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NEW Information In Voter Fraud Case
This morning I had a chance to interview someone who I will identify for now by her first name. Lucy is a student at James Madison University, and she comes from the Northern Virginia area where she was registered to vote. About 2-3 weeks ago, Lucy saw a voter registration table on campus when she was walking in between classes. She stopped to fill out a voter registration form to change her voting address from her parents house in Fairfax to her dorm address in Harrisonburg so she could vote in person on election day.
On Wednesday night Lucy went online to check her voter registration status and found out she had not been registered in Harrisonburg- meaning whoever was collecting her form on campus had not turned it in.
This is now a THIRD location where we are hearing about voters in this area being falsely registered. The forms that were collected from the dumpster on Monday that led to the recent indictment came from a local street festival and a registration at the local community college.
It now appears this is more widespread than just these original eight forms- how many people have been disenfranchised by this Republican voter fraud?
Meanwhile the LA Times http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-voter-registration-gop-arrest-20121018,0,5352175.story is now reporting what we told you on Tuesday- there is a major tie with Strategic Allied Consulting. Colin Small worked for Strategic until they were fired by the party last month- but after being "fired", he and his team were immediately rehired under a vendor paid for and supervised by the Republican Party of Virginia, which is why he was running this operation from the GOP Victory Office in Harrisonburg.
http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/2012/10/new-information-in-voter-fraud-case.html
CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)What if the decision has already been made? I worry that the system is so corrupted that neither side will be able to truly represent the 99%.
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Baitball Blogger
(46,737 posts)and putting the leaders in jail.
And, it also means the media needs to do its job and report about it so that EVERYONE knows who is behind this corruption. Because the step after that is to apply rules to the system so that nothing like this can happen again.
It has taken us twelve years to reach this point. If it weren't for the internet, they would still be getting away with it.
We People
(619 posts)That "what if" could have us discouraged enough to the point of giving up.
Surely that's not what you're suggesting.
We must NEVER GIVE UP.
Baitball Blogger
(46,737 posts)Can't there be a system implemented to accommodate them?
In Lucy's case, she could have asked for an absentee ballot or she could drive up to her parent's house to vote, right?
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Lucy was not the one perpetrating a fraud here, but it looks like the media has happily embraced the term to include anything related to election theft.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Volaris
(10,272 posts)and doesn't that qualify it as a damn RICO case???
Hrmmmm, it really is too bad that we don't have a Cabinet-level Appointee for things like this, or a whole Federal DEPARTMENT dedicated to making sure stuff like this isn't going on...wait what? we DO have one of those? Well...well then, what the hell have they been doing INSTEAD of this?
...You're kidding.
No, you HAVE to be fucking with me. Really?
POT???????
Yeah, I know that SoS Clinton is supposed to be leaving after the first term. I think Wes Clark should get that spot. Elliot gets Attny. General (FUCK what the Right thinks about that, let 'em squeal), and P. Krugman can run the Treasury for a while. That's what I want in return for this President's Second Term. We are the ones making sure he gets it, and I don't think the above-posted are unreasonable "requests" in return.
Do YOU?
JuveDem
(69 posts)How is this not a huge story ?
The republicans made sooo much noise about ACORN without any valid evidence. We have proof pouring out on this and no one is talking about this...