{"id":6925,"date":"2012-01-29T00:13:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T08:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6925"},"modified":"2012-01-29T00:13:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T08:13:19","slug":"gop-voter-fraud-claim-was-bogus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/29\/gop-voter-fraud-claim-was-bogus\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Voter Fraud Claim Was Bogus"},"content":{"rendered":"

In their ongoing attempt to steal the right to vote from students, workers, the disabled, and minorities, Republicans have been quick to make false allegations of voter fraud, despite conclusive evidence from a DOJ investigation that voter fraud accounts for less than one ten thousandth of one percent, a statistically insignificant amount.  South Carolina\u2019s new voter ID law is so draconian that DOJ has blocked it\u2019s implementation on Constitutional grounds.  In response SC Republicans are claiming over 900 dead people voted in the recent primary, and trotted out their six best examples.  The truth here is almost comical.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"29HaleyHat\"The highlight of last week’s<\/a><\/font> War on Voting was South Carolina’s Attorney General Alan Wilson claiming that 900 dead people voted in "recent" elections in his state based on data from the DMV<\/strong>. The South Carolina legislature, of course, jumped on the claim. <\/font><\/p>\n

Remember, the Department of Justice has blocked South Carolina from implementing a voter ID bill passed last year under the Voting Rights Act, arguing that the new law would create an unconstitutional impediment to voting by certain groups. The state is fighting back, hence this hearing. Which didn’t go exactly as planned<\/a><\/font>.<\/font><\/p>\n

State Election Commission director Marci Andino testified that some of the voters the DMV data said were dead are very much alive \u2013 and were eligible to cast a ballot. […] <\/font><\/p>\n

In a news release that election agency spokesman Chris Whitmire handed out prior to the hearing, the agency disputed the claim that dead people had voted. One allegedly dead voter on the DMV’s list cast an absentee ballot before dying; another was the result of a poll worker mistakenly marking the voter as his deceased father; two were clerical errors resulting from stray marks on voter registration lists detected by a scanner; two others resulted from poll managers incorrectly marking the name of the voter in question instead of the voter above or below on the list.<\/font><\/p>\n

The attorney general’s office had only given the State Election Commission six names off its list of 950 or so names to examine. The agency found every one of them to be alive and otherwise eligible to vote, except for the one who had voted before dying<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n

How dare that voter have the audacity to die before election day!  It must have been a Librul Alinsky Conspiracy<\/em>!<\/font><\/p>\n

Are Republicans really seeing dead people,  or are they the frauds?<\/font><\/p>\n