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Subscribe to RSSA campaign worker linked to a controversial Republican consulting firm has been arrested in Virginia and charged with throwing voter registration forms into a dumpster.
The suspect, Colin Small, 31, was described by a local law enforcement official as a "supervisor" in a Republican Party financed operation to register voters in Rockingham County in rural Virginia, a key swing state in the Nov. 6 election. He was arrested after a local business owner in the same Harrisonburg, Va., shopping center where the local GOP campaign headquarters is located spotted Small tossing a bag into the trash, according to a statement Thursday by the Rockingham County Sheriff’s office. The bag was later found to contain eight voter registration forms, it said. The arrest was reported Thursday night by WWBT-TV in Richmond.
Colin Small
The case comes on the heels of a controversy last month over the activities of Strategic Allied Consulting, an Arizona based consulting firm that was paid $3 million by the Republican National Committee this year to register voters in five battleground states, including Virginia. The firm, run by veteran GOP operative Nathan Sproul, was recently fired by the RNC following reports that its workers had submitted hundreds of suspicious voter registration forms in Florida.
Sean Spicer, communications director for the RNC, told NBC News Thursday night that Small has now been fired as well, and that he had been directly employed by a payroll company called Pinpoint, which was previously used by Strategic Allied Consulting to pay workers for the GOP registration drive being run by the consulting company.
Related: RNC cuts ties with firm over voter fraud allegations
Small lists himself on his LinkedIn resume as a “Grassroots field director at Republican National Committee” from August 2012 to the present. But Spicer denied that Small was ever directly employed by the RNC and said he will be “told to take that down.” Small was reportedly in jail Thursday night and could not be reached for comment.
Strategic Allied Consulting also tried to distance itself from the arrested campaign worker. “The relationship between Strategic Allied and Colin Small ended on September 27th, when our firm stopped running voter registration programs in Virginia and other states. We had no contact with Small or any other voter registration worker at any point thereafter,” a spokesman for the firm said in a statement emailed to NBC News. “The reprehensible conduct it appears Small engaged in happened nearly three weeks later. Strategic Allied had nothing to do with such regrettable, illegal activity. We hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Spicer, the spokesman for the RNC, said that after the RNC and the Republican Party of Virginia severed their relationships with Strategic Allied Consulting, the state party continued to use some of the firm's same workers, including Small, by paying them through Pinpoint.
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“The actions taken by this individual are a direct contradiction of both his training and explicit instructions given to him,” said Pat Mullins, the chairman of the Virginia Republican Party, in a statement Thursday night. “The Republican Party of Virginia will not tolerate any action by any person that could threaten the integrity of our electoral process."
The Rockingham County Sheriff’s office said that, after an investigation and "lengthy" consultations with local prosecutors, Small was arrested and charged with eight felony counts and four misdemeanors under Virginia voter fraud laws and one misdemeanor count of obstruction of justice. “There is no indication that this activity was widespread in our jurisdiction; it appears to be very limited in nature but there is the possibility that additional charges may be filed in the future if it is deemed appropriate,” said the statement from Rockingham County Sheriff Bryan Hutcheson.
It is not clear what motive Small might have had for throwing away the registration forms. Voters in Virginia do not register by party so there is no way to know whether the recovered registration forms were from Democratic or Republican voters. One GOP source said that a campaign worker could be tempted to throw away forms that have incomplete information since there are penalties under Virginia law for not submitting completed registration forms within 15 days after they are signed. It could not be determined Thursday night if the forms allegedly tossed by Small were incomplete.
Sproul’s companies have been accused by Democrats in the past of engaging in tactics aimed at suppressing voter turnout, including throwing away Democratic registration forms. Sproul has denied any wrongdoing and no charges against his companies have been filed. But authorities in Florida said they are conducting a statewide investigation of Strategic Allied’s operations there following reports of suspicious registration forms submitted by its workers, including forms with phony addresses and similar looking signatures. Sproul blamed the suspicious forms on a few “bad apples” who were working for him.
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AGAIN???? Pathetic the only way the gop can win is CHEAT Throw the book at the FELONS and GOP!!!
romney campaign CONTINES to LIE CHEAT and STEAL!! that is their PLATFORM
DISGUSTING !!
The MESSAGE keeps getting CLEARER!!!!
Vote OBAMA/Biden 2012!!!
hahaha. another GOP hypocrite bites the dust
Read the article, dumba$$!!
They don't register by party in Virginia.
As if this doesn't happen with the Democrats. Both sides are as corrupt as the day long! Both parties need a good house cleaning, top to bottom!
well "fo olish", It is quite possible if the guy was registering voters, that he could have ascertained the way a person registering would vote. And why is it the GOP that suppresses the vote with absurd new ID laws, and are caught cheating while screaming about how concerned they are about cheating? You should consider changing parties.
GOP preaches about voter fraud that doesn't exist to surpress votes of those who will/might not vote for Romney/Republicans.
All that while:
the Republican Secretary of State was convicted of sic felony counts of voter fraud, theft, and perjury.
The RNC had paid the Strategic Allied Consulting $2.9 million in 2012 to conduct voter registration which is currently under investigation for possible voter fraud in three Florida counties. This wouldn't be as bad if Nathan Sproul, GOP consultant, has not been accused of tampering with Democratic voter registration forms over several election cycles across multiple states back in 2004.
Additionally, Federal Election Commission filings show that the Romney campaign made two payments for "Rent & Utilities" to Nathan Sproul's Lincoln Strategy Group in March 2012.
Registration of voters should be a federal responsibility. Every possible voter should be registered and the list maintained and updated. Then make voting mandatory with a fee of $100 for not voting. At current voting rates, that's $9 billion every 2 years. Hopefully a lot more people would vote. It is a duty and a privilege.
Great work NBC.... an article about an employee of sub contractor hired by a consulting company that itself had already been fired by the GOP.
"The firm, run by veteran GOP operative Nathan Sproul, was recently fired by the RNC following reports that its workers had submitted hundreds of suspicious voter registration forms in Florida....
he had been directly employed by a payroll company called Pinpoint, which was previously used by Strategic Allied Consulting to pay workers for the GOP registration drive being run by the consulting company"
The biggest difference is that the GOP fires people who attempt voter fraud, while Democrats recruit them.
Without a doubt they are as corrupt as a 3rd world country. The governor dismayed by the Supreme court ruling shortened the Poll timing as well as stuffing the ballot boxes. What is the FBI doing?. It better be fast or the horse will be out of the barn. Ohio is a must for the GOP croaks. I hope the country wakes ups before its too late. The Florida governor is next. Time to kick some ass.
The new definition of Republican is " desperation " . . . Yikes !
So they don't register by party. I'll bet that they all fit a specific demographic ( read race) and thus they were targeted.
It is sad that there are people out there that are trying to screw others out of their right to vote. The whole thing with making people have ID's was bad enough and that was a plan by the GOP to keep minorities out of the polls. This is even worse. It makes me sick. We all, no matter who you plan on voting for, have that right and it needs to be protected. This guy is a moron and I hope he spends time in jail. I will be voting for President Obama again. Anyone who is found to be trying to infringe on anyone's right to vote needs to be prosecuted...Including democrats and republicans. Bottom line.
foolishness abounds
so why throw out the registration forms - yeah, I know, they could have been "incoomplete"? Are you this naive to believe that the person who is willing to throw out registration forms would not be capable of asking a simple question to find out which way a person is leaning?
I would consider that this was just a misunderstanding, had this not happened in other states in 2012, and in 2004. One is a coincidence. More than one is a pattern.
This is only another indication of the desperation of the GOP/TP.
Reminiscent of the criminal activity in the Nixon/Watergate fiasco when GOP hoodlums were caught breaking and entering Democratic Headquarters.
If you can't win the honest way, hire some thugs to help out.
No wonder the Republicans seem to be obsessed with voter fraud. They're experts at it.
Roger - "The new definition of Republican is " desperation " . . . Yikes !"
You think creating a story about an employee of a sub-contractor hired by a consulting firm that itself was fired a month ago indicates desperation on the Republican side???? Wow.
The gullability of the left is immeasurable.
P.S.
Did you happen catch the news yesterday about California skewing its unemployment numbers after Obama's first debate loss in an attempt to help him?
I'll betcha eric holder will have the charges dropped, ala new black panthers.
NBC your desperation is showing.
pjam09,
To answer your question succinctly, YES
pjam09
your theory falls apart with the simple fact that Nathan Sproul has been accused of the same thing in 2004.
During the 2004 election, Sproul & Associates (the former name of Lincoln Strategy) was accused of attempting to destroy forms collected by Democratic voters in Nevada. In Oregon, Sproul & Associates allegedly instructed canvassers to only accept Republican registration forms in addition to destroying those turned in by Democrats.
In Minnesota, meanwhile, Sproul's firm was accused of actually firing workers who brought back Democratic registration forms, while other canvassers were allegedly paid "$13 an hour, with the $3 bonus for every Bush, undecided or Ralph Nader voter registration." Similar problems related to Sproul & Associates popped up in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Since 2004, Mr. Sproul’s companies — he has operated under several corporate names — have collected more than $17.6 million from Republican committees, candidates and the SuperPACs like American Crossroads, mostly for voter registration operations.
Also
The FL Department of Law Enforcement said it was reviewing “numerous” claims involving a company that Sproul. Complaints have surfaced in 10 Florida counties, among them allegations that registrations had similar signatures or false addresses, or were filed under the names of dead people.
These are just few examples but enough to disprove your claim that GOP fires those who attempt to committ voter fraud.
Heck, IN Sec of State White's job was kept for him even though he was accused of multiple counts of voter fraud which he was later convicted of.
again, one is a coincidence, more than one is a pattern.
So either the Republicans hiring Sproul for at least a decade are either too stupid to notice the pattern or they simply didn't care. Which one is it pjam?
And what news agency reported this?
If they were not completed then thats why he trashed them. Still They don't register by party in Virginia. So how would the guy know they were even dem or rep voters.
So I'm going to chalk this up to the NEWS reported on this way to early with out knowing all the facts.
If it ever comes out later that the forms were incomplete then what??? Are all you libs going to keep talking **** about things you obviously have ZERO clue on. 8 Forms are not going to change an election.
Earlier this month on CNBC, a political analyst described the GOP's plan to win this election as telling lies, restricting the vote, and spending. Looks like they can add cheating to the list now.
It's not farfetched to surmise that that Republican worker knew the party affiliation or voting choice of those registered voters whose cards he threw out in the dumpster. Perfect Republican strategy to disenfranchise students and minority voters and register only new Republican voters.
I guess Republicans think the only tolerable fraud is Republican fraud...although I don't recall any evidence of Democratic fraud and no evidence at all of voting fraud to justify making it harder for people to vote.
My grandmother, who's 92, was born on a farm in a rural area, not in a hospital. The registration clerk wouldn't accept her faded copy of a birth certificate statement and was told she'd have to obtain a new one. The town doesn't even do business online and she as told that she'd have to present herself in person to obtain a new statement according to recent laws. She lives over 1000 miles away! She's voted ever since black people were allowed to vote in the south without threat of death--in the 60s.
This likely would have been her last presidential vote. Thanks, Republicans.
By the way, I've worked voter registration and canvassing for years. Even without a party declaration, you know affiliation just by talking to people you register. And I don't get being paid to register voters. I've never been paid anything to register or canvass--I and others do it out of civic duty.
this is why we need a US not State voter picture and finger print ID.
Yeah, GOP this guy was a lone wolf, no one is paying him, the got fire, and lod-de-da...
Start writing laws to protect us from actual fraud, and stop writing laws about made up fraud to disenfranchise black folks, if you really care about voter fraud.
Otherwise STFU with your BS.
Leatherneck918
1st, shouldn't the Republicans be happy that voter registration fraud is being eliminated since they're all about "fair" elections?
2nd so why are the Republicans spending millions of dollars to fight VOTER FRAUD that doesn't exist? You bitch about this not being a big deal even if 1 person threw out 8 ballots but you're ok with Repubs spending millions to fight something like 20 known voter fraud cases over 10 years in 50 states out of 200,000,000 registered voters????????????
DNA tests are less accurate than that!
Repulsivecons.
Spicer, the spokesman for the RNC, said that after the RNC and the Republican Party of Virginia severed their relationships with Strategic Allied Consulting, the state party continued to use some of the firm's same workers, including Small, by paying them through Pinpoint.
“The actions taken by this individual are a direct contradiction of both his training and explicit instructions given to him,” said Pat Mullins, the chairman of the Virginia Republican Party, in a statement Thursday night. “The Republican Party of Virginia will not tolerate any action by any person that could threaten the integrity of our electoral process."
Like most of the lying baggers, their actions betray their words.
Someone else mentioned that they do not register by party in Virginia. IF that were true, why was the guy throwing away ANY registration forms?
In any case, soon the registration deadline for the bulk of the states (like Georgia) will end, and voter suppression tactics will turn to actually harrassing voters at the polling places. The dispicable, Nazi SS style intimidation and disinformation tactics are revealing the true nature of these unpatriotic criminals.
