If you’re interested in reading a good run-down of the Republican party’s deeply immoral campaign to suppress minority voter turnout with bogus ‘vote fraud’ allegations, read Richard Hasen’s article from Friday in Slate. All the key points, the phony American Center for Voting Rights, the front group to spread the bogus stories, the inherently ridiculousness of the claims of vote fraud, the ringleader of the scams Mark “Thor” Hearne. All the crap. It’s really enough to make you sick.
By rights, these crooks should be facing justice themselves. But, shall we say, ironically, Alberto Gonzales ended up putting the US Attorney system in the service of these hucksters, firing ones who wouldn’t play ball.
That’s the big picture.
