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Republicans in the Senate are refusing to allow an up-or-down vote on nominations to the FEC, which means that at the end of the year when the terms of four current appointees end — including previously recess-appointed GOP “vote fraud” zealot Hans von Spakovsy — there will not be enough commissioners to even hold a vote. An interesting, if troubling, notion for a Presidential Election year.<\/p>\n
But, as the GOP would not allow votes on the three other nominees (two Democrats and one Republican) after a block had been put on von Spakovsky by Senators Obama (D-IL) and Feingold (D-WI)<\/a>, and as Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) plans to hold pro forma<\/i> Senate sessions<\/a> to keep Bush from making another inappropriate recess appointment to the committee, and as Bush also refuses to send up a replacement nominee for von Spakovsky…it looks like that’s where we’re headed.<\/p>\n TPM Muck has the story<\/a>, and Reid’s statement on the floor today.<\/p>\n So it looks like another GOP vote fraudster goes down for now, now that Democrats have chosen to stand up a bit, for a change. But like all of these guys — and like any good Bond villain — they may not stay “dead” for long.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/JohnTanner_HouseHearings_WontLeave.jpg\")
RELATED:<\/strong> Speaking of which, our DoJ Voting Rights section sources tell us John “Minorities Die First”<\/a> Tanner has still<\/i> not left the office<\/a>, as we originally reported in a late-night posting on Tuesday! That, despite having supposedly<\/i> “resigned immediately”<\/a> as of last Friday! What’s going on here? Is he deleting files on his computer? Was his whole resignation, and supposed reassignment<\/a> to another job in the Civil Rights Division, just a hoax to get Congress off the DoJ’s back? We’re trying to figure it out.<\/p>\n