Virginia AG won’t investigate GOP worker who dumped voter registration forms

[Galraedia]

Source: Raw Story

The Virginia State Board of Elections announced Friday that it will not ask the state’s attorney general to investigate the Republican operative accused of tossing out eight completed voter registration forms, rejecting Democratic-led efforts at a full investigation into the alleged tampering.

State Senator and chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus Donald McEachin had called for a complete investigation of the incident, in which 31-year-old Colin Small is accused of deliberately discarding valid voter registration forms.

“This is simply too serious an issue,” McEachin said in a statement. “Voting is the bedrock of our democracy and we, as Virginians, deserve to know exactly what happened, how widespread the abuse and under whose orders, if any, the individual in question acted.”

Yet the board decided not to request a formal investigation by Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, leaving the matter up to local authorities. A spokesman for Cuccinelli’s office told the Washington Post that the attorney general could only review the case if the State Board of Elections asked him to do so.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/21/virginia-ag-wont-investigate-gop-worker-who-dumped-voter-registration-forms/

[zbdent]

1. Rule of Law, folks ... rule of law ..

oh, wait ... I guess the Rule of Law is "It's legal if it's a Republican doing it."

[alp227]

10. I wonder if this investigation would be dropped if this worker were from the (D) party or ACORN.

[zbdent]

15. It would be a national story ...

and it would be the subject of a special House Congressional hearing ... they'd convene on a Sunday morning, forgoing Church for this ...

[Blue_Tires]

47. Our AG is too busy suing Obama for healthcare, and climate change scientists for fraud

[lsewpershad]

46. AG Holder

Where are you. Voting is sacred in our "democracy"...isn't that right?????

[99th_Monkey]

2. This is still BREAKING, goes all way up to NATIONAL GOP/RNC

GOP Voter Registration Scandal Widens, Prosecutors File Criminal Charges
A Virginia official is busted for tossing voter forms. Turns out he works for the national party, too.
October 20, 2012 |

A man originally reported to have been working for the Republican Party of Virginia was arrested by the Rockingham County, Va., Sheriff’s Office on Thursday and charged with attempting to destroy voter registration forms by tossing them into a dumpster behind a shopping center in Harrisonburg, Va.

“Prosecutors charged him with four counts of destruction of voter registration applications, eight counts of failing to disclose voter registration applications and one count of obstruction of justice,” according to a report late Thursday afternoon from TPM’s Ryan Reilly . More charges could be forthcoming, according to officials.

snip

Republican Party of Florida had turned in more than 100 allegedly fraudulent and otherwise suspect voter registration forms in Palm Beach County. The story has continued to widen ever since, to a dozen Florida counties and several other states, now including Virginia, and even to the upper-echelons of the Republican Party itself.

The man arrested today was 23-year-old Colin Small of Phoenixville, Pa. As it turns out, he does not only work for the Virginia Republican Party. According to an online profile, he appears to be working for the Republican National Committee and, prior to that, served as an Intern for Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., in the U.S. House of Representatives.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/gop-voter-registration-scandal-widens-prosecutors-file-criminal-charges


ALSO I HAD JUST POSTED THIS IN ELECTION 2012, AND ALSO NEEDED TO ADD ABOUT HOW THIS IS "EXPANDING" TO RNC.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251161075

[Andy823]

8. And yet

If this had been a democrat that was dumping voter registrations, they would be ready to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law! Nothing like good old republican hypocrisy!

[99th_Monkey]

12. Prosecute Hell !! They would have strung him up on the Capital Mall on live TV

IF, and only IF, it was a DEMOCRAT that was caught, or even that
happened to be within 100 feet of such a heinously UNAMERICAN act.

Republican election crooks? not so much. nothing to see here.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

37. "Colin Small"????

They're gonna LOVE him in prison.

[ffr]

3. Two things: overwhelming Dem voter turn out & straight Dem ballot casting

The only way to cleanse a system the Rethugs have corrupted so thoroughly.

[elbloggoZY27]

4. Conservatism

Way to Conservative State.

This Voter Issue should be investigated.

[Cha]

5. K&R!

[secondwind]

6. K&R!

[mzmolly]

7. Well then, the FBI should

investigate.

[Left Coast2020]

40. I think if we keep making noise about this it may get some legs.

And we should make noise.

Repugs are scum. Period.

