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Reports of voter registration fraud are coming fast and furious out of these six (and counting) states. They are linked to the Republican Party and the Romney campaign. Not just a few lowly rogue staffers, but the GOP establishment.
It started in Palm Beach County, Fla. (what a shock). An election official turned over 109 questionable signatures on voter registration forms to the state attorney general last week. More suspicious signatures were found in eight other Florida counties. Now word of the fraud is spreading even as the Republican Party cuts all ties to the company perpetrating the alleged misdeeds.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
The controversy in Florida -- which began with possibly fraudulent forms that first cropped up in Palm Beach County -- has engulfed the Republican National Committee, which admitted Thursday that it urged state parties in seven swing states to hire the firm, Strategic Allied Consulting.The RNC paid the company at least $3.1 million -- routed through the state parties of Florida, Nevada, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia -- to register voters and run get-out-the-vote operations. Wisconsin and Ohio had not yet paid the firm for get-out-the-vote operations it was contracted to do.Sproul's sleazy reputation was well-known to the Republican National Committee, the L.A. Times reports:
But his reputation is such that when Sproul was tapped by the RNC to do field work this year, officials requested that he set up a new firm to avoid being publicly linked to the past allegations, Sproul told The Times. The firm was set up at a Virginia address, and Sproul does not show up on the corporate paperwork.The Brad Blog reports Sproul wasn't the only perp. Brad Blog reports Democrats were screened out from registration drives in other states.
The way it's done: lying to potential registrants about a "voter survey," rather than disclosing that workers are actually there to register voters --- but only Republican-leaning ones. The deceptive tactic has so far been seen this year in several of the five battleground states where the RNC's controversial, and potentially criminal, $3 million registration program was scuttled late last week...
The BRAD BLOG has also collected evidence suggesting that the dishonest registration tactic also appears to be in use in states where the RNC's firm, Strategic Allied Consulting, is not said to be operating, suggesting that the practice is not just one used by the discredited firm, but, rather, a nationwide voter scheme by the GOP.In Riverside County, Calif., 133 residents filed complaints that they were unwillingly registered as Republicans.
WePartyPatriots tells us,
The state’s Republican Party has spent $430,840 for voter registration and petition gathering to a company named “Grassroots Outreach LLC” which shares an address with Sproul’s office in Arizona and uses the same tactics that gained him infamy in the 2004 election.We also learn that in Colorado Springs,
...a woman shopping at the local Safeway noticed that a teenage girl was registering only voters who said they would likely vote for Romney. She then videotaped her own encounter with the girl via her cell phone. The video (here), shows the girl admitting she was only trying to get registrations for one candidate.It turns out the teenagers worked for Strategic Allied Consulting.
WePartyPatriots notes Indiana may take the cake:
...the hypocrisy runs thick as the Secretary of State himself was caught illegally voting in 10 straight elections using the address of his ex-wife.
The story made some news in February, but it is being revisited now leaving many Indianans wondering how to trust a man with an election when he himself has a history of voter fraud...
