11 in O.C. charged with voter registration fraud

[Rose Siding]

The Orange County district attorney's office has charged 11 people with fraudulent voter registration stemming from a Republican registration drive this year that resulted in dozens of Democrats unwittingly being signed up as Republicans.

Those charged had been paid as much as $10 for each voter they registered as part of a Republican Party effort to recruit more voters in central Orange County. The area includes the district represented by Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez, a regular target of Republicans, and a competitive state Senate race.
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The case has been an embarrassment for the Orange County Republican Party since it first became known in February.

The charges come as the party finds itself reeling from a letter linked to GOP congressional candidate Tan Nguyen that was sent to Latino voters this month in what has been described as an effort to keep them from the polls in next month's election. Nguyen is running against Sanchez.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-votefraud27oct27,1,6873497.story?coll=la-headlines-politics

[Demeter]

1. And the Hits Just Keep On Coming!

Oh, what a lovely debacle this is! My cup of shadenfreude is overflowing!

[Heidi]

2. Here's another link to the same article:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-votefraud27oct27,0,5906393.story?coll=la-home-local

[havocmom]

3. Paying people to falsely register people as Republicans?

In Orange County? :rofl:

Oh, my, the times, they ARE a'changing!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Isn't FR based in Orange County?

I wonder which ones didn't show up for keyboard duty yesterday.

:popcorn:

[ET Awful]

5. No. FR is in Fresno County which is a few hours north.

Not that the OC contingent wouldn't be involved in such things however :)

[Maraya1969]

6. What? Do they think that these people will look at their affiliation

and vote Republican? What is the point of registering people republican when it doesn't affect their vote?

[Little Star]

7. Maybe to hide the stealing of votes.

Like, look how many republicans this county has, of course it went Republican.:shrug:

[cui bono]

9. I was thinking the same thing...

Maybe they registered them before the primaries to screw those up in some way?

[mom cat]

8. Put them all in jail with all the bribe takers, pedophiles, war proffiteers and

all the other lying sacks of shit repuke dirty tricksters who think cheating is nifty. Time for a major cleansing!

[puerco-bellies]

10. This has been happening since 1984, it happened to me.

I had recently moved from La Harbra to Fullerton. I was with friends at Huntington Beach and a guy with a clipboard was walking up to people on the beach asking them if they were currently registered. When I told him I needed to re-register he took down my former and new address then had me sign the form. It was not complete and he said he would finish filling it out as we talked and then he walked away.

I started to get repug literature by the ton and I would send back the fund raising requests blank. I figured it was a counter to Ray-gun's vow to de-fund the left. When I went to vote I was surprised to find I was a repug. I did not get to pissed at the time because I figured the guy was just trying to make a buck. Now I would freak out.