[EL] Artur Davis on election fraud

[Chandler Davidson]

Absentee ballot fraud, however, would not be prevented by a photo ID law, would it?   I agree with your point about the need for an enterprising reporter. 


On Oct 21, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Soren Dayton wrote:

> 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". 
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> 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?
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> Chandler Davidson
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