Al Franken May Have Won His Senate Seat Through Voter Fraud

It is a myth and a lie propagated by the far right that Democrats promote voter fraud. This allegation is sheer hypocrisy coming from the GOP, a party that stole two elections and has engaged in fraud for years. The repeatedly violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act which prohibits various types of voter suppression tactics that the GOP has of late become famous for. Despite the phony, GOP generated hysteria about "voter fraud" the stats show that the illegal registrations are virtually non-existent.

"From 2002 to 2005 only one person was found guilty of registration fraud. Twenty people were found guilty of voting while ineligible and five people were found guilty of voting more than once. That’s 26 criminal voters -- voters who vote twice, impersonate other people, vote without being a resident -- the voters that Republicans warn about. Meanwhile thousands of people are getting turned away at the polls."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/15/voter_suppression

Lori Minnite, a political science professor at Barnard college says,"investigating voter fraud has become a Republican cottage industry over the last 20 years because it justifies questioning the eligibility of thousands of would-be voters -- often targeting poor and minority citizens in urban areas that lean Democratic."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/15/voter_suppression

Here's some examples from the same study;

On Sept. 10, the 240,000 Wisconsin voters who had registered by mail since 2006 found their voting status up in the air as the state's attorney general, J.B. Van Hollen -- a McCain campaign co-chair -- sued the state’s Government Accountability Board. In Michigan that same week, Macomb County GOP party chairman James Carabelli allegedly told a reporter that he would use publicly available lists of foreclosed home addresses to “make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses.” In early October, the Montana Republican Party challenged the eligibility of 6,000 voters in university towns and heavily Native American counties.

Here is a list of stuff the GOP has done in various states

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/republican_voter_suppression_a.php

Apparently, the GOP is so associated with voter suppression they cynically joke about it in public;

We just found out that while campaigning for Bob McDonnell, Mike Huckabee told a crowd of Republicans that if they know people who aren't going to vote for Bob, it's their job to "Let the air out of their tires" and "keep 'em home." He even called voter suppression "the Lord's work."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/02/huckabee-encourages-vote_n_182541.html

Voter suppression is the REAL fraud.

steve of IL 4:55PM July 22, 2010