von Spakovsky wants to watch over federal elections. Isn’t there someone else?

This post has been simmering for a few days. The first draft had to be thrown out because of the curse words. Listen I got nothing against Republicans. Yeah we disagree on everything under the sun but I’m not in the “if you live in a red state you are evil” camp. That type of logic gets us nowhere and diminishes what evil really is. With that disclaimer out of the way, Hans A. von Spakovsky does not need to be near anything related to elections.

In January ’06 von Spakovsky was given a recess appointment to the Federal Elections Committee. Before that he served in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department (the place where politics trumped the law) and when it comes to voting rights there are accusations von Spakovsky is a partisan who doesn’t mind voting as long as the ballot goes Republican.

He, and three others, have been nominated to serve on the FEC , but the Senate’s Rule Committee passed their names to the Senate without offering any type of recommendation. The scuttlebutt is the Committee did this because the Dems have concerns with von Spakovsky.

Now von Spakovsky has his supporters, but from where I stand he does not need to be involved in making sure elections are fair.