The evil McRove strikes again...
In today's episode of TPMTV, we took a hard look at just where Karl Rove got the bulk of the voter fraud stories he imparted at an April 7, 2006 speech before the Republican National Lawyer's Association. We noted that three of the seven "hot spots" he mentioned in that speech appeared to come directly from a 2000 New York Post op-ed by Stephen Bronars and John Lott, Jr. entitled, It's the Fraud, Stupid.
Missouri: In St. Louis, a judge, who was a former aide to House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, ordered city polls held open for an extra three hours. The suit filed by Democrats on behalf of two voters claimed that they had insufficient time to vote. Yet, one of these "voters" had died in August 1999, and the other turned out not to be registered. While city polls were eventually closed down after an hour, the Missouri gubernatorial and senatorial races might well have been affected, as the democratic margins of victory were slim - only 22,000 and 49,000 respectively.
Wisconsin: A Marquette University student newspaper found that 174 out of a 1,000 students surveyed had exploited Wisconsin's permissive Election Day registration procedures to vote more than once. Most voted twice (at school and at home by absentee ballot), though some voted four or more times. In Milwaukee homeless people were offered cigarettes so that they would go with Democratic campaign workers to obtain absentee ballots. Gore won Wisconsin by only 5,396 votes.
Oregon: In that state voting is now exclusively done by mail. Election officials caught four people posing as election officials and collecting mail-in ballots that voters were dropping off at the elections department on Election Day. Similarly, at a Bush rally in Oregon, voters who tried to hand in their ballots to Republican officials were apparently deceived into giving them to people not connected with the campaign. Gore won Oregon by 6,800 votes.
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