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Title: Mysterious GOP voter group has disappeared
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URL Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10758134
Published: Jun 6, 2007
Author: NPR
Post Date: 2007-06-06 10:26:39 by Mekons4
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Morning Edition, June 6, 2007 · The issue of voter fraud is at the center of the scandal involving fired U.S. attorneys. The American Center for Voting Rights had testified before Congress about the threat posed by fraudulent voters. But as the story of the eight fired U.S. attorneys who refused to prosecute cases alleging illegal voting by Democrats continues to emerge, the group has mysteriously vanished. No transcript yet, but you can listen to the story, about two minutes, at the link. I found this Slate story from a few weeks ago, though. The incredible, disappearing American Center for Voting Rights. By Richard L. Hasen Posted Friday, May 18, 2007, at 1:41 PM ET Examining punch ballots in Florida. Click image to expand.Examining punch-card ballots in Florida in 2000 Imagine the National Rifle Association's Web site suddenly disappeared, along with all the data and reports the group had ever posted on gun issues. Imagine Planned Parenthood inexplicably closed its doors one day, without comment from its former leaders. The scenarios are unthinkable, given how established these organizations have become. But even if something did happen to the NRA or Planned Parenthood, no doubt other gun or abortion groups would quickly fill the vacuum and push the ideas they'd pushed for years. Not so for the American Center for Voting Rights, a group that has literally just disappeared as an organization, and for which it seems no replacement group will rise up. With no notice and little comment, ACVR—the only prominent nongovernmental organization claiming that voter fraud is a major problem, a problem warranting strict rules such as voter-ID laws—simply stopped appearing at government panels and conferences. Its Web domain name has suddenly expired, its reports are all gone (except where they have been preserved by its opponents), and its general counsel, Mark "Thor" Hearne, has cleansed his résumé of affiliation with the group. Hearne won't speak to the press about ACVR's demise. No other group has taken up the "voter fraud" mantra. The death of ACVR says a lot about the Republican strategy of raising voter fraud as a crisis in American elections. Presidential adviser Karl Rove and his allies, who have been ghostbusting illusory dead and fictional voters since the contested 2000 election, apparently mounted a two-pronged attack. One part of that attack, at the heart of the current Justice Department scandals, involved getting the DoJ and various U.S. attorneys in battleground states to vigorously prosecute cases of voter fraud. That prong has failed. After exhaustive effort, the Department of Justice discovered virtually no polling-place voter fraud, and its efforts to fire the U.S. attorneys in battleground states who did not push the voter-fraud line enough has backfired. Even if Attorney General Gonzales declines to resign his position, his reputation has been irreparably damaged.
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#1. To: Mekons4 (#0)
...of Republicans Only No loss, a sign of the times.
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
Who is this willyone loony?
Remember the Liberty http://www.ussliberty.org Larry, Curly, Moe and a potential great leader in every sense of the word In Ron Paul We Trust Interesting how these groups mysteriously appear, get millions in funding, then fold up and disappear as soon as they've done their damage. In this case, though, it's not just GOP disinformation. The White House is clearly involved in this mess, directing it, no doubt, and arranging for that funding. If it was just dirty politics, that would be one thing. This is a conspiracy in which federal government officials are conspiring with one political party to destroy another.
americancenterforvotingrights.com expired on 03/17/2007 and is pending renewal or deletion.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
The "headquarters" of the ACVR was apparently a box in a UPS store in Dallas, TX.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Isn't it? Yes, the Bush regime is up to its eyeballs in all kinds of places it has no Constitutional right to be. The accumulative jail time for all these sundry crimes would be impressive.
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
American Center for Voting Rights... ...of Republicans Only s;ight correction .....of hand picked and persoally vetted by karl rove republicans i know its just that i believe in total truth in advertising :-)
Old Thor made his bones shutting down the recount in Fla., then moved on to other WH ops for Rove. The ACVR specialized in putting out "research" that was really thinly disguised propaganda with a couple of questionable anecdotes to back up specious estimates of hundreds of thousands of ineligible Dem votes being cast. I guarantee he'll be back in January, gearing up under a new name to make the same stupid charges. He was involved in a fraudulent report that Dems were giving homeless guys in Milwaukee packs of cigarettes to vote on Election Day. The truth, of course, is that volunteers were giving people from homeless shelters rides to the voting booth and one guy asked for a cig and the volunteer said, sure, you can keep the pack. A Republican observer phoned that in, and ol' Thor had it out on the wires instantly, demanding an investigation. That has become, among the freepers, proof positive that the Dems are buying votes with "cartons of cigarettes." They've used it over and over and over as proof, when they in fact have no names, no names of witnesses, nothing. Anyone who has ever voted knows it's really hard to cheat. You have a Repub and a Dem judge checking your name and your signature. If they challenge you, you have to show a utility bill with your name and address on it. It's a lot easier to get people thrown off the voting rolls before the election. That's what the GOP does.
American Center for Voting Rights...
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get millions in funding, then fold up and disappear as soon as they've done their damage.
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