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I just read that the girl that was caught on video was dumped by the RNC, and the other guy Nathan Sproul has been fired by the RNC, among others. Why are they not being prosecuted? They committed a crime and their punishment is just getting fired? Not really a strong incentive to not continue to secretly commit these crimes. If people started getting trial dates people may think twice about involving themselves in these actions. It would also spread the word that the GOP is currently engaged in secret election fraud.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Sunday morning Republican propaganda shows) that although she can't comment on the specifics, the DoJ has already opened over 42 investigations dealing with voter suppression.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)After some terrible reporting on this originally by the AP, in which they simply took whatever they were told by the RNC and Strategic Allied Consulting and reported it uncritically, they've finally noticed there is much more going on here.
"What first appeared to be an isolated problem in one Florida county has now spread statewide," AP's Gary Fineout reported on Saturday. Of course, it only appeared to them and the RNC "to be an isolated problem."
In any event, AP is now reporting that the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF), --- whose largest expenditure this election cycle, $1.3 million, was on Strategic Allied Consulting --- filed an election fraud complaint against the company on Friday. It's now in the hands of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Of course, that's the same law enforcement outfit who chose not to prosecute one-time Republican superstar Ann Coulter for voter fraud and voter registration fraud, despite the open and shut case against her, reflected by hard documentation showing that she purposely lied on her voter registration form, on her FL drivers license, as well as knowingly voting at the wrong precinct back in 2005 --- in Palm Beach County, coincidentally enough. Her crimes amounted to two 3rd degree felonies and one 1st degree misdemeanor in all, according to the report from the Town of Palm Beach Police Department obtained by The BRAD BLOG back in 2007. The PBPD said, at the time, they did not have jurisdiction in the matter, and it moved up the food chain for years to state authorities and others. Thanks, in no small part to her Republican friends in FL, and a very close friend at the FBI, Coulter was able to run out the statute of limitations clock, and was never held accountable for her election crimes in FL.
Florida, it seems, is very selective about who it chooses to prosecute for election fraud. So we'll see what comes of the Republican complaint against the Republican voter registration outfit.
In another example of selective interest by Republican state officials, as of late Friday night, the Republican FL Secretary of State's office still hadn't bothered to return the Monday call of Susan Bucher, who had called to report the fraudulent registration forms before turning them over to the State Attorney on Monday afternoon. So much for the pretend concerns about voter registration fraud by Republican Gov. Rick Scott and his hand-picked Sec. of State Ken Detzner, who are still attempting to remove supposed "non-citizens" from the rolls, even after their failed previous attempts, and even amidst a real voter registration fraud crisis in the state, as Bucher explained to us during our exclusive interview with her last Wednesday.
Many have asked us if the U.S. Dept. of Justice has yet come in to this matter. If they have, we haven't heard about it at this time.
From: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9598
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)StevePaulson
(174 posts)Making sure all the banksters stay out of jail and looking the other way while their heads spin off.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)like sending SWAT teams to raid Medical Marijuana dispenseries, criminalizing otherwise
productive decent law-abiding citizens, and such.
goclark
(30,404 posts)What are the Democrats waiting for..has anyone
been charged and made to stop it???
freshwest
(53,661 posts)goclark
(30,404 posts)Everyday I worry about this
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)many times before by citizens. We found the same thing here in Los Angeles years ago. The board of Supervisors would not go near it. We called on the head of the Democratic Party. He would not do anything. They just hushed it all up. Finally the secretary of state of California arrested the head of that operation. He got community service. not even jail time. There were charges against his group in 14 states already in 2006. He always managed to not go to jail.
The Dems are not more interested in honest elections than the republicons. They are interested in WINNING.
that includes Obama.
chollybocker
(3,687 posts)Bailiffs serving subpoenas would be a good start. There's surely still much to discover.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)They have to open up a formal investigation. It is not the kind of crime you just arrest someone.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)they try to refrain from prosecutions, indictments, and arrests 60 days before an election.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)... in question. Sorry that I do not know which one.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)officials!
I would think though the federal government would start cracking down hard and locking these criminals up!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)If Nathan Sproul broke laws, let's talk about the specifics. What laws were broken?
I am in favor of prosecution but not a posse.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)won't EVER touch a Repuke operative, especially one who is another TBM.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)At least that is one that may apply here.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Because they will be denied their family in heaven if they defy them.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)NBachers
(17,115 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)It's important to be careful about that. It's exactly the conflation that Republicans made about Acorn. See Josh Marshall on this: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/09/about_mr_sproul.php?ref=fpblg
Read the story at your link. It's about phony registrations; nothing to do with election fraud (which would be stuffing the ballot box, etc.)
On Friday, the Times reported that at least 10 Florida counties have detected fraud in the forms turned in by Sprouls firm.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)people it hired to go out and register voters turned in forms from Mickey Mouse? Did Mickey Mouse cast a vote? You believe Acorn should have been criminally prosecuted? When you pay people by the form, you're going to get fake signatures and such turned in. These people will not be registered to vote. There is no ELECTION fraud to it.
I'm sorry, but you're just plain wrong. There's a difference between voter fraud and registration fraud: please read the link to TPM provided for an explanation.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)vote. in large scale. That is election fraud.
it is not perpetrated by one person. but by groups of people.
if Mickey mouse votes, that is the so called GOP "voter fraud".
If Mickey Mouse votes 300 times, it is election fraud.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)in general. Get it straight.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)if you care about elections.
Sproul is one of many GOP operatives who deal in election fraud.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)been working with election protection for many years.
Blue Owl
(50,390 posts)n/t
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Sad... but funny.
robinlynne
(15,481 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)than election fraud, voter registration fraud, or voter suppression. Just ask Holder.
NBachers
(17,115 posts)catbyte
(34,393 posts)But look up Roy Schmidt & Speaker Jase Bolger's shenanigans in Michigan. It's worse than McCotter & Schmidt WON the primary. It is sickening. No charges either. I guess that's the beauty of having a Republican AG, SOS, legislature & governor. They are all so crooked that when they die they will have to screw them into the ground.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)by Gretchen Whitmer - DailyKos
8/22/12
Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/22/1123008/-Pursuing-Justice-Against-Jase-Bolger-and-Roy-Schmidt
& Rec !!!
catbyte
(34,393 posts)What a sleazy, sleazy affair. And Roy Schmidt is plotzing all over himself apologizing and acting all contrite. I fully expect him to be elected, but he should be in jail.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)After all evidence is collected and the investigation has finished THEN charges can be brought forward and court dates scheduled.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Anyone violating these rights should also die!
It's that important!
glowing
(12,233 posts)They are a new company
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)multiple states. be patient. The truth and the criminals will be exposed.
budkin
(6,703 posts)ACORN!!!