Ethics

Lori Minnite on the Voter Fraud Scam

By Ed Brayton

Salon.com has an interview with voting rights expert Lori Minnite, who I've interviewed for my stories at the Michigan Messenger. She makes some very important points about the entirely manufactured "voter fraud" claim by the Republican party. As Gerry Hebert told me, genuine voter fraud is extremely rare but the Republicans love to take anecdotal stories about a dead guy still being registered to vote or a voter registration card in the name of Mickey Mouse being turned in somewhere and use them to convince people that there is rampant duplicate voting and voter impersonation going on to try and steal elections. It's a huge scam, as Minnite points out:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 17, 2008 (boomark / email).