GOP voter registration scandal widens

[Judi Lynn]

Friday, Oct 19, 2012 01:15 PM CDT
GOP voter registration scandal widens

A Virginia official is busted for tossing voter forms. Turns out he works for the national party, too
By Brad Friedman

A man originally reported to have been working for the Republican Party of Virginia was arrested by the Rockingham County, Va., Sheriff’s Office on Thursday and charged with attempting to destroy voter registration forms by tossing them into a dumpster behind a shopping center in Harrisonburg, Va.

“Prosecutors charged him with four counts of destruction of voter registration applications, eight counts of failing to disclose voter registration applications and one count of obstruction of justice,” according to a report late Thursday afternoon from TPM’s Ryan Reilly. More charges could be forthcoming, according to officials.

But there is more to the story, as evidence emerges to document that it ties into a still-expanding nationwide GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal that the BRAD BLOG first began reporting in late September, after we’d learned that the Republican Party of Florida had turned in more than 100 allegedly fraudulent and otherwise suspect voter registration forms in Palm Beach County. The story has continued to widen ever since, to a dozen Florida counties and several other states, now including Virginia, and even to the upper-echelons of the Republican Party itself.

The man arrested today was 23-year-old Colin Small of Phoenixville, Pa. As it turns out, he does not only work for the Virginia Republican Party. According to an online profile, he appears to be working for the Republican National Committee and, prior to that, served as an Intern for Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., in the U.S. House of Representatives.

More:
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/19/gop_voter_registration_scandal_widens/

[Hyper_Eye]

1. Finally! It seemed like this fact was being glossed over by the media.

I'm glad it is finally starting to get reported.

[freshwest]

3. Thought the VA police were going to close the case too soon... Good.

BRAD is one of the most faithful in working on our elections. This is in Salon, but it needs to go onto cable news, too... And fast.

[geckosfeet]

2. keep squeezing this little rat until he squeals - lets see who his friends are

[bongbong]

5. Hope he's under guard

Guys who plan to reveal repig felonies almost always have a sudden and unstoppable urge to "commit suicide".

Like the DC madam who said on a radio she had no plans in the slightest to do that, and a day before her scheduled testimony in front of Congress she had a "change of heart".

[formercia]

6. ..then committed suicide.

How convenient.

[Buddaman]

4. I bet he was instructed to trash the voter registration applications...

hang 'em by the balls

[formercia]

7. Small broke the 11th. Commandment:

Don't get caught.

[nakocal]

8. And to all the idiots out there, this is why ACORN flagged and then turned in every application

All of the right wing racists always point out that ACORN turned in fraudulent registration forms, and they are correct. ACORN turned in every registration form that they received, with the ones that they suspected were fraudulent flagged, because THAT IS THE LAW.

[starroute]

9. Rep. Mike Kelly is a Tea Party guy, naturally

He defeated the party-endorsed GOP candidate in the primary two years ago.

Not that the official GOP is clean here if Rove and Gillespie are tangled up in it. But it does seem that Tea Partiers are more unscrupulous and more willing to to anything to win -- and like calls to like.

[krakfiend]

10. next election

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At the next election, we should have everyone register as a republican. That way we'll now for sure our forms aren't being thrown away.

[goclark]

11. Sounds like the tip of the iceberg

and with just a few weeks until Election----

[Wilms]

12. ^