A more obvious and lengthy process of getting the story straight I have never seen.

"Voter Fraud" my sweet Aunt Fanny. After Florida 2000, too. Chutzpah!

And why, oh why, does Pravda on the Potomac keep buying into Republican frames in the heads and the leads, and burying anything, er, factual deep in the story? The head and lead:

["]Voter-Fraud["] Complaints by GOP [Operatives] Drove Dismissals
Nearly half the U.S. attorneys slated for removal by the administration last year were targets of Republican complaints that they were lax on ["]voter fraud["], including efforts by presidential adviser Karl Rove to encourage more prosecutions of election- law violations, according to new documents and interviews.

Eight paragraphs down:

A draft report last year by the Election Assistance Commission, a bipartisan government panel that conducts election research, said that "there is widespread but not unanimous agreement that there is little polling place fraud."

That conclusion was played down in the panel's final report, which said only that the seriousness of the problem was debatable.

Gee, nice use of the passive voice, there--"was played down."

It's "debatable" only because the Republicans need "voter fraud" as a talking point and an excuse to fire any USA who doesn't make with the fuhrergefluffen. Period.