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Von Spakovsky and Co. Urge DOJ To Keep Probing Voter Fraud
Five ex-DOJ officials have written to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, urging him to keep investigating whether ACORN committed voter fraud in its registration efforts, Roll Call reports.
The group, led by leading voting-rights foe Hans Von Spakovsky, wrote:
"We hope that you will assure the American people that your Department intends to investigate and prosecute any and all instances of voter registration and other fraud occurring in the days leading up to the election, and that you will enforce all of the federal voting rights laws that are important to preserving the fairness and security of the election process..."
The other members of the group, according to Roll Call, are Former Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds and former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General Roger Clegg, Michael Carvin and Robert Driscoll.
Earlier this month, sources leaked to the Associated Press that the FBI had launched a naitonwide investigation into ACORN. Since then, few details about the probe have emerged. DOJ has declined to confirm its existence on the record, and ACORN recently said it had not been contacted in connection to the investigation.
Von Spakovsky was nominated for a seat on the Federal Elections Commission last year, but the Democratic Senate refused to confirm him. TPMmuckraker reported in August that he had been given a temporary appointment at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Josh
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WHAT A DWEEB! Can you imagine how PUGs would go after a guy like Von Spakovsky, if he were a Dem? The name alone, would draw ridicule!
October 31, 2008 6:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Could someone just kneecap this guy and put him in traction for the remainder of Bush's term?
October 31, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
It never fails to amaze me,Han Von & Bochner blaming others for what comes natural for the right wingers.They have no shame after stealing not one but two elections.God bless us in the next four years.
October 31, 2008 6:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
It never fails to amaze me,Han Von & Bochner blaming others for what comes natural for the right wingers.They have no shame after stealing not one but two elections.God bless us in the next four years.
October 31, 2008 6:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
It never fails to amaze me,Han Von & Bochner blaming others for what comes natural for the right wingers.They have no shame after stealing not one but two elections.God bless us in the next four years.
October 31, 2008 6:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Von Spakovsky is a prick to the bitter end.
John
October 31, 2008 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I feel it's important to point out that if Lynn Forester de Rothschild married Hans Von Spakovsky and kept both names she would be Lynn Forester de Rothschild-Von Spakovsky. Thank you.
October 31, 2008 7:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Eesshh! After that one, I need someone to pour me coffee!
October 31, 2008 7:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
". . . he ha[s] been given a temporary appointment at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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As Satan's advocate?
October 31, 2008 7:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
He bears an uncanny resemblance to Henrich Himmler.
October 31, 2008 11:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
He spoke at my law school in Atlanta last spring about voter fraud. It was a debate, and a noteworthy Atlanta attorney read him the riot act in front of a friendly audience; but, that was not the most interesting thing I took away. (BTW, he used to chair the Fulton County, Georgia, Republican Party.)
He and I spoke after the event about partisanship and whether it was important for our elections to be run by non-partisan civil servants.
Here is what he said to me, verbatim:
"No one can be completely non-partisan."
I guess he was really talking about himself.
And that's all you need to know about Mr. Von Spakovsky.
November 1, 2008 12:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Aha, no wonder he's got that slimy Ralph Reed look.
November 1, 2008 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Von Spakovsky on the Commission on Civil Rights is like Hannibal Lector on the vegetarian menu committee. Had he gotten his appointment to the FEC, this election would have been in jeopardy. He's pushing "voter fraud" investigations in a fit of pique. Tsk, tsk. Hopefully he'll be totally out of a job very soon...then he can really pique out.
November 1, 2008 1:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
?!?!?!?!?!?
November 1, 2008 8:07 AM | Reply | Permalink