The U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (EAC) is now doing the bidding of the RNC, according to an article today from USA TODAY.
It seems that the EAC commissioned, received, and then buried a report concerning the issue of Voter Fraud (as opposed to Election Fraud and other legitimate disenfranchisement issues) when they didn’t like the results they received. The report, which the commission received four months ago but failed to release, found “little evidence” of the “problem” now being pushed nationwide by GOP operatives as evidence that disenfranchising Photo ID requirement laws should be passed in states across the country.
Such laws have been passed, and found unconstitutional from Georgia to Arizona to Missouri, yet the proponents of this scam — who have shown themselves willing to stoop to any level to keep Democratic-leaning voters, who are far more likely to lack drivers’ licenses, from voting — have been keeping up their ongoing and expensive propaganda campaign.
Members of the commission were reportedly split on whether to release the report publicly. That internal battle four months ago may have led to at least one resignation from the commission, The BRAD BLOG has learned. Now chaired by outgoing Bush-appointee Paul DeGregorio since the original chair Rev. DeForest Soaries resigned in frustration, citing lack of support for true electoral reform from both the White House and Congress, the EAC has been much criticized for their failure to oversee implementation of and standards for new Electronic Voting Systems across the country.
The item today from USA TODAY suggests that the commission may now have become entirely politicized and polarized…
USA TODAY obtained the report from the commission four months after it was delivered by two consultants hired to write it. The commission has not distributed it publicly.
A blog item, also posted today by USA Today, includes a link to the now unearthed report [PDF] which the EAC had sought to bury.
The report goes on to quote from GOP operative Mark F. “Thor” Hearne, who is still pushing his deceitful line about the non-existent “epidemic” of voter fraud in the country. Unfortunately, it is Hearne himself who appears to be the fraud, as The BRAD BLOG revealed in a series of reports beginning in March of 2005.
The RNC and the White House, via Hearne, their main operative on the Photo ID canard, have spread phony propaganda suggesting an epidemic of voter fraud in America ever since the 2004 election, when hundreds of thousands of voters were disenfranchised at the hands of GOP operatives.
Hearne and his motley crew created the phony, self-described “non-partisan” GOP front group, calling themselves “American Center for Voting Rights” (ACVR), as we first revealed on March 22nd, 2005, shortly after they were the only “Voting Rights” group called to testify before congressional hearings held by the now-disgraced Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) on what went wrong in Ohio’s 2004 Presidential Election.
Hearne testified before Ney’s House Administration Committee on behalf of ACVR just three days after the group was created. He testified only that he was “a long time voting rights advocate,” and didn’t bother to mention that he had been the General Counsel for Bush/Cheney ’04 or that ACVR’s co-founder was Jim Dyke, the RNC Communications Director.
Dyke now works out of Dick Cheney’s office in the White House. After exposure of the sham organization by this reporter, the group eventually added “Democrat” Brian Lunde as Executive Director. Lunde is a close advisor to Karl Rove and worked hard for Bush in 2004 and to retain a Republican Majority.
The group has been pushing phony stories about “Voter Fraud” to encourage disenfranchising Photo ID laws in states around the country ever since. The ACVR was even behind the creation of the Baker/Carter Commission, which also called for restrictive Photo ID laws.
From USA TODAY again…
That’s one reason the commission decided not to officially release the report. “There was a division of opinion here,” Chairman Paul DeGregorio says. “We’ve seen places where fraud does occur.”
The consultants found little evidence of that.
In the meantime, the sham continues this Friday when the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will hold a hearing to discuss some of these matters. But the speakers list, The BRAD BLOG has learned, is made up most of the usual Photo ID Suspects.
The list includes the same old crew: Hearne, Prof. Robert Pastor (Executive Director of the cooked Baker/Carter Commission, who went ballistic in a BRAD BLOG interview last year) and the Wallstreet Journal’s ultra-con John Fund, who wrote a book full of this propoganda some years ago that served to launch the current insidious movement.
The only invited speaker representating anything close to an actual legitimate voting rights activist is Donna Brazile of the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute. We have warned her that it would seem she is being set up by appearing with this barrel of bad apples.
For more information on the “non-partisan” tax-exempt ACVR scam and the snakeoil salesmen who invented it, Bush/Cheney ’04 National General Counsel Mark F. “Thor” Hearne and RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke, please see BRAD BLOG’s full Special Coverage of the “American Center for Voting Rights” at https://BradBlog.com/ACVR.The complete press release for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hearing this Friday is posted in full below…
Contact: Margaret Butler of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 202-376-7700
News Advisory:
What: Meeting of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent, bipartisan agency charged with monitoring and protecting civil rights
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has assembled a panel of experts to discuss the frequent allegations of voter fraud and intimidation that have questioned federal and state elections in recent years. Purported incidents of voter fraud have concerned non-citizens voting, eligible
voters casting two or more ballots or impersonating other voters and other types of fraud. Claims of voter intimidation have involved officials purportedly challenging voters in minority areas with requests for identification and providing incorrect information on voter eligibility.
The speakers will include Donna Brazile, chair, Democratic National Committee Voting Rights Institute, founder and managing director, Brazile and Associates; John Fund, writer, opinionJournal.com, author, “Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy;” Thor Hearne, Lathrop & Gage, former National Election Counsel, Bush-Cheney 2004 and Professor Robert Pastor, American University, National Security Council, Carter Administration.
When: Friday, Oct. 13, 9 a.m.
Where: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 624 Ninth St. NW, Room 540, Washington, D.C.
