The idea of massive voter fraud is itself a massive fraud.
The following extracts are from “The Suffrage Clause in the New Constitution of Louisiana,” by Amasa M. Eaton, Harvard Law Review (1899). The intentions of racist lawmakers in 1899 have found new life in Trump's voter fraud commission.
(Louisiana legislators, 1898)
Lieutenant-Governor Snyder: “I am in favor of the proposition that every white man shall vote because he is white, and no black man shall vote because he is black. We cannot put in these words, but we can attain that result (compare to Trump's new voter fraud commission).”
President Kruttschnitt: “Doesn't it meet the case? Doesn't it let the white man vote, and doesn't it stop the negro from voting, and isn't that what we came here for?” (Applause.)
Mr. Sanders: “We are here to write in the organic law of Louisiana that the white men shall always rule this state.” (Applause.)
Mr. Boatner: “Will Mr. Breazeale permit me to suggest that the committee was seeking in this, in a general way, the exclusion of all the negroes and the inclusion of the whites.”
Judge Semmes: “We proclaimed at least in my part of the state that we were coming to establish the ascendancy of the white race, and to see to it that no white man should be disfranchised.”
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