Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Republican Virtue and the Fraud of Voter Fraud
Ezra Klein guest-hosted for Rachel Maddow last night and offered a beautiful primer on the mythical issue of our era:
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It's worth watching twice. Ezra makes a great point about the "newness" of voter ID laws, and the incredible paucity of claims.Pennsylvaniaofficials have the luxury of having confessed that there has no proof of voter fraud:The state signed a stipulation agreement with lawyers for the plaintiffs which acknowledges there "have been no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania; and the parties do not have direct personal knowledge of any such investigations or prosecutions in other states."
... and having confessed to the laws true purpose:
Pennsylvania House Majority... [via Ta Nehisi Coates]
