Few Facts, and Fewer Voters.

Yes, that is the “Republican Dream.” The fewer voters we have the more likely Republican’s can succeed in elections. Toward that end the Republican Machine has rallied the call for Voter ID Laws around the nation. The putative reason is “Voter Fraud.” You know where the lone voter votes when the voter is ineligible to vote. Now the Republican Machine is not so down on “Election Fraud” (well actually they are totally down with Election Fraud) you know where state institutions, such as Florida’s or Ohio’s Secretary’s of State purge voter registration lists for people with “Black Sounding” names.

From the ever reliable McClatchy:

Ohio, Florida laws could dampen Democratic voting

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers

• Posted on Wednesday, September 26, 2007

WASHINGTON — Ohio and Florida, which provided the decisive electoral votes for President Bush's two razor-thin national election triumphs, have enacted laws that election experts say will help Republicans impede Democratic-leaning minorities from voting in 2008.

Backers of the new laws say they're aimed at curbing vote fraud. But the statutes also could facilitate a controversial Republican tactic known as ``vote caging,'' which the GOP attempted in Ohio and Florida in 2004 before public disclosures foiled the efforts, said Joseph Rich, a former Justice Department voting rights chief in the Bush administration who's now with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.

Caging, used in the past to target poor minorities in heavily Democratic precincts, entails sending mass mailings to certain voters and then using the undelivered letters to compile lists of voters for eligibility challenges.

As the high-stakes ground war escalates heading into next year's elections, Republicans have led the charge for an array of revisions to state voting rights laws, especially in key battleground states. Republican political appointees in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have endorsed some of these measures.

Over the last three years, the Republican-controlled state legislatures in Indiana, Georgia, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have passed laws requiring every voter to produce a photo identification card — measures that civil rights groups contend were aimed at suppressing minority voting.

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Chandler Davidson, a Rice University sociology professor who has studied voter suppression, said the new laws are questionable because ``there has been virtually no evidence presented that there has been wide-scale voter fraud in the United States.''

So, even though there are few facts to support the Republican’s contention that “Voter Fraud” is rampant Republican Activist Hans von Spakovsky transformed the DOJ’s Civil Rights and Voting Rights Section into a machine to actually suppress the rights it is tasked to enforce.

The Republican rallying cry is and has always been, “Suffrage, Smuffrage.”