Voter fraud tied to Republicans in several states
A consulting firm hired by the Republican Party to register voters in several states has been accused of voter fraud in Florida and Colorado and is under investigation in Virginia. A video shows a worker claiming to represent the county election commission telling a woman that she has been instructed to register only voters who will vote for Romney. Numerous registration applications in south Florida have been discovered with fictitious names and addresses. Massive voter fraud?
http://www.thenation.com/blog/170198/gop-quietly-hires-firm-tied-voter-fraud-scandal-work-battleground-states
I have read the reference in addition to the article by Mick.
ReplyDeleteIf true (and there is evidence which supports this contention) then it is beyond belief to an ancient Aussie. The sad part of course is that there is a great danger that this practice will be aped by the opposing party. In fact perhaps both have been guilty of the practice in the past.
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The early child care center is the house and senate and the WH today populated by both US political parties.
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The RNC has since fired Strategic Allied Consulting, which was also conducting voter registration drives for the party in Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina and Virginia. But this is a humiliating episode for the party because it has made such a big deal in the past about fighting voter fraud allegedly perpetrated by Democrats. In 2008 it blasted the grass roots organization ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) for hiring 11 workers who submitted hundreds of fraudulent voter registration forms in Florida. Now it's being accused of doing essentially the same thing.
ReplyDeletemick,
DeleteIs there a difference?
The GOP fired the firm. The DNC never fired Acorn and the Dem's still support the remnants of Acorn today.
But then again, no matter what the circumstances, the Demorats will always find fault with the GOP yet ignore the dirt in their own house. Example is DHS refusing to cooperate with states trying to remove the dead people from their voter rolls. But then again, a dead vote is as good as a live vote isn't it.
The DNC never fired Acorn. I don't believe the DNC ever hired Acorn either. Acorn was doing the voter registration on their own iniative and they did fire the 11 workers who submitted the forged registration applications. The RNC obviously were not directly responsinble for the current incidents either. The contractor, Strategic Allied Consulting, appears to be solely responsible for the illegal incidents. Given all that, the two incidents are eerily similar. The hooplah wouldn't be so great if the Republicans hadn't made such a great self congraulatory pronouncement about being the party of integrity. Turns out they are all politicians of the same feather, Democrat or Republican, more alike than different.
Deletemick,
DeleteThe hooplah wouldn't be so great if the Republicans hadn't made such a great self congraulatory pronouncement about being the party of integrity.
If they didn't know about it, and Strategic was solely responsible, how could you blame the Republicans? That make no sense.
Acorn wasn't an issue prior to the election, it became an issue after the election. The DNC didn't fire ACORN. They received massive government subsidies (Democrat congress) which were finally suspended.
You are quite right, there is little difference between the 2 parties.
exactly Louman, Republicans clean up their messes. Democrats sweep em under the rug... or sand in some flea bitten town in Libya.
ReplyDeleteWow, that latest batch of hydroponic pot you are growing in your Mom's basement must be KICKIN!
DeleteRepublicans only clean up their messes when they are embarrassed into doing so. This is not to say that Democrats are really any different.
Here's why I blame the RNC:
ReplyDeleteThe contractor in Florida is called Strategic Allied Consulting, a business entity created a few months ago and registered online by a former Arizona Republican Party director named Nathan Sproul.
Sproul, a consultant based in Tempe, is infamous for accusations that his firms have committed fraud by tampering with Democratic voter registration forms and suppressing votes. Sproul was hired by the Romney campaign for a period of five months that began last November and ended in March. But now there’s evidence that the payments continued, only to a different name.
As Greg Flynn of BlueNC pointed out earlier this month, Strategic Allied Consulting recently put up a proxy to hide the fact that its website was registered by Sproul; but not before Flynn took a screen shot. Flynn notes that the firm has been aggressively hiring in Nevada, North Carolina, Virginia and Florida. He flagged two large payments to the firm from GOP committees in Florida and North Carolina.