We should never ever trust these bastards again.
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.
I can’t imagine WHY more blacks don’t vote Republican. I just can’t put my finger on it.
OW, it can’t be any of that other, seemingly obvious stuff; must be that “brainwashing” the conservatives keep talking about.
“This one is ugly, and shows the Republican Party will stop at nothing to screw blacks out of their vote. Apparently a campaign “directed by GOP party chiefs in October 2004″ challenged tens of thousands of ballots cast by residents of Black majority precincts, and in particular, “One group of voters wrongly identified by the Republicans as registering to vote from false addresses: servicemen and women sent overseas.
Here’s how the scheme worked: The RNC mailed these voters letters in envelopes marked, “Do not forward”, to be returned to the sender. These letters were mailed to servicemen and women, some stationed overseas, to their US home addresses. The letters then returned to the Bush-Cheney campaign as “undeliverable.”
The lists of soldiers of “undeliverable” letters were transmitted from state headquarters, in this case Florida, to the RNC in Washington. The party could then challenge the voters’ registration and thereby prevent their absentee ballots being counted.”
The above should have blacks chomping at the bit to join up with the “party of Lincoln”, huh? Why aren’t we then? I just can’t put my finger on it either.
Hmmm … why do we require blacks to have a photo license in order to drive a car? Obviously this is discrimination. Those damn racist bastards at the DMV!
Two quick observations.
Where I live, we register in person once, and sign a permanent Card. That card goes to our voting District. We sign a card every election, and the signatures are compared. Obviously, we can’t vote twice. Works for everybody.
As for the Attorney General and the Department of Justice, I think they are part of the Executive Branch, are they not?