Hans von Spakovsky

Vote-Suppression Guru Spakovsky Is Back At It (CORRECTION ADDED)

Zachary Roth | April 8, 2010, 3:34PM

Hans von Spakovsky

TPMmuckraker's favorite voter-suppression guru, Hans Von Spakovsky, is back in the saddle.

As you might remember, Spakovsky, a northern Virginia resident, was appointed earlier this year to a seat on the three-member Fairfax County Board of Elections, after a stint as a consultant to the US Commission on Civil Rights. And this week, Spakovsky and the board's other Republican member sparked outrage by voting to direct the BoE registrar to not distribute voter registration forms in languages other than English.*

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