Oh, he's a Republican... then I guess.. never mind.
pjam09 -
Firstly, the Democratic party never hired ACORN. The Republican party has repeatedly hired Sproul, under different company names. Yes, they have severed ties with Strategic Allied Consulting. Last month, Sproul incorporated under yet another name, and the GOP of 5 states hired him. The man's been under investigation for voter registration fraud since 2004, with things like throwing away Dem ballots, or even changing their party affiliation on the form in closed primary states. Thousands of people have shown up to vote and been unable because of this POS. And the Republicans keep hiring him.
It's funny, because they are doing exactly what they accused ACORN of doing, but ACORN was not. ACORN was never charged with registration fraud, and they followed the law according to the state election processes, which was to turn in ALL filled registration forms. Any forms that were suspicious were flagged and tagged with the registrar's name as well, so the registrar would be held accountable if they falsified information. Not only this, but ACORN was never hired by the Dems. It was partially federally funded, but operated independent of party.
This isn't the first shenanigans we've seen this election cycle, either. There's the famous video of the GOP operative who was told to only register Repubs for voting, and refused to register somebody unless they said they were Repub. And then lied about her employer. On camera. There's the robocalls from the Wisconsin recalls and elections that told registered Dems their polling places had been moved, or even the date of the election had changed. The robocalls in Washington telling people that voting NO on Ref. 74 would allow gay marriage, instead of the required YES vote.
Basically, while Repubs may or may not have their hands in the cookie jar of actual voter fraud, they are guilty of voter registration fraud and electioneering to a high degree. Not only that, but all the cases of "dead people" voting have turned out to be untrue when investigated. Less than 0.01% of votes in any election have ever been under suspicion, and usually only 8-10 cases have actually been fraudulent, when all was said and done.
Basic point: we don't have enough voter fraud in this country to require implementing a poll tax that the mandatory ID would effectively be. Not only that, but we do have massive amounts of registration fraud. I have yet to see the Dems implicated, though it would surprise me if they haven't participated at all, but the Repubs are definitely leading the field when it comes to fraud.
to all you idiots chiming in about voter ID laws, first this had nothing to do with ID
second, why do you keep lying about the reason behind voter ID?
lets go over your reasoning
elderly, poor and minorites are supposedly unable to obtain IDs?
first of all what makes any of those groups any less likely to have an ID? and what makes you think that everyone in all those groups are voting Democrat? Kind of a reach to believe that there is a national drive for voter ID to keep only democrats from voting, yet is targeted at all these groups who may be republican
are you saying that elderly dont have bank accounts, drivers licenses, prescriptions, collect SS or medicare? all require ID
dont the poor drive, buy alchohol or ciggerettes, get welfare , assisted living, food stamps? all require ID
and this one really cracke me up
minorities? you call anyone who dissagrees with you racist, yet that is the most racist thing Ive heard. why in the world would minorities have any harder time getting an ID then anyone else? are you saying they are too dumb?
face it the only minorities that have a hard time getting ID are illegal aliens and thats the main reason the liberal left want to stop voter ID, nothing else makes sense
Pjam09
You quoted from the article:
"The firm, run by veteran GOP operative Nathan Sproul, was recently fired by the RNC following reports that its workers had submitted hundreds of suspicious voter registration forms in Florida....
But I also noticed you ignored another quote from the same article:
Some say that everybody does it. But why is it only republicons getting caught doing it?
Btw, ACORN was fully exonerated and a judge ordered federal funding reinstated.
20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
Judge Instructs Fed Agencies to Resume ACORN Funding
Keeninsight:
Why dont you take your grandmother to the location she needs to g to in order to get a birth certificate that is legible???? Dont you want this taken care of for your poor old grandma????? If it is soooooo important to her and you then you should have no problem helping her. I guess that would be too much to ask for from you? Has you grandmother ever driven a car or held a drivers license? Has she ever had a checking account in her name? See all of those very basic things require an ID i.e. SS Card, Birth Certificate or even a state ID. Has she ever worked in her life? Again because she CHOSE to not get a proper ID then crys about how she is being discriminated against holds no water because she is in this predicament due to her own LAZINESS!!!!
Of course the Republcans fired him............after they were caught! Kind of like Mittens saying the 47% were bums, then saying he "misspoke"..........after he was caught.
There is also the slight problem that the Republicans had hired this same scumbag in 2004, who then changed the name of his company..........after he was caught. Is it just me, or is anyone with a brain cell remaining starting to see a pattern?
But don't worry, the Mitten Brigade will be on here with their usual "they both do it", "Both sides are as corrupt as the day is long", or "Both parties need a good house cleaning, top to bottom" or "NBC your desperation is showing" or "The DNC are the inventors of voter fraud".
AHHHH The sweet smell of Republican desperation in the morning. It's like a breath of fresh air!!
This is only the tip of the iceberg. Ad it's funny to hear the GOP saying:"Oh no, he didn't work for us. He works for a company that works for a company that works for a consulting firm..." Hilarious!!!
Hey bayllie: In tell they know that this guy Small commited VOTER FRAUD. All you have here is a NON-story. WHY they don't even know right now: if the forms allegedly tossed by Small were incomplete or completed....oops
So rigth now WHAT FRAUD, all you have is some guy being investigated for throwing out 8 forms.
Again in Virginia they don't register by party, so again ignorant one how would SMALL know the party affiliation of theses forms in the first place.... For all we know the forms are incomplete or were filled out wrong and WERE TRASH. If that is the case Small will be owed a big SORRY we ****ed up and jumped the gun.
millions of dollars to fight VOTER FRAUD that doesn't exist =really tell that too the thousands of voter fraudthey have already found nation wide. Multiple people found to be voting more then once and in multiple polling places. Hundreds of people found not to be American citizens and are still voting, even thought by law they don't have that right.
Voter Fraud does exist and is real, right now we don't even know all the facts about why Small tossed out 8 forms yet.
Yet you and idiots like you are saying that Republicans are hypocrites and other BS. HEY MORONS WE HAVE YET SEEN ALL THE FACTS YET. WHAT ARE YOU IDIOTSGOING TO SAY IF IT TURNS OUT THESE 8 FORMS WERE TRASH AND ITS NOT A CASE OF VOTER SUPPRESSION or FRAUD. THEN WHAT MORONS??? ARE YOU ALL GOING TO APOLOGIZE FOR ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF 3rd GRADERS... DID NOT THINK SO.
Well, Leatherneck, as Dr. Phil says:
A good indication of future behavior is past behavior.
The GOP has a history of this type of thing, unfortunately.
Wow. Republicans tangled up in more and more Voter Fraud.
I need to find a chair and sit down - I find this So Shocking! <sarc>
This doesn't hold a candle to the voter fraud by ACORN.
There is no such thing as voter fraud, ask any Democrat. By the way the 3 applications were removed when discovered they were duplicate applicants at different addresses. There is no link to either party affiliation. It does sound like democrats however.
NObama 2012!
Lie, Cheat, or steal? Hmmmmm? Whichever opportunity comes first. It's the republican way. I'm somewhat surprised the bastards are being caught though. When it comes to thuggery, republicans are usually top of the line.
Republicans see no problem with 'profiling' so I see no reason why this worker could not do the same. Plus as many are signing up they might engage in a little conversation that made it obvious who or what party they supported. So don't try to say because they don't register by party you cannot guess with a lot of accuracy.
It sickens me when anyone does anything to suppress voting. In my younger \days I worked tables to register voters on behalf of the Republican Party, I was a poll worker at the very first presidential primary in SC (Only Reps had one it was 1980, think I was supporting Connolly but Reagan took the state) But anyone who came to the table was helped, due to the area where we were we expected to get mostly Republicans, but we got a fair number of Democrats. I registered them all, even the Democrats who knew I was a Republican (Obvious as I had a Connolly button on..I helped and thanked telling them we may not agree but I am glad you want to be a part of the process--we made sure we put a friendly face on the party.
Later I saw the racism in the Rep party, and I was a very rare white person at a rally at the statehouse against such. It still took me a few more years before I changed parties. (Due to Reagan's ignoring of AIDs and the Rep Parties refusal to fund education or research) I am still ver moderate, fiscally conservative but believe in full freedom for all. I also believe that if you ignore those with lower incomes that you will pay the price when they can no longer buy the products and services.
So for now and the foreseeable future I will be a Democrat with the occasional (As in Bloomberg) Republican getting my support.
We the People....means all of us and we should protect ALL of us...not just wealthy WASPs like me.
I have some doubt that this is fraud. It is not directed to help any particular candidate or party. At the worst only eight votes might be affected, and no way to tell in which direction.
Where's the rest of the story?
Also on the forms. I sincerely doubt it is up to the person who registered them to determine if the forms are incomplete and to trash them based on his or her opinion. You would separate the ones which were not complete and note that, but still turn them in.
and then hires them back under a different company name until they get caught doing the same thing next time. Repeat as needed.
Rockingham Co. is a rural community, home to James Madison Univ. and the turkey capital of Va.
For those who say that people do not register to vote by party .This is one scenario: 90% of blacks, and 80% Hispanics will vote Dem. and forms filled out by them are folded at one corner, or a pencil mark in some unobtrusive place identifys the voting probability of that indiviual. Visual profiling at its easiest.
Also easy: I , and anyone else who has a mind to, can determne the party affiliation of over 90% of the posters on this article.
usa is great [referring to post #1.22 by KeenInsight]
Your response would most likely be very different [if you made one at all] had KeenInsight not stated that Grandmother is black.
You don't have a CLUE how difficult it can be to get a birth certificate for an elderly relative. My mother at 93 needed to get a state ID card -- She could't use her old driver's license [expired more than six months previously] as identification. She needed her birth certificate [from another state]. BUT. . . to get a copy of her birth certificate, she needed a photo ID. AND, to get a photo ID, she needed a birth certificate.
You cavalierly told KeenInsight, "Why dont you take your grandmother to the location she needs to g to in order to get a birth certificate that is legible????" It's apparent that you have never even ATTEMPTED to drive 1000 miles [about 14 hours one way] with someone who is 92. Or fly with them [to a rural area, no less].
I really hope your grandmother/father, or mother/father, or anyone you care about is never faced with this "predicament" [as you refer to it]. And, if so, I surely hope that some creep says to you, ". . . she is in this predicament due to her own LAZINESS!!!!"
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Mario Biaggi - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New York from 1969 to 1988. Indicted on federal charges that he had accepted bribes in return for influence on federal contracts.Convicted of obstructing justice and accepting illegal gratuities. Tried in 1988 on federal racketeering charges and convicted on 15 felony counts.
Lee Alexander - Democrat - Mayor of Syracuse, N.Y. from 1970 to 1985. Was indicted over a $1.5 million kickback scandal. Pleaded guilty to racketeering and tax evasion charges. Served six years in prison.
Bill Campbell - Democrat - Mayor of Atlanta. Indicted and charged with fraud over claims he accepted improper payments from contractors seeking city contracts.
Frank Ballance - Democrat - Congressman North Carolina. Pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering related to mishandling of money by his charitable foundation.
Hazel O'Leary - Democrat - Secretary of Energy during the Clinton Administration - O'leary took trips all over the world as Secretary with as many 50 staff members and at times rented a plane, which was used by Madonna during her concert tours.
Lafayette Thomas - Democrat - Candidate for Tennessee State House of Representatives in 1954. Sheriff of Davidson County, from 1972 to 1990. Indicted in federal court on 54 counts of abusing his power as sheriff. Pleaded guilty to theft and mail fraud; sentenced to five years in prison.
Mary Rose Oakar - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1977 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of funneling $16,000 through fake donors.
David Giles - Democrat - candidate for U.S. Representative from Washington in 1986 and 1990. Convicted in June 2000 of child rape.
Gary Siplin - Democrat state senator Florida- found guilty of third-degree grand theft of $5,000 or more, a felony, and using services of employees for his candidacy.
Edward Mezvinsky - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Iowa from 1973 to 1977. Indicted on 56 federal fraud charges.
Lena Swanson - Democrat - Member of Washington State Senate in 1997. Pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting unlawful payments from veterans and former prisoners of war.
Abraham J. Hirschfeld - Democrat - candidate in Democratic primary for U.S. Senator from New York in 1974 and 1976. Offered Paula Jones $1 million to drop her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton. Convicted in 2000 of trying to hire a hit man to kill his business partner.
Henry Cisneros - Democrat - U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI.
James A. Traficant Jr. - Member of House of Representatives from Ohio. Expelled from Congress after being convicted of corruption charges. Sentenced today to eight years in prison for accepting bribes and kickbacks.
John Doug Hays - Democrat - member of Kentucky State Senate from 1980 to 1982 Found guilty of mail fraud for submitting false campaign reports stemming from an unsuccessful run for judge. He was sentenced to six months in prison to be followed by six months of home confinement and three years of probation.
Henry J. Cianfrani - Democrat - Pennsylvania State Senate from 1967 to 1976. Convicted on federal charges of racketeering and mail fraud for padding his Senate payroll. Sentenced to five years in federal prison.
