Conason: A Selective View of Fraud (Ann Coulter's voting fraud)

[kskiska]

Even as Alberto Gonzales rehearses his excuses for the strange dismissal of eight United States Attorneys, which he will perform in public at a Senate hearing this week, he is looking like a marginal player in this scandal. The Attorney General fumbled his role, but in keeping with his Presidential nickname (Fredo), he probably never understood the broader scheme originating in the Bush White House.

Developed by deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, the President’s top political aide, that scheme was evidently designed to advance his objective of discouraging minority voters and others with the bad habit of supporting Democratic candidates. In Republican parlance, such attempts to hamper registration, intimidate citizens and reduce turnout in targeted communities are lauded as “combating voter fraud.” Several of the fired U.S. Attorneys had angered party operatives, including Mr. Rove, because they had shown so little enthusiasm for trumping up fraud cases against Democrats.

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When the far-right columnist and television personality registered to vote in Palm Beach, Fla., in 2005, she wrote down the address of her realtor’s office rather than her own home address. She then signed the form, despite its plain warning that falsifying any information on it would make her liable to felony prosecution—and which she, as a lawyer, surely understood. According to Palm Beach County election officials, she also voted in the wrong precinct the following year, disregarding a poll worker who explained her error. (Coulter fans can view her dubious voter-registration form online at www.bradblog.com.)

If proved, those acts would be crimes punishable by prison terms of up to five years, but Ms. Coulter has stonewalled the ongoing investigation. (She says the Palm Beach officials are syphilitic and mentally defective.) No charges have been filed so far, perhaps because her lawyer is a prominent Republican who worked on Bush v. Gore in 2000—and whom the President then appointed as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. He must know a lot about voter fraud.

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http://beta.observer.com/2007/selective-view-fraud

[Phredicles]

1. I was wondering what was happening with this...

[MADem]

3. Clearly nothing. The Golden Rule applies down there.

Them that's got the gold, makes the rules.

[Selatius]

4. Do you think Gov. Crist will do anything?

Or is he just another "Good ol' boy" that I suspect he is?

[MADem]

6. He's a closeted gay Republican. He ain't gonna do shit except what BushCo tells him.

He's got way too much to hide. From his perspective, anyway, the idiot.

[hobbit709]

2. syphilitic and mentally defective

Now how would she know that?

[rfranklin]

5. She's copulated with enough Republicans to know well...

For all we know, that's what really happened to Reagan.

[gatorboy]

7. Her personal lawyer is a U. S. Attorney?

You can do that?

[Richardo]

8. He's not a USA now - he was earlier.