Once more, with feeling: conservatives are stirring up voter fraud fears again today

[DearAbby]

Another election, another boatload of evidence-free Republican claims of voter fraud...

In part because it's the closest of the major races, the New Jersey governor's race has been the focus of the GOP's dire warnings. Here's how the campaign to stoke fears over voter fraud in the Garden State has ramped up in recent days:

• First, Jim Geraghty of National Review sounded the alarm last Thursday: State Democrats, he fretted, had asked that absentee voters whose signatures on their ballot request form didn't match that on their registration form -- 2300 people in all -- be given provisional ballots, rather than have their votes thrown out if they couldn't be contacted by local election officials. Geraghty warned: "Suspicious minds see the as an attempt to create a pool of emergency votes to be used if Christie holds a small lead on Election Night."

• Geraghty followed that up with a post a few hours later, noting that "just about everybody shows a close race, and concerns about voter fraud make Republicans unable to feel optimistic about a close race. Norm Coleman can explain how winning a race on election night doesn't always mean you get to take the oath of office." One of the most rigorous vote counting processes in recent history found no credible evidence of voter fraud in Coleman's Senate loss to Al Franken.

• Then yesterday, Fox picked up the torch, with a lengthy segment on the threat of voter fraud not just in New Jersey but around the country, entitled: "How easy is it to steal an election with absentee ballots?" The only tangible new piece of evidence that Fox came up with was this: a former Denver Elections Commissioner, who now runs a website devoted to stoking fears about corrupt elections, told viewers that some people shoveling her driveway said they'd heard that "six or seven absentee ballots were sent to dead people."

more:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/whats_new_lacking_evidence_conservatives_again_sto.php

[monmouth]

1. I get the feeling Repubs are not as confident in their ability to win

the three major contests as they would like us to think they are. Already with the excuses and it's only noon!...Hahaha..

[DearAbby]

2. Waiting with stop watch for the ACORN Bull Scheeet

[OHdem10]

3. They know the numbers are not with them in a general sense.

They have always used Voter Fraud and suppressed voting as
the means to an end.

[mstinamotorcity]

4. They use every trick in the book

Now all Dems have to do is show them the voters they have up their sleeve. Because nobody loves voter fraud stories like republicons, remember 2000 election voter fraud led to theft of the country. Go Vote