01.30.08
Democratic election witnesses under investigation for election improprieties…
Imagine that you were the House Democrats for a moment. You are holding a hearing trying to demonstrate that same-day voter registration has only insignificant amounts of fraud. Of course, that’s not true, as John Fund has pointed out, but that’s never stopped you.
But if you are going make the argument, do you invite a witness under investigation for using government resources for fundraising? Probably not, but that’s what Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) is doing.
Read on.
She has invited the Minnesota Secretary of State to testify on this. But … he is under investigation for using lists obtained in his capacity as Secretary of State for fundraising purposes, a story broken by the conservative blog Minnesota Democrats Exposed:
Mark Ritchie, the state’s chief election official, was accused on Monday of improperly using a list of participants in a Secretary of State civic engagement program to solicit contributions for his own political campaign.
In a complaint to the Minnesota Legislative Auditor, two people said they were asked to participate in the “Civic Education” program earlier this year and provided e-mail addresses and other contact information to the Secretary of State’s office. They subsequently received an e-mail newsletter from the Ritchie campaign committee that solicited a political contribution at an upcoming fundraiser.
So who do you trust on this? A guy under investigation? Or a liberal Democrat who the Democrats in Congress won’t allow to testify because he … might just be telling the truth?
Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, says the risk of fraud in California is too great. “It’s not beyond the imagination that one party or another will register aliens on the last day,” he said. “And there’s no protection against that except criminal penalties, which have not been effective.”
Gans wasn’t allowed to testify in the first hearing because he disagreed with the Democrats. And the Democrats are again, only allowing the Republicans to call one witness.
What are they afraid of? The truth?
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