Miscellaneous News.

Well isn't this surprising--not:

Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott, who said two years ago Texas faced an epidemic of vote fraud, has prosecuted 26 cases since then and all against Democrats, most of them blacks or Hispanics, according to a published report.

The cases have usually resulted in small fines and little or no jail time, The Dallas Morning News reported in Sunday's editions.

The newspaper said none of the cases involved large schemes with the potential to tip elections.

Democrats accused Abbott of conducting a partisan campaign to intimidate minority voters.

No kidding.
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The Plot

to screw Democrats over began far sooner than Gonzalesgate:

One of the aims of the abortive purge of U.S. attorneys was to punish those who refused to toe the line on the new emphasis on alleged voter fraud. A few fired prosecutors would serve as examples to the rest –- either move to criminalize the election process or face dismissal.

But the assault on voter fraud was a solution looking for a problem. As part of the Help America Vote Act, Republicans insisted on creating the Election Assistance Commission, which commissioned studies of the asserted problem. When the studies failed to turn up evidence of fraud nationwide, appointed Republican officials on the EAC insisted that the language say only that "there is a great deal of debate on the pervasiveness of fraud in elections" -- the same approach to inconvenient evidence that's made the Bush global-warming policy the envy of the world.

Well,

they were only looking for Democratic fraud.

There's plenty on the Republican side.