http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/us/politics/groups-like-true-the-vote-are-looking-very-closely-for-voter-fraud.html
New
York Times
17
September 2012
Conservative
Groups Focus on Registration in Swing States
By
STEPHANIE SAUL
It
might as well be Harry Potter's invisible Knight Bus, because no one can prove
it exists.
The
bus has been repeatedly cited by True the Vote, a national group focused on
voter fraud. Catherine Engelbrecht, the group's leader, told a gathering in
July about buses carrying dozens of voters showing up at polling places during
the recent Wisconsin recall election.
"Magically,
all of them needed to register and vote at the same time," Ms. Engelbrecht
said. "Do you think maybe they registered falsely under false pretenses?
Probably so."
Weeks
later, another True the Vote representative told a meeting of conservative
women about a bus seen at a San Diego polling place in 2010 offloading people
"who did not appear to be from this country."
Officials
in both San Diego and Wisconsin said they had no evidence that the
buses were real. "It's so stealthy that no one is ever able to get a
picture and no one is able to get a license plate," said Reid Magney, a
spokesman for the Wisconsin agency that
oversees elections. In some versions the bus is from an Indian reservation; in
others it is full of voters from Chicago or Detroit. "Pick your
minority group," he said.
The
buses are part of the election fraud gospel according to True the Vote, which
is mobilizing a small army of volunteers to combat what it sees as a force out
to subvert elections. [...]
In
Racine, conservative poll watchers also alleged
fraud, including a claim that a busload of union members from Michigan
had come to Wisconsin
to vote illegally. The Racine County Sheriff's Department determined that the
accusation had been based on an anonymous call to a radio station.
"There
is no evidence this bus convoy existed or ever arrived in Racine County,"
the Sheriff's Office said.
As
for the buses her organization saw in Wisconsin,
Ms. Engelbrecht could not provide details. "It was reported to us that
this had occurred," she said. "I know these sightings were also being
reported on the radio." [...]
