Obama Demands Special Prosecutor Investigate GOP Voter Fraud Activities

Source: Washington Independant

Citing an “unholy alliance” between Republican operatives and potentially illegal conduct by law enforcement targeting voter fraud, the Obama campaign demanded Friday that the U.S. special prosecutor looking into the U.S. attorney scandal investigate the matter.

General counsel Bob Bauer sent a letter to Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey charging that coordinated “misconduct” by McCain campaign representatives and GOP officials were relevant to the special prosecutor’s work, because the activities may relate to the dismissal of seven U.S. attorneys in late 2006.

The letter requests that the special prosecutor’s inquiry “include a review of any involvement by Justice Dept. and White House officials in supporting the McCain-Palin campaign {and RNC's} systematic development and dissemination of unsupported, spurious allegations of vote fraud.”

To advance the effort, the Obama campaign convened a conference call with national reporters, though Friday afternoon is not a time that campaigns usually push priority messages.

The Ohio Election Supervisor was just interviewed on the Rachel Maddow show. She made the comment when asked whether she thought the Republican Party was trying to suppress voter turnout, that when people are not buying your message, you either have to make sure you have more voters out there who will vote for you anyway, or you have to make sure that your opponents voters cannot get to the polls.

As far as Obama's request for the Special Prosecutor to investigate voter fraud allegations, it seems that Republican outcries of voter fraud this year mirror a similar tactic used in the previous election. It is an attempt to position themselves with lawyers on the ground to intimidate and challenge voters on election day. The Special Prosecutor is already investigating the firing of US attorneys after 2004 who refused to investigate unfounded voter fraud allegations made by Republicans. Because these recent actions seem to show a pattern, the Special Prosecutor can agree to expand her investigation.

It is laughable for Mccain and Palin to be talking about Democratic voter fraud "tearing at the fabric of our Democracy," when we ended up with a Republican president the last two elections due to some of the same tactics they are employing now.

Timing was the revealer. First The last debate, then the leak from justice regarding Acorn investigation coming out as soon as McCain brought it up in debate.

The attorney dumps by GOP also has started.

The most important thing for people to do is vote and make sure their vote is counted.

Maybe they should set up some free music or games for people to play while waiting. Phone a sitter if your caught in line.

Make sure phones and cell phones are available for those who may have to wait.

It is not just the right to vote but also voting in the most historically significant election of this century.

It will feel like when the Berlin Wall came down and everyone wanted to be a part of it. I remeber crying that night out of shear joy.

Too bad we are building the same kind of walls in Iraq.

Can do the first part, but the second part we have to take on faith.

First time I voted, I stamped an "X" with a rubber stamp on a tabloid-sized piece of newsprint paper in the various boxes. I folded the paper twice and placed it in a special cardboard box marked "Ballots".

I always presumed that honest people counted and recounted every one.

But I could have been mistaken.