April 25, 2008 11:38 PM UTC

McCain strategy for the fall: election fraud

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• by: Danny the Red (hair)

Voting rights activists who hoped the federal government would help local governments pay for paper trails and audits for electronic voting machines have gone from elation to frustration as they watched Republicans who supported such a proposal in committee vote against bringing it to the House floor.

The result: The elections in November will likely be marred by the same accusations of fraud and error involving voting machines that arose in the aftermath of the 2004 presidential race.

http://www.politico.com/news/s…

Why on earth did it collapse?  Pressure from the white house.

on April 15 when the White House put out a statement of opposition on the grounds that it was unnecessary to spend the money appropriated in the bill when funding could come instead from the Help America Vote Act.

Republicans say it was the bill’s cost, not the White House’s opposition, that caused them to change their votes. “The version that passed committee on April 2 did not authorize a specific dollar amount,” said Salley Collins, a spokeswoman for Republicans on the Administration Committee. “We didn’t receive the [Congressional Budget Office] score until the 14th of April, one day before it went to the floor. … So we did not know that the proposed legislation would cost $685 million-$50 million more than Holt’s first version

$50 million? the bill collapses for $50 million.  Chump change.  The US government lost, physically lost, 363 tons of cash in Iraq.  That is $12 billion lost in Iraq and we can’t pony up $50 million  to have secure elections in america.  Oh puhleeze.