GOP Voter Fraud Accusations Suddenly Blowing Up In Their Faces

[onehandle]

Republican officials, who have used hysteria about alleged voter fraud as an excuse to support measures that disproportionately block Democratic voters, are furiously trying to distance themselves from a growing number of GOP voter registration drives that either submitted false applications or threw away authentic ones. The incidents might have been overlooked if not for the GOP's clamorous campaign to restrict registration drives, purge voter rolls, roll back early voting, and pass voter ID laws that opponents point out have the effect of depressing the vote among minorities, the poor and other generally Democratic constituencies. As one Southern California alt-weekly put it, it's turning into a story of "The Wolf Who Cried Wolf."

The latest drama began to unfold on Oct. 17, when the manager of a Tuesday Morning discount store in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley saw a man throwing a garbage bag into the store's private dumpster. Inside the bag was a file folder containing eight completed Virginia voter registration forms. The manager described the man to Rockingham County sheriff's deputies, who the following day arrested Colin Small, 23, a voter registration drive contractor for the Virginia GOP -- and charged him with eight felonies and five misdemeanors related to the destruction and disclosure of the applications and obstruction of justice.

A few weeks earlier, the GOP had been under fire following reports of suspicious registration applications that had been submitted in 10 Florida counties by a company run by Nathan Sproul, a Republican operative who has long been trailed by allegations of voter fraud. The Republican Party paid Sproul's company, Strategic Allied Consulting, about $3 million this year for registration drives in five swing states: Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, and Virginia. In Palm Beach County, Fla., alone, about 100 questionable voter registrations were flagged, more than half of which involved changing a voter’s party affiliation to Republican or independent. Discrepancies were also found in North Carolina.

And a viral video uploaded to YouTube in late September showed a young woman who worked for Strategic Allied Consulting registering voters in Colorado and admitting that she was only looking for Republicans. "Well, I'm actually trying to register people for a particular party. Because we're out here in support of Romney, actually," the woman said. Given Sproul's history, it could hardly have come as a surprise to his GOP employers that his canvassers would generate spurious applications.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/gop-voter-fraud_n_1990104.html

[Scuba]

1. Long prison terms would serve as a deterrent to others.

[goclark]

13. Put Mitwit in jail

Put his son in jail too for his association with one of the Suppress Groups. Wish I had the link.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Give him the gift of life in one of the new private prisons

I am pro-life for scum like this

[Wellstone ruled]

3. But But,Eric Holder is

sitting on his hands,states should lead,BULLSHIT Eric!! You have corrupt AG's,and you must intervene,federal voting rights law supersedes any and all states rights crap. Do your F-----n job!!!

[FreeBC]

8. I agree. DO YOUR JOB HOLDER!

[Dubster]

4. Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team)

[Hutzpa]

10. Oblivion

one can only hope.

[silvershadow]

5. In some cases, they forgot that people voting early would discover their removal from the voter roll

*prior to the election, thus exposing themselves (the story in LaPorte, Indiana).

[toby jo]

6. dude looks all skinheady

Nail the bastards already - it's turning into a cottage industry in the right-wing ranks.

[ROBROX]

7. THIS IS ONE FOR THE GOOD GUYS

This just happened at the right time to the right wing. I can now see that justice will be served and those right wings will be hung out to dry.

Maybe some of those right wing nuts will wake up, since this is the real world I don't think so at this time. It will take a ton of corruption to make a few of the true believers see the light of truth about the TRUTHERS.

[ieoeja]

9. Wouldn't surprise me if their voter suppression backfires either.

The "don't vote straight ticket" thread caused me to remember that Republicans eliminated the one-punch, straight ticket option here in Illinois in their belief that city folk are too stupid and lazy to vote down ticket. At the time State government had been dominated by Republicans for decades while the state was a swing state in the Presidential elections.

Democrats have now controlled State government for about a decade. And we are reliably Democratic in Presidential elections. Who knows? Maybe removing straight ticket was the cause?

[DCKit]

11. Too funny, I was about 35 miles west of Harrisonburg when this story broke.

I went overboard with the Schadenfreude, telling all my (R) friends and neighbors about it. It was sweeeeeet.

It was all over the local news and in the local papers, but they did their best to ignore it. After all, IOKIYAR - and being the model of Aryan perfection is just a bonus.

[Bill USA]

12. recommended!

[rachel1]

14. It was inevitable

The crooked republicans may have tried but they ultimately failed with their scam.

I could see coming a mile away.