Mukasey is obviously in the tank for Obama just like Gonzo and Ashcroft before him.

So, you really think that the various governmental departments and their career staffers, actualy reflect the attitudes and operative opinions of the termporarily in charge types? You mean to say that the staffers may or may not have political motivations of their own has gotten by you?

My dear Bithead,

We know, because one of President Bush's DOJ voter fraud attorneys SAYS SO IN THE INCLUDED ARTICLE

and

So your contention is that the Republican party doesn't care about finding voter fraud?

You mean THIS DOJ?

The kicker: The DOJ attorney on the case, former Ted Kennedy-affiliated lawyer James Walsh, is as contributor to the Obama campaign, as is his boss, former ACLU attorney Mark Kappelhoff.

In all, DOJ lawyers and staff in the metro area have donated at least $150,000 to Obama.
No wonder they seem more interested in prosecuting those who warn against vote fraud than enforcing vote-fraud laws.

That DOJ?

So your contention is that the Republican party doesn't care about finding voter fraud? Good on you. I never thought I'd see you criticize the GOP...

which ignores the concerted effort to find it

Not really.
It actually just places it in the same bucket as OJ's search accross every golf course in the country for his wife's REAL killers.

Please note, too, that voter fraud is an entirely different beast than registration fraud, which I have covered in other posts.

Watch as I put the hankie into this hand..............

So then what do you think about argument of the Issues fraud?
Is it rare? well done? overdone? always done?

But again, YMMV.

He said so, and he was part of investigating vigorously. That's how we know.

Right. And so, we're supposed to take this guy's word, after listening to the left complaining for the last eight years about the Bush DOJ utter lack of creds?

Ok, give me evidence there is some reasonable number of cases slipping through the cracks.

Here's one.
And another...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15082

There's more, of course, but I'm in something of a hurry at the moment.

Please, by all means, provide evidence that demonstrates that voter fraud isn't rare. Otherwise, I'll go with Mr. Becker, who was a U.S. Attorney in charge of going after voter fraud.

This all strikes me as another "nothing to see here, move along" moment, brought to you by the experts of the United States Government, soon to be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic National Committee.

I really think the lesson learned here is that we need to stop third party registrations. All people who want to vote must register at one of several approved voting registration places-where they must show some ID and proof of residency (here a utility bill counts).

Just me: I agree with you that this particular system is problematic, but I have to point out a utility bill would leave out several demographics, ie: the homeless, children living with their parents, people who have bad credit and have their utility bills in other peoples names, etc.

One could argue that the above people should not vote, but the Constitution says they have the Right to any way:

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
— Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1870)

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
— Nineteenth Amendment (1920)

The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any
primary or other election . . . shall not be denied or abridged . . . by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
— Twenty-fourth Amendment (1964)

The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of age.
— Twenty-sixth Amendment (1971)

It is a cunundrum not so easily resolved. It can be done, all it takes is money.

I agree the amount of voter fraud is speculative. There are too many potential ways for it to occur and very few safeguards and enforcement efforts against it for anyone to say with any reasonable and honest judgment that it doesn’t occur. We can’t honestly say it does happen all that much either. We simply don’t know. Sort of like if you kill and buried someone in the Nevada desert and no one saw you, did it really happen? That is why I would like to see some aggressive efforts and procedures to ensure that voter fraud doesn’t happen.

If "rare" is the same as half-baked... then I concur!

How do you know?

My dear Bithead,

We know, because one of President Bush's DOJ voter fraud attorneys SAYS SO IN THE INCLUDED ARTICLE:

“There’s no evidence that any of these invalid registrations lead to any invalid votes,” said David Becker, project director of the “Make Voting Work” initiative for the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Becker should know: he was a lawyer for the Bush administration until 2005, in the Justice Department’s voting rights section, which was part of the administration’s aggressive anti-vote-fraud effort.

“The Justice Department really made prosecution of voter fraud of this sort a big priority in the first half of this decade, and they really didn’t come up with anything,” he said.

He said so, and he was part of investigating vigorously. That's how we know.

Pointing out who funded ACORN doesn't prove voter fraud exists.

Of itself, of course not.
Then again, reverse the situation, and say Republicans had tossed in that kidn of money and that 4 to 1, the votyers coming in were Republican. Tell us we'd not hear about this, in wall to wall mode from the MSM, huh?

Once again, I'm not saying that voter fraud doesn't happen. I'm saying that it's rare.

How do you know?