Bush Administration signals it will intervene in election if necessary

I guess the Bush Administration has interpreted the Constitution to provide for the King...uh..."president"...to appoint his successor regardless of pesky things like voters:

President Bush is asking the Justice Department to look into whether 200,000 Buckeye State poll-goers must use provisional ballots on Election Day because their names do not match state databases.

White House spokesman Carlton Carroll confirmed Friday that the president will forward a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey from House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), requesting that the Justice Department look into whether the state’s voter rolls comply with the Help America Vote Act.

In a letter dated on Friday, the House GOP leader wrote that with Election Day “less than two weeks away, immediate action by the Department is not only warranted, but also crucial.”

“I respectfully request that you use your authority to direct Attorney General Michael Mukasey and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate these actions and direct the appropriate authorities in each state to comply with the Section 303 requirements of HAVA,” Boehner wrote.

“Unless action is taken by the Department immediately, thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands, of names whose information has not been verified through the HAVA procedures mandated by Congress will remain on voter rolls during the November 4, 2008 election; and there is a significant risk — if not a certainty, that unlawful votes will be cast and counted.”

Meanwhile, U.S. attorneys have been fired for not investigating so-called "voter fraud" that never existed, and not once has any of these Republicans who think that "Help America Vote" only applies to what they regard as "Real America" (read: REPUBLICAN America) ever cited even ONE actual case since they started braying about "voter fraud" in 2000, of anyone who wasn't registered or who wasn't eligible to vote actually succeeding in voting. This is a manufactured "issue" designed to play into the fears of Red America about hordes of brown-skinned people flocking to the polls to vote their own interests instead of the interests of White America™ -- as if people's interests somehow diverge with skin color.