Menendez (D, NJ) pushes for investigation of the EAC!!!

[Stevepol]

Menendez suspects that the EAC is being influenced unduly by outside political forces when it should be a non-partisan body. Voter fraud was pooh-poohed by a report that it had access to, yet it hid the report and still pushed for greater response to voter fraud. Every day a new possibility of fixing the election system. The work of thousands and thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people is finally starting to pay off!!

Press Release of Senator Menendez
SEN. MENENDEZ ASKS COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE ALTERED VOTER FRAUD REPORT

EAC reportedly exaggerated voter fraud fears, despite expert assessments to the contrary

Friday, April 13, 2007

WASHINGTON - In the wake of a news report that the Election Assistance Commission altered its findings to overstate the pervasiveness of voter fraud, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) today asked the Senate Rules and Administration Committee to look into the matter (http://menendez.senate.gov/pdf/20070412ltr_Feinstein.pdf). Menendez has written Committee Chairwoman Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), expressing his concern over the revelations and asking her to examine the process by which the EAC report was produced. Menendez maintains that the use of the EAC to advance a political agenda is a blow to the integrity of the electoral system and that an investigation into the motivations behind the panel's report is warranted.

According to The New York Times this week, the original draft of the EAC's report stated, "There is widespread but not unanimous agreement that there is little polling place fraud." In the final report, the language was changed to, "There is a great deal of debate on the pervasiveness of fraud." The Times yesterday reported that actual evidence of voter fraud found by the Department of Justice over the past five years has in fact been "scant."

"The change in wording that brought the report in line with a particular set of political talking points makes you wonder," said Menendez. "Overstating concern about voter fraud in an official report is a blow to our electoral system and to the millions of voters who could be disenfranchised by unreasonable voting laws. It is important to determine why the change in the report was made, who made the decision and what the consequences are. That is why I have asked Senator Feinstein to look into the matter, and I know she will take the issue very seriously."


Here's the link to Menendez's press release.

Link: http://menendez.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=272359&

Just after posting this I found BradBlog has the same posting at BradBlog. Here's the link to it:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4402

And Feinstein and Durbin are pushing for investigation of the EAC too according ao an article in VoteTrust. Here's that link:

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2381&Itemid=26

What's happening to our elected Dems? Have they been secretly using stem cells to re-grow spines and brains?

[bleever]

1. This is the best Friday the 13th that I can remember.

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[Pachamama]

3. That is because its Friday the 13th for the White House & GOP

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[Kurovski]

2. One more vote needed.

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[autorank]

4. Good for Sen. Menendez! K&R

This is very important. Menendez is on target. "Voter fraud" is a scam, 24 cases over four years, that allows things like VoterID's and other restrictions to ballot access. Who does that benefit? Let's see, lower turnoug by lower income and minority voters. Have to ponder that one, not!

Here's the resource for Voter Fraud - link for

Election Fraud versus Voter Fraud
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00474.htm

Lorraine C. Minnite, PhD of Barnard College, Columbia University just published a major article explaining voter fraud. Here distinctions between voter and election fraud are critical:

Voter fraud is the “intentional corruption of the electoral process by the voter.” This definition covers knowingly and willingly giving false information to establish voter eligibility, and knowingly and willingly voting illegally or participating in a conspiracy to encourage illegal voting by others. All other forms of corruption of the electoral process and corruption committed by elected or election officials, candidates, party organizations, advocacy groups or campaign workers fall under the wider definition of election fraud.

Voter fraud is the retail while election fraud is the wholesale corruption of elections.

Florida 2000 provides an excellent example of documented election fraud.. At least 50 thousand eligible, registered voters were removed from the voting rolls before the election by Katherine Harris, Florida’s Secretary of State under Jeb Bush. These voters were almost all black Floridians. During the election, nearly 100 thousand “spoiled” (supposedly uncountable) ballots were disqualified in Florida, most of which in precincts with predominantly black populations. The blatant voter suppression by Harris was acknowledged by the state of Florida in a 2002 consent decree it reached with the NAACP. Florida 2000 election fraud cost Al Gore the election by removing thousands of voters who would have chosen him by overwhelming margins.