[tomm2thumbs]

42. if those forms also could be mailed in, this could fall under tampering with the mail -Federal crime

I think there is broad reason for this to be followed up by Federal authorities

[Andy823]

9. Isn't tampering with voter registrations a federal crime?

I thought voter fraud was a federal crime, and wouldn't destroying voter registration forms, especially in a national race, also be a federal crime? Does anyone know if it is or not?

[silverweb]

13. That's what I thought.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Hoping we learn the answer to that very soon.

[lobodons]

11. No Worries, Fox News will be all over this just like they were on ACORN 24/7

Right?

[chuckstevens]

14. Paging Eric Holder

"Attorney General Holder, Paging Eric Holder." " You are needed Immediately."

[99th_Monkey]

24. Holder's too busy busting Medical Marijuana patients, but he did manage

to preserve early-voting in OH, so there's that.

According to Greg Palast, there are at least NINE
different ways the GOP is feloniously buggering
USA elections this time around, making 2000 and
2004 look like child's play.

[triplepoint]

25. Holder is a Corporate Stooge...

He won't do a thing about this. Deal with it...Somehow...

Politicians Have Traditionally Hidden Behind Three Things

“They say we need more money for education. That’s the big answer to everything, education. They say we need more money for books, more teachers, more classrooms, more schools, and more testing for the kids, and they’ll say, well we tried all of that, and the kids still can’t pass the tests. Don’t worry about that, because we’re going to lower the passing grades, and that’s what they do in a lot of these schools. They lower the passing grades so more kids can pass – more kids pass, the school looks goods, and the IQ of the country slips another 2 or 3 points. And pretty soon all you’ll need to get into college is a pencil. Got a pencil? Then get in there, it’s physics!

Then people wonder why 17 other countries graduate more scientist than we do. Education – politicians use that word, they use it on you. Politicians have traditionally hidden behind 3 things: the flag, the bible, and children – no child left behind, no child left behind. Oh, really it wasn’t too long ago you were talking about giving children a head start. Head start – left behind, someone’s losing ground here, but there’s a reason. There’s a reason for this. There’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason it’ll never ever be fixed – it’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you got, because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now. The wealthy big business interests that controls things, and makes all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians, they’re irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice – you don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and payed for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets, and they own all the big media, so they control just about all the information you get. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying – lobbying, to get what they want.

Well we know what they want. They want more for themselves, and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want – they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that – that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people that are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table, and think about how badly they’re getting screwed by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? Obedient workers – Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines, and do that paper work. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly sheittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and vanishing pension that disappear the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your social security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it – they’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this place. It’s a big club, and you ain't in it. You, and I are not in The Big Club.

By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy.

The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard working people: white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard working people continue (these are people of modest being) – continue to elect these rich douchebags who don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you – they don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all – at all – at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.

That’s what the owners counted on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s called the American Dream cause you have to be asleep to believe it.”

-The Late Great Comedic Genius, George Carlin

[NBachers]

34. "Call For Eric Holder"

Last edited Mon Oct 22, 2012, 02:19 AM - Edit history (1)

[Zorra]

39. That's a really cool image, I'm stealing it.

Gonna use it every time Holder fails to investigate corporate or election wrongdoing.

[NBachers]

41. PM me and I'll send you the graphic

[judesedit]

16. This is a federal election and this is a homeland security issue. If Rob-me wins, we will be at war

Is Holder a puppet, too? Where is he? And Napolitano? And the people of Virginia? Where are they to show their concern on this issue?

[2theleft]

17. I'm calling Ken Cuccinelli

tomorrow as a concerned citizen of VA. How well do you all think that will go?

[Joe Bacon]

22. Nowhere.

Because Cuccinelli is a GOP tool.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

50. The person to call is Charlie Judd Chairman, Virginia State Board of Elections,

he needs to ask Ken Cuccinelli for an investigation into this matter. That's how it works.
In fact lets all call the Virginia State Board of Elections to ask for an investigation.
804-864-8901
toll free 800-552-9745

[0rganism]

18. clearly, Cuccinelli has more important things to do

like busting abortion clinics

[ohheckyeah]

21. Ain't that the truth. n/t

[Denise21]

19. Obama's team needs to investigate this!

This not right they don't play fair they want to steal the election! Obama, please make sure your team investigates this as soon possible before they steal the election.

