The disagreement is in this earleir statement: (Emphasis mine)
Thomas wrote:That's why I asked for evidence from both sides. While I'm sure that there are both fraudulent voters and frustrated legitimate voters, I don't see much reason to think that either is a major problem in practice. The federal government doesn't hold all the data about elections, so evidence should be there even if Bush/Cheney withhold all the data they have.
My reading of that was that you think both sides have equal weight in their complaints. As Dys stated on the previous page, there isn't widespread proof of voter fraud, yet that seems to have caught on through the media as a legitimate complaint. It isn't. It has been hyped up in order to get passage of voter ID laws, purge voter rolls, etc.
Suppression of votes and manipulation of the count IS a problem and the proof you request is in the DOJ Civil Rights office, DOJ firing of US attorneys that wouldn't prosecute non-existant fraud cases, Ohio 2004, Ney, Hearn, Dyke, the Republican run voting machine companies, and on and on. The proof is just starting to come together.
So, If I read your previous comment correctly, our disagreement is whether there is much reason to think that either is a major problem in practice, and in stating it as if both complaints are equal.
Maybe I didn't read it right?
