TPMmuckraker’s favorite voter-suppression guru, Hans Von Spakovsky, is back in the saddle.
As you might remember, Spakovsky, a northern Virginia resident, was appointed earlier this year to a seat on the three-member Fairfax County Board of Elections, after a stint as a consultant to the US Commission on Civil Rights. And this week, Spakovsky and the board’s other Republican member sparked outrage by voting to direct the BoE registrar to not distribute voter registration forms in languages other than English.*It’s unclear what the stated rationale for the move is. Neither Spakovsky nor Carol Ann Coryell, the other board member who voted for the change, immediately responded to requests for comment.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=128148