Do Dogs Vote in St. Louis? Senators Spar over the Need for Voters to Show Photo ID

But the DOJ's dodge was made less effective when David Iglesias, former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, testified. Iglesias was one of eight U.S. Attorneys fired in late 2006 for failing to use their offices as partisan tools of the Bush administration.

Iglesias was one of the more aggressive U.S. Attorneys on the issue of vote fraud, convening an election fraud task force in 2004 and reviewing more than 100 complaints, none of which yielded enough evidence to prosecute. Only one case turned up some evidence worthy of follow up, but ultimately, Iglesias judged that the case was not provable. Thus two years of diligent hunting for voter fraud cases in New Mexico produced zero prosecutions.

"I looked for voter fraud," Iglesias said. "I wanted to prosecute voter fraud. But the evidence was not there."