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Originally Posted by host
There appears to be a common denominator between the Abramoff corrupted and now jailed, former Ohio congressman, Bob Ney (R-OH), Bush-Cheney 2004, Karl Rove, and the fired US Attorney investigation?
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Friends....more and more, it's looking certain that the repubs stole both the 2000 and the 2004 presidential elections, and a bunch of other state and federal election races, too !</b>....with the help of the lawyers who worked for Bush/Cheney 2000 in the Florida recount, and then in the Bush administration, or in aligned law firms, ever since. The DOJ has been transformed into a branch of this partisan republican, criminal conspiracy!
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Its really not that complicated. The evidence is becoming quite clear that the plan was to suppress minority voting in key states under the cover of investigating voter fraud.
A chief architect at DoJ was Hans von Spakovsky:
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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.
He and other former career department lawyers say that von Spakovsky steered the agency toward voting rights policies not seen before, pushing to curb minor instances of election fraud by imposing sweeping restrictions that would make it harder, not easier, for Democratic-leaning poor and minority voters to cast ballots
In interviews, current and former federal officials and civil rights leaders told McClatchy Newspapers that von Spakovsky:
-Sped approval of tougher voter ID laws in Georgia and Arizona in 2005, joining decisions to override career lawyers who believed that Georgia's law would restrict voting by poor blacks and who felt that more analysis was needed on the Arizona law's impact on Native Americans and Latinos.
-Tried to influence the federal Election Assistance Commission's research into the dimensions of voter fraud nationally and the impact of restrictive voter ID laws - research that could undermine a vote-suppression agenda.
-Allegedly engineered the ouster of the commission's chairman, Paul DeGregorio, whom von Spakovsky considered insufficiently partisan.
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwash...hington_nation
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Von Spakovsky, who was recess-appointed to the Federal Election Commission in December 2005, will finally be questioned by the Senate Judiciary Committee next month.