Bush Undermines Voting Rights and the U. S. Constitution

More and more information is coming to light about the manner in which Chimperator Bush and his regime - I call it a regime, because Bush and Cheney view themselves as co-dictators - want to subvert democarcy. Here's portions of a story from The Nation about voter suppression that sounds like something from a banana republic or the days of the Jim Crow laws.

Thanks to rigorous work by the Brennan Center for Justice and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, it is clear that the US. Attorney scandal – as outrageous as it is on its own – is part of a much broader effort by the Bush Administration to use government institutions for partisan gain.

In their report – Using Justice to Suppress the Vote – the two pro-democracy, pro-civil rights organizations demonstrate that the [Bush] Administration used federal agencies charged with protecting voters' rights to promote voter suppression, influence voting rules, and gain advantage in battleground states. This was achieved through a four-pronged strategy: dismantling the infrastructure at the Department of Justice; fomenting a fear of rampant voter fraud (which has subsequently been disproved – it actually occurs "statistically…about as often as death by lightning strike"); politically motivated prosecutions; and restricting registration and voting.

Experienced civil rights attorneys were removed, transferred, or denied cases in favor of new hires who lacked experience but had the right conservative credentials.

The full story appears here: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=207819