[EL] Artur Davis on election fraud

[Soren Dayton]

To be fair, there's a fairly extraordinary record of absentee fraud, with
convictions, there. Anyone equipped with Google can find lots of
convictions. If I were an enterprising reporter, I would ask him about the
"wholesale manufacture of ballots, at the polls".

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Chandler Davidson <fcd at rice.edu> wrote:

> As you reported recently, former Alabama congressman Artur Davis wrote in a
> letter to the Montgomery Advertiser, re his current support for photo ID
> laws (which laws he had previously opposed):
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> "The truth is that the most aggressive contemporary voter suppression in
> the African American community, at least in Alabama, is the wholesale
> manufacture of ballots, at the polls and absentee, in parts of the Black
> Belt.  Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the
> too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are
> exercising their rights -- that's suppression by any light. If you doubt it
> exists, I don't; I've heard the peddlers of these ballots brag about it,
> I've been asked to provide the funds for it, and I am confident it has
> changed at least a few close local election results."
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> I would hope that at the time he heard law-breakers bragging about
> committing vote fraud and requesting his help in perpetrating it, he
> reported them to the authorities.  if not, was he complicit in this alleged
> fraud?
>
> Chandler Davidson
>
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