{"id":14743,"date":"2012-06-21T15:10:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T19:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14743"},"modified":"2012-06-21T19:45:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T23:45:43","slug":"answering-pelosis-bunk-holder-enables-vote-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14743\/answering-pelosis-bunk-holder-enables-vote-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Answering Pelosi’s Bunk: Holder Enables Vote Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nancy Pelosi today made the risible claim<\/a> that the contempt citation against Eric Holder is part of an effort at voter suppression. What bunk. But it is<\/em> true that Holder is heavily involved with the flip side of vote suppression, which is that he is deliberately taking steps that enable vote fraud, via his lawsuits against Texas, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, etcetera, concerning voter ID and cleaning up voter rolls.<\/p>\n

Well, here is the little-known background <\/a>to all this:<\/p>\n

It goes back to the Clinton Administration\u2019s very first big battle \u2014 which wasn\u2019t about health care, or energy taxes, or spending. The first battle involved the Motor Voter bill, which Democrats in Congress introduced on the very first legislative day in 1993, several weeks before Bill Clinton was inaugurated. Motor Voter was assigned to the House Administration Committee \u2013 and Louisiana Congressman Bob Livingston, the committee\u2019s ranking Republican, had the job of deciding whether to object. I happened to be Livingston\u2019s press secretary back then\u2026. Livingston didn\u2019t object to registration at drivers\u2019-license bureaus, but he argued that other bill provisions (too numerous to list here) would promote vote fraud. Livingston\u2019s legislative aide Tripp Funderburk had the brilliant idea to say that \u201cMotor Voter\u201d would better be described as \u201cAuto Fraudo.\u201d Using Tripp\u2019s new catch-phrase, I started a media pushback, including a column in the Washington Times and many radio appearances for Livingston.<\/p>\n

The pushback failed to kill the bill \u2013 but it did succeed in forcing acceptance of some anti-fraud provisions into the bill\u2019s Section 8\u2026. But, as reported<\/a> by whistleblowers J. Christian Adams and Christopher Coates, DoJ official Julie Fernandes announced in late 2009 that the department would refuse to enforce Section 8\u2019s anti-fraud provisions because \u201cit has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it.\u201d Now that Florida is doing its job to enforce it anyway, DoJ is trying to stop the state\u2019s efforts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nancy Pelosi today made the risible claim that the contempt citation against Eric Holder is part of an effort at voter suppression. What bunk. But it is true that Holder is heavily involved with the flip side of vote suppression, which is that he is deliberately taking steps that enable vote fraud, via his lawsuits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[498,2749,3643,36,2768],"class_list":["post-14743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-eric-holder","tag-hillyer","tag-motor-voter","tag-pelosi","tag-vote-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14756,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14743\/revisions\/14756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}