Caught Red-Handed With Voter Fraud In Texas, Left Accuses Right Of Suppressing Votes

from The New Ledger:

Glenn W. Smith Thinks the Right is Suppressing Votes in Houstonby Brad Jackson




Last week I covered the story of a citizen watchdog group, True the Vote, discovered a massive, intentional voter fraud campaign being orchestrated by a liberal-funded group, Texans Together. Just a couple days later, a fire at a Houston warehouse destroyed virtually all of Harris County’s electronic voting machines. Now Glenn W. Smith, a Texas Democratic operative, former MoveOn.org employee, and one-time Ann Richards campaign manager who now claims to a journalistic mantle for the Huffington Post, is smearing Texas Republicans with baseless accusations of arson, racism and voter suppression.



I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, whenever Democrat groups are caught red handed perpetrating blatant voter fraud their immediate reaction is always to accuse Republicans of suppressing voter turnout. Smith here is following the exact same tract, but now adding a new twist. Through his power of deduction, and his journalistic superiority, Smith has determined that Republicans burned down that warehouse. It’s part of the GOP broader voter suppression efforts.



Smith also claims this:



There are simply no machines available to replace the loss of Houston’s machines. That means either a return to paper ballots (there may be very few scanners to count them) or a greatly reduced number of polling locations. The latter would require the emergency suspension of state law and run afoul of the Voting Rights Act. In any case, confusion will reign, and confusion reduces turnout.



As a “journalist” Glenn W. Smith utterly fails. With just two phone calls, I was able to talk to Randall Dillard at the Texas Secretary of State’s office who said that Secretary of State Hope Andrade has spoken to officials in Harris County and has pledged the support of her office and the muscle of the State of Texas to find enough voting machines for the Houston area for November. They have a plan to borrow machines from the 100 other counties that share that technology, get loaned machines from the vendor and will provide any other assistance necessary to ensure a fair and accessible election. See Glenn, all it takes is some actual journalistic work to find that the Texas (run by a Republican Rick Perry) is not going to suppress voter turnout, but is instead bending over backwards to ensure that everyone is allowed to vote without a great deal of disturbance.



Smith didn’t stop with his accusations at just voter suppression, he also claimed that the Right, specifically True the Vote, is racist. As is standard Democrat practice these days, whenever you disagree with them, or work against a policy or political initiative they are supporting, you are immediately racist. What’s his basis for this? Well the head of True the Vote is white, and as he says, “a video on their website pictures only people of color when it talks of voter fraud.” The video is linked here, and embedded below. I want you to go to the 2:10 mark in the video and look at who is holding the ACORN sign behind the speakers head. Who is that in the middle of the screen Glenn? A white lady. Sure, there are African-Americans in the picture, but there are also whites, however, Smith tends to ignore things that don’t support his argument.



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Liberal hacks like Glenn W. Smith will, sadly it seems, continue to hurl baseless accusations at the Right in order to stir up trouble. After all, Democrats need something to excite their base for 2010, which polls show are less enthused about the election than conservatives. More specifically, Smith is trying to help Democrat Gubernatorial nominee Bill White, whose well funded campaign has been plastering the airwaves and newspapers with old fashioned mud-slinging in an effort to beat up on Rick Perry. Despite all that money and effort, White still lags in the polls, but hey, if Smith can fire up the liberal base in Texas by falsely claiming that the racist right is trying to burn their way back into office, then why not