2016 Postmortem
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The strategy resulted in (or included) fraudulent registration forms collected by the firm and then submitted in Florida by the state GOP with voter addresses, signatures and party affiliations changed. Election officials in the state have told The BRAD BLOG that they fear the scheme could result in the disenfranchisement of a still-unknown number of otherwise legal voters, and they are taking extraordinary measures to try and contain the potential damage as they attempt to work through more than 45,000 new and updated registrations submitted by the GOP and verify their legitimacy.
The fraudulent voter registration forms have so far been discovered in "at least 11" FL counties at this hour, all submitted by the state Republican Party and collected by the RNC's top voter registration firm, a shell company formed in June called Strategic Allied Consulting, as owned by a notorious GOP operative named Nathan Sproul.
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monmouth
(21,078 posts)smorkingapple
(827 posts)To me this reeks of stuffing the registration #'s to make it appear that more R's are there than actually are. They must know they are outnumbered and if this starts to become conventional wisdom it'll further disillusion Republicans who are already seeing their numbers drop in the polls.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)I think what this firm was doing 2 things:
1. The RNC firm was registering democratic voters then changing the information on their forms to wrong addresses and birth dates etc. The firm then turn these forms into the Florida voter registration office. The democratic voters think they are registered to vote correctly, but when they show up to vote they cannot since their registration forms are not filled out correctly.
2. The RNC firm was taking already correctly registered Democratic voters and re-registering them without their knowledge and changing correct information on their forms to incorrect information. The firm then forged their signature on these incorrectly revised registration forms and turned them into the Florida's voter registration office.
The Florida voters registration office thinks the RNC firm may have fraudulently taken about 45,000 voters off the count doing this.
RichGirl
(4,119 posts)THEY DON'T GO THROUGH! Having moved to a new state in 2004, I turned in a registration form. I left one minor square unchecked and they kicked it out. Since then, I have worked the polls and I know that they go over every item on the form and make sure it's all correct, SSN, address...all of it. It infuriated me when so much was made of ACORN. Does anyone really think you can turn in a form with Mickey Mouse on it and a voter card shows up in the mail?????
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)If he scores any of them, it will be voting machine rigging. He can't win otherwise.