During the November 2004 presidential election, a GOP operative claiming to have discovered vote rigging at a poll less than a mile from site of the NBPP current alleged intimidation incident reported his inaccurate "discovery" to the conservative Drudge Report website.
The early morning Drudge Report posting obligingly triggered intense media coverage that disrupted voting at that North Philadelphia polling place.
"It was hard for people to vote because there were so many reporters around here all day," the election judge at that poll told a reporter that day.
"We told that person who filed the [Drudge report] that there were no problems and showed him how the machines worked and the entire voting process. But he was arrogant and wouldn't listen. I guess he felt we didn't know what we were doing and we were trying to help elect Kerry."
Breitbart, the person behind the doctored ACORN and Sherrod attack videos,once served as an editor at the Drudge Report.
Lying behind this latest right-wing effort to attack the NBPP, and through it, the Obama administration is this reality: The George W. Bush Administration pursued significantly fewer voting rights violation cases than previous administrations and the Bush Administration purged experienced voting rights personnel from the Justice Department, replacing them with people exhibiting strong conservative credentials but little civil rights experience.
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