Efforts to stop `voter fraud' may have curbed legitimate voting

No shit Sherlock.

(Does anyone else get sick and tired playing the role of Cassandra)

It has become a pattern around here. By the time the MSM/Press gets around to reporting something like this, Democracy theft on a grand scale, we are sick of it.

Why wouldn't they listen in 2004, if not 2002? We told them that 2004 was being targeted for theft. We even told them what states would be involved.

By midnight on election day, we knew it had been stolen. The blogosphere was derided by the pundits and anchors of the TeeVee. The press just simply blacked out any coverage of what was going on in Ohio or anywhere else.

It isn't just the war in Iraq, for which they have a huge responsibility.

Efforts to stop `voter fraud' may have curbed legitimate voting:

WASHINGTON - During four years as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, Hans von Spakovsky went so far in a crusade against voter fraud as to warn of its dangers under a pseudonym in a law journal article.

Writing as 'Publius,' von Spakovsky contended that every voter should be required to produce a photo-identification card and that there was 'no evidence' that such restrictions burden minority voters disproportionately.

Now, amid a scandal over politicization of the Justice Department, Congress is beginning to examine allegations that von Spakovsky was a key player in a Republican campaign to hang onto power in Washington by suppressing the votes of minority voters.

'Mr. von Spakovsky was central to the administration's pursuit of strategies that had the effect of suppressing the minority vote,' charged Joseph Rich, a former Justice Department voting rights chief who worked under him.

He and other former career department lawyers say that von Spakovsky steered the agency toward voting rights policies not seen before, pushing to curb minor instances of election fraud by imposing sweeping restrictions that would make it harder, not easier, for Democratic-leaning poor and minority voters to cast ballots.