Whaddaya know? A federal judge has found no “voter fraud” in Missouri, finding in favor of the Secretary of State, and against the Department of Justice in their continuing attempt to game the election system and keep voters from voting via bogus claims of “voter fraud”.
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“It is also telling that the United States has not shown that any Missouri resident was denied his or her right to vote as a result of deficiencies alleged by the United States,” [U.S. District Judge Nanette] Laughrey wrote [in her ruling]. “Nor has the United States shown that any voter fraud has occurred.”
Yesterday in a statement, Carnahan said the ruling “concluded that my office not only complied with federal law but also went beyond its requirements through our many efforts to assist the county clerks and election boards with their responsibilities. The ruling also confirmed that there is no evidence of voter fraud in Missouri.
“This is the culmination of 18 months of an unnecessary, unwise and costly lawsuit by the Department of Justice,” Carnahan added, “and I am glad my office can now direct all of its attention on continuing to ensure fair and accurate elections in Missouri.”
This is what your Dept. of Justice has been wasting their time on, at the behest of the most criminally politicized bunch who has ever occupied the White House.
As BRAD BLOG readers likely know, Missouri is “Thor” Hearne country. The St. Louisan Hearne was the national general counsel for Bush/Cheney ’04 Inc. and the cofounder of the currently-defunct “non-partisan” “American Center for Voting Rights” (ACVR). The ACVR was ground zero for entire GOP “voter fraud” scam and Hearne cut his teeth disenfranchising Missouri voters on behalf of Gov. Matt Blunt (and his father Roy, who once served as MO Sec. of State, and now serves as Minority Whip in the U.S. House).
See this page for more on the snakeoil salesemen of the ACVR — who have, since the U.S. Attorney Purge scandal broke, slithered back underground. For now anyway…
The judge’s full ruling in the trumped up MO “Voter Fraud” case is here [PDF].
(Hat-tip Victoria Parks!)
The judge recognizes the obvious.
An EVM can change more votes in a nano-second than all errant voters (like Ann Coulter) put together who feebly attempt to commit voter fraud.
The Karl Rove engendered voter fraud canard is like having the pee-wee league compete with the major league … or as they say in the bible belt “straining at a gnat but swallowing a camel”.
Don’t sweat the small stuff … lets concentrate on corrupt electronic voting machines … they are voter fraud on STERIODS!
DUH!
You should keep pounding home, though, the difference between “voter fraud” and “e-vote fraud”. One is people misrepresenting their ID, and one is machines being manipulated.
I think they “casual” reader might think you’re saying that there’s “no e-vote fraud”, when you’re saying there’s “no VOTER fraud”.
This case does underscore the “less than thin” evidence some prosecutors have had when the case is filed. The judge said:
(DOJ v SOS, page 17, emphasis added). Which means that they were not using a theory of law developed with wide spread consensus, agency hearings, and public input.
Those out-in-the-open types of legal theories are given considerable weight by courts, but when the government makes up their legal theory of the case just before or during litigation the courts give no deference.
This generally means it is a weak case in the eyes of the court, and that is why the neoCons working at Rove’s behest lost this one too.
The voter fraud canard mandated to US Attorneys by Karl Rove on pain of getting fired continues while the big story of electronic voting machine fraud of the Feeney type continues virtually unreported in the MSM.
Brad seized upon the issue asking in effect “What did US Attorneys, who were not fired, do to keep their jobs?” I had noted some suspicion about that too.
Brad, thanks for giving us such a great story this evening! We were due for some more good news here in Missouri.
After voting in St. Louis County in April using those now infamous ES&S iVotronics, it is heartening to hear that the balance of power still has a little weight on the side of justice.
Pat Berg
Pat – Please contact SoS Carnahan and make sure she knows about today’s ES&S iVotronics story! I promise you the EAC isn’t gonna do it! Here’s your help:
https://bradblog.com/?p=4416