Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Candidate Fraud?

Florida's Republican leaders have become notorious for being fixated on "voter fraud" and thus requiring voters provide photo id and other such strategies that really serve to disenfranchise poor and minority citizens.


Now comes news, via the WaPo's style page of all places, that a prominent former Florida Republican senator Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV has appeared on the ballot numerous times under the nickname "Connie Mack." Interesting that Florida doesn't require candidates to be listed on the ballot under their legal names and allows them to be identified by the name of their choosing. All while demanding that the very citizens who will vote for these candidates jump through more hoops to prove their identity than the office holders themselves.

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