McCain and Company Co-opts Election Integrity
After 4+ years of activists and independent journalists trying - with little success - to get Democratic party leaders to take the issue of election fraud and voter suppression seriously enough to bring it out of the shadows, it’s officially too late. The issue, along with the righteous indignation and moral high ground that comes with trying to protect our precious right to vote, has been co-opted by the most recent perps: the Republicans. After four years the Democrats still haven’t started talking about election fraud and it’s taken Senator McCain, what, like 3 days?
Despite McCain and company’s maneuverings, Brad Friedman of BradBlog rightly calls out their actual intent as an “assault on democracy” and points out that are still completely ignoring the real problem, “Concerns of Actual Election Fraud, Voter Registration Purges in State After State…”:
The GOP’s October “Surprise” continues…Even as it’s no surprise at all that they are hoping to cause absolute bedlam at the polls. They are off to a good start, as the Democrats seem to be caught flat-footed, despite years of warnings about all of this.
The latest Republican assault on democracy began earlier this week with a ’stunt’ raid in (swing state) Nevada, then unsubstantiated allegations in (swing state) Missouri last night (raid coming soon, no doubt), and just hours ago as AP reports, it’s (swing state) Ohio…
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Law enforcement officials in southwest Ohio are seeking information on hundreds of voters who registered and voted during Ohio’s weeklong same-day voting window.
Greene County Sheriff Gene Fischer and representatives of County Prosecutor Stephen Haller have contacted the local Board of Elections asking for the voter registration cards of everyone who voted during the six-day window, which ended Monday.
Haller is the former law partner of Mike DeWine, the former Republican senator who is chairing presidential nominee John McCain’s Ohio campaign.
[Update: In an updated version of the AP report quoted above, it’s noted that Sheriff Fisher is “a Republican,” that Green County is “rich with Democrat-leaning college students,” and that Fisher requested the voter information after “he had been inundated with phone calls from people concerned about possible fraud.” In other words, no actual evidence of anything, just angry Republicans, fired up by chasing their own tails after Fox/RNC told them too. Smelling the rats here, yet?]
Whatever fear the Dems had of talking about this issue seems a tad bit silly right about now…