The ACVR story deepens....

As we have noted earlier, the American Center For Voting Rights, an allegedly "non-partisan" group operating as a 501(c)3, is operating very much like a G.O.P. front organization. Brad Friedman compared it to Jeff Gannon's Talon News, which was a front for Bobby Eberle's GOPUSA, which (I have argued) may in turn be a front for Reverend Moon.

Now the Why Are We Back in Iraq blog has uncovered a possible further indicator that ACVR and GOPUSA are two peas in a pod. (Scroll down until you see the words "Separated at Birth?")

Brad Friedman has fastened onto this tale like a bulldog worrying a bone. I strongly advise you to read his interview with ACVR honcho Jim Dyke, who cannot begin to disguise the partisan nature of his work. Dyke blithely ignores or tosses aside all of the legitimate worries about the 2004 election: Paper-less computerized voting, voting machine companies run by men with ties to the Republican Party, the damning exit poll disparity, the Conyers report, Blackwell's proven criminality, Secretaries of State who also function as G.O.P. state campaign heads, long lines in minority districts, the thousands of reports of "machine errors" which register false votes for Bush but never for Kerry, and so forth.

Dyke claims that long lines in Ohio occurred "everywhere" -- a lie.

Instead, ACVR emphasizes one incessant Republican spin point: The alleged "problem" of false registration forms. Of course, anyone can send in a registration form for a corpse; this tactic provides a afe and effective way for Republicans to frame the Democrats for a crime they never committed.

As I've mentioned previously, manufacturing a "scandal" along these lines will help the Republicans harass poor voters in the next election. The goal, I am convinced, is to make voting a privilege available only to those who can provide two forms of identification. Just like holding a bank account.

Brad noted an oddity about ACVR's origins: Dyke says that the organization has its home in Charleston, South Carolina, but the Internic info lists for AVCR -- which, as you know, sprang into existence just recently, like Venus from the head of Zeus -- lists an address in Texas. To be specific: 8409 Pickwick Lane, #299, in Dallas. This happens to be the address of a Mail boxes, Etc.

Curious. Perhaps even shady. Refresh my memory -- isn't domain name registration information supposed to include an actual street address, not just a drop box?