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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 02:05 AM
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Voter Fraud in progress
We have to get people aware of this RIGHT AWAY!


"(Oct. 12) -- Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash.

Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.

The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed at democrats. Thee focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.

The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.

Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.

"We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant and he ripped them up right in front of us. I grabbed some of them out of the garbage and she tells her assisatnt to get those from me," said Eric Russell, former Voters Outreach employee.

Eric Russell managed to retrieve a pile of shredded paperwork including signed voter registration forms, all from Democrats. We took them to the Clark County Election Department and confirmed that they had not, in fact, been filed with the county as required by law.

So the people on those forms who think they will be able to vote on Election Day are sadly mistaken. We attempted to speak to Voters Outreach but found that its office has been rented out to someone else.

The landlord says Voters Outreach was evicted for non-payment of rent. Another source said the company has now moved on to Oregon where it is once again registering voters. It's unknown how many registrations may have been tossed out, but another ex-employee told Eyewitness News she had the same suspicions when she worked there.

It's going to take a while to sort all of this out, but the immediate concern for voters is to make sure you really are registered."



http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe
This could be serious.
Does anyone here know if someone voted through one of these 'get out the vote' projects?
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 02:09 AM
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1. OH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!!
Edited on Wed Oct-13-04 02:10 AM by progrocker69
My wife and I BOTH registered outside a Best Buy store a couple weeks ago, just before the manager came out and told the young couple who signed us up to leave. There is NO DOUBT in my mind these people were liberals, but if they were working for these scumbags then we're both probably fucked. Unless there is still time to look into it this Friday, there won't be ANYTHING I can do if I'm not properly registered (had to change my address), or my wife (who has never before voted).

I'm getting a headache as I type this. FUCK!!!

On edit: And yes, I mean a Best Buy in LAS VEGAS.
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 02:11 AM
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3. Is it untoward to nominate a topic for homepage if I'm the poster?
And what's the BBC code to make like a quote?
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 02:14 AM
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4. Dude, "untoward" be damned! Get it on the front page!!
We all need to take action on this if possible! I can't remember the exact deadline for voter registration here in Nevada but if it's any time before this coming Friday it could be over for me and my wife. I just need to know if these kids who signed us up were working for that company, or doing that out of a sense of civic duty. I'm praying that since they were together as a couple it was their own idea.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 02:10 AM
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2. They know that they will not win unless they pull out all the stops...
...in their crusade to disenfranchise as many Democrats as possible.
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classics Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 02:18 AM
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5. Outsourced crimes.
Instead of getting thier hands dirty thay just pay someone else to do it, wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more!
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ParanoidPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 02:20 AM
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6. Dupe
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 02:33 AM
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7. Just checked it out...
I think DU'ers should see this all day so that more may take action.

This is too serious.
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Habibi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 04:08 AM
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8. Kick
Just sent a note to Nevada's SOS office with link to article.

There must be some legal recourse for voters whose registrations were trashed. Provisional ballot? Lawsuit?
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Moderator DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-13-04 06:01 AM
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9. Duplicate
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