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Jim Hightower: GOP Looks in Mirror, Spots Voter Fraud
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14256-gop-looks-in-mirror-spots-voter-fraud
At my age, I thought I'd seen pretty much everything - and I've been to the carny sideshow at the Texas State Fair twice.
But now comes a Houston-based, tea-party outfit calling itself True the Vote. It claims to be dedicated to sniffing out ineligible voters - in particular, your darker-skinned types who favor the Democratic Party. True the Vote claims that hordes of these undesirables are swarming America's polling places to vote illegally.
Sadly, these self-appointed guardians of ballot integrity haven't had much luck in sniffing out, you know, actual documented cases of such fraud.
But, whew, what's that smell? Why it's Bruce Fleming, a Republican running for county commissioner in Sugar Land, Texas - which happens to be the home of True the Vote's founder, Catherine Engelbrecht.
