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Blackwell Finally Testifies in OH as a New 'Voters Rights' Group Appears 'Talon News-style' out of Nowhere...

Director of 4-Day Old Group Called as Expert Witness along with Blackwell in U.S. House Hearings Yesterday.

Blogged by Brad
3/22/2005 @ 12:50pm PT

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As well, a Republican operative by the name of Mark F. (Thor) Hearne was also called as a "Witness" to discuss Election Reform issues despite fronting an organization, the so-called "American Center for Voting Rights" which suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the web just last Thursday.

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We hope to find more information on yesterday's hearings, of which we are highly dubious. If only because one of the "witnesses" scheduled to testify was to be a member of the American Center for Voting Rights, a Dallas TX group which seems to have sprung up out of nowhere -- just in time for the hearings -- and which is clearly tied to Republican Party operatives.

The ACVR established their website just last Thursday -- 4 days ago -- on March 17th, 2005.

The director of the supposedly non-partisan 501(c)3 organization scheduled to testify as a witness at yesterday's hearing was Mark F. (Thor) Hearne. Hearne is listed on the site as "National Election Counsel to Bush-Cheney ’04 and Missouri counsel to Bush-Cheney ‘00" amongst other very Republican credentials.

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