Legal Commentary

Keeping an Eye On the Real Risk of Election Fraud

By TChris

Is all the right wing angst over some Acorn workers who apparently registered nonexistent people (who are, by definition, incapable of voting) a distraction not only from John McCain's intellectually bankrupt campaign but also from the real election fraud that we've come to expect from Republicans?

Now, New York University professor Mark Crispin Miller is warning that elements within the Republican Party may attempt to steal the 2008 presidential election from Barack Obama.

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Miller says:

There is copious, specific evidence … that the Bush regime has been engaging in massive election fraud systematically since 2000; that the last two presidential elections were stolen; that the 2004 election wasn’t even as close as we were thinking; and that they (theRepublicans) have also clearly rigged a number of congressional and gubernatorial electionsnationwide, including Don Siegelman’s contest for re-election in 2002 in Alabama [and] Max Cleland’s senatorial re-election race in Georgia that same year… Crucially, what all this means, is that the next election is by no means a sure thing and will not perhaps be decided on the basis of what people actually want or how they actually vote.

It isn't fraud that's causing red states to turn blue. But barring an unforeseen disaster for the Obama campaign, if blue doesn't win the presidency this year, fraud will be only explanation.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on October 12, 2008 (boomark / email).