What do you know about "Project Vote?"

[emlev]

They're on the Working Assets Long Distance list of organizations to recieve money for 2005 (as is Free Press, I might mention). I'm not familiar with this group. Are they worth supporting?

[Carolab]

1. Looks like Repubs. A voter registration group, in Texas.

At least from what I could see on the 'net.

[Luminous Animal]

2. Two different organizations

You are confusing Project V.O.T.E, which is run by the Texas Secretary of State with Project Vote which is a nonpartisan organization whose mission is to register low-income and minority voters.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. I remember their name popping up a lot

When I was looking into absentee ballot fraud. Here are a couple of reports that were in the press regarding their questionable practices registering voters:


New voters fraud project

by Mark A. Baumgardner
Wednesday, October 6, 2004

Last Thursday, the Racine Journal Times reported that a group called Project Vote is under investigation by authorities for turning in suspicious voter registration forms and that the city of Racine has banned those registrars allegedly responsible from turning in any more. In another disturbing case, the New Voters Project, an organization present on this campus, has also reportedly turned in thousands of dubious forms.

The Journal Times reported that Racine city officials have received “thousands” of new voter registration forms and that some forms, “appear to have been filled out and supposedly signed by voters without the voters’ knowledge.”

http://badgerherald.com/oped/2004/10/06/new_voters_fr.php



Campaign workers suspected of fraud

Voter-registration problems probed

September 23, 2004

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Project Vote's Leland said workers from the offices of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which are collecting registrations in Michigan, had produced nearly 70,000 new registrations with a very low error rate.

"I feel very happy with the way it is working out, but we will do whatever we can to ensure the integrity of the process," he said.

There have been scattered reports of similar voter-registration problems from around the country. The Project Vote office in Ohio fired two workers earlier this year for submitting bogus voter applications.

Ingham County Clerk Mike Bryanton said some of the alleged fraud he had reviewed was "pretty obvious," including names taken out of the phone book and as many as eight people registered from a single apartment address.

http://www.freep.com/news/mich/register23e_20040923.htm