[Kteachums]

20. Petition the State Board of Elections! This is not right!

[savannah43]

23. Cuccinelli is referred to as a "Tea Party favorite."

I'm weak with surprise.

[xxqqqzme]

26. Who is colin related to and

who is signing his paychecks?

[heaven05]

27. maybe

socialism is not so bad. this small d democracy sucks, big time. Just joking on the socialism yet I'm just sitting here shaking my head on this on. Geez! I'm going to get drunk. Such corruption in this country since Bush boy showed how EASY it is to steal election(s), lie us into a war and corrupt and hijack a complete political system with their small god, money. Mittytwit is just following the repug playbook and unless we have a complete upset and cleansing of our political system of repug liars(money), tea baggers and racist, we're going to lose all our freedoms.

[Zambero]

28. Take-home message Virginia BOE to GOP operatives:

He was essentially doing what we wanted him to do. Unfortunately he got caught in the process. We're not making a big deal out of it and won't be investigating further. It'll be treated as an isolated case. Hopefully you know what still needs to be done and won't be too concerned over this matter. (wink-wink).

[blackspade]

29. oh, of course not.

We can't have elected governmant officials do their jobs now can we?

[Andy Stanton]

30. What a Bunch of BS

If you think that Rethug governor McDonnell, AG Cuccinelli and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (a VA Congressman) had nothing to do with this decision, you're living in a fantasy.

These lowlifes are as partisan as they come and will do ANYTHING to keep the Rethug party in power.

[underpants]

31. "The Cooch" probably knows that it will turn up more of this illegal activity

BTW- mystery Republican votes routinely appear in "the valley".

[progressoid]

32. Are you fucking kidding?

[NBachers]

33. Christ, Robert F. Kennedy would've had legions of guys in black suits and skinny ties all over this

[chuckstevens]

51. Yes!

I want somebody who is ruthless in going after such a blatant injustice.

[dchill]

35. We need to get this to Bill O'Reilly right now!

JK.

[blkmusclmachine]

36. The Fed's Need To Investigate

But I Bet They Won't !!!


OPERATION NORTHWOODS

[SoCalDemGrrl]

38. This is why it is IMPERATIVE that we concern ourselves with State offices-look at the headline...

"The board decided Not to request a formal investigation by Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli."

These bastards need to be ousted from the offices of State Attorney General, State Board of Elections, etc. etc.

As someone once famously said "all politics are local" and we are now witnessing the effect of that. It's just not enough to have the office of President since the rest of those idiots can determine the direction of each state and therefore the country. UGH!!!

[CarmanK]

43. This is a FEDERAL ELECTION Also, and across state lines: approp FBI and DOJ.

[oldbanjo]

44. If the US won't investigate it bring it up with the UN maybe they will do something.

The fact that the UN is involved with anything in the US pisses me off, the people trying to steal this election should be in jail, they are terrorist. No matter how much money they have they should be prosecuted and spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

[WCLinolVir]

45. Info for Virginia State Board of Elections

Per Wiki-
Two Board members shall be of the political party which cast the highest number of votes for Governor at that election."[2] The Board has power to promulgate rules to initiate Circuit Court proceedings for the removal of county and city electoral board members.[3] It can call on the Attorney General of Virginia to initiate investigations.[4] I

Chairman-Charlie Judd
Vice Chair-Kimberly Bowers
Secretary of the Board - Don Palmer



Washington Building First Floor
1100 Bank Street,
Richmond, VA 23219
Phone [phone]
Toll Free [phone]
Fax [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

[wordpix]

48. grrrrrrr sending this to a VA attorney I know....

[aggiesal]

49. Personally, I believe that . . .

the GOP has been screaming about Voter Fraud the past 12 years, that
now they want to prove it exist.

So, in Floriduh, they created all these thousands of voter registrations to say
that it's a problem [font color=red](. . .more than 100 suspicious voter registration forms were
turned in to local election officials in more than 10 counties. PinPoint is a regular
subcontractor of Sproul’s company, Strategic Allied Consulting, to which the RNC
has paid $3 million for “voter registration” efforts ahead of the November 6 election. . .)[/font]

Unfortunately, they are catching the problem before the election, which ironically,
is proving our point.

THE PROBLEM DOESN'T EXIST!!!