A pathetic and tragic post script illustrating why the once relevant and honorable Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights is today neither. John Fund at National Review. And exactly how would the Clear Channel billboards prevent anyone who is legally eligible to vote from going into a polling place? As Pam Fessler of NPR noted in her report on the controversy: “Even if the billboards are intended to intimidate, there’s no evidence such tactics work, that they don’t instead have the opposite impact.” But they could prevent voter fraud in both registrations and voting, which is a real problem in both Cleveland and Milwaukee. In 2008, Cleveland was rocked by a scandal involving ACORN, the now-bankrupt liberal get-out-the-vote group. Thousands of its voter registrations turned out to be fraudulent or duplicates, and Mari Engelhardt, the group’s Ohio political director, had to admit to election officials that ACORN couldn’t prevent all the fraud happening under its umbrella.
“Artur Davis, a former Democratic congressman from Alabama who seconded Barack Obama’s nomination in 2008, highlights the prevalence of illegal ballots. He says that from his experience of watching rampant voter fraud in his state, “the worst kind of voter suppression going on today is the wholesale manufacture of ballots in African-American neighborhoods.”