David Hall - Democrat - Governor of Oklahoma from 1971 to 1975. Indicted on extortion and conspiracy charges. Convicted and sentenced to three years in prison.
John A. Celona - Democrat - A former state senator was charged with the three counts of mail fraud. Federal prosecutors accused him of defrauding the state and collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars from CVS Corp. and others while serving in the legislature. Celona has agreed to plead guilty to taking money from the CVS pharmacy chain and other companies that had interest in legislation. Under the deal, Celona agreed to cooperate with investigators. He faces up to five years in federal prison on each of the three counts and a $250,000 fine
Allan Turner Howe - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Utah from 1975 to 1977. Arrested for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute.
Jerry Cosentino - Democrat - Illinois State Treasurer. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud - fined $5,000 and sentenced to nine months home confinement.
Joseph Waggonner Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1961 to 19 79. Arrested in Washington, D.C. for soliciting a policewoman posing as a prostitute
Albert G. Bustamante - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Texas from 1985 to 1993. Convicted in 1993 on racketeering and bribery charges and sentenced to prison.
Lawrence Jack Smith - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Florida from 1983 to 1993. Sentenced to three months in federal prison for tax evasion.
David Lee Walters - Democrat - Governor of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1995. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor election law violation.
James Guy Tucker, Jr. - Democrat - Governor of Arkansas from 1992 to 1996. Resigned in July 1996 after conviction on federal fraud charges as part of the Whitewater investigation.
Walter Rayford Tucker - Democrat - Mayor of Compton, California from 1991 to 1992; U.S. Representative from California from 1993 to 1995. Sentenced to 27 months in prison for extortion and tax evasion.
William McCuen - Democrat - Secretary of State of Arkansas from 1985 to 1995. Admitted accepting kickbacks from two supporters he gave jobs, and not paying taxes on the money. Admitted to conspiring with a political consultant to split $53,560 embezzled from the state in a sham transaction. He was indicted on corruption charges. Pleaded guilty to felony counts tax evasion and accepting a kickback. Sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Walter Fauntroy - Democrat - Delegate to U.S. Congress from the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991. Charged in federal court with making false statements on financial disclosure forms. Pleaded guilty to one felony count and sentenced to probation.
Carroll Hubbard, Jr. - Democrat - Kentucky State Senate from 1968 to 1975 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1975 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Federal Elections Commission and to theft of government property; sentenced to three years in prison.
Joseph Kolter - Democrat - member of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1969 to 1982 and U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1983 to 1993. Indicted by a Federal grand jury on five felony charges of embezzlement at the U.S. House post office. Pleaded guilty.
Webster Hubbell - Democrat - Chief Justice of Arkansas State Supreme Court in 1983. Pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and tax evasion charges - sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Nicholas Mavroules - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and accepting gratuities while in office.
Carl Christopher Perkins - Democrat - Kentucky State House of Representatives from 1981 to 1984 and U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1985 to 1993. Pleaded guilty to bank fraud in connection with the House banking scandal. Perkins wrote overdrafts totaling about $300,000. Pleaded guilty to charges of filing false statements with the Federal Election Commission and false financial disclosure reports. Sentenced to 21 months in prison.
Richard Hanna - Democrat - U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1974. Received payments of about $200,000 from a Korean businessman in what became known as the "Koreagate" influence buying scandal. Pleaded guilty and sentenced to federal prison.
Angelo Errichetti - Democrat - New Jersey State Senator was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $40,000 for his involvement in Abscam.
Daniel Baugh Brewster - Democrat - U.S. Senator from Maryland. Indicted on charges of accepting illegal gratuity while in Senate.
Thomas Joseph Dodd - Democrat - U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Censured by the Senate for financial improprieties, having diverted $116,000 in campaign and testimonial funds to his own use
Edward Fretwell Prichard, Jr. - Democrat - Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky. Convicted of vote fraud in federal court in connection with ballot-box stuffing. Served five months in prison.
Jerry Springer - Democrat - Resigned from Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after admitting to paying a prostitute with a personal check, which was found in a police raid on a massage parlor.
Guy Hamilton Jones, Sr. - Democrat -Arkansas State Senate. Convicted on federal tax charges and expelled from the Arkansas Senate.
Daniel Flood - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1945 to 1947, 1949 to 1953 and 1955 to 1980. Pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge involving payoffs and sentenced to probation.
Otto Kerner, Jr - Democrat - Governor of Illinois from 1961 to 1968. While serving as Governor, he and another official made a gain of over $300,000 in a stock deal. Convicted on 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury, and related charges. Sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined $50,000.
George Crockett, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Michigan. Served four months in federal prison for contempt of court following his defense of a Communist leader on trial for advocating the overthrow of the government.
Cornelius Edward Gallagher - Democrat - U.S. Representative from New Jersey from 1959 to 1973. Indicted on federal charges of income tax evasion, conspiracy, and perjury
Mark B. Jimenez - Democrat fundraiser - sentenced to 27 months in prison on charges of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit election financing offenses.
Bobby Lee Rush - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Illinois. As a Black Panther, spent six months in prison on a weapons charge.
Bolley ''Bo'' Johnson - Democrat - Former Florida House Speaker - received a two-year term for tax evasion.
Roger L. Green - Democrat - Brooklyn Democrat Assemblyman. Pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for accepting travel reimbursement for trips he did not pay for and was sentenced to fines and probation.
Gloria Davis - Democrat - Bronx assemblywoman. Pleaded guilty to second-degree bribe-taking.
The GOP continues to rig the system by all means necessary to keep power and control the law of the land, It's all about instituting only laws, subsides and bills that benefit and line their pockets and gouge the American people. The GOP has become an organized crime family, The corporate monopolies being the Don.
Voter Fraud: a concept created by and for the GOP to get GOP candidates elected.
redvirginia
Did any of those Democrats get as many people needlessly killed (both US soldiers as well as foreigners) or hide fraud (such as Enron) like Bush/Cheney did?
What???-6468433: You need two forms of ID to get a drivers licence, yet your G-Mom sounds to old to get one in the first place unless she still has the ability to get one. Now to get a state issue ID all you need is at least two forms of identification and they can be documents. READ the list I bet she at least has two of these.
PRIMARY document list
SECONDARY document list
<<<On January 11, Troy Democrat City Councilman Gary Galuski, 51, was indicted on four counts of first-degree falsifying business records, pleaded not guilty and was released on his own recognizance.
Times Union reporter Kenneth Crowe II, reports that Special Prosecutor Trey Smith said, “the charges against Galuski arise from leaving parts of the absentee ballot application form blank. The applications were for four voters, one of whom have since died.”
Galuski presently works for the county Board of Elections as a Democratic appointee. He did not work for the board during the 2009 primary.
Nine Democrats were identified as persons of interest in the investigation. In addition to the four who were indicted, four others have entered guilty pleas, one received immunity for testifying before the grand jury and one agreed to cooperate with the grand jury.
Meanwhile, jury selection is being conducted in the first trial of this investigation. The two Democrats, Anthony Renna, indicted on charges of second-degree forgery, and Anthony DeFiglio, on first-degree falsifying business records, are the first two Democrats brought to trial for this “massive” voter fraud incident.
The Working Families Party is quite a scam in and of itself, this voter fraud investigation aside. It is literally an arm of the New York branch of the disgraced community activist group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).>>>
jumpin the gun! the article said they dont know what party these forms were for. who knows why this guy threw them out. maybe he was a spy working for some secret agency with a whole bunch of letters for a name! sounds about as stupid as some of the stuff on here doesnt it keep jumping at the shadows!
Gee, the guy threw out 8 most likely void or improper registrations. How about we look at some dumocrat party registration sites and see what we find. ACORN comes to mind when I think about voter fraud. If it wasn't for fraud the dums would never win!!!
I moved to another state and this GOP group tracked me down to get registered. I said just send me the forms which they did. I filled them out, got registered and voted early for Obama in a swing State again as a card carrying Republican.
The GOP is dead. First crazy McCain and the Alaska fruitloop and now the Corporate raider and his buttboy. No thanks, this party deserves to lose with the representation presented.
loved the quote (joke), "the Republican Party...will not tolerate any action...that could threaten the integrity of the electoral process". newsflash, it's a little late for that! can you say "Duh-bya, or flori-duh"?
silverton-2953905
Well, Leatherneck, as Dr. Phil says:
A good indication of future behavior is past behavior.
RFLOL well sorry to say, but I would not take an entertainer's word as Gospel.....
Is Dr. Phil a Doctor. No, actually he is not. But he does play one on TV. Had he not recently "stepped in it," most professionals would probably just think of him as an entertainer who happens to have a professional degree.
Dr. Phil is not a psychologist and is not licensed as a psychologist. Dr. Phil never refers to himself as a psychologist. He certainly knows that to do so would bring him into conflict with California law. Unless you are working for the government or working in academia, you can't represent yourself as being a psychologist unless you hold a valid license. It's the same as with an attorney or a physician. You can't act like you are a physician unless you have a medical license. If you didn't pass the bar or you lost your license, you can't say that you are an attorney.
So since Mr. Phil acts like a psychologist on TV does that make him one in Real life. NOPE.
REDVIRGINIA... WOW!!! Why did you stop at 1996? Should have gone back to 1934. How many republican scandals of a similar nature are you so conveniently ignoring? If I was so inclined I could drudge up atleast 25 instances of REPUGNICAN malfeasance, criminal negligence and FELONIES from just the last 12 years that would balance your ONE sided partisan attack on democrats.
SORRY TO INFORM YOU... Virginia is PURPLE and leaning MORE AND MORE towards becoming BLUE. I am proud to hail from VA and wish I still lived there so I could render your RED ROM-BOT vote WORTHLESS by voting Obama/Biden. I want Romney as president as much as I want GWB to come back... wait they are one in the same.
TO: foolishness abounds who wrote:
No, but he could see who it was that filled out the form and they were probably minorities whom this guy knew were likely to vote for President Obama. Sometimes a person's name gives them away too.
The point is that Republicans do NOT believe they could win an honest race and believe it's necessary for them to cheat, otherwise Republicans lose.
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Assuming the guy wasn't actually a Dem plant, this is what happens when certain GOP'ers think they're fighting fire w/fire. They shouldn't lower themselves to the gutter of standard Dem tactics...
Somebody above wants to require voter registration for every possible voter and fine those that don't vote $100, and then counts up the potential windfall. Seems to me the best part of being an American is the choice we have, to do or don't do the things that seem important or unimportant to us. Perhaps next you would require heterosexual marriage, having kids and attending church? I don't think that's going to fly, either. I can't tell from your comment what your political persuasion is, or even if you have one, but any way you slice it, voting has to remain optional in this country, no matter what else you believe. Voting is indeed a privilege, but that changes if it's actually REQUIRED...now doesn't it.
Ok so the Republicans commit voter fraud while blaming others for committing voter fraud; Christian organizations like the Catholic Church, The Boy Scouts, the YMCA are caught is a massive cover-up of child molestation assisted by Republican community leaders while they blame others for destroying "family values": The last three republican presidents have ran huge budget deficits while increasing the national debt and increasing the size of the federal government whale at the same time condemning others for doing the same thing. I think I am beginning to see a pattern here.
Leatherneck918
see how little you know about the subject? You don't even know the difference between Voter registration fraud and VOTER FRAUD...HUUUUUUGE difference. HUGE. This is about VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD.
So 1st educate yourself and then speak.
of counrse it's a non-story for you. When few ACORN workers got caught making up registrations this was a huge story for the Hypocrites Republicans. Big difference between the 2, even though both illegal, is that ACORN workers did it to make a few extra bucks. The GOP hired Sproul employees did it to win the election.
Small is one of many examples. There is a huge pattern going back to 2004 and they all involve Sproul and many of his companies. There is also a video of one of his employees saying she only registers REPUBLICANS.
here it is. ENJOY!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/woman-only-registering-ro_n_1928902.html
Keep denying the GOP hypocrisy. You have no other choice.
Redvirginia-1.48-Why don't you post the same list for the GOP? That way you show both sides of the debate. You need to present the whole picture for people to draw there own conclusions. Unless you don't want to know what they do. Those who are least informed are ill informed!
Just remember, Democrats have never tried anything like this.... ever......
redvirginia
nice list and for every name you named I can comeback with as many Republicans that committed some kind of fraud.
The problem with your list is that this article is about a GOP hired firm that is being investigated by voter registration fraud. The bigger problem is that while the Republicans are doing everything in their power to combat imaginary voter fraud, they are guilty of continuously hiring same person who keeps doing this sh*t since 2004.
The moral of this story is that the GOP is spending millions to prevent the elderly, the monorities, and the poor from voting despite the fact that they have no proof of chronic voter fraud while spending millions on a firm that keeps committing voter registration fraud.
TO: Leatherneck918 who wrote:
LOL! Republicans LOVE to make things up, or just outright LIE. Obviously, several people believed he was engaging in voter fraud, which why they called police, which is why the police arrested him, and which is why the District Attorney brought him up on charges of voter fraud.
