Per Rachel, Republicans have STOPPED registering voters in 5 swing states

[CatWoman]

what's up with that?

[undeterred]

1. Maybe they ran out?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

2. Yeah, what up with that? I don't truss it!

[Tx4obama]

11. They fired the company that was doing the registering due to registration fraud :)

[SaveAmerica]

28. Yep they announced on news here that the NCRP chair apologized for

using the fraudulent registering methods.

[JaneyVee]

3. Their main election fraud con artists got nabbed.

[arcane1]

4. Their one and only "vendor" registering voters has been caught cheating

And they fired the vendor

[CatWoman]

6. the dumb fucks

[Graybeard]

23. Sleep with dogs wake up with fleas.

They really got bitten by this one.

[annabanana]

5. Busted recruiter, no back up plan.

Way to go guys!

[Tx4obama]

7. Here is a list of the FIVE states

Florida

Colorado

Nevada

Virginia

North Carolina

[CatWoman]

9. thanks, Tex

[Indpndnt]

26. Whoa.

Niiiiiiiiiiice.

[Auntie Bush]

8. They're using the money in other places where they still hope to compete.

I wonder if he's running out of donations because they know he can't/won't win.

[Walk away]

22. Where else is there?

He has that same 191 solid red state EC count. He can't think he has a chance in Ohio.

[WillyT]

10. WooHoo !!! - K & R !!!

[CatWoman]

16. ....

[NYC_SKP]

12. Hired a company that DESTROYED Dem Registration Forms in 2004 Drive.

But changed their business name to protect the guilty.

Joel Roberts /
CBS/ February 11, 2009, 7:49 PM

Voter Fraud Charges Out West


By CBSNews.com Chief Political Writer David Paul Kuhn

Officials in Oregon have launched a criminal investigation after receiving numerous complaints that a Republican-affiliated group was destroying registration forms filed by Democratic voters statewide, Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury told CBSNews.com.

Meanwhile, CBS affiliate KLAS-TV is reporting accusations of similar malfeasance in Nevada.

Both state's allegations are linked to a Phoenix political consulting firm called Sproul & Associates run by Nathan Sproul, former head of the Arizona Republican Party. Sproul & Associates has received nearly $500,000 from the Republican National Committee this election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Calls from CBSNews.com to Sproul were not returned.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/14/politics/main649380.shtml

MOTHERFUCKERS!

[Tx4obama]

17. And they got caught doing registration fraud again last week :)

Investigation is under way

[barnabas63]

19. Someone needs some jail time, imo. (nt)

[charlyvi]

13. Maybe they're stopping before the stink gets too strong.

Not a good thing to go viral this close to the election.

[barnabas63]

18. I bet democrats in those states are fired up to register voters even more now! (nt)

[malaise]

14. Bwaaaaah hahahahah this is freaking delish!

I'm lovin' it

[zbdent]

15. ran out of ink in their pens ...

and can't afford to bribe any more cops ...

[David Zephyr]

20. Just wait until Tuesday evening on election night.

We are going to see "organized crime" that will make Bush look like a school kid.

They are eating away at this election. This is a federal issue because it is "racketeering" across state lines and is "organized crime".

K&R.

[lonestarnot]

32. Well let's fill up those private prisons. They have lots of money too! They can keep the entire

justice system afloat for decades!

[David Zephyr]

41. Yes.

It is organized crime that crosses interstate borders.

[Thrill]

21. One thing is for sure. They keep spending a ton here in NC

So many Mittens Ads. And the Super Pac Ads

[cleduc]

24. In Virginia

http://wtvr.com/2012/09/27/virginia-republicans-fire-voter-registration-group/

Strategic Allied Consulting is, according to the FEC, based in Glen Allen, Virginia. When CBS 6 visited that address today the firm did not know who the group was.

