I do not remember hearing about this convention until Dave Weigel’s Slate post today…
John Fund, the reporter and freelance pro-voter-ID speaker, encouraged the morning audience at Herman Cain’s “Solutions Revolution” to mark April 27-28 on their calendars. On that weekend, the Tea Party spinoff group True the Vote will hold its second annual summit on election fraud — or, at least, the threat of election fraud.
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The conference will feature some mainstays of the conservative voter integrity circuit. James O’Keefe; former DOJ lawyer/anti-New Black Panther crusader J. Christian Adams; and so on. But the star is Artur Davis, the former Democratic congressman from Alabama who has started irritating his old party by ringing bells about voter fraud…
Also among the promised “and so on“: Hans von Spakovsky and Tom Fitton:
Registering [poor people] to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country — which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote.
Yeah, I know there are many fine individuals living in the Houston area who aren’t professional liars, sociopaths and/or deluded paranoids. So I’ll settle for a weekend outbreak of a particularly virulent norovirus at the Sheraton Houston Brookhollow…
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