The Washington Independent » tpm muckraker http://washingtonindependent.com National News in Context Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:36:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Pre-election Claims of “Voter Fraud” Fizzle Out http://washingtonindependent.com/17399/pre-election-claims-of-voter-fraud-are-dropped http://washingtonindependent.com/17399/pre-election-claims-of-voter-fraud-are-dropped#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:25:42 +0000 Daphne Eviatar http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=17399 Zachary Roth at TPM Muckraker has a terrific roundup on how hyped-up fears of “voter fraud” in swing states never came to pass.

The secretaries of state in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Wisconsin, where claims of voter-registration fraud were rampant, report that all went well. Despite long lines and technical miscues, none of the GOP officials who earlier raised the bogeyman of voter fraud and claimed that voter registration groups like ACORN planned to steal the election appear to be questioning the integrity of the election outcome.

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