Editor,

Thanks to Alanis Morrisette’s song, “Ironic,” I’m no longer so sure I know what irony means. But it’s got to be ironic, or moronic, or something that the Republican Tea Party, who back in the days of the GOP committed voter fraud in broad daylight down in Florida, is currently on yet another indignant rampage crying VOTER FRAUD! in state after state where voter fraud is virtually non-existent.

The following was published by the Washington Post on Sunday, November 12, 2000; Page A22:

“DELAND, Fla., Nov. 11 - Something very strange happened on election night to Deborah Tannenbaum, a Democratic Party official in Volusia County. At 10 p.m., she called the county elections department and learned that Al Gore was leading George W. Bush 83,000 votes to 62,000. But when she checked the county’s Web site for an update half an hour later, she found a startling development: Gore’s count had dropped by 16,000 votes, while an obscure Socialist candidate had picked up 10,000 – all because of a single precinct with only 600 voters.”