Ethics

The Voter Fraud Fraud

By Ed Brayton

This is a fairly old op-ed piece, from June 2007, but it speaks volumes about the GOP allegations of voter fraud. It was written by Rick Hasen, an election law expert at Loyola University in California, about the dissolution of the American Center for Voting Rights, a Republican front group that for years claimed that voter fraud was rampant. When study after study found no evidence of this, the group disbanded in 2006.

Let me first make some notes about Hasen. Like Gerry Hebert, he is not a political partisan nor is he connected to either campaign. He's been known to slam the Democrats as well as the Republicans. I interviewed him briefly for an article on the lawsuit in Michigan over the GOP using foreclosure lists to challenge voters, which he has bluntly argued is not a winning case and was filed by the Democrats for publicity purposes.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 16, 2008 (boomark / email).