Phony "voter rights" group hooks ABC News

I was surprised to find this item today in The Note, a daily roundup prepared by the political unit of ABC News:

Later today, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman will respond to a report on voter fraud in the 2004 election from American Center for Voting Rights.

"I strongly support your proposal of a zero-tolerance policy toward election fraud and intimidation, and I would encourage Chairman Dean and the Democrat Party to do the same. The position of the Republican National Committee is simple: we will not tolerate fraud; we will not tolerate intimidation; we will not tolerate suppression. No employee, associate, or any person representing the Republican Party who engages in these kinds of acts will remain in that position. Republicans do not need to resort to fraud and intimidation to win, and no Republican who does deserves victory," writes Mehlman in his letter to the report's authors.

As reported here -- and many other places -- last week, the group is a Republican front organization, through and through. No Wisconsin media took the bait when the group issued a phony report last week. I'm surprised that ABC news has been hooked.

Here's the latest unmasking of the group, by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Worth a read.