Fighting voter fraud....oh yea, it's Democratic voter fraud so there is a problem

For years academics, journalist, etc have lamented people won't get off their dead asses and do something about society's problems. So in 2009 people did and these same academics, journalists, etc were horrified that America's unwashed were getting off their dead asses and doing something about the day's issues. The TEA Party was a grassroots movement against the abuses of the leftist who control the Democratic party and who had uncontrolled power in 2009.

One part of this was sending poll watchers to insure there were no irregularities at Houston area (read Democratic) voting areas. Now the Houston Chronicle which editorializes for people to get involved in the political process is excited about that right? Not exactly.

Tea partiers confer in Houston to fight vote fraud

"There are only so many protests you can go to," Spring romance novelist Barbara Smith said Friday night, explaining between speeches in the ballroom of a suburban Houston hotel why in 2009 she joined the King Street Patriots, a local tea party group and got active as a poll watcher in 2010. She was among some 350 people from 32 states who signed up for a two-day True the Vote conference devoted to recognizing and rooting out election fraud.

A controversial project of the King Street Patriots, founded in 2009 by Richmond resident Catherine Engelbrecht, True the Vote trained some 700 poll watchers to look for voting irregularities in the 2010 election. Its volunteers combined to send 800 complaints of improper voting to Harris County officials, who investigated a few but ultimately took no legal action.

Poll watching was a new experience for Smith, the author of 28 historical romances. "I had never done anything like it in my life. I enjoyed it," she said.

Those being watched were not so pleased. The King Street effort resulted in numerous complaints about voter intimidation, particularly in minority neighborhoods, as well as a lawsuit filed by the Texas Democratic Party, an ethics complaint from the watchdog group Texans for Public Justice and an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. (Attorney General Eric Holder is the group's bête noire)...

What is the bigger joke? The fact Eric Holder is the Attorney General or the fact his "Justice Department" investigated a group working against voter fraud in Harris county after they let the Black Panthers slip.

...Engelbrecht, 42, has not been deterred. She told the weekend gathering that True the Vote anticipates training 1 million poll watchers around the country for this year's election. The group also pressures counties to purge their voting rolls of duplications and the dead.

"True the Vote is very much a roll-up-your-sleeve, get-down-in-the-trenches kind of job. And that's what it's going to take to turn the country around," she told the Houston gathering. "It's going to take all of us doing all we can to put our country on the right track."

Like Smith, the romance novelist, most of the attendees were from the Houston area, although William Ames Cutright, 67, a scientist and frequent candidate for governor of Oregon, said he came to Houston to visit with "Tom DeLay, my friend." He said he also hoped to learn how to combat "election fraud in Oregon, which is huge."...

...Longtime political strategist and Fox News analyst Patrick Caddell - "a Democrat until the day I die" - said he first observed voter fraud when the George McGovern's presidential campaign was victimized in Ohio in 1972.

"The question about Voter ID is the biggest lie in history," said Caddell, whose full-throated remarks Friday night roused the crowd...

Purging Democratic districts of the dead. That might take some doing since many voters in Chicago have had voters voting for generations after their death. Something like a reverse of the end of days.

But again this article seems conceded that conservatives are looking at voter fraud in Democrat districts. If this was an object news source shouldn't it be applauding the efforts of these people and asking the other local community activists to join in their efforts?