McCain Strategist Admits Voter Fraud ‘Doesn’t Really Exist’

[highplainsdem]

Source: ThinkProgress

Steve Schmidt, a former senior strategist to Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) 2008 presidential campaign, admitted that widespread voter fraud doesn’t exist in the United States and claimed that the GOP-backed voter ID laws are based on “mythology.”

Appearing on MSNBC on Monday morning, Schmidt derided the hysteria surrounding ineligible voters casting ballots:

SCHIMDT: I think that one of the things you always want to be for whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, you want everyone who is eligible to vote to vote. That’s how you want to win elections. I think that all of this stuff that has transpired over the last two years is in search of a solution to a problem, voting fraud, that doesn’t really exist when you look deeply at the question. It’s part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that there’s widespread voter fraud across the country. In fact, there’s not. Both sides are lawyered up to the nth degree and they’ll all posture back and forth on it but it probably won’t come down to lawyers.

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Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/11/05/1139141/mccain-strategist-admits-voter-fraud-doesnt-really-exist/

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[Iliyah]

1. Yes it does and the sole perpetrator is the

GOP party of Hate!

[BeyondGeography]

2. Only at the GOP state level

[codjh9]

3. Glad he admitted it, because it's been a crock since Day 1.

[justiceischeap]

4. He's right, voter fraud is a "myth" but Republican election fraud...

now that's a whole other tale.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. This guy is in so much trouble now.

[WillyT]

6. K & R !!!

[George II]

7. He didn't "admit" it, nor he have to, he never embraced the concept of "voter fraud".....

...........in the context that voter IDs were necessary to prevent "voter fraud" in the first place.

[Arkana]

8. For once, I hope Steve Schmidt's right.

I don't want to have to wait until the end of November to find out if Mitt Romney's going to steal the election.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Yeah, I just saw "Game Change".

This is the idiot who thrust Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods on us and the World. I hope he's right, too, because when he's wrong, hoo boy!

[hifiguy]

15. Not really. Bill Kristol's crush on Mooselini

is what put her name in play back in 2008. Grampa Simpson got all pouty when he couldn't have Moldy Joe LIEberman as his running mate and Kristol pushed hard for Grifterella. Schmidt more or less got stuck with her.

[emulatorloo]

17. Thanks for that history! Didn't know that, been blaming Schnmidt.

[Bohunk68]

9. Of all of the repub talking heads,

Steve Schmidt has seemed to be the realist amongst the lot and far more honest than most of the Repubs. I know, I used honest and Repub in the same sentance. Mea cullpa. Some of his remarks during the debates shocked me, coming from a Repub.

[freshwest]

11. No soup for you, Steve! Recrimination and retribrution coming in 3... 2... 1...

The GOP anyone who gets out of lock-step, er, line...

[decrepittex]

12. voter fraud

Oh boy, Faux news is going to be upset with this guy. According to Faux news about every third voter is commiting fraud.

[Coyotl]

13. Why aren't they discussing the Republican ballot tampering in Oregon?

Coincidence? if this was in the last few days?? Watch this hand over here. Don't look over there. No election theft goin' on, really.

[RedCloud]

14. It 'exists" to the extent they can voter suppress with it.

[virgdem]

16. Voter fraud=Election fraud...

I have believed for some time that the so called "voter fraud" issue that pukes have been banging the drum about is really a cover for the widespread "election fraud" that they've been practicing for several years. I never believed that voter fraud was a problem, but that repukes have created a "problem" where non existed.