Even if the forms were defective in some manner, he's obviously not allowed to trash voter registration forms.
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Here come the liberals to attack the GOP once again on charges they are well aware their own party is not just guilty of, but has encouraged for a long time. And many of these people are the same people who, only a few months ago, were ranting about how little voter fraud actually matters.
You can't have it both ways people. It either does matter or it doesn't. All of you attacking the Republicans without also pointing fingers at Democrats like Redvirginia did (albeit, OREGON VET is right and there should have been Republicans thrown in there for good measure) are hypocrites of the truest form and proof positive of what I have said about this all along: it doesn't exist when it favors you, it does exist when it could possibly favor the other side.
TO: Rob-523523 who wrote:
The "standard gutter tactics" belong to Republicans alone, so does the hate speech, the lies, the demagoging, you name it because Republicans are losers and they know it.
Nearly every presidential election cycle we hear time and again about Republicans cheating and engaging in either voter fraud or voter suppression, especially in swing states.
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The GOP got caught cheating? who would have thought, has the world gone crazy? Oh, no, not the bible thumpers in Va. and Fla? Praise and Lord and pass the biscuits.
Dr.
Phil McGraw has a Ph.D. in psychology
Voter fraud DOES exist!
Break out those photo IDs!!
Romney up 6 in latest Gallup!!!
TO: SSPerfectChaos who wrote:
Of course we're talking about the GOP cheating, because it's headline news and an arrest has been made!
I haven't seen any news about Democrats cheating, and Democrats have NEVER 'ranted about how little voter fraud actually matters" because it's ALWAYS Republicans who are cheating, and it's always Democrats who are the victims, because Democrats get the votes and Republicans DON'T!
Republicans are always full of lies and deciet, hate speech, cheating, nominating corrupt politicians, etc.
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spudbucket - exactly, both sides do the same crap and their followers just point fingers at the other side. It's sad and a shame what the political arena has turned into.
aworldofhurt - are you a dbt fan? If so, great tune! If not, thanks for putting a great tune in my head for the afternoon.
bayllie: From post 1.36: WHAT ARE YOU IDIOTS GOING TO SAY IF IT TURNS OUT THESE 8 FORMS WERE TRASH AND ITS NOT A CASE OF VOTER SUPPRESSION or FRAUD. OOPS try reading the whole thing first...
American Girl-724855: I guess you missed this part in the article:
TO: Arthur66 who wrote:
He's a Republican and got busted throwing voter registration forms in the trash, genius, thinking he was tossing out Democrat votes, which has nothing to do with "Voter IDs".
Sheesch!
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That ain't the point, boot-licker!
The issue is - The Republicans have introduced the suspicion that "Wide Spread" voter fraud is a problem,which they wrongly claimed was caused by "Liberals". They try to accuse Democrats of loading the ballot with illegals, felons, people voting more once,keeping dead people on the voter roles.
So far, now - with the heightened concern about voter fraud, many people are being extra vigilant than in the past - where we ignored little things, now we(the public) are willing to report any discrepancy they observe in how ballots are handle.... Guess who is getting caught more than any one else?
I guess what the democrats suspected and what the conservatives feared - is true. there are a lot of shenanigans being played with vote forms.
Seems as if the Republicans thought Democrats were using conservative tactics to rig the votes. Nope, conservatives were doing it and getting away with it - as they did in Ohio and Florida- and was in plain sight in he Bush campaigns. Now we are finding out - it is being done, down at the precinct level too.
Caught in your own trap...!!! Karma is a vengeful task master.
TO: Leatherneck918 who wrote:
Well the District Attorney has certainly "made a determination" because they brought Voter Fraud charges against the guy, and regardless of whether the forms were incomplete or not he's still NOT allowed to throw them in the trash.
Why are Republicans always so eager to defend crooks?
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Re: "Dr. Phil":
McGraw graduated in 1975 from Midwestern State University with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. He went on to earn a Master of Arts in experimental psychology in 1976, and a Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology in 1979 at the University of North Texas,[6] where his dissertation was titled "Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Psychological Intervention".
Smoke and Mirrors again and the progressives desend like flies on dung as usual. What about this story?
Videographer James
O’Keefe’s Project Veritas caught an official for President Barack Obama’s
re-election campaign helping who she thought was an Obama supporter set herself
up to vote more than once in November.
Read more: www.dailycaller.com/2012/10/10/new-okeefe-video-obama-campaign-staffer-caught-helping-activist-vote-twice/#ixzz28vrrk4Vy
So some small minded people on both sides think that cheating is okay. I am more concerned with the elected officials who think that kind of behaviour is acceptable. We have plenty of examples of "dirty politics" to last a lifetime...when are we going to demand real change?
By the way 5 votes is hardly going to change the election...and who is to say he was not throwing away Republican votes since the investigation is far from over?
Next
Notfiveo and aquatone: Phil McGraw has a Ph.D. in psychology. He does hold a doctoral degree, but is not licenced in any state to be a Psychology Doctor. So that means he has not taken any tests or shown he is capable to practice psychology as a Doctor. Until he gets a licence to practice psychology, he is nothing but a Entertainer pretending to be a Doctor.
Voter ID laws = Voter Supression = Throwing away registration forms. Sorry you dont understand that.
I have a tin knocker working for me that has spent 2 months trying to get an ID through PENNDOT for his 90 year old mother. She has not driven in 20 years. You people are dense.
TO: Obamabater who wrote:
George "Curveball" Bush lied us into war that killed 400,000 Iraqis and wounded 25,000 American Soldiers and hid the number of Americans that were killed in Republicans' illegal war.
Yes, Republican Voter Fraud is STILL illegal.
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" ... NBC your desperation is showing. ...
andaworldofhurt,
You ignorance and racism are showing.
No One pays attention to MSDNC anymore.
They have been exposed time & again as a dishonest arm of the Obama campaign.
Stories like this are nothing more than DEM DAMAGE control.
Go to DRUDGE REPORT to get unfiltered NEWS without the leftest spin :)
& conservatives...stop wasting your time trying to reason with BO Dems ...its futile.
GASP!
No wonder the GOP was so convinced we had to do something about voter fraud. THEY WERE THE ONES COMMITTING IT!
It's true, the guilty dog always barks first, isn't that right Honey? "Woof!"
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@American Girl-724855, really? Did you not read Redvirginia's list? Democrats are always the victims? Tell me, have you told your lies long enough yet that you have begun to believe them yourself?
And tell me something else, were this a Democrat staffer that had been arrested, how would your wording be different? Democrats are still the victims? It's a railroad case in a state that has voted Republican generally, even though it is considered a "battleground state"?
If it weren't so loud and obnoxious, the chirpings of liberals would actually be soothing and lull me to sleep every night like cricket wings. Democrats do not register on the radar of innocence when it comes to voter fraud, lies, deceit, hypocrisy and taking bribes.
Have you noticed how when Democrats fall out of line with the party they tend to be exposed? Bill Clinton helped pass a budget with a Republican Congress that brought a semblance of balance and his affair with Monica Lewinski came to light. Anthony Weiner broke ranks several times with some bills and nude pictures he had texted came to light.
Chirp chirp.
Yea, rememeber ACORN! Oh wait, they were Republicans right??? LOL
On a more serious note I will say even given the fact there or thousands and thousands of these people in each state not cheating, having one or two getting caught is....... "Not Optimal!"
"Iraq has weapons of mass destruction!"
Who said it first? Bill Clinton or George W. Bush?
Enough said!
Pathetic, republican voter registration worker throwing away registration forms in Virginia, FBI investigating hundreds of falsified republican voter registration forms in Florida and election committee workers giving out forms informing Hispanics in Arizona election day is November 8, 2012 .......And this is from the party with high moral standards who are asking voters to put them back in power after they started two unfunded wars and blew up the economy......................Pathetic
Right because CLinton started 2 wars on this info? You people are idiots.
LogicReguired
and which out of the two started a war? I'll give you a hint, it wasn't Clinton.
I love when you guys use that as a talking point because the only thing that proves is while 2 presidents suspected WMD, only one lied his way into a war. That, my friend, proves the stupidity and/or war agenda of GWB.
What a bull@!$%# user name coupled with a bull@!$%# post. Funny how you have love 2 troops in your name yet your ilk has no problem sending them off to war.
And the drudge report is friggin garbage - no biased? ROFL!
TO: SSPerfectChaos who wrote:
I hope you were born yesterday, because there's no other excuse for being so uninformed.
Me, "Red Virginia"? Hell no. No more than I would read "Red China" or anything else that starts with the word "Red" and sounds un-American, and I'm already exposed to more hate-speech than I like right here on MSNBC with Republicans' hate speech posts.
I was there when Republicans attacked Bill Clinton on the Lewinski matter, and all of those Republican Congressmen that tried to impeach Clinton were voted out of office before Clinton's two terms were up.
When are Republicans going to STOP defending crooks, and stop nominating crooks for political office?
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TO: LogicReguired who wrote:
I think it must have been George Herbert Walker Bush aka "41" because Bill Clinton did NOT go into Iraq.
Both Bush Sr. and George "Curveball" Bush went into Iraq because Iraq is the 2nd largest oil producing nation on the planet and both Bush Sr. and George "Curveball" Bush are OIL men (so is Dick Cheney).
The Bushes went into Iraq to get oil, not WMDs. WMDs was just the lie Republicans made up so they could get approval to use our military to go into Iraq.
The entire world knows there were no WMDs in Iraq.
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right wingers are wrong for America and wrong for humanity
If there were NO weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, please explain why Bill Clinton and his Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made frequent references to "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq ... long before George Bush was elected ? Are you saying Bill Clinton LIED ... yet again ?
Furthermore, "roots genuinely blonde", please tell the thousands of kurds GASSED to death by Sadam Hussein that there were no weapons of mass destruction since you say there were no WMD's.
REDVIRGINIA... Where did you go? Trying to DRUDGE Report up more crap from decades ago while ignoring the plethora of criminal actions by the repugnican hypocrite party? Come on my right wing friend where have you gone?
Liberalism is a disease and the UTOPIA Obama has made with our debt is unconscionable.
Bet when this all comes out there was no "felony" committed.
Bet when the dust falls from Libya we KNOW who is to blame and this child stuff will go by the way side.
What and Leatherneck,
Not sure what state you are referring to. Each has its own law and the vary from one state to another. I'm guessing it's a red state. One reason is they put in place such an ID law for voting. And the second reason which is hugely telling. They won't accept a hospital birth certificate but they will accept a religious baptismal certificate! I guess they're implying that the hospital you were born in could lie about it, but a piece of paper issued by a church couldn't possibly be a lie. Republicans have literally gone insane!
TO: jim-1455434 who wrote:
I don't know that Clinton or Albright made any such "frequent refences".
You must have forgotten (typical) that before Bill Clinton, the Senior Bush, George H.W. Bush, went into Iraq too.
After Bush Sr. came Bill Clinton, THEN came George "Curveball" Bush.
So I don't know what you're trying to make up there but it was Condoleeza "Mushroom Cloud" Rice and George "Curveball" Bush who lied us into war in Iraq.
This is WORLD History, not just U.S. History! Why do Republicans have to be reminded all the time?
Republicans seem to have an extraordinarily SHORT and selective memory!
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Ed: I agree that voting should be mandatory in adults over 18, or at least mandatory for those who are not disabled (and only the disabled or Alzheimer's may be excused, if they WANT to be excused). Many disabled people are not stupid, and even if they can't remember where they put their glasses, they are still able to follow big issues.
There is NO REASON why an adult citizen should not vote. If I disagree with you, too bad for me, but I still want to know what is on your mind. I would hope that people show some care and concern for women and vote for President Obama, but that's my view. But my view as a citizen is that we have duties to our country, and if you want to salute the flag, it isn't real unless you participate in your government, at least by voting. Just think: people DIED so that you could vote. DIED.
Some foreign countries require all citizens to vote. Why not here?
I guess redvirginia doesn't want show us the whole picture. I guess she just wants to be ill imformed! The list might be to long for her to list it all.
OREGON VET
lol!
You didn't read the article. Both firms that Small worked for were hired by the GOP to register voters.
In my state, Democrats don't get paid to register voters. We are unpaid volunteers. We have registered thousands of voters in my county alone.
Two years of nonstop grandstanding by Conservative Republicans in an attempt to impose more restrictive voting rules and virtually the only real and verifiable evidence of voter fraud is by and on behalf of the GOP...
...Whooda thunkit?
redvirginia
You made a small list of men with momentary lapse of judgement. But it did not crash a market nor did it take the US to war that will end-up costing us a fortune. We made a list of republicans with corruption and those who attempted to undermine the US constitution but the list is large MSN server will freeze operation if uploaded.
For a conservative party at least these fellows suffice the response.
1) The house member and the foot tapper at the air port.
2) a republican representative indecent communicator with an intern.
That ought to do it. If you need a bit of a dressing to the story...
3) the president who was a burglar.
