Friday, April 6, 2012

GOP Has Nurtured, Mastered, And Demagogued Voting Fraud

Republicans have ginned up paranoia, plus restrictive Voter ID laws and other discriminatory procedures to tamp down turnout in Democratic, minority and student districts, crying "voter fraud" as it were a real thing.

But it has been Republicans caught monkeying with, misconstruing and mishandling elections, voting or voter fraud - - in Wisconsin's secretive and illegal voter redistricting, in the Michigan Legislature, in the Waukesha County Clerk's office, in the Indiana Secretary of State's Office and on Milwaukee talk radio.

That's where true voter fraud or fakery about it has been tolerated and practiced - - all the while with a sanctimonious finger pointed at phantom occurrences or infinitesimally anecdotal cases that have been caught by the authorities and rightfully prosecuted.

All the rest is partisan bs invented by Republicans using Legislative power and talk show propagandists to tamp down basic voting rights for partisan purposes, using their allegations as a distraction for their own voter suppression.

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