The narrative being pushed by McCain and his supporters is there is an overwhelming conspiracy of voter fraud being perpetuated by ACORN and liberals in this election.
The evidence?
Ronald Michaelson, a veteran election administrator
and member of the McCain-Palin Honest and Open Election Committee states:
“Do
we have a documented instance of voting fraud that resulted from a
phony registration form? No, I can’t cite one, chapter and verse,” he
said.
Furthermore:
Michaelson could not cite a single real example of how registration fraud has led to voting fraud.
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Republican elected officials and lawyers for state Republican
parties have made similar claims in court and in statements to the
press. So far, however, they have failed to provide significant supporting evidence.
A
review of prosecutors’ statements and documents filed by Republicans in
the most serious new cases alleging voter fraud shows that none offer
an example in which a fraudulently registered person managed to cast a
valid vote. While several cases argue that such frauds are possible,
none sketched a scenario for how massive numbers of people could fake
registrations and then vote.
Perhaps they should heed Michaelson's advice while they are perpetuating this suspicion:
Michaelson explained why the mere perception of
widespread fraud can do public harm: “When reports are circulating in
the media that this one group has turned in 5,000 applications and
2,000 of them are invalid, for the minimally informed voter, they say,
‘Oh my gosh, what’s happening to our process? Our process is lacking
integrity.’ It just plants seeds of doubt in the minds of people who
don’t understand the process very well.
“That’s just not a very healthy atmosphere,” he said.
While John McCain and Sarah Palin and Republican members of the blogs at Lake Country
Living continue to allege fraud by liberals no less, they
are doing so without solid, factual evidence which is proportionate to the immensity that such a conspiracy would require.
In fact, if this election does turn-out to be close (I think it will be), they've only undermined John McCain, and not Barack Obama.
Meaning, they are only hurting McCain's credibility – not Obama's.
So you can rightly ignore their accusations and that these McCain supporters are, at best, "minimally informed."
I'll leave you to determine what "at worse" they are.
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