I saw this post which explains the Republican Party today:
"You can't reason with people who lack the ability to think reasonably.When you have middle class Americans fighting for the right of millionaires to pay a lower tax rate than they do,coming at the expense of their children's education,you're obviously dealing with people who lack the ability to grasp reality or even understand basic common sense."
Vote Obama/Biden for your future.
The lunatic fringe of the republican party are out in force today. Trying to divert attention from the facts by. If you Republicans look at the STUFF you post then you would realize why people are leaving you're party.
What a bunch of sad angry people.
You gotta love how all the right wingers are jumping up to defend voter registration fraud.
Are you mad because they are cheating or because they've taken a play from the acorn/sh1tcago machine playbook?
Since the ACORN myth is disproven all up and down this thread the only thing needing to be said is...
Is THAT all 'ya got, scottie?
Yes, OF COURSE it's because of cheating.
If nothing else illustrated the hypocrisy of the GOP it is the legislation they are trying to enact to suppress voters while they are the only ones proven to commit voter fraud.
Hello, pot. Meet kettle.
Look again, d-bag.
The Florida Democratic Party, the Florida New Majority Education Fund, and La Raza are now under investigation for the same thing.
Anyone caught trying to manipulate or deny a persons right to vote should indeed be dealt with.
How ever to say that the GOP is the only party found to be guilty of voter fraud is so disingenuious, it is totally laughable! The DNC are the inventors of voter fraud!
drano - Hypocrisy would be not terminating people/companies accused of voter fraud, as the article states the entire company he worked for already been fired.
Believe it or not, in the real world people have to be made aware of issues before they can correct them. Being a party-obedient sheep makes it impossible to understand though doesn't it?
P.S.
" they are the only ones proven to commit voter fraud"
Wow. You really have been in a cave haven't you?
Looky there! A democrat calling a republican a hypocrite. How absurd!
Truth hurts, love the responses. The hypocrisy is in the laws you try to pass in the name of protecting voters rights while at the same time your strategy, not just in one state, not just commissioned by one entity, but widespread in this election actually involved committing voter fraud. Here's the thing, over at BS Mountain you make any statement you want as long as it backs the party line, but everywhere else, the TRUTH matters. Get used to it and the one person living in a cave, or in this case on a mountain, is YOU.
Looky here....a republican that knows how to spell, an oddity.
Drano- really? If you must comment then you must realize the following:
Your sentence structure is wrong. A comma to pause and adding an incomplete sentence after that comma smacks of someone who texts, as well as protests, too much.
I am a registered Republican but I do not always vote that way so what does that make me (other than intelligent and able to think for myself without needing you or the media to guide me) ? But when you label me as such, well that really peeves me. I have two degrees (please note, in this sentence it is proper to spell the word out instead of using the numeric form) that I paid for out of my pocket when I was watching other people in my state run around with handouts and NEVER accomplishing anything. I got nothing, even though I was a mother of 2 and single, simply because of the tax bracket my parents were in, even though I was a grown woman who chose poorly at the beginning of her adult years and I didn't even live with them. I paid my way while I struggled and scraped to get by and take care of my children; now I have two college degrees that belong to me. However, it doesn't matter. Since I have two degrees that I earned, I shouldn't be entitled to handouts if something happens and I lose my job, even though I can properly enunciate as well as spell and type my resume to resemble an intelligent person. Is that what you are maintaining?
Please elaborate. I find it fascinating that you judge so quickly.
Both you spell checker cn kis mi as
Looky there. The self-proclaimed Party of Better Values, always saying "hey look! They do it, too!" every time they get caught in illegal activity!
HOW ABSURD!
This is all the RWNJs got: 'Well THEY started it!' Pretty pathetic and infantile.
@Chzhead:
Well stated. When all else fails, with the Republican posters on this site, they turn to personal insults and spout stereotypes; all Democrats are on welfare, poor, have entitlement attitudes, the women have a dozen kids to the same number of men ... and we're all black, of course.
I am a white woman (nearly 60 years old). I hold three college degrees, all of which were paid for by working full time jobs while attending school. I have held full time, private sector jobs since I was 18 years old, paid taxes, own two homes and have never taken a dime of "public assistance" money. Also, by choice, I have no children. I came from a middle class family; my father worked in a steel mill and my mother was a nurse. We, also, ran a family farm. Yes, indeed ... as Democrats we were certainly a drain on society.
How sad that the only defense the Republicans have is to attempt to paint Democrats as victims and people unwilling to take responsibility for their lives.
Obama / Biden 2012
Why is no one talking about True the Vote, the republicon voter suppression group?
True The Vote, Tea Party Voting Group, Targeted By Congressional Inquiry
I guess you never heard of or believe the ACORN fraud stories.
Surprise, surprise, surprise !
In case you missed it folks, ACORN was cleared and federal funding was restored. Bet that burns your butts.
TO: sjacobs123 who wrote:
I heard of all kinds of crap Republicans have made up about Democrats, but it is Republicans who are being arrested and charged with Voter Fraud.
The only real story I heard about Akorn was when the Republican Prostitute and her Republican Pimp went into an Akorn office and asked for instructions on how to be a ho, or something to that effect.
The point is, Republicans have a long standing history of cheating, because the American People just don't want them in office, and therefore Republicans can't get the vote because of the level of corruption contained in the Republican Party.
Obama/Biden 2012
blueunicorn,
And Eric Holder was given Presidential pardon before an actual investigation. Your point is moot.
Next
ACORN was cleared congressionally from any wrong doing. Try again clown.
MIke 416, ACORN was CONVICTED of voter fraud by a judge in Nevada ! Pull your head out !!
TO: Notsosure10 who wrote:
What?
President Obama hasn't "pardoned" anybody, so when did this made-up "pardon" take place, and WHY was Eric Holder supposedly "pardoned"?
I've never heard of Holder committing any crime, or being charged with any crime, or being arrested, or being convicted, let alone being "pardoned".
Do you realize that a person has to actually be "convicted" of a crime before they can be "pardoned"?
Like Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's right hand man, WAS convicted of a crime (lying to the FBI), and was subsequently pardoned by George "Curveball" Bush. BUT Bush could NOT pardon Libby until Scooter Libby was convicted, which he was, in a court of law.
So, what are you trying to say?
Obama/Biden 2012
Romney/Ryan?
Unemployment and new jobs creation
On average, unemployment rates were slightly worse in the rest of the nation than in Massachusetts for the first three years of Romney's term.[59][62] By his final year in office, the state was struggling to keep pace with the rate of falling unemployment nationwide.[59]
Massachusetts' national ranking leapt from the 29th highest in unemployment when Romney took office to the 18th by the end of his term.[59]Unemployment in Massachusetts rose during Romney's first year from a rate of 5.6 percent in January 2003, when he took office, to a peak of 6.0 percent in mid 2003.
[66] It then steadily declined over the remainder of his term, ending at 4.6 percent in January 2007,[66] his last month as governor, for a net improvement in unemployment of 1.0 percent.[59] Much of the improvement in unemployment during Romney's first three years in office reflected the loss of working-age adults from the labor force,[62][67] many of them having left Massachusetts for other states during the period.[68][62] Massachusetts experienced one of the highest levels of net out-migration of any state during Romney's term.
Analysis: By invoking the powers of Willard (Romnesia) Romney's "magic amulet"- it will work so long as the majority of US Citizens move to another country.
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Paul Ryan-Bow and Arrow Over-Taxation Repealed!
Ryan became the ranking Republican member of the House Budget Committee in 2007,[56] then chairman in 2011 after Republicans took control of the House. That same year he was selected to deliver the Republican response to the State of the Union address.[57]
Official U.S. Congress portrait of Ryan in 2011
During his 13 years in the House, he has sponsored some 71 bills or amendments,[58] of which two were ultimately enacted into law.[59] One, passed in July 2000, renamed a post office in Ryan's district; the other, passed in December 2008, lowered the excise tax on arrow shafts.[60][61] Ryan has also co-sponsored 975 bills[59] of which 176 have passed.[62] 22 percent of these bills were originally sponsored by Democrats; the average for Republicans is 19 percent.[59] In 2010, Ryan was a member of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Bowles-Simpson Commission), which was tasked with developing a plan to reduce the federal deficit. He voted against the final report of the commission.[63]
Democrats do his work-but the Bow and Arrow win is all his. Captain Teabag does it again?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan_(politician)
The GOP Organized Crime Syndicate is attempting to steal an election with "Discount Bow and Arrows" and a "Forced Relocation Plan"
Needs to get lessons from the Dems' ACORN group in Chicago!!!
Actually it is you that needs to learn the actual facts about ACORN. How Mr. O'Keefe edited the film that was the basis of the charges against ACORN. But that would require using the actual facts, not the ones gleaned from Bullsh*t Mountain or that fat assed pill popper Limbaugh. The film that O;Keefe introduced to the public after his editing showed him dressed as a pimp while in the ACORN office while in reality he was dressed like a law student and didn't tell people that the workers in that office ended his visit by calling the police and reporting his actions. I guess when you get your facts from drug addicts on talk radio or from the idiots at Bullsh*t Mountain you get mindless comments like yours.
No, they don't need lessons. They and anyone else doing this need to go to jail. I don't care what party they come from.
Why? Acorn didn't do anything remotely this bad. This is the conservative logic, "If a non-conservative group does something wrong then it's OK for us to do something worse."
15 years and a $15,000 fine seem about right, whether they are Republican, Democrat, or Abolitionist.
Oh really, Alverant? Here's a rundown of ACORN's record:
AR
1998
A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.
CO
2005
Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.
2004
An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.
CT
2008
The New York Post reported that ACORN submitted a voter registration card for a 7-year-old Bridgeport girl. Another 8,000 cards from the same city will be scrutinized for possible fraud.
FL
2009
In September, 11 ACORN workers were accused of forging voter registration applications in Miami-Dade County during the last election. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the state attorney’s office scoured hundreds of suspicious applications provided by ACORN and found 197 of 260 contained personal ID information that did not match any living person.
2008
Election officials in Brevard County have given prosecutors more than 23 suspect registrations from ACORN. The state's Division of Elections is also investigating complaints in Orange and Broward Counties.
2004
A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.
IN
2008
Election officials in Indiana have thrown out more than 4,000 ACORN-submitted voter registrations after finding they had identical handwriting and included the names of many deceased Indianans, and even the name of a fast food restaurant.
MI
2008
Clerks in Detroit found a "sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent [voter] applications" from the Michigan branch of ACORN. Those applications have been turned over to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation.
2004
The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.
MO
2008
Nearly 400 ACORN-submitted registrations in Kansas City have been rejected due to duplication or fake information.
2007
Four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election.
2006
Eight ACORN employees in St. Louis were indicted on federal election fraud charges. Each of the eight faces up to five years in prison for forging signatures and submitting false information.
2003
Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.
MN
2004
During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.
NC
2008
County elections officials have sent suspicious voter registration applications to the state Board of Elections. Many of the applications had similar or identical names, but with different addresses or dates of birth.
2004
North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.
NM
2008
Prosecutors are investigating more than 1,100 ACORN-submitted voter registration cards after a county clerk found them to be fraudulent. Many of the cards included duplicate names and slightly altered personal information.
2005
Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”
2004
An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.
NV
2009
Nevada authorities indicted ACORN on 26 counts of voter registration fraud and 13 counts of illegally compensating canvassers. ACORN provided a bonus compensation program called “Blackjack” or “21+” for any canvasser who registered more than 20 voters per shift, which is illegal under Nevada law.
2008
Nevada state authorities raided ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters as part of a task force investigation of election fraud. Fraudulent registrations included players from the Dallas Cowboys.
OH
2008
ACORN activists gave Ohio residents cash and cigarettes in exchange for filling out voter registration card, according to the New York Post. Some voters claim to have registered dozens of times, and one man says he signed up on 72 cards.
2007
A man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties.
2004
A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.
PA
2009
Seven ACORN workers in the Pittsburgh area were indicted for submitting falsified voter registration forms. Six of the seven were also indicted for registering voters under an illegal quota system.
2008
State election officials have thrown out 57,435 voter registrations, the majority of which were submitted by ACORN. The registrations were thrown out after officials found "clearly fraudulent" signatures, vacant lots listed as addresses, and other signs of fraud.
2008
An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.
2004
Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.
TX
2008
In Harris County, nearly 10,000 ACORN-submitted registrations were found to be invalid, including many with clearly fraudulent addresses or other personal information.
2008
ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.
VA
2005
In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.
In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."
WA
2007
Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.
WI
2008
At least 33,000 ACORN-submitted registrations in Milwaukee have been called into question after it was found that the organizations had been using felons as registration workers, in violation of state election rules. Two people involved in the ongoing Wisconsin voter fraud investigation have been charged with felonies.
2004
The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinelthat he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.
there is no ACORN you idiot. Stop trying to draw false equivilencies where they do not exist. You child. "I know you are but what am I?" Back to the and box with you.
Now Republicans have the Voter fraud all to yourselves.
Own it and suck it.
@foolishness abounds
you clowns have been posting lies without referencing your sources for years. You spent a lot of time copying and pasting the dribble you posted above, but cite the source for these accusations. Bet it is some right wing troll site.