Couldn't find the more detailed post on this but Strategic Allied Consulting's VA address was bogus which has to smell bad

[cleduc]

25. North Carolina

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/nc-state-board-elections-investigates-risk-voter-f/nSQz2/

Allied was also registering voters in North Carolina.

"We have asked counties to review any new applications coming in from all voter registration drives to ensure there is no impropriety," said Gary Bartlett from the N.C. State Board of Elections.

Michael Dickerson of the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections says there have only been a handful of suspicious registrations linked to Strategic Allied Consulting.

"Noticed a couple of these that just didn't sound right. We send a voter card out to somebody, and they send it back to us or call us and say, 'I didn't fill that out,'" said Dickerson.

Each of those cases was sent to Raleigh, and no fraud has been proven yet.

"only a few" but they've just started checking ...

[Tx4obama]

37. BUT it is the registration cards the DEMOCRATS filled out that probably got thrown away

and most folks won't know that they aren't registered until they go to vote on election day.

[cleduc]

27. Nevada

http://www.mynews3.com/content/news/story/Voter-registration-fraud-allegation-reported-in/BL9kd0OWMUmR6pqdQfQeWg.cspx

A source tells News 3 that he witnessed someone directing someone to rip up a voter registration form.

The same source says it seems similar to what happened during the elections in 2008.

According to emails obtained by News 3, the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office is looking into the matter.

In a statement this person gave to the Secretary of State's Office, they say they witnessed a man registering voters in Henderson and "he told her she needed to fill out another form. And when she marked democrat he told her to rip it up and fill out another form and leave party affiliation blank."

Our source was later able to fish out the form from the trash and gave us this picture.

In reporting this to the election’s office, the person there told our source the forms were registered to the group Strategic Allied Consulting, the same firm hired and then fired by the national Republican Party for similar fraudulent voter registration tactics in Palm Beach, Fla., and other battleground states.

another battleground state with apparent voter registration fraud tied to the same company

[lonestarnot]

29. Because it is against the law to register only pigliCONs. Registering voters is ok. But they only

register pigliCONs. They gave up when they got busted all over the country.

[SaveAmerica]

30. Someone turned the lights on in the kitchen and they scattered.

[lunasun]

35. +1

[On the Road]

31. There's No Backup Plan?

Is there any scenario the Romney campaign has that would lead to a victory without those states?

This is increasingly looking like amateur hour.

[RKP5637]

33. Maybe the deals to rig, cheat and steal the elections have been completed! n/t

[pnwest]

45. im with you. theyre giving up waaaayyy too easily...sumthins amiss.

[JI7]

34. They got caught with that company, they might start up again after they come back under

a different name.

[underthematrix]

36. here's the thing

the national GOP committee had to be in on it because they asked the company to change it's name to avoid scrutiny. Then the dumbos turn around and do the exact same thing they did before. This criminal river runs deep.

[Tx4obama]

39. Of course they had to be in on it, 3+ MILLION dollars is a lot of money. n/t

[Lil Missy]

38. They got caught cheating. n/t

[Samjm]

40. Um, so where are their volunteers?

OK, so the group got fired. Fine and deservedly so. But where are their Romney volunteers? Shouldn't they be out there registering people?

At the Obama office I volunteer at, all the registrations have been done using volunteers.

(Not that I'm complaining mind you!)

[alcibiades_mystery]

44. Volunteers would be less likely to destroy opponent-party registrations

This company was seemingly paid to do just that. Harder to get volunteers to violate federal law and risk federal prison time, especially when some of those same volunteers might be opponent-party plants doing oppo research, but add a private company and $3.1 million to the mix, and suddenly the risk/reward and ethics equations change dramatically.

[applegrove]

42. Woohoo!

[alcibiades_mystery]

43. Strategic Allied Consulting wasn't registering GOP voters, but destroying Dem registrations

Their sole purpose was to reduce Dem turn-out by changing addresses and otherwise destroying or making ineligible Dem voters. And the GOP was paying them millions to do this. Somebody better damn well end up in federal prison behind this nonsense now.