The “Voting Fraud” Fraud: Missouri Division

By Scott Horton

One of the hotbeds of partisan manipulation and corruption for the Bush administration has been Missouri. U.S. Attorney Bradley Schlozman was previously in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, where he was linked directly to efforts to push through Jim Crow legislation in Georgia. He overrode the unanimous staff recommendation of his office that the Georgia ID legislation be opposed. After arriving in Missouri, Schlozman launched litigation against the Missouri Secretary of State attempting to have voter lists culled to remove properly registered voters. On Friday, the U.S. District Court ruled against Schlozman saying that his contentions were incomprehensible and that he had failed to offer any evidence whatsoever of voter fraud. The decision to sack Arkansas U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins has been directly related to a criminal investigation he had begun surrounding Missouri's Republican Governor Matt Blunt and Blunt's counsel and Karl Rove friend Mark Hearne.