GOP Halts Paid Voter-Drive Program: Investigation of Registration Fraud

[kpete]

GOP Halts Paid Voter-Drive Program
Probes in Orange and San Bernardino counties spark suspension of signups using hired agents.
By Ashley Powers and Lynn Doan, Times Staff Writers
March 8, 2006


The California Republican Party has suspended its fee-based voter registration program while prosecutors in San Bernardino and Orange counties investigate possible registration fraud connected to private firms hired by the party, GOP officials said.

The suspension came after election officials in the two counties discovered thousands of flawed registration forms and received complaints from residents who said they had been improperly registered as Republicans.


Officials in both counties have turned over the forms to local prosecutors and contacted the California secretary of state.

The voter registration program, in which the GOP paid private contractors $3 for each new registration submitted, was credited with adding 750,000 Republican registrations to state voter rolls in the last three years.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-voterfraud8mar08,1,1567564.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

[seafan]

1. GOP still disenfranchising as many non-Republican voters as possible.

When these paid GOP operatives submit fraudulent address/driver's license numbers, etc. on these new voter registration forms, the unwitting voter finds out later at the poll that he/she is unable to vote, due to this intentionally false information submitted by these Republican criminal operatives.

Then the voter faces a potential felony charge for trying to vote *fraudulently*.


The "name of the GOP game" is to hold down the number of voters by Any. Means. Possible.

Another concern is the unauthorized collection of personal information by these criminal operatives in the so-called voter registration drives.

IMHO, the ONLY method to register to vote should be IN PERSON at the Supervisor of Elections' Office/courthouse/other official location. The alternative for the elderly/ill is to register via a visiting official employee from the Board of Elections.



This is not your father's GOP.

[Wilms]

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