9 Oct 2011 2:51 pm
MistyBlue, on 07 October 2011 - 06:58 PM, said:The GOP myth of rampant voter fraud.....Myth.Chicago!!! Philadelphia!! New Orleans!!!You're not blind, so you must be lying.Former Justice Department official Hans von Spakovsky discusses in a recent Heritage Foundatioin report a shocking 1982 election for Governor in Illinois in which 10% of the votes cast in Chicago, 100,000 overall, were found to be fraudulent by a federal grand jury investigation that produced 63 criminal convictions for vote fraud.You're the blind one.Once again, I'm not talking about 1982, Jackhole.In 2002, Karl Rove decided to make a big thing about voter fraud, so he could discredit Democrats.The Bush Justice Dept. launched a five year crackdown to expose Democratic voter fraud.This is what they found.....From 2002 to 2007, 120 people were charged and 86 convicted.Many of those charged by the Justice Department appear to have mistakenly filled out registration forms or misunderstood eligibility rules.So this GOP myth of dead people voting, or people voting twice, is just that, a myth.Don't you remember how Karl Rove had a bunch of U.S. Attorneys fired because they refused to bring voter fraud cases against Democrats, citing lack of evidence?BTW, he wanted them to bring those political cases right before an election, which is against DOJ policy anyway.The myth of widespread Democratic voter fraud is a red herring being used by the GOP to disenfranchise as many as 5 million voters.