“I could care less that the results are not what the more conservative members of my party wanted.”

i posted this last year right after karl made his speech...

you've gotta hand it to karl for jaw-dropping, in-your-face insolence and effrontery...

In a speech to the Republican National Lawyers Association in Washington last Friday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove thanked its members for their "work on clean elections," RAW STORY has found.

"I want to thank you for your work on clean elections," Rove said. "I know a lot of you spent time in the 2004 election, the 2002, election, the 2000 election in your communities or in strange counties in Florida, helping make it certain that we had the fair and legitimate outcome of the election."

this ranks right up there with his all-time greatest hits like the "clean air act..." karl didn't invent the game but he sure as hell plays it better than anyone i've ever seen...

"We have, as you know, an enormous and growing problem with elections in certain parts of America today," Rove said. "We are, in some parts of the country, I'm afraid to say, beginning to look like we have elections like those run in countries where they guys in charge are, you know, colonels in mirrored sunglasses. I mean, it's a real problem, and I appreciate that all that you're doing in those hot spots around the country to ensure that the ballot -- the integrity of the ballot is protected, because it's important to our democracy."

absolutely friggin' AMAZING... if the god of the old testament was still with us, upon the completion of that statement, a lightning bolt would have exploded from the heavens and reduced his satanic rotundness to a pile of fine ash...

now, with the revelations coming out of the justice department that u.s. attorneys were being expected to pursue a partisan policy of voter suppression, the nyt offers us even more evidence of bush administration lies...

A federal panel responsible for conducting election research played down the findings of experts who concluded last year that there was little voter fraud around the nation, according to a review of the original report obtained by The New York Times.

Instead, the panel, the Election Assistance Commission, issued a report that said the pervasiveness of fraud was open to debate.

even more interestingly...

And two weeks ago, the panel faced criticism for refusing to release another report it commissioned concerning voter identification laws. That report, which was released after intense pressure from Congress, found that voter identification laws designed to fight fraud can reduce turnout, particularly among members of minorities. In releasing that report, which was conducted by a different set of scholars, the commission declined to endorse its findings, citing methodological concerns.

A number of election law experts, based on their own research, have concluded that the accusations regarding widespread fraud are unjustified. And in this case, one of the two experts hired to do the report was Job Serebrov, a Republican elections lawyers from Arkansas, who defended his research in an e-mail message obtained by The Times that was sent last October to Margaret Sims, a commission staff member.

“Tova and I worked hard to produce a correct, accurate and truthful report,” Mr. Serebrov wrote, referring to Tova Wang, a voting expert with liberal leanings from the Century Foundation and co-author of the report. “I could care less that the results are not what the more conservative members of my party wanted.”

the consequences of this dishonest pursuit of voter "fraud" by the republican one-party machine are clear: poor, minority, and other historically vulnerable-to-disenfranchisement folks are discouraged from voting, and, when those people don't vote, they have no way to voice their interests and needs, which regularly run counter to the interests and needs of the monied, power classes, who have no trouble whatsoever voting...

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