"Conspiring against the voters": 12/31/05 NY Times Editorial

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EDITORIAL: Conspiring Against the Voters
Published: December 31, 2005
President Bush has announced four nominees for the Federal Election Commission, moving to keep the policing of campaign abuses firmly in the hands of party wheel horses.
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The most objectionable nominee is Hans von Spakovsky ... reported to have been involved in the manoeuvering to overrule the career specialists who warned that the Texas gerrymandering orchestrated by Representative Tom DeLay violated minority voting rights. Senators need the opportunity to delve into that, as well as reports of Mr. von Spakovsky's involvement in such voting rights abuses as the purging of voter rolls in Florida in the 2000 elections.
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