Efforts to stop `voter fraud' may have curbed legitimate voting

By Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - During four years as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, Hans von Spakovsky went so far in a crusade against voter fraud as to warn of its dangers under a pseudonym in a law journal article. ~snip~

"Mr. von Spakovsky was central to the administration's pursuit of strategies that had the effect of suppressing the minority vote," charged Joseph Rich, a former Justice Department voting rights chief who worked under him. ~snip~

Rich said that von Spakovsky usurped his seat on a commission advisory panel in 2004, although the law creating the panel allocated that spot for the Voting Rights Section chief "or his designee." Rich said he was not consulted. ~snip~

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/17256012.htm

for the story that follows...but it got me to read it!

but I've got that bad LBN habit of using the original headline

it's a great article...and I'm glad that the header riled me enough to be curious. Funny how things work.