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applegrove

(118,688 posts)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 10:00 PM Oct 2012

True The Vote, Tea Party Voting Group, Targeted By Congressional Inquiry

True The Vote, Tea Party Voting Group, Targeted By Congressional Inquiry

by Trymaine Lee at Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/true-the-vote-target-for-_n_1943329.html

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A Democratic congressman has launched an investigation into True The Vote, a conservative Tea Party group that has attempted to purge thousands of registered voters from voting rolls across the country ahead of the November presidential election.

The organization is pursuing an aggressive ground campaign to challenge people's right to vote based on their residency and citizenship, such as the hundreds of college students who failed to identify their dorm room numbers on voter registration applications.

In a letter to Catherine Engelbrecht, the founder of True The Vote, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) accused the Texas-based organization of challenging the registration of thousands of legitimate voters "based on insufficient, inaccurate, and faulty evidence."

"True the Vote, its volunteers, and its affiliated groups have a horrendous record of filing inaccurate voter registration challenges, causing legitimate voters -- through no fault of their own -- to receive letters from local election officials notifying them that their registrations have been challenged and requiring them to take steps to remedy false accusations against them," wrote Cummings, the ranking minority member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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True The Vote, Tea Party Voting Group, Targeted By Congressional Inquiry (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2012 OP
If I received a letter challenging my voting privileges Drale Oct 2012 #1
Someone making minimum wage may not be able to afford the bus fare to do that. So too those that are applegrove Oct 2012 #2
Well I'm their worst nightmare Drale Oct 2012 #4
YOU GO GUY/GAL!!!!!! Your 'fight' is catchy. Be sure to share that with applegrove Oct 2012 #5
I GOT a letter Samjm Oct 2012 #6
Unlike ACORN, True the Vote is a criminal enterprise Panasonic Oct 2012 #3
Yes! SoapBox Oct 2012 #7

Drale

(7,932 posts)
1. If I received a letter challenging my voting privileges
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 10:24 PM
Oct 2012

I would do everything in my power to hunt down those who challenged my right and sue them for defamation and for challenging my constitutional rights.

applegrove

(118,688 posts)
2. Someone making minimum wage may not be able to afford the bus fare to do that. So too those that are
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 10:37 PM
Oct 2012

downtrodden.

Drale

(7,932 posts)
4. Well I'm their worst nightmare
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 10:47 PM
Oct 2012

I'm a college student without a job and nothing to do with my spare time.

applegrove

(118,688 posts)
5. YOU GO GUY/GAL!!!!!! Your 'fight' is catchy. Be sure to share that with
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 10:49 PM
Oct 2012

others in your neck of the woods day in and day out till Nov. 6th

Samjm

(320 posts)
6. I GOT a letter
Sun Oct 7, 2012, 12:00 AM
Oct 2012

From our Republican Sec. of State challenging my right to vote. I went to his office at a public hearing and made sure they heard from me.

And I refused to return the nice form the wanted back from me too.

http://www.aurorasentinel.com/news/republicans-look-for-voter-fraud-find-little/

(I'm the Samantha quoted in that article).

 

Panasonic

(2,921 posts)
3. Unlike ACORN, True the Vote is a criminal enterprise
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 10:39 PM
Oct 2012

waiting for RICO indictments and Sproul thrown into the hole for the rest of his life, butt-nekkid.

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
7. Yes!
Sun Oct 7, 2012, 12:11 AM
Oct 2012

...my feelings exactly.

I want to see some of these Traitors and Criminals prosecuted for a change.

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