Highlights from the Houston Chronicle: Longtime political strategist and Fox News analyst Patrick Caddell – “a Democrat until the day I die” – said he first observed voter fraud when the George McGovern‘s presidential campaign was victimized in Ohio in 1972. “The question about Voter ID is the biggest lie in history,” said Caddell, whose full-throated remarks Friday night roused the crowd.
“Speakers included experts on poll watching, voter challenges, open records requests and other election-related concerns, as well as writers, commentators and activists familiar to tea partiers and the political right. . . .
Spakovsky and other speakers, including Artur Davis, a former Democratic congressman from Alabama, and National Review columnist John Fund, insisted that resistance to a mandate that every voter show identification at the polls is absurd. Voter ID does not suppress voter turnout among minorities, the elderly or the poor, they maintained. . . .
“True the Vote is not about politics; it is about principle,” she said in an interview toward the end of the conference. “All we want to do is go work at the polls, and I’ve reaped the whirlwind for daring to ask the question. It makes you wonder: What could we be so close to that we must be stopped at any cost?”