Not certain this is a major issue or not.
A Virginia official is busted for tossing voter forms. Turns out he works for the national party, too
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Voter registration scandal widens
I was going to pick out a few interesting paragraphs, but the linked report isn’t very well organized and is confusing (at least to me) to read.
The gist is that the guy arrested last Month in Florida worked for a company that has a long history of fraudulent GOP registrations (and destruction of Democratic ones). It turns out that the GOP continued using the company, but under different names.
Now they’ve been caught again, this time in Virginia.
Apparently the “old” company and the “new” company shared a number of things like offices and Craig’s List ads.
After Sproul was dumped, the registration operation that he assembled continued working under the supervision of party officials, Spicer said. He said the workers will continue to do get-out-the-vote work until the election.
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October 19, 2012, 11:13pm
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BigAppleBucky:
Not certain this is a major issue or not.
GOP voter registration scandal widens - Salon.com
Voter registration scandal widens
I was going to pick out a few interesting paragraphs, but the linked report isn’t very well organized and is confusing (at least to me) to read.
The gist is that the guy arrested last Month in Florida worked for a company that has a long history of fraudulent GOP registrations (and destruction of Democratic ones). It turns out that the GOP continued using the company, but under different names.
Now they’ve been caught again, this time in Virginia.
Apparently the “old” company and the “new” company shared a number of things like offices and Craig’s List ads.
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Man registering voters for GOP accused of tossing forms in trash
Virginia does not register voters by party. I have no idea what this guy was doing – maybe tossing forms from people he thought looked Democratic.
It’s possible, although US News and World Report suggests that his motivations weren’t political.
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/10/19/colin-small-may-have-thrown-out-voter-forms-because-he-made-a-mistake
Media reports have suggested that Colin Small, the 23-year-old Pennsylvania man charged with destroying voter registration forms in Harrisonburg, Va., may have been part of a larger voter suppression effort by the Republican Party. Small was a contractor for the Republican Party of Virginia, where his job was to follow up with voters whose registration forms were incomplete, and hand in those forms to the registrar within 15 days.
But a source close to the case against Small says the young field worker missed the deadline to return eight voter forms, and then, panicking, appears to have thrown those eight forms in the trash.
According to the source, Small would have gotten fired for missing that deadline.