A Washington Post Op-Ed this morning debunks the perennial charge of “voter fraud.”

My favorite line:

Or consider Washington state, where McKay closely watched the photo-finish gubernatorial election of 2004. A challenge to ostensibly noncitizen voters was lodged in April 2005 on the questionable basis of “foreign-sounding names.”

The White House has claimed at least a handful of the fired US attornies were terminated over their lack of zealousness in pursuing voter fraud claims (as TPM has obsessively documented).

But an investigation into voter fraud based on “foreign-sounding names”??

Perhaps it’s a limited anecdote in the middle of an otherwise very broad issue, but charges like this only manage to marry hyper-partisan smear jobs with blatant political racism.

And this is why these dudes was getting fired? Me oh my.