Tonight on Countdown with Keith Olbermann it was reported that the Obama Campaign is not sitting still for this Republican attack on A.C.O.R.N. and the false voter fraud fantasy that conservatives are trying to sell the public. The Obama Campaign issued a letter to the Justice Department requesting that the Special Investigator Nora Dannehy expand her investigation to look into the McCain campaign's attempt at voter suppression. accused it "trying to create a much greater doubt about the electoral process altogether," by alleging that ACORN voter fraud could threaten the fabric of our democracy, as McCain claimed in the debate Wednesday night.
Keith tonight interviewed Bob Bauer, an elections lawyer with the Obama camp, who wrote the letter to the DOJ.
He basically told Olbermann that the Obama campaign are concerned that the DOJ's election-eve investigation into ACORN is a repeat of the politicization of the department that we saw in 2006 that led to the US attorney firings scandal.
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Earlier today Bauer released a letter that he sent on behalf of Senator Obama to Attorney General Michael Mukasey calling on him to have the issue taken on by Nora Dannehy, the prosecutor he appointed to investigate the US attorney firings.
Rachel Maddow followed up on this story with an interview of George Washington University Professor Jonathan Turley.
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Breaking News: Supreme Court Rules Against Ohio Republicans in ‘Voter Fraud’ Case.»
Earlier this week, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Ohio Republicans in ruling that the Secretary of State must “establish a system of verification that would match driver’s license numbers or Social Security numbers with new voter applications.” Today, the Supreme Court reversed the ruling, saying the lower courts were wrong to get involved in the issue. This was the biggest Republican "voter fraud" case, and it just got thrown out by George Bush's conservative Republican US Supreme Court.
The Ohio GOP tried to challenge the voting rights of 200,000 voters in that state, after ACORN and others registered a couple hundred thousand voters. Not because these voters were ineligiable to vote, but because they might have misspelled names on their registration forms.
The conservative U.S. Supreme Court just took the side of Democrats in Ohio, and ACORN, and overturned a lower court's decision which took the side of the GOP. Ohio's Secretary of State appealed that earlier ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court -- and won.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that voter protection laws of Ohio were enough to verify the identities and validity of voters, and that additional measures for counties to verify voter eligibility were burdesome and would not provide additional protection.
McCain campaign manager Rick Davis of course objected to the Court's ruling.
The Ohio GOP tried to challenge the voting rights of 200,000 voters in that state, after ACORN and others registered a couple hundred thousand voters. Not because these voters were ineligiable to vote, but because they might have misspelled names on their registration forms.
The conservative U.S. Supreme Court just took the side of Democrats in Ohio, and ACORN, and overturned a lower court's decision which took the side of the GOP. Ohio's Secretary of State appealed that earlier ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court -- and won.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that voter protection laws of Ohio were enough to verify the identities and validity of voters, and that additional measures for counties to verify voter eligibility were burdesome and would not provide additional protection.
McCain campaign manager Rick Davis of course objected to the Court's ruling.
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