Republicans Want to do Away with Voter Fraud, and Replace it with Election Fraud

While Democratic voter registration groups work with election agencies to prevent and catch possible voter fraud, Republican groups and campaigns independently commit election fraud by “accident” against Democratic districts. I’m sure it’s a mistake anyone could make, right? As reported in the Wisconsin State Journal:

The state elections agency is investigating complaints about a massive campaign mailing Republican Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign has directed toward Wisconsin Democrats and other voters. Each mailing includes at least one copy of the state application for an absentee ballot that has the address of a local clerk and a box for postage printed on the other side. But in
some cases, the incorrect clerk's address is printed on the application, leading some Democrats to wonder if the Arizona senator's campaign is deliberately trying to get them to apply for absentee ballots in places where they aren't eligible to vote.

"They're trying to knock me off the rolls," said Democrat Beverly and Robert Jambois, of Middleton. "I can't tell you how upsetting it is to me. This is how you win elections? By disenfranchising other voters?" The couple are registered to vote in Middleton, but the absentee ballot application was addressed to the city clerk's office in Madison.

This is where we hear the standard apology from the party that can’t imagine data base errors when it comes to voter registration names not matching, but miss the irony of their own data base errors.

A McCain campaign spokeswoman said in a statement the mailing mistakes are "certainly not intentional" but she wouldn't answer questions. Mark Jefferson, executive director of the state GOP, said the mailing is not intended to keep people from the polls and that the wrong absentee ballot applications resulted from incorrect information in databases used for the mailing. "You do the best with the lists you have, and no list is perfect," Jefferson said. "There is certainly no type of suppression effort going on."

Voter suppression from the Republican Party? Unheard of.

My hope here is the state elections agency will request the error filled Republican data base records, so they can nail down how this happened, and exonerate the McCain campaign. We’ll see.