2006 Missouri Election Was Ground Zero for GOP

Six months after freshman Missouri Senator Jim Talent's defeat handed Democrats control of the US Senate, disclosures in the wake of the firings of eight US attorneys show that the Republican campaign to protect the balloting was not as it appeared. No significant voter fraud was ever proved. The preoccupation with ballot fraud in Missouri was part of a wider national effort that critics charge was aimed at protecting the Republican majority in Congress by dampening Democratic turnout.
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