{"id":7944,"date":"2012-06-05T10:50:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7944"},"modified":"2012-06-05T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:50:23","slug":"republican-expert-embarrassed-on-voter-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/05\/republican-expert-embarrassed-on-voter-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican ‘Expert’ Embarrassed on Voter Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

As November approaches, we need to recognize that there are two kinds of fraud at issue.  The first is voter fraud, and every research project done has determined that the problem is too minuscule to have the slightest impact on any election.  The second is election fraud, in which a political party, virtually always the Republicans in recent decades, uses dishonest and often criminal means, to produce an undeserved victory.  Here\u2019s how Republicans are using lies about the first to employ the second.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"5VoterFraud\"Any time someone has to use James O’Keefe and one of his phoney sting videos to validate their argument, they don’t have one, which is exactly what Heritage Foundation flack Brian Darling did this Monday to justify the GOP’s voter suppression laws they’ve been passing across the country: Heritage Foundation \u2018Expert\u2019 Cannot Cite Any Examples Of Actual Voter Fraud<\/a><\/font>:<\/font><\/p>\n

In an interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC\u2019s The Daily Rundown<\/em><\/span> this morning, Heritage Foundation senior fellow Brian Darling argued for the importance of Florida-style voter suppression laws<\/a><\/font> in order to stop potential voter fraud. But when pressed by Todd to identify any actual examples of voter fraud, Darling appeared stumped<\/strong>… <\/font><\/p>\n

…The one example of the sort of fraud these strict voter ID laws allegedly aim to stop that Darling could site was conservative filmmaker and convicted law-breaker<\/a><\/font> James O\u2019Keefe. O\u2019Keefe\u2019s approach was to break a law intentionally<\/a><\/font> to prove how easy it is to break a law and to then claim that the law is insufficient because he could break it. This strategy is similar to going into a convenience store, pretending to shoplift a candy bar, and citing that as evidence that the store needs to do a background check of every customer before they come into the store. And, as Darling concedes, even O\u2019Keefe didn\u2019t actually vote.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the video:<\/font><\/p>\n

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The intent is also obvious, because most Republican controlled states that have passed these and done other things to make it difficult for Democrats to get an ID, such as closing DMVs in Democratic areas, but opening more in Republican, and cutting DMV hours in Democratic areas, but extending them in Republican. The only election fraud happen here is Republican attempts to disenfranchise legal voters.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As November approaches, we need to recognize that there are two kinds of fraud at issue.  The first is voter fraud, and every research project done has determined that the problem is too minuscule to have the slightest impact on any election.  The second is election fraud, in which a political party, virtually always the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}