
ONE FAST, SMOOTH TALKING SWINDLER AFTER THE NEXT
AT THE FRIGGIN HIGHEST HOUSE OF THE LAND
REGARDING ROCK SOLID INTEGRITY
AND FOR US PEOPLE, THE MIDDLE CLASS, WE GET FAR FAR
SUPERIOR SERVICE AT MCDONALD’S
AND FROM ALL THE WONDERFUL SERVICES WE PAY OVER 50% FOR
WE GET THE FRIGGIN GREASE PIT AT THE FRIGGIN DUMP!!!
CORRUPT I SAY, TOTALLY FRIGGIN CORRUPT
June 6th, 2007 at 7:04 pmRoboTroll,
Doing great little fella’, maybe some more scare tactics would be good. Orange Alert, or some Muslims lighting firecrackers in bum’s ears in Central Park. Fear is our best cloak.
17 more months! Just buy us time to keep this War going until we can blame it on the Dems.
RNC Headquarters.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:05 pmg.o.p ers pushing frivolous appeals and sticking the legal bill on the U.S. taxpayers.
Anyone see the irony?
June 6th, 2007 at 7:28 pmWhy are we not doing this in the proper manner. I would suggest that we determine the phone number, FAX number, office (and officials) within the Department of Justice to whom voter fraud should be reported. This should be copied on as many blogs as possible with the following simple request:
“If you believe that the DOJ and US Attorneys have violated the civil rights and other federal acts (e.g. Hatch Act by using govt resources for partisan politicking) to illegally influence the outcome of elections, then you should contact the following official at the provided Phone, Fax, Addresss to requiest investigation and prosecution of these crimes.”
Additionally, we should look at bringing civil suit under the provisions of RICO.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:32 pmSo, as I say: Why vote????
Comment by veritas — June 6, 2007 @ 6:58 pm
Sorry, veritas, I don’t remember your best course of action. Refresh my memory.
Thanks.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:40 pmThis administration continues to pursue all of its bankrupt and corrupt policies across the board in every department despite being exposed for what it is. They do not respond appropriately, as in stopping when thet get caught. The just keep doing their insane things. That is why they must be impeached. They will not stop until removed from office. It is amazing that Democratic leaders do not see this.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:46 pmSince bushit was selected president following the fraudulent 2000 election by disenfranchising minority voters, I suppose his criminal gang continues to believe it can benefit from pushing the bogus “voter fraud” issue nationally. They are desperate, realizing that republican registration is shrinking while the Democratic base will continue to grow (particularly in the Hispanic new immigrant/citizen rolls) for the foreseeable future…The party of Bush neocon imperialists, the super-rich “don’t tax me crowd” and the christofascist theocrats will DIE…and the sooner the better for this country and its Constitution…
June 6th, 2007 at 7:51 pmStill waiting for any coverage of the indisputable evidence of Republican Voter Caging of blacks, hispanics and native Americans that investigative journalist Greg Palast gave to John Conyers -D.
NOT ONE SINGLE STORY IN THE CORPORATE MEDIA OF THIS FELONIOUS REPUBLICAN ACTIVITY. The proof is there that MILLIONS of minority votes were stolen and will be stolen. Many of these people are soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan!!! Serve your country and LOSE YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE.
The corporations should be fined BILLIONS by the FCC for refusing to report the news on our public airwaves. Instead we get a week of phony terror attack stories.
June 6th, 2007 at 7:52 pmImpeachment is too good for these criminals…
June 6th, 2007 at 7:53 pmEveryone was making fun of his voice, so finally this morning I had time to play the clip, and I shot milk out my nose….wow, did this woman have a sex change to a man?
They are all criminals no matter what their sex though, repukian mafia members stay that way for life.
hating the repukian mafia daily
June 6th, 2007 at 7:55 pmLarry from C comments:
Still waiting for any coverage of the indisputable evidence of Republican Voter Caging of blacks, hispanics and native Americans that investigative journalist Greg Palast gave to John Conyers -D.
NOT ONE SINGLE STORY IN THE CORPORATE MEDIA OF THIS FELONIOUS REPUBLICAN ACTIVITY.
Doesn’t this just prove what a fascist state corrupt neocon corporate owned media we have???? Not only do we have them omitting news that can harm them, but they slip in by accidebt or by mistake lies/mistruths hoping to damage the Dems - ex: putting Conyers pic by mistake instead of Jeffersons.
June 6th, 2007 at 8:46 pmI must say that Mr. Schlozman is a perfect example of a PUTZ. A putz willing to do whatever it takes to be in the good graces of the more powerful and more intimidating.
Send thank you letters and calls to Conyers. Lehey, and all who are working overtime to clean up the massive mess created by Bushco.
So many crimes …so little time.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:20 pmWhy am I not surprised. This administration is so crooked, they make Nixon look like a boy scout. The democrats are COWARDS. They are so afraid to do their jobs, they shouldn’t even have a job. At least the Republicans have guts, even when they get caught. This President has spit in the face of the Democrats and they are afraid to do anything to stop him. They blinked even after had controlled both houses of Congress and a President who has a 28 percent approval rating. What would they do if he had a 50 percent approval rating, make him king? I’m leaving this cowardly party once and for all. The Democrats make me sick.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:44 pmThey’re doing this in Montana. Threat of suit against the Sec of State. Jon Tester won by 3,500 votes. They don’t have to challenge that many. Sen. Bacus is a tool of big Pharma. He might not get the grass roots support that Tester enjoyed. You challenge some college kids who might not have the same address as the last time that they voted and some of the Native American vote, as we’ve heard about them doing, and you’ve got a GOP pickup!!!!!
June 6th, 2007 at 11:21 pmREAD Greg Palast’s book, Armed Madhouse, he lays out exactly how they are doing it.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:53 pmVeritas- true, that is a problem- but they threw away 3 million votes in `04 on the basis of “voter fraud.” Read the book, he covers it all.
June 6th, 2007 at 11:57 pmWait–this is not only an effort to purge black, latino, etc–
June 7th, 2007 at 6:38 ama large percentage of the votes being discarded as a result of these caging schemes are MILITARY PERSONNEL.
The way that it works is they send a letter to the last-known address and challenge the votes of those returned “undeliverable”.
Talk about irony–send me off to war and then DON’T COUNT MY VOTE BECAUSE I’M NOT HOME?!
Don’t these freaks ever give up?
June 7th, 2007 at 11:58 am