'In the fall of 2007, a young Democratic senator blocked President George W. Bush’s nominee to the Federal Election Commission. “His record of poor management, divisiveness, and inappropriate partisanship makes him an unacceptable nominee,” the senator said, adding that he was “particularly concerned with his efforts to undermine voting rights” while that nominee was at the Department of Justice.
The senator was Barack Obama. The nominee was Hans A. von Spakovsky, who’d devoted the previous two decades to rooting out suspected voter fraud, even when scant evidence of such electoral malefaction existed.
Von Spakovsky never forgot the slight. He spent the subsequent years — that is, the Obama years — continuing his calls into tighter voter identification laws, attempts that many say would disenfranchise poor and minority voters. He served as a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and on the Fairfax County Electoral Board in suburban Virginia, to which he wasn’t asked to return for a second term in 2012. “He’s a voter-suppression advocate, and he can’t deny that with a straight face,” a Democratic operative in Fairfax County told The Washington Post.'
- Trump's Election Boogeyman Wants to Make It Hard to Vote for Everyone but Republicans (Newweek)
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