Often clowns have the last laugh:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
Four people have been indicted on charges of voter fraud in Kansas City, officials said Wednesday.
Investigators said questionable registration forms for new voters were collected by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to improve minority and low-income communities.
The four indicted -- Kwaim A. Stenson, Dale D. Franklin, Stephanie L. Davis and Brian Gardner -- were employed by ACORN as registration recruiters. They were each charged with two counts.
Federal indictments allege the four turned in false voter registration applications. Prosecutors said the indictments are part of a national investigation.
Acyually I a not targeting Drano, as far as I am concerned, those caught cheating on either side of the political spectrum should be fined, jailed and permanenly lose their right to ever hold public office or vote again in this country.
Hmmm, I wonder how many politicians would find themselves out of jobs?
This has been a tried and true jim crowe tactic for YEARS. The lack of ethics displayed by these earnest conservatives is a disgrace. They are less cautious about their illegal antics in the south. Of course the GOP hired a firm that hired some other people--so they could keep their hands clean! That fool that threw the registrations in the dumpster will soon find himself taking the heat alone, unless that community has some brains in thelocal sheriff's office. Right along with Jim Crowe is the Mormon's portrayel of blacks in their religion. (they were bad). OMG. Mormonism is crazier than I thought. Jesus had three wives. Mormon men have to wear special underwear all the time. ( do women?) We can all be gods but you have to gain admittance to a temple and those temples are "invitation only" doors.(One of them is in Seattle).. -and the men can have thousands of wives on that other planet(s) when they become gods upon their death. Now does that sound like something the GOP could go for? Hell, Yes!
According to factcheck ACORN did nothing wrong. When ACORN discovers wrongdoing they turn the people in themselves.
FactCheck.org : ACORN Accusations
Nice post, "foolishness abounds" -- you cut/pasted this from the Focus on the Family sponsored website, RottenAcorn.com
And, by the way, these are ALL BS claims, all unsubstantiated, all made-up! So, well done at repeating the crap from a LIAR Right-Wing website that links you to NOTHING to supports these ridiculous suggestions.
Following the publication of the videos and withdrawal of funding, four different independent investigations by various state and city Attorneys General and the GAO released in 2009 and 2010 cleared ACORN, finding its employees had not engaged in criminal activities and that the organization had managed its federal funding appropriately, and calling the videos deceptively and selectively edited to present the workers in the worst possible light. Despite this, by March 2010, 15 of ACORN's 30 state chapters had already closed and the group announced it was closing its remaining state chapters and disbanding.
Don't let the facts hit you on the butt when you leave.
Is that list it? After getting millions of voters registered is that all of the fringe elements than can be found? That is well under 1% of the total voters registered.
Supress the vote, register the dead, throw away those who don't agree with us, hmmm....I sure am glad those republicans are so concerned about voter fraud. Woops, we did what?
Haha. He worked for a PAYROLL COMPANY, sub-contracted by an ALREADY FIRED consulting firm.
"he had been directly employed by a payroll company called Pinpoint, which was previously used by Strategic Allied Consulting to pay workers for the GOP registration drive being run by the consulting company"
He was a "GOP registration" WORKER not a GOP "registration worker".
How do lefties still fall so willingly for such obviously incredibly politically spun and utterly pointless articles?
Why dont they talk about OHIO.. voter fraud there also... lets hear about that.. Maybe it is because it involved DEMS...
pjam09: I guess that because he worked for a payroll company, hired by the Consulting company, which was hired by the GOP, that's OK then, right ?
If you put up TWO false fronts between the fraud the GOP is doing and the party itself, then its OK.
The DEMS are doing the same thing in OHIO.. where is the news on that..??
I'm not sure how your cleverly placed quote marks changes anything.
The suspect, Colin Small, 31, was described by a local law enforcement official as a "supervisor" in a Republican Party financed operation to register voters in Rockingham County in rural Virginia, a key swing state in the Nov. 6 election. He was arrested after a local business owner in the same Harrisonburg, Va., shopping center where the local GOP campaign headquarters is located spotted Small tossing a bag into the trash, according to a statement Thursday by the Rockingham County Sheriff’s office. The bag was later found to contain eight voter registration forms, it said.
If the forms were incomplete, he is incompetent, like the RNC. Being that this was his job, and he was a supervisor, he surely would have known that an incomplete form would not be approved, and could have mentioned that to avoid arrest.
This whole thing stinks of the voter fraud, intimidation and misdirection that the RNC sanctioned in Florida already this year.
Where's the proof of that? Got any valid unbiased sources?
HERE WE GO AGAIN!!
The self-proclaimed Party of Better Values. NEVER taking personal responsibility. ALWAYS saying "hey look! they do it, too!!" whenever they get caught doing anything wrong. They hate the DEMS, they claim to be better than the DEMS with BETTER VALUES, but the DEMS are who they compare themselves to IMMEDIATELY when they are caught doing something wrong.
It must really feel special to be lowlife, two-faced hypocrites!!
The desperation shows when some of these pathetic apologists bring up Benghazi, in the republican tradition of using dead Americans as political ping pong balls.
The GOP has revealed themselves to be liars, cheats, and frauds, and despicable ones at that. They have absolutely no respect for the values that made this country great.
Throw out ALL the baggers.
So now the GOP can finally prove that there is voter fraud! See Democrats, it does exist because the GOP is doing it!
Here is another angle on voter fraud or maybe it should be called voter manipulation.
ributed-news/13221476-romney-family-buys-voting-machines-through-bain-capital-investment
Tagg Romney, the son of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney , has purchased electronic voting machines that will be used in the 2012 elections in Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma, Washington and Colorado.
"Late last month, Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis at FreePress.org broke the story of the Mitt Romney/Bain Capital investment team involved in H.I.G. Capital which, in July of 2011, completed a "strategic investment" to take over a fair share of the Austin-based e-voting machine company Hart Intercivic ," according to independent journalist Brad Friedman.
Truth out reports:In other words, a candidate for the presidency of the United States, and his brother, wife and son, have a straight-line financial interest in the voting machines that could decide this fall's election. These machines cannot be monitored by the public. But they will help decide who "owns" the White House."
But Friedman is not the only one to discover the connection between the Romney family, Bain Capital, and ownership of voting machines.
"Through a closely held equity fund called Solamere, Mitt Romney and his wife, son and brother are major investors in an investment firm called H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. in turn holds a majority share and three out of five board members in Hart Intercivic, a company that owns the notoriously faulty electronic voting machines that will count the ballots in swing state Ohio November 7. Hart machines will also be used elsewhere in the United States.
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Raising further questions of legitimacy in the Romney campaign is an audio recording recently made public, where Mitt Romney is heard asking independent business owners to apply pressure to their employees to influence their votes. What has also been made public are the emails those employers have sent to their employees with an implied threat that if they don't vote for Romney they may lose their jobs.
Somehow the above lost my link to the article.
Romney family buys voting machines through Bain Capital investment
If that doesn't work, google Romney family buys voting machines through Bain Capital Investment.
Voter supression, voter intimidation, voter registration fraud! When are these stories going to anger the Democrats enough to say that enough is enough and bring charges against the RNC and the likes of its minions. And its so blatant and obvious, by the Republicans. It may very well cost Obama the election.
Good.
tracon - "When are these stories going to anger the Democrats enough to say that enough is enough"
Democrats would only get mad if they thought Republicans were actually getting away with more fraud than themselves... Why do you think Democrats are against voters having I.D.'s?
pjam09: Why do you think Democrats are against voters having I.D.'s?
Because the GOP has made very clear that the attempt to require the I.D.'s is purely to prevent people from being able to vote. They have limited the access to get the I.D.'s, required specific types of I.D.'s, limited the time available to get them, made the required documents expensive and difficult to obtain. In some cases, the GOP state legislators have even stated that their purpose is to make sure people can't vote in order to give the election to Romney.
I need identification to walk down the street. I need identification to drive a car. I need identification to make sure I am legally in possession of my handgun. I needed an i.d. to obtain my college degree. Everyone should have an i.d.- not just to prevent voter fraud but to also prevent welfare fraud, insurance fraud, as well as employment fraud.
In the state of Georgia, if a policeman asks you for an i.d., you must produce one if you are of legal age. If you cannot, then you must be able to prove your identity. If you cannot, via social security number, then you can be taken to jail until such time as your identity can be verified.
How is this wrong to expect people to be able to identify themselves? I don't care about the voting aspect- I care about the legality aspect. If you are a criminal and you walk away free because you don't have an i.d., then there is no one to blame but the local, state, and federal government if you again commit a crime. If someone murdered your family because they didn't have identification and the police had to let them go, bet everyone on here would be screaming a different tune.
No you don't! This isn't Nazi Germany where people are required to "produce their papers" any time they are questioned by the Gestapo!
jesus h nipple, get a clue!! NOBODY in this country is required to carry ID to just walk down the street!
It's wrong because they tried making this requirement right before an election, gave poor people very little time to get the needed documentation as well as made it overly expensive for most and very specialized -- in some cases, impossible for many to obtain in the time given. THAT is what made it wrong. And, people on the RIGHT would admit that if they weren't cowards.
And in candid moments some of them already have.
Speaking of voter suppression, voter intimidation, and vote tabulation...
Updated as of 9:35am EST on Friday, October 19, with likely changes throughout the day as further input emerges from post-debate polling:
Real Clear Politics is consistently cited by both FOXNEWS and NBCNEWS as a current source for reliable averaged polling data at every level of American politics.
Real Clear yesterday reduced the number of total 'toss-up states' still in play at the national level from eleven to ten, having moved North Carolina into the 'leans Romney' column.
As a result, the ten states of Florida (FL), Pennsylvania (PA), Ohio (OH), Michigan (MI), Virginia (VA), Colorado (CO), Wisconsin (WI), Iowa IO), Nevada (NV) and New Hampshire (NH) are the only states yet to be placed in either the Obama or Romney camps.
Beyond that, of the forty states no longer considered toss-up, Romney can lay claim with relative certainty to receiving 206 electoral votes to Obama's 201, with 270 winning the Presidency outright. At present, however, with only 18 days left in the 2012 presidential campaign, Obama leads in eight of the ten remaining toss-up states and Romney leads in two.
In descending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Obama, followed in ascending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Romney, here are the published averaged polling numbers from Real Clear Politics as of 9:35am EST on Friday, October 19:
In PA, with 20 electoral votes, Obama's lead is holding at 5.0%.
In MI, with 16 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 5.0%, up from 4.3% on Wednesday.
In IO, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 3.3%, up from 2.3% on Wednesday.
In NV, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead is holding at 3.0%.
In WI, with 10 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.8%, up from 2.0% on Wednesday.
In OH, with 18 electoral votes, Obama's lead is holding at 2.4%.
In NH, with 4 electoral votes, Obama's lead is holding at 0.8%.
In VA, with 13 electoral votes, Obama's lead is holding at 0.8%.
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In CO, with 9 electoral votes, Romney's lead has fallen to 0.2%, down from 0.8% on Wednesday.
In FL, with 29 electoral votes, Romney's lead is holding at 2.5%.
So…
For Obama to win re-election, the easiest route still appears to be through maintaining his existing lead in five of the six toss-up states where his current margins are widest: PA, MI, IO, WI, and OH. Doing so would bring his electoral vote total on Election Day to 271. Adding in the 6 electoral votes from NV, the sixth state in which the President retains a substantive lead and Obama's tally climbs to 277. This scenario is validated by the fact that the Obama campaign is now flooding IO, WI, and OH with advertising in order to either shore up or expand their existing margins in these three states.
However, should Obama lose the critically important and highly-contested toss-up state of OH, assuming at the same time that NV continues to go his way, the loss could effectively be neutralized by a victory in VA where he presently holds a slim lead of 0.8%, resulting in an electoral vote tally of 272 for Obama.
Yet another alternative route to victory for Obama, should he fail to win either OH or VA, would be to capture NH where he presently leads by only 0.8% combined with a come-from-behind victory in CO where he presently trails by a narrowing Romney lead of 0.2%. This alternative non-OH/VA route would also bring Obama's electoral vote total to 272.
In one last Obama scenario, a less probable but not altogether unlikely come-from-behind victory in FL where he presently trails Romney by 2.5% would allow the President to emerge as victor while sacrificing wins in the five toss-up states where his current lead is smallest: NV, WI, OH, NH, and VA. This FL route also gives Obama 272 electoral votes. However, based on emerging Obama campaign advertising expenditures alone, this scenario does NOT appear to be a favored path to victory for the President and as such, should probably be dismissed.
For Romney to unseat Obama, he not only would have to hold the two states in which he presently leads, FL and CO, bringing his electoral vote total to 244, but also steal victories in VA, NH, and either OH or WI where Obama's current lead is most narrow. By so doing, Romney's electoral vote total, at minimum, reaches 271.
