Von Spakovsky to the Rescue! Voter-Suppression Guru Backs Coleman’s Appeal

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An interesting expert has emerged to speak out on behalf of Norm Coleman’s fight in Minnesota, and the importance it has to our democratic system: Former FEC commissioner and voter-suppression guru Hans Von Spakovsky, an old TPMmuckraker favorite.

Here’s what Von Spakovsky told Fox News in support of Coleman’s litigation, including a potential U.S. Supreme Court appeal: “If you don’t deal with all of the issues that have been raised in this case, then you know a lot of people are going to be questioning whether the real winner who actually ends up in the seat is actually the person who won the race, and that’s not good for the kind of election process that we have.”

As I’ve asked before, when Norm Coleman himself has offered the same point: Where were you in 2000, Hans, when we really needed you?

The Fox article also says that the GOP appears to be ready to keep the fight going, now that Al Franken would be the 60th Democrat. NRSC chairman John Cornyn gave Fox a statement that, not for the first time, invokes the count-every-vote spirit of Florida in 2000: “It’s blatant hypocrisy that many of the same Democrats who so loudly complained about voter disenfranchisement during the 2000 Florida recount have been so willing to compromise their principles when it no longer fits their political agenda.”

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