Arizona Secretary of State INSISTS on UNconstitutional Voter Suppression

Even though Brad Blog reports:

We've now had a chance to review the unreleased report [PDF] in full. It's just twelve pages. But it slams the notion that there is any massive problem in America with "Voter Fraud", despite American Citizens for Votimg Right's (ACVR) continuing campaign to suggest the problem is an epidemic — versus all of the many other forms of disenfranchisement that really do occur and really do threaten our democracy.

"There is widespread but not unanimous agreement that there is little polling place fraud," the report explains, "or at least much less than is claimed, including voter impersonation, 'dead' voters, noncitizens voting and felon voters."

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The report singles out ACVR as the only named proponent of the discredited notion that voter fraud is plaguing the country — ACVR is ignominously named as dissenting three times in the report! — so it is little wonder they didn't want this report to see the light of day.

ACVR's main perpetrator and Democracy-Hater-in-Chief, Mark F. "Thor" Hearne II, was actually a part of the "working group" assembled for this report. Notably, Hearne failed yet again to mention that he was the National General Counsel for Bush/Cheney '04 Inc. in his bio at the end of the report.

Similarly, Hearne withheld that information in his testimony on behalf of ACVR during now-disgraced Rep. Bob Ney's U.S. House Adminstration Committee hearing in March of 2005. ACVR was the only "Voting Rights" group invited to discuss the travesties of Election 2004. He testified only that he was a "longtime advocate of voter rights" and must have just forgotten to mention his Bush/Cheney connections…or that the ACVR had been formed just three business days prior to the hearing!

Arizona SOS brewer has no issues on which to win EXCEPT her unquestioning Republican rubber-stamp ideological compliance. Now she can tell her misinformed white nationalist supporters:

AZ Secretary of State - Press Release: "Sec. of State Brewer Gets ID at Polls Reinstated Voters Prevail in Having ID at Polls and Proof of Citizenship Upheld

PHOENIX -- The United States Supreme Court today supported Secretary of State Brewer’s emergency appeal to uphold Arizona’s identification at the polls and proof of citizenship provisions for this coming November 7th general election. The court decision was a big victory for Secretary of State Brewer, as the ruling specifically vacated the recent decision by the Federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to suspend the Arizona voting requirements pending further litigation."