Voter Fraud And Ousted US Attorneys
Among the complaints against the fired US attorneys was one from Karl Rove that they were not prosecuting voters, according to McClatchey’s Washington bureau:
Rove acknowledged that he personally complained to Miers that “voter fraud cases were not being treated as a priority” by the Justice Department, . . .
You gotta feel sorry for the attorneys, as Rove was asking them to do the impossible:
The claim that voter fraud threatens the integrity of American elections is itself a fraud. It is being used to persuade the public that deceitful and criminal voters are manipulating the electoral system. No available evidence suggests that voters are intentionally corrupting the electoral process, . . . In fact, when we probe most allegations of voter fraud we find errors, incompetence and partisanship. The exaggerated fear of voter fraud has a long history of scuttling efforts to make voting easier and more inclusive, . . .
Opponents of Iowa’s election day registration bill keep making this argument. History repeating itself.