Republican Cheating Effectively ENDS their SWING-STATE voter registration efforts before deadline

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Oct 1, 2012 12:00 AM ET


Republicans End Swing-State Voter Sign-Up After Firing Company

The Republican National Committee ended efforts to sign up new voters before the deadline in key states for the presidential race because of questions raised over registration applications tied to the party.

Republican parties in Florida, Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina and Virginia -- all states that both campaigns view as competitive -- fired Glen Allen, Virginia-based Strategic Allied Consulting, the company in charge of registrations, said Kirsten Kukowski, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee. The national committee also canceled its contract with the company, its only vendor signing up new voters, Kukowski said.

The five states have registration deadlines from Oct. 6 to Oct. 15. Stopping efforts before then could hurt Republican nominee Mitt Romney in his bid to unseat Democratic President Barack Obama, said Lance deHaven-Smith, a Florida State University political science professor in Tallahassee.

“In any swing state that’s going to be significant because these elections are so close,” deHaven-Smith said. “This gives an advantage to Obama.”


read: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-01/republicans-end-swing-state-voter-sign-up-after-firing-company.html

[oldhippydude]

1. poetic justice.............n/t

[Panasonic]

2. Should have thought of it before they started cheating.

Now they are in a big disadvantage, and possibly and most likely imprisoned for the rest of their lives for RICO, treason and sedition

[porphyrian]

3. Suck it, republicans. n/t

[Daemonaquila]

5. Woot!

Seriously, this is what you losers get when you blatantly try to steal an election. All we have to do is watch for whatever the Rethugs accuse other parties of doing.

[porphyrian]

6. That does seem to be their tell, and payback's a bitch. n/t

[flamingdem]

4. Now we can focus on: Vote counting company tied to Romney

DU thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021442380


http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4725

by Gerry Bello & Bob Fitrakis
September 27, 2012
Several Tanker trucks full of political ink have been spilled on Mitt Romney's tenure as a vulture capitalist at Bain Capital. A more important story, however, is the fact that Bain alumni, now raising big money as Romney bundlers are also in the electronic voting machine business. This appears to be a repeat of the the infamous former CEO of Diebold Wally O’Dell, who raised money for Bush while his company supplied voting machines and election management software in the 2004 election.

In all 234 counties of Texas, the entire states of Hawaii and Oklahoma, half of Washington and Colorado, and certain counties in swing state Ohio, votes will be cast on eSlate and ePollbook machines made by Hart Intercivic. Hart Intercivic machines have famously failed in Tarrant County (Ft. Worth), adding 10,000 non-existent votes. The EVEREST study, commissioned by the Ohio secretary of state in 2007, found serious security flaws with Hart Intercivic products.

Looking beyond the well-documented Google choking laundry list of apparent fraud, failure and seeming corruption that is associated with Hart Intercivic, an ongoing Free Press investigation turned its attention to the key question of who owns the voting machine companies. The majority of the directors of Hart come from the private equity firm H.I.G. Capital. H.I.G. has been heavily invested in Hart Intercivic since July 2011, just in time for the current presidential election cycle. But who is H.I.G Capital?

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Anyway of knowing if they trashed the registration of new Dem voters?

[Wellstone ruled]

8. GOP getting busted for

hiring a crook to do voter registration is why this came to a end early. Did Holter make a phone call? Now that would be novel! GOP bigwigs know the theft is out in public and the feedback is hot. Must have been the threat of persons going to jail,ya think.

[flyguyjake]

9. Karmageddon

Slap, Punch, Pow, Kick, Trip, Fall!