This is how it works today: In an ostensible hunt for voter fraud, a Tea Party group, True the Vote, descends on a largely minority precinct and combs the registration records for the slightest misspelling or address error.
The law, a maneuver by Republican legislators to suppress the Democratic vote, was enacted for the ostensible reason of diminishing voter fraud, although conservatives could cite only one such instance of such fraud in the state's history.
Seeking loopholes in federal law, Mr. Husted and his counterparts are pressing their case for the ostensible purpose of combating voter fraud and maintaining electoral integrity.
The ostensible goal is to prevent welfare fraud, but the psychological impact is to turn poverty itself into a kind of crime.
In an age of at least ostensible government regulation, no truly massive corporate fraud scheme can be perpetrated without government complicity, discernable as either a bewildering set of decisions or inexplicable complacency.
Since Republicans captured a swath of state legislatures in 2010, civil rights groups have been fighting a flood of new voting restrictions that were enacted for the ostensible purpose of preventing almost non-existent voter fraud.
Since Republicans captured a swath of state legislatures in 2010, civil rights groups have been fighting a flood of new voting restrictions that were enacted for the ostensible purpose of preventing almost non-existent voter fraud.
The government believes that education should be politicised: it wants to inculcate "Bolivarian" values (for Simón Bolívar, the Venezuelan-born Latin American independence hero who is Mr Chávez's ostensible inspiration).Mr Rosales quashed moves by radical anti-Chávez groups to take to the streets alleging a non-existent fraud.
The ostensible reason was that Mr Nica, who represents a junior partner in the coalition, had groundlessly alleged that a huge electoral fraud was being planned in the presidential election due on November 22nd.
The ostensible reason — get this!
At least, ostensible ones.
