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Voter fraud is extremely difficult to prosecute, and as Spakovsky noted, the Justice Dept, being an institution of the Beltway, has stopped even trying.That's a blatant lie. You just make [excrement] up as you go along. Gosh, who should we believe, a shameless Democrat Operative Liar like you or a respected person/ public official like Hans Spakovsky?Among other responsibilities, von Spakovsky researches and writes about aspects of election law such as campaign finance, voter fraud and voter identification as well as registration and equipment issues. These have emerged as important topics in an era of razor-thin victory margins for national candidates. Before joining Heritage in 2008, hZ served two years as a member of the Federal Election Commission, the authority charged with enforcing campaign finance laws for congressional and presidential elections, including public funding.http://www.heritage....s-von-spakovskyGot that Puss? It was a top priority. Not only did they not stop trying to prove voter fraud, they stepped up their efforts.You can read the DOJ's own report here, where it shows 55 people convicted of voter fraud in a five year period from 2002 to 2005, and precious few of those convictions were for people who voted twice.Another blatant lie. According to Bush's own Justice Dep't, there is no widespread voter fraud. But you choose to believe there is, so you can defend the filthy tactics used by Republicans to disenfranchise millions of voters.That's the freaking point. Without voter ID, there is no evidence so there can be no prosecutions.Even liberal Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and partisan liberal Democrat Chris Mathews think you're full of crap.The claim that there is no voter fraud in the U.S. is patently ridiculous, given our rich and unfortunate history of it. As the U.S. Supreme Court said when it upheld Indiana's photo-ID law in 2008, "Flagrant examples of such fraud . . . have been documented throughout this Nation's history by respected historians and journalists." The liberal groups that fought Indiana's law didn't have much luck with liberal justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote the 63 decision. Before being named to the Supreme Court, Justice Stevens practiced law in Chicago, a hotbed of electoral malfeasance.....One of the reasons that Wisconsin changed its voter-ID law was the finding of a special task force, set up by the Milwaukee Police Department after the 2004 election, that residents from other states had registered and voted. Numerous staffers from out of state working for the John Kerry campaign and the Environmental Victory Campaign, a liberal political-action committee, had illegally registered and voted in Milwaukee......Chris Matthews, a former Tip O'Neill staffer and reliable liberal cheerleader in most circumstances......admitted that this type of impersonation fraud has "gone on since the Fifties." He explained that people call up to see whether you voted or are going to vote, and "then all of a sudden somebody does come and vote for you." Matthews knows that this is an old strategy in big-city politics: "I know all about it in North Philly it's what went on, and I believe it still goes on."http://www.nationalr...-spakovsky?pg=2