The original report on fraud cites "evidence of some continued outright intimidation and suppression" of voters by local officials, especially in some Native American communities, while the final report says only that voter "intimidation is also a topic of some debate because there is little agreement concerning what constitutes actionable voter intimidation."

The original report said most experts believe that "false registration forms have not resulted in polling place fraud," but the final report says "registration drives by nongovernmental groups are a source of fraud."

Native American communities also is a common theme from the U.S. Attorney firing scandal.  mswsm has written twice on the DOJ Native American Issues Subcommittee (NAIS) being gutted as five of the fired U.S. Attorneys including the chair are gone.  See USAs: Disruption of Corruption Investigation via Committee? Chiara and Ryan and USAgate: Disruption in Corruption Investigations-- NAIS, ABRAMOFF, ROVE AND CHENEY for more background.

Read the full piece in the NYT and add your thoughts.  More to come later on the history of this report that isn't in the article.