11 in O.C. charged with voter registration fraud

[kpete]

11 in O.C. charged with voter registration fraud

Dozens of people who thought they were signing up to be Democrats ended up Republican. Those accused in the case are low-level, per-signature workers.

By Christian Berthelsen and Christine Hanley, Times Staff Writers
October 27, 2006


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.

The cases were filed Tuesday, and three defendants were arrested Wednesday and Thursday. They are in custody and are scheduled to be arraigned today and Monday. The district attorney's office refused to release any information about them, including details usually available, such as the names and charges.

Sources said a press conference is scheduled for Monday, a week before the Nov. 7 election, with Republican Secretary of State Bruce McPherson, who is locked in a tight election battle with Democratic state Sen. Debra Bowen.

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[nebula]

1. Ship their asses to Gitmo

and throw away the key.

[Kurovski]

2. Terrorist activity.

They obviously hate our freedoms.

[mopinko]

3. put them in the cell next to nathan sproul

oh, yeah, i forgot, the guys who get the big bucks get to go free. silly me.

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Sproul is still free and doing it again

http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=158

[babylonsister]

4. Can I have a link? I have a sister who lives in OC who might

like to see this. Thanks, kpete!

[kpete]

5. Sorry - here is the link

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

[robinlynne]

6. I want to see the people who HIRED them charged, not just the signature

gatherers, who obviously did not come up with this great idea..... This is sort of like the pentagon blaming individual soldiers for abu ghraib.

[FogerRox]

8. KNR for Kickin FLying Monkety asses...... YES .... ! ! !

[flyarm]

9. i want to know the legality of people being paid to register voters

i registered hundreds of people before the 2004 election as did many dems in fla..we did not get "paid"..why are rethugs getting paid to register voters??

fly