However, as of yesterday Obama's lead has been widening in WI, perhaps because of the results of the 2nd presidential debate, so winning in OH appears the better option for Romney. It should therefore come as no surprise, and perhaps to strike at the very heart of this likely Romney strategy regarding OH, that Obama spent most of the day yesterday campaigning with Bill Clinton and Bruce Springsteen throughout the Buckeye State before heading to New Hampshire and ultimately to New York City for the Al Smith Dinner alongside Romney.
Should Romney come-from-behind and win in OH while still losing NH and WI, his path to victory would only require that he maintain his lead in FL and CO while stealing VA where Obama's present lead of 0.8% is most narrow. This scenario would give Romney 275 electoral votes.
With nineteen days left in the campaign and assuming a 'wash' in the third and final presidential debate, this one may come down to the wire…. and to the October jobs report.
Let us hope that Election Day is free of both voter fraud and voter intimidation; let us also hope that vote tabulation itself is performed honestly and accurately by both the election commissions and private corporations to whom this essential role is being entrusted.
In any case, it will be interesting to watch as election night unfolds.
For those of you choosing to cite yesterday's published Gallup national tracking poll spread of 7% in favor of Romney as evidence that Real Clear Politics cannot possibly be correct in their averaged projections, please understand that any poll which tracks national popular sentiment is inconsequential as the United States of America does not elect presidents based on a national popular vote.
State polling, on the other hand, IS consequential because we DO elect presidents based on popular voting WITHIN a state. In fact, it is the popular vote within any given state which determines to which candidate the electoral votes from that state go.
If Gallup had Romney leading in all ten remaining toss-up states by 7%, state by state, than the 7% figure would matter. Gallup does not, and as a result, their findings remain inconsequential.
RCP, which averages ALL recent major polling in order to construct the broadest possible sample (and therefore a more reliable indicator than any individual poll), has no candidate with a lead larger than 5.0% in any of their ten remaining toss-up states, and that lead belongs to Obama in both Pennsylvania and Michigan.
In fact, Romney's largest lead according to Real Clear is in Florida, with a 2.5% advantage.
Although you might take encouragement from national polling which shows a widening lead for the candidate whom you support, don't make the mistake of believing that national surveys reflect electoral college results.
They don't.
Lastly, perhaps in a spate of wishful thinking, very early this morning FOXNEWS.com began floating a story reiterating yesterday's inconsequential Gallup numbers while simultaneously suggesting that the electoral map was beginning to shift in Romney's favor.
Citing RCP, as I have here, FOX trumpeted the placement of NC in the Romney column as evidence of a broader and undeniable shift in the electoral balance, when in fact it is anything but. NC more likely represents Romney's last hurrah in terms of pre-election assignment of electors, with all of the remaining toss-up states (other than FL) either leaning for or quickly shifting toward Obama.
Again, notwithstanding an unexpected national calamity or an 'October surprise,' the only factors which still may have a substantial impact on polling going forward would be next Monday's final presidential debate on foreign policy and the release of October jobs numbers in early November.
In concert with what has gone on in other places (e.g. Pueblo, CO), the Republican drive to pass voter ID laws, and the trend of Republican business exec's telling their employees that they'll be fired of Obama wins, this all shows that if the Republicans win this year, it's our democracy that loses.
Republicans wouldn't know the truth if it hit them in the face. Pathetic.
Any kind of voter fraud is unacceptable and should be punished.
With that being said all of you attacking the GOP for this can turn it right around and pin Obama's name to it as well. Remember in 2008 when the New Black Panther's where stationed outside the voter stations in different states around the country, standing there with Battons and wearing para military garb and were threatening everyone to vote Democrat or be beaten or killed. Not much was reported about that by the left leaning media was it. Obama was asked why the Attorny General wasn't investigating it and he said because they did nothing wrong. So be careful what you say about the GOP because you are also saying about the Democrats.
And to think that the USA is often brought in to observe voting in "third world" countries to make sure that the voting procedures are fair and square - too ludicrous.
drano - "Republicans wouldn't know the truth if it hit them in the face. Pathetic."
How is this comment at all related to the article? The whole consulting firm was fired when it was discovered.
Which group was it that in the past few weeks whole-heartedly accepted being told that the Benghazi attack was because of a Youtube video and who actually defended the skewed unemployment numbers reported earlier this month? ... here's a hint... it's Democrats.
Talk about not recognizing when you are being lied to.
Gunner,again with the New Black Panthers. I know you've seen the video. Two guys in Philly, standing in front of a SINGLE polling place. Two guys one polling place! Since your party claims to be the one of truth and virtue why do they both seem to escape you so readily. Changing the story doesn't change the facts.
Why don't we talk about true the Vote, the teabagger voter suppression group?
A Democratic congressman has launched an investigation into True The Vote, a conservative Tea Party group that has attempted to purge thousands of registered voters from voting rolls across the country ahead of the November presidential election.
The organization is pursuing an aggressive ground campaign to challenge people's right to vote based on their residency and citizenship, such as the hundreds of college students who failed to identify their dorm room numbers on voter registration applications.
In a letter to Catherine Engelbrecht, the founder of True The Vote, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) accused the Texas-based organization of challenging the registration of thousands of legitimate voters "based on insufficient, inaccurate, and faulty evidence."
"True the Vote, its volunteers, and its affiliated groups have a horrendous record of filing inaccurate voter registration challenges, causing legitimate voters -- through no fault of their own -- to receive letters from local election officials notifying them that their registrations have been challenged and requiring them to take steps to remedy false accusations against them," wrote Cummings, the ranking minority member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
True The Vote, Tea Party Voting Group, Targeted By Congressional Inquiry
Romney/Ryan?
Unemployment and new jobs creation
On average, unemployment rates were slightly worse in the rest of the nation than in Massachusetts for the first three years of Romney's term.[59][62] By his final year in office, the state was struggling to keep pace with the rate of falling unemployment nationwide.[59]
Massachusetts' national ranking leapt from the 29th highest in unemployment when Romney took office to the 18th by the end of his term.[59]Unemployment in Massachusetts rose during Romney's first year from a rate of 5.6 percent in January 2003, when he took office, to a peak of 6.0 percent in mid 2003.
[66] It then steadily declined over the remainder of his term, ending at 4.6 percent in January 2007,[66] his last month as governor, for a net improvement in unemployment of 1.0 percent.[59] Much of the improvement in unemployment during Romney's first three years in office reflected the loss of working-age adults from the labor force,[62][67] many of them having left Massachusetts for other states during the period.[68][62] Massachusetts experienced one of the highest levels of net out-migration of any state during Romney's term.
Analysis: By invoking the powers of Willard (Romnesia) Romney's "magic amulet"- it will work so long as the majority of US Citizens move to another country.
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Paul Ryan-Bow and Arrow Over-Taxation Repealed!
Ryan became the ranking Republican member of the House Budget Committee in 2007,[56] then chairman in 2011 after Republicans took control of the House. That same year he was selected to deliver the Republican response to the State of the Union address.[57]
Official U.S. Congress portrait of Ryan in 2011
During his 13 years in the House, he has sponsored some 71 bills or amendments,[58] of which two were ultimately enacted into law.[59] One, passed in July 2000, renamed a post office in Ryan's district; the other, passed in December 2008, lowered the excise tax on arrow shafts.[60][61] Ryan has also co-sponsored 975 bills[59] of which 176 have passed.[62] 22 percent of these bills were originally sponsored by Democrats; the average for Republicans is 19 percent.[59] In 2010, Ryan was a member of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Bowles-Simpson Commission), which was tasked with developing a plan to reduce the federal deficit. He voted against the final report of the commission.[63]
Democrats do his work-but the Bow and Arrow win is all his. Captain Teabag does it again?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan_(politician)
The GOP Organized Crime Syndicate is attempting to steal an election with "Discount Bow and Arrows" and a "Forced Relocation Plan"
In concert with what has gone on in other places (e.g. Pueblo, CO), the Republican drive to pass voter ID laws, and the trend of Republican business exec's telling their employees that they'll be fired of Obama wins, this all shows that if the Republicans win this year, it's our democracy that loses.
His former employer throws him under the bus!!
Strategic Allied Consulting also tried to distance itself from the arrested campaign worker. “The relationship between Strategic Allied and Colin Small ended on September 27th, when our firm stopped running voter registration programs in Virginia and other states. We had no contact with Small or any other voter registration worker at any point thereafter,” a spokesman for the firm said in a statement emailed to NBC News. “The reprehensible conduct it appears Small engaged in happened nearly three weeks later. Strategic Allied had nothing to do with such regrettable, illegal activity. We hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
It's like the guy that farts, looks over and says, "BAD DOG!!!"
Absolutely... I'm sure he was just doing what he was told.
GOP has been resorting to more and more crooked ways to win. And the f... moron should have used the paper shredder first! What a dumba$$!
Obviously he was not as schooled in fraud as you Democrat registration workers, probably because it was not a skill that was recruited for.
I haven't heard of anyone except the republicans getting caught this year. Maybe I need to hop over to Fox.
pjam is too busy listening to Rush Limpblah to go over to Fox. He prefers having Rush tell him how to think and what to say to people...
pjam - I'm actually a registered Republican who supports Ron Paul but I am ashamed of GOP and will not vote for that con artist Romney. I will vote Libertarian, as I did for the last 12 years, ever since that idiot Bush Jr and the Kosher Neocon Gang destroyed America.
And if you are going to commit fraud, at least do it right. But it looks like this current batch of GOP con men are all retards. GOP now is exactly like portrayed on The Simpsons.
OMG, you've got that right! I have been reading through this whole thread, & it just amazes me how much ignorance there is and the claims spewed from the RWNJ's on here.
Dudes...one time it is a coincidence...more than that, a pattern.
where were you schmucks when the unemployment Numbers went up yesterday? bet they drop next week, along with the price of gas. as for this article.....were they dem or repub registrations? that SMALL fact isn't in this article it merely states;
this "article is doing exactly what it is suppose to do... lure you lemmings in and set it up so that when the great narcissistic arrogant presidential pretender loses you people can all scream fraud....period.......
Democrats
Actually what the article does is inform readers that those in the GOP are hypocrites, they try and suppress voters by passing laws that make it hard to vote and when it looks like the judiciary won't allow that they then resort to committing criminal acts. The GOP scum complains about people who confirm the truth and out the lies of the GOP, they get caught ON TAPE, IN THEIR OWN VOICE and then deny what they said or say they were taken out of context. In order to try and take down a president they despise, they'll go as far as illegitimizing the office itself, instead of coming together when a national tragedy occurs such as Benghazi they immediately try and score political points, even at the expense of harming our foreign policy. The GOP is comprised of nothing other than TOOLS of Corporations at this point, all of the rational members of the GOP have left the building.
BUT the main message of this story is this, it won't be good enough to just out the GOP for what they are, it is time to start criminal investigations into these proposed laws that suppress the vote, the incidents of voter fraud found numerous times to be committed by the GOP in even the last 3 months, the billboards that are erected to scare off voters that no one owns up to, and see if there is linkage. If there is, people including the coordinators need to be charged and prosecuted. It is time for this BS to stop, on all fronts. If you idiots can't win on your policies, then change the freaking policy and quit lying and cheating the people of this country, including those in the GOP that believe the crap their leaders spew.
Democrats registreing to vote at a GOP registration station? You sure that head is in a jar?
Virginia doesn't have party affiliation on their form. I checked.
When did they pass a law requiring people to only register at a registration booth for a specific party?
Gee, I must have missed that one. Sort of like that GOP-hired woman registering voters in Colorado and asking them to say they were Republicans because she didn't get paid for Democratic registrations.
At least my head's on straight.
ScooterTramp, you're an idiot. So is PJam. Now both of you go back to your listening of Limpblah or Fox "NEWS" and enjoy yet another Great Recession if Mittens wins due to the lies, cheats and steals made by the GOP and those who support them.
What they claim is an aberration is in reality policy.
Nobody ever accused Democrats of being honest.
Reported, pjam09. And ignored, so I won't be subjected to any more of your worthless nonsense.
Everybody's accused Republicans of being dishonest.
First, I hope this guy, if guilty, gets the full punish allowed by law. There is no place for fraud in our elections.
Second, why is it that "republican" people that commit fraud like this end up on the front page, while "liberal" ACORN workers get charged all over the US and many put in prison, but you never even hear a peep about them.
If we never heard a peep, how do you know it happened??
Oh' and by the way, anybody know where I can get a pimp coat like that ACORN dude wore???
Ok.....I should have said "barely hear a peep." Satisfied?
ACORN was funded by Congress. This group was funded by the GOP. Also ACORN didn't do anything nearly as bad. It's the same old conserative logic, "If someone else does something kinda wrong, then it's OK for us to something extremely wrong and you can't call us out on it!"
Acorn didn't do anything near as bad? You must not have been paying attention? I don't mind you criticizing, but you can't just make up your own facts. Also, doesn't a federal funded program make it even worse? I can handle a democrat doing something like that, but a supposedly unbiased person working for the government committing fraud like this is much worse.
Alverant - Uctually he was funded by a payroll company that had once been used by an already-fired consulting firm contracted by the GOP.
