McClatchy Newspapers ran a piece by Greg Gordon Monday noting that the DoJ had conducted the voter fraud witch hunts in numerous states. Some highlights:

 “Former lawyers in the Civil Rights Division, however, said the voter fraud campaign is a partisan effort to disqualify legitimate voters, as occurred in Florida before the 2000 presidential election.” 

"Aggressive purging of the voter rolls tends to have a disproportionate impact on voters who move frequently, live in cities and have names that are more likely to be incorrectly entered into databases," said Joseph Rich, a former chief of the Justice Department's Voting Rights Section who's now an attorney with the liberal-leaning Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.

 Robert Kengle, a former deputy voting-rights chief, said that given recent revelations about the Civil Rights Division, "you can't help but ask whether some type of partisan bias is at work in this pattern." 

Biskupic and Madison 

Readers here will recall US Atty Stephen Biskupic's reached out of his district (the Eastern Dist. of Wisconsin) into the city of Madison (a liberal stronghold in the Western Dist. of Wisconsin) in the search for voter fraud and requested the city of Madison’s voting rolls, as noted in the Capital Times piece that broke in May .

 As part of a push to prosecute voter fraud cases across the country, federal prosecutors in Milwaukee requested the voting rolls for the city of Madison from the November 2004 election, according to documents released to Congressional investigators looking into last year’s firing of eight U.S. Attorneys.  

So we ask again, what was Biskupic up to in Madison requesting voter rolls? And who was he fronting for? 

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