Illinois blogger Archpundit has the audiotape of Mark Kirk proudly boasting how he is funding the largest voter intimidation program in the past 15 years.
Where The Other Side Might Be Tempted to Jigger the Numbers Somewhat
So what areas of Illinois will this "largest ever" program target?
Southwest side of Chicago
Rockford
Metro East
...conveniently, the largest concentrations of minority voters in the entire state.
There isn't much more that is "news" about this except how people are already beginning to react.
One local voter stated:
This is pure dog whistle politics. He's telling his base that he's invested more money than anyone in 15 years in voter intimidation and he's clearly talking about areas of the state where there are minority voters. This is blatant.
Archpundit continues:
You see, only black people try and cheat.
Repeatedly it has been demonstrated that there is no appreciable vote fraud in terms of people voting twice or for someone else so there is one purpose to such an effort–trying to suppress black voters. That he is only concentrating on areas with significant African-American voting population is pretty telling and disturbing. There’s your moderate Mark Kirk playing the same old doq whistle politics.
I'm sure if this gains some traction, Captain Kirk will simply "misremember it wrong" as he has done with all his resume self-exaggerations.