Today’s New York Times digs deeper into the GOP red herring:

Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.

Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year.

Most of those charged have been Democrats, voting records show. Many of those charged by the Justice Department appear to have mistakenly filled out registration forms or misunderstood eligibility rules, a review of court records and interviews with prosecutors and defense lawyers show.

In Miami, an assistant United States attorney said many cases there involved what were apparently mistakes by immigrants, not fraud.

In Wisconsin, where prosecutors have lost almost twice as many cases as they won, charges were brought against voters who filled out more than one registration form and felons seemingly unaware that they were barred from voting.

One ex-convict was so unfamiliar with the rules that he provided his prison-issued identification card, stamped “Offender,” when he registered just before voting.

Just remember – this is the reason some of the U.S.As were fired. And it is funny how much they are going after Democrats on this. How about Ann Coulter? Why hasn’t the Justice Department taken up her case of voting in the wrong district? Oh – because she is a GOP darling.

Any wrong doing in our election system deserves to be punished. The problem is that the Bush controlled Justice Department appears to be going only after people who would not vote Republican, so that makes being a Democrat illegal. This also sounds like the most severe case of voter intimidation, and the intimidators sit in the White House. It sounds like it is time for a special prosecutor and congressional hearings into this. These are crimes against our country and constitution and must be pursued as such.