GOP Allegations of Voter "Fraud" are Purpose-Driven BS

The New York Times has an article about how the U.S. Justice Department has been going after so-called "voter fraud" cases across the nation. Not surprisingly, even though under Ashcroft and Gonzales, the Justice Department has been aggressively pursing these cases, very few prosecutions have taken place. No evidence of any conspiracies have been found and most of the cases that have been prosecuted seem to be examples of immigrants and convicted felons not knowing the rules.

The same thing was shown here in Ohio when an organization representing the homeless surveyed the local board of elections to find out how many instances they had of people voting illegally. The number was extremely small. Yet, despite little evidence, the Republican General Assembly passed a restrictive voter identification law that is clearly aimed at poor people, senior citizens, and minorities.

As we have pointed out before, while voters are required to show identification when they vote in person, they are not required to provide copies of such identification when they vote absentee. Why? Because Republicans in the General Assembly figured that their voters would vote a higher percentage of absentee ballots and they didn't want to disenfranchise the "right" kind of voters, only the "wrong" kind, ie, those that vote Democratic.

What the media doesn't get, though, is that Republicans in Washington and Columbus know the truth about their so called "voter fraud" theories. What they are looking for is a way to cloud the issue so that the media won't call them on their bs. If it was up to the mainstream media, they wouldn't, because most of those idiots are willing to parrot the GOP line. Unfortunately for them there is developing across America truly independent media in the form of websites and blogs that they can't control. Because of the pressure from these sites, like www.talkingpointsmemo.com mainstream media companies like the New York Times are beginning to pay attention.