Editorial Opinion: Desperate Republicans turn to desperate measures in Maryland
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October 6, 2008
Cynthia Tucker, editorial page editor for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, expresses her opinion that voter fraud is a minimal issue trumped up by Republicans in order to fire up their base, and intimidate voters.
She wrote:[1]
One study after another has shown that voter fraud is, at worst, extremely rare. And the sort of in-person fraud that would be prevented by stiff voter ID laws is virtually nonexistent. But Karl Rove and his minions also know this: Voter ID laws can be used to disenfranchise a few hundred or a few thousand voters who are more likely to vote Democratic, usually poor or elderly voters who don't have driver's licenses. In close races, shaving off 1 or 2 percentage points is all you need to claim victory.
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