"he had been directly employed by a payroll company called Pinpoint, which was previously used by Strategic Allied Consulting to pay workers for the GOP registration drive being run by the consulting company"
P.S.
"ACORN didn't do anything nearly as bad"
HaHa. The registration forms aren't even party identifiable. ACORN was a prejudice mob.
"Voters in Virginia do not register by party so there is no way to know whether the recovered registration forms were from Democratic or Republican voters"
Has ACORN been brought back to life? I thought it was dissolved.
But nice try at deflection and distraction, republican apologists.
A judge ordered ACORNs funding restored after it was exonerated. It is alive and well under a different name.
ACORN disbanded over 2 1/2 years ago. Of course, since they were proven to not have broken any laws, and complied with funding guidelines, they were free to do whatever they want. It is a free country as of today. Check back later.
Baloney. These lowlifes have conversations with people in the registrar offices, and the applicants don't need to check a box. If they say the wrong things while applying, they get their applications round-filed. These frauds simply talk to the applicants to find out their political leanings. Figure it out!
remember this....
Florida Representative David Rivera isn't as impressed with ACORN's "quality control":
Notwithstanding, Ed Griffith, spokesman for Miami-Dade State Attorney Katharine Fernandez Rundle, offered his own explanation that shifted blame directly to the ACORN workers and their lack of work ethic:
Amazing how easy it for some people to totally ignore that fact that ACORN was completely exonerated. Pretending like something is true doesn't make it true.
"Facts don't matter. If I believe it that makes it true"
Dear Virginia "Supervisor".
Watch out for that oncoming bus!!!!!
Only peons pay. Big fish stil swim.
No doubt... look at what was done to Hillary courtesy of Obama.
you mean the "no papers- no fear" bus perchance?
still wonder why the dems are against voter id?
and those "big fish" of which you speak are all waiting at the bottom of the lemming cliff for their free food.
Why isn't FOX running this or lets see if Limpturd mentions this story... This story has great implications and far more important than the Benghazi attack. Will there be a senate hearing and investigation on this most important national security threat on our democracy? How far will the GOP go to steal another presidential election, this is an outrage and I wonder how many more voter registration are being thrown in the dumpster?
Tell the 4 dead this is more important.
When you go into a "war zone" you should know that you might get killed. Get the pay, take the chance.
peter - "This story has great implications and far more important than the Benghazi attack."
Despicable.
Peter: "How many more voter registration are being thrown in the dumpster" That was exactly my thought and it is a scary one...............(especially after the Gore/Bush fiasco in Florida)
For years now the Republican Party and its minions have used the rumor, threat and urban-myth of voter fraud as means by which to suppress the vote (or more to the point from Democrats doing so). Mickey Mouse has still not turned up at the polls and voted... but were all waiting. Ironic (or not), we actually find a case/cases of voter fraud and it is... a means by which to suppress the vote (or more to the point from Democrats doing so)!
Put Small in jail. Put SAC out of business.
Please note;
You have to be patient with Republicans, they have smaller brains...
You have to be less patient with Democrats. They are lying scum!!
Even Lincoln was a pawn in the Republican party. A figure head. Win or loose,they win.
nice try, foolishness. Just admit that your party is in deep sheeet and you defend by posting right wing lies and "if we are doing it, then you must be because we are not only ones guilty of it". Give it a rest your party will lose again and you can go live in ur fanatsy land of make believe.
heres your tissue because your tears are making the floor wet and while your at it, get a mop too.
foolishness does abound, and has been reported and ignored. I don't have time for useless stupidity.
The rep. party once again, have been caught with its pants down. They have been exposed as liars, cheaters, intimidators, etc. time and time again. The only reason why the race is even close is because of the outside money paddling influence. Yet, I think is is a sad note that the so called ,informed voters, let these lies influence their consitutional right.
Would that be the outside money from prepaid credit cards overseas being used on the Obama website?
stories that you don't read about from that other party...
Minn. Rep. Kerry Gauthier admits to sex with teen at rest stop
Rhode Island Democratic Rep. Cicilline Accused in Massive Voter Fraud Scandal
Massachusetts Rep, who's brother in law ran an offshore gambling ring, who's wife was convicted of laundering millions and claims...
my state has 3 convicted felonious speakers of the house, with a 4th mentioned into another state scandal...care to guess which party they belong to?
But hey, remember that life in the USA as we know it will come to an end for the next 1,000 years if Obama's elected to another term. So anything is acceptable if it will prevent that.
Right? After all the end justifies the means.
<insert Chuck Norris joke here>
Severed; Talk about FEAR MONGERING! And just "1000 years"? Just what would reconstitute the USA afterward?. That's wholly and completely One Foolish Idea!
Sounds like we will need to demand a revote after all the ballot box stuffng these guys will be doing. I will be out with my camera taking photos of any voter harassers and reporting them to my police department and the FBI.
Its time to take back our elections from the GOP thieving cheating disqusting bast*#ds. What is Romney afraid of if hes such an upstanding guy?? huh Mitt??
"What is Romney afraid of"
What makes you think Romney is afraid of anything?
Obama is the one throwing his own staff under the bus; California skewed its unemployment to attempt to help him after his first debate loss... and look at the attempt by NBC at creating more propaganda articles.
Are you serious? Why does he need to act and have his people behave like such arss if he isnt afraid?? huh? If he was so forthright he would say what his agenda os but he wont because he has none that he can stand on that anyone would except. He has one plan..to make money off the backs of the people of the usa to line his and his buddies pockets.
So you are saying the GOP isnt lying about anything? This is about voter suppression not unemployment...lets try to stay on topic.
Again!? Why is someone doing something about these guys? Every other day it's another GOP fraud fest... come on!
You think this was fraud?
"Voters in Virginia do not register by party so there is no way to know whether the recovered registration forms were from Democratic or Republican voters"
Its a crime of laziness.
But yet so many lemmings are stupid enough to buy into the "voter fraud" laws being passed across the country by REPUBLICAN legislators.
If you're not smart enough to see through the BS, then you aren't much of an informed citizen.
#obama2012
Explain how this was fraud instead of laziness? Do you liberals ever get past the slanted propaganda headline?
"Voters in Virginia do not register by party so there is no way to know whether the recovered registration forms were from Democratic or Republican voters"
Just more proof that the GOP will lie,steal and cheat to get what they want. If Mis-fit Mitt and Lyin Ryan are leader material, then there should be no need to do the things that are being done. However, what is so sad is that this election has brought out the worst in people. Some decent people are being blinded by trash like Rush Limbaugh aand Fox news, simply becasue they are to lazy and narrow minded to see what's going on right in their faces. Mis-fit actually speaks from his wicked mouth one thing and the very next day, says the complete opposite, and his cult is to stupid to remember what he said the day before. We cannot truly beieve that God is going to bless us with the wickedness going on. The GOP is at at the point of no return, and don't even no it. Just think how we look to the world and we are suppose to be the leader of the world. And all because of the hatred the GOP has because of President Obama is an African-American. Like it or not that's a fact. Hatred does indeed breed stupidity.
..all the Democraps will have to do to counter this is to pick up another six drunken homeless guys in their campaign vans, give them a bologna sandwich and dead man's name and address from the district and "get out the vote" like they always do......
There's a huge difference between trying to get people to vote and preventing people from voting. But I guess if the Democrats do something wrong, that makes it OK for the republics to do something worse.
Once again, here's the ACORN record. Note that this goes back to when BARACK OBAMA worked for ACORN's Project Vote.
AR
1998
A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.
CO
2005
Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.
2004
An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.
CT
2008
The New York Post reported that ACORN submitted a voter registration card for a 7-year-old Bridgeport girl. Another 8,000 cards from the same city will be scrutinized for possible fraud.
FL
2009
In September, 11 ACORN workers were accused of forging voter registration applications in Miami-Dade County during the last election. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the state attorney’s office scoured hundreds of suspicious applications provided by ACORN and found 197 of 260 contained personal ID information that did not match any living person.
2008
Election officials in Brevard County have given prosecutors more than 23 suspect registrations from ACORN. The state's Division of Elections is also investigating complaints in Orange and Broward Counties.
2004
A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.
IN
2008
Election officials in Indiana have thrown out more than 4,000 ACORN-submitted voter registrations after finding they had identical handwriting and included the names of many deceased Indianans, and even the name of a fast food restaurant.
MI
2008
Clerks in Detroit found a "sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent [voter] applications" from the Michigan branch of ACORN. Those applications have been turned over to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation.
2004
The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.
MO
2008
Nearly 400 ACORN-submitted registrations in Kansas City have been rejected due to duplication or fake information.
2007
Four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election.
2006
Eight ACORN employees in St. Louis were indicted on federal election fraud charges. Each of the eight faces up to five years in prison for forging signatures and submitting false information.
2003
Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.
MN
2004
During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.
NC
2008
County elections officials have sent suspicious voter registration applications to the state Board of Elections. Many of the applications had similar or identical names, but with different addresses or dates of birth.
2004
North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.
NM
2008
Prosecutors are investigating more than 1,100 ACORN-submitted voter registration cards after a county clerk found them to be fraudulent. Many of the cards included duplicate names and slightly altered personal information.
2005
Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”
2004
An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.
NV
2009
Nevada authorities indicted ACORN on 26 counts of voter registration fraud and 13 counts of illegally compensating canvassers. ACORN provided a bonus compensation program called “Blackjack” or “21+” for any canvasser who registered more than 20 voters per shift, which is illegal under Nevada law.
2008
Nevada state authorities raided ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters as part of a task force investigation of election fraud. Fraudulent registrations included players from the Dallas Cowboys.
OH
2008
ACORN activists gave Ohio residents cash and cigarettes in exchange for filling out voter registration card, according to the New York Post. Some voters claim to have registered dozens of times, and one man says he signed up on 72 cards.
2007
A man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties.
2004
A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.
PA
2009
Seven ACORN workers in the Pittsburgh area were indicted for submitting falsified voter registration forms. Six of the seven were also indicted for registering voters under an illegal quota system.
2008
State election officials have thrown out 57,435 voter registrations, the majority of which were submitted by ACORN. The registrations were thrown out after officials found "clearly fraudulent" signatures, vacant lots listed as addresses, and other signs of fraud.
2008
An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.
2004
Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.
TX
2008
In Harris County, nearly 10,000 ACORN-submitted registrations were found to be invalid, including many with clearly fraudulent addresses or other personal information.
2008
ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.
VA
2005
In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.
In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."
WA
2007
Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.
WI
2008
At least 33,000 ACORN-submitted registrations in Milwaukee have been called into question after it was found that the organizations had been using felons as registration workers, in violation of state election rules. Two people involved in the ongoing Wisconsin voter fraud investigation have been charged with felonies.
2004
The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinelthat he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.
Where did u get that BS from, Fox news? A news agency that makes up news to favor their political backing. Funny thing is that info you copied and pasted, due to lazyness I see, comes from right wing news files. Not independant news sources, but right wing BS sources that are manipulated and distorted
Those were ACORN contractors who blew it. How many were turned in by ACORN itself?
The $8-an-hour employees were charged with providing false information on voter registration forms, and in one case with making a false statement to a public official. Five of the seven who were charged pleaded guilty. ACORN was fined for exercising insufficient oversight, but it was not charged with masterminding any kind of deliberate fraud.
FactCheck.org : ACORN Accusations
foolishness, the thing you and your anti-Acorn buddies dont seem to understand is, falsifying registration cards (which was done by volunteers and contractors and NOT Acorn itself) does not translate to a vote: writing Mickey Mouse on a registration form does not mean Mickey Mouse will show up at the polls.
However throwing away legitimate registration forms, like your GOP buddies do, DOES mean that actual people are going to be turned away at the polls on election day.
Cameron, if you read the story, you will see that this individual was employed by a contractor, not by the GOP. Furthermore, the story stated that the reason behind disposing of the forms has not been determined. The GOP has correctly stated that this behavior is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Neither side has behaved admirably in an election since Reagan was elected. Right now, the problem is that everyone seems to be attached to labels like Republican, Democrat, black, white, etc. instead of the one that really counts which is American. Instead of trying to find ways to cheat, each side needs to find ways to allow our military to vote, to educate voters on the issues and possible solutions to our economic and healthcare problems, and to ensure that every eligible citizen is encouraged to cast their ballot.
I live in VA, I can assure you ACORN did what was stated.
Hey if Obama can use Mickey Mouse as he did in 2008 for donations, why can't the repubs throw out 8 incomplete applications?
Looks like these fat stupid teanuts finally found some voter fraud...in their own party.
In the Acorn list, each time it was shown to be the work of individuals, who had never had a direct affiliation with the Democratic Party. That the list is so long indicates that current laws are effective in preventing voter fraud, since those ballots were thrown out. So exactly why are all the newID laws being pushed this year, again? Have the cake or eat it, not both.
Yes, this is disgusting. I cannot believe how ignorant and mean people have become!
This must mean the following:
Since many women kill their own children then all women will do the same. Since men sexually assault children that proves all men do.
Is this what people are saying?