News from the “homefront” where Clint Curtis is standing up for voters….this is what happens to you. It’s amazing how the Orlando Weekly seems to have been bought off!
Emma
http://www.orlandoweekly.com/co...y.asp?id=11046
We HAVE to show up in MASSIVE numbers on Nov. 7.
Any President or Congress, or party that abuses power, covers up crimes, divides our Nation, smears veterans, enables profiteering on its people should be removed from Public office.
Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rumsfeld, Ms. Rice, Mr. Rove, the Republican Congress and their Pundits are a National disgrace. They have proven to be nothing more than shameless treasonous profiteering corrupt political hacks who are now crumbling under the weight of their own lies and rhetoric.
We HAVE to show up in MASSIVE numbers on Nov. 7.
Excellent work Brad. You are a like a lightning rod splitting through whats left of our US Democracy in 2006.
The American Empire: Democracy to Fascism:(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z9hF3GCaXA
They show up around every election time to obfuscate the hack machines
Them dirty bastards
Emma, #1
I see that Feeney’s smear blog has gone down and now redirects to a generic search page.. or at least it does for me.. do you know anything about that?
The GOP seem to have a problem with research, when conclusions reached,differ from their opinion. Why even bother with consultants, when they are so determined to spread propaganda. Waste of time and money.I hope the taxpayers didn’t pay for that report.
If we ever get our country back, somebody’s going to have to write a law that prohibits phony commissions, committees, foundations, grass root organizations, news organizations, ect, ect. ect…
Let’s reclaim reality!
John Fund and his “voter fraud” farce. The folks supposedly committing this (nonexistent) fraud must be the “mob” these large portfolio people think will instigate “mob rule” if they’re allowed to vote.
I just watched a four and a half hour C-SPAN of the second part of a hearing before the FCC commission where people got to give two minute speeches against, (not one of them was for), more media consolidation.
It was breathtaking television. There must have been over 50 people who stood up to talk and every one of them was a lucid defender of what this country really stands for. If these wonderfully intelligent and passionate people from El Segundo, California are the “mob” I keep hearing about, then it’s far past time we let them take over this country and start to fix it.
Hope lives in America. I saw it with my own eyes, but definitely not on corporate owned television
Bvac #6,
I called yesterday to the campaign. They indicated it was temporary so I don’t really know. I only read it once…made me physically ill to think there were people spending valueable time defending that man when we’re losing our democracy every minute of every day.
Emma
The history of CIA involvement in election fraud is revealed in the link below
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There exists within the government a parallel military / intelligence service – an entire parallel secret structure which is extra-constitutional – designed specifically to change the structure of government from a Representative Republic to a Fascist Dictatorship.
The model for this structure was known as “Gladio” in the late 1940s – having fallen under the control of the CIA in 1966.
The premise is to use a few inside operatives to stage massive terror events for the purpose of instilling enough fear in the populace that they willingly trade freedom for security.
THOSE WHO FAIL TO STUDY THE LESSONS OF HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT THEM.
Michael Ledeen has studied the lessons of history – and has applied them to his own agenda.
High Treason
From Wikipedia
“High treason, broadly defined, is an action which is grossly disloyal to one’s country or sovereign.
Participating in a war against one’s country, attempting to overthrow its government, and attempting to kill its head of state are perhaps the best known examples of high treason.”
Two out of three ought to do it.
The Bush Administration attacked America on 9/11 for the express purpose of overthrowing the then-existing form of government. While the Administration dubbed their atttack on US soil “The War ON Terror,” it is more aptly named “The War OF Terror,” a “war” of their own creation.
H I G H
T R E A S O N
Timewatch: Operation Gladio – Behind False Flag Terrorism & 9/11
Watch the “Gladio” video here: (part1)
http://video.google.co.uk/video...56773650110959
WATCH ALL THREE PARTS – ALL TERROR IS STATE SPONSORED ““ ALL OF IT.
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Speaking of VOTER FRAUD – It seems there is a question about Bilbray and shall we say CONGRESSMAN FRAUD?
” According to the San Diego County Democratic Party, Bilbray is being investigated [by] a grand jury impaneled by the District Attorney.”
“Bilbray’s signed voter registration — days after the Cunningham story broke — declaring a Carlsbad address to be his “residence and domicile” under penalty of perjury (6/21/05).
Less than two months after re-registering, he signed a new deed of trust for his home in Alexandria, Virginia (8/25/05). He did not indicate that the home was anything other than his “principal residence,” which the deed would have explicitly forbidden.
In December of 2005, Bilbray’s children testified under oath that they lived in Virginia with their father.”
“A few months later, he signed a formal declaration of candidacy to run for Congress (2/23/06), citing his mother’s house on Unicornio Street in Carlsbad as his residence.”
“Throughout this entire period, he was receiving a homeowner’s tax exemption on his property in South County’s Imperial Beach”
You know, Brad, this really makes one remember fondly the tenure of Mary Berry on the USCCR… now it’s just another Bu$h Repugnant sham circus.
CP ;>)
Bluebear2 #12
That’s all good and well Bluebear, BUT REMEMBER THAT DEMOCRAT THAT HAD MONEY IN HIS FREEZER! DON’T FORGET THAT DEMOCRAT THAT HAD MONEY IN HIS FREEZER!
Reblicans= democrats
same,same,same
Kerry was asked last election if he would of attacked Iraq? the answer yes
same foreign policy
It only appears like 2 parties
Go to video.google.com and search 911
learn and understand
oh yeah lets take the all seeing eye and the kabballa off the bill Please
My God has 2 eyes and isn’t a cyclops and lives on top of a freakin pyramid!