HOUSTON, TEXAS — When you talk about conservatives who rail against the supposed scourge of voter fraud and support voter identification laws that many expert say depress turnout among Democratic-leaning constituencies, there’s a few big names that invariably come up.There’s John Fund, the Wall Street Journal columnist who wrote an entire book on the matter. There’s Hans von Spakovsky, the former Bush Justice Department official who supported allowing a voter ID law in Georgia to be cleared by the feds over the objections of career staffers in the Civil Rights Division voting section, who believed it could dilute the minority vote. There’s Andrew Breitbart, the conservative behind the series of “Big” websites, who helped promote the undercover videos by James O’Keefe that brought down the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN).
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