GOP accused of fraudulently signing up voters in California

[nichomachus]

Dems claim 2,312 new Republicans were tricked into joining the party

Some Coachella Valley voters were duped into registering as Republicans, the Riverside County Democratic Central Committee alleged Wednesday.

The party is launching an investigation into the 2,312 new Republican voters that were registered countywide between July 14 and Aug. 11, many in Coachella Valley cities that typically swing Democrat.

They've also contacted the Secretary of State and District Attorney's office. Riverside County DA spokesman Michael Jeandron said he could neither confirm nor deny any investigations.

Democrat party officials raised the questions after getting numerous reports that people were standing outside of stores saying they were collecting signatures for child abuse-related petitions, only to turn around and use the names for voter registration.

“We're very, very concerned that the voter registration files maintain their integrity,” county party chair Betty McMillion said.

The D.A.'s office has not contacted the California Republican Party or the Riverside County GOP, said party chairman Bob Richmond and CRP spokesman Hector Barajas.

It is common practice for political parties to pay people to collect signatures. Typically, the more names they collect, the more they get paid.

The county Democrats say the people they've encountered at stores weren't being truthful about the forms people signed.

Eric Antuna, of Palm Springs, ran into one of those collectors.

While shopping at the local Wal-Mart, he was asked to sign a petition protesting the early release of child molesters.

He agreed — until he was told he would have to fill out a registration card to prove his identity so the petitioner could be paid.

“Do you mind if I put you as a Republican?” Antuna said the man asked him.

The Democrat did mind.

“It just seemed kind of shady,” Antuna said of the incident. “I was a little unnerved.”

[opihimoimoi]

1. GOP the Party of Family Values my fucking ASS...they LIE CHEAT STEAL

NO MANNERS TOO just like their fucking Presinent...and that McGeezer guy...he ain't got Manners too....why do we send to the World People who ain't got Manners?

How Uncouth

[LiberalFighter]

2. Yet the Democrats have increased their registration in CA

[opihimoimoi]

3. They have caught some peeps registering peeps to the Pub party under suspicious circumstances

This must be a National trend...cheating at the POLLS...

Florida, Ohio, and now in California too...?

Don't they have Fed Laws to deter these violations?

[tom_paine]

4. Laws are NOTHING without people with courage to enforce it.

Both Bush and Hitler clearly show the truth of this.

[opihimoimoi]

5. Gasp...both names in one sentence??? LOL.....Hope all is well....long time...

:toast:

[OnionPatch]

6. OMG, this is my county!

And I know some of these people in the article. Wow, I didn't know this was going on. Riverside county Republicans are soooo corrupt! I feel positive that they have stolen at least a couple of my votes with their electronic voting machines. Plenty of history there.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Instead of a GOOD MESSAGE...the GOP resorts to THEFT?? Some kinda Family Values they teaching their

kids.....bastids....They violate those Commandments found in their own Bible....intentionally and willingly

Thats not the Family Values we looking for....heh heh

[Generic Brad]

8. Why does WalMart allow this to occur on their property?

It's as if they have as much respect for their Democratic customers as they do for their employees.

[tbyg52]

14. Bingo. nt

[DFW]

9. If the GOP had stuck to playing it legit

They would have lost BIG in 2000, 2004, probably 1980, too.

They have not lost once when they played at their dirtiest.
They have no incentive to cease a winning tactic.

Unless a new Democratic administration gives it to them.

If there ever is such an animal.

If win despite all this, and the Obama administration does nothing
about it on a federal level, with severe, mandatory jail time for both
the offenders on the street as well as those who put them up to it,
then it will happen again and again and again and again..........

And we will have no one but ourselves to blame.

Fool me twice, shame on me.

[dailykoff]

10. "petition protesting the early release of child molesters"

Freeps have the run of the inland empire and around election time they park slaves outside big box clip joints to collect signatures for wingnut crap like raising taxes on Indian gaming income. Figures they're trying to reregister people foolish enough to listen to them.

[TahitiNut]

11. See? Unless you register as GOP, you favor the "early release of child molesters."

Isn't that clear? Sure it is.

:eyes:

:puke:

[nc4bo]

12. My Spidy sense is tingling again....

Hmmmmm, I wonder? Naaw, couldn't be.

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13. They need all the phantom voters they can get

so that when they 'fix' the vote totals, the registered voter totals for the GOP will be within statistical error.

[EFerrari]

15. This seems to happen just before every election in Riverside County.

It's like a hobby there or something.

[formercia]

16. It's about the survival of the right-wing reactionaries.

A tiny, very rich and very vocal minority with an agenda contrary to the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.