So you think you're registered to vote, eh?

Would you hand your paycheck to somebody on the street with a clipboard and expect it to be in your bank account when you went to withdraw money?

It is the *voter's* responsibility to go get themselves registered (with the election board, not with some kid on the streetcorner), and to make sure they have their voter registration card before the deadline...anyone who sloughs that off and expects someone else to do it for them is throwing their vote away.

When you show up to vote on election day, you either have a card in your hand or you do not. Excuses won't cut it.
 
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.
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Now, why was it so important to poison the well and mention the national org is RNC funded?

The only thing this story implicates was two bad supervisors in the Las Vegas operation who were exposed by other employees.
 
I heard a similar news story up in Reno where a company hired by RNC (it's never the RNC directly) to get voters registered basically registered a number of people without their knowledge and some who were dead. The person (or persons) filling out the registration forms had the same handwriting and same signature style. This involved about 300-400 forms.

It is being investigated.

Charlie (they call it democracy) Monoxide
 
corplinx said:
Now, why was it so important to poison the well and mention the national org is RNC funded?

The only thing this story implicates was two bad supervisors in the Las Vegas operation who were exposed by other employees.
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Doncha you just hate it when facts get in the way of your belief systems.
 
I hadn't realized such things as private voter registration companies existed. But then, in my state, you can get registered in five minutes in any DMV or public school.
 
corplinx said:
Now, why was it so important to poison the well and mention the national org is RNC funded?

The only thing this story implicates was two bad supervisors in the Las Vegas operation who were exposed by other employees.
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Well, if I read a story about a private company that was hiring people to collect voter registrations and then supervisors at the company were going through the stacks and taking out and destroying the registrations of one particular group, I would want to know who was paying the company. Maybe I am excessively curious in that way.

While we are only talking about two supervisors right now, the next question that pops into my curious little head is whether or not they had received orders to do so from their superiors.

Following that question is the next big one, what sort of legal action, if any,will be taken against them? The story is just developing, so it's too early to answer that one.
 
Random said:
Following that question is the next big one, what sort of legal action, if any,will be taken against them? The story is just developing, so it's too early to answer that one.
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I can answer it now: an accusation of a similar nature levelled against the Democrats and a different company will hit the media and cancel out this one. Lots of books, sound bites, round tables, and commercials. Both sides will end up exactly as they are now as far as support goes, but the partisans will be even angrier at the opposition.
 
Please compare the original story/link
The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud...
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with this new one from Colorado (hat tip: DRUDGE)

http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?...MPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

the 9News I-Team has uncovered voter registration fraud
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I just thought it was interesting enough for a bump.

I guess lots of news stations out west consider themselves the "I-Team".

I hate to tell them that "there is no 'I' in team!"
 
corplinx said:
Now, why was it so important to poison the well and mention the national org is RNC funded?
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Because it looks awfully suspicious when a group funded by the RNC to register voters is tossing out voter registrations by non-Republicans. Even if the RNC had nothing to do with it, not mentioning the link would be irresponsible.

It would be just as irresponsible if the DNC hired a group that was round-filing Republican registrations and it wasn't mentioned.
 
Random said:
Well, if I read a story about a private company that was hiring people to collect voter registrations and then supervisors at the company were going through the stacks and taking out and destroying the registrations of one particular group, I would want to know who was paying the company. Maybe I am excessively curious in that way.

While we are only talking about two supervisors right now, the next question that pops into my curious little head is whether or not they had received orders to do so from their superiors.

Following that question is the next big one, what sort of legal action, if any,will be taken against them? The story is just developing, so it's too early to answer that one.
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Well, its like smearing the whole democrat party because one lady gave bums cigarettes to go vote. The starting post linked _one_ story and that story only indicated a localized problem.

There may be other stories that indicate a more widespread problem with that group (as i think some are pointing out here. However I think the first few posts in this thread showed a bias of presumption and assumption about what was going on.
 
corplinx said:
Well, its like smearing the whole democrat party because one lady gave bums cigarettes to go vote...
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If the lady does not tell them who to vote for, and they are legally cast votes, I really don't see the problem.

As for assuming the worst of the RNC, I will simply give the you the runner up for my sig. "I will stop being cynical when it ceases to be an accurate predictor of future events."
 
Random said:
If the lady does not tell them who to vote for, and they are legally cast votes, I really don't see the problem.
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Most states, however, do.

But I don't think it was a fair comparison with this.
 
Random said:
If the lady does not tell them who to vote for, and they are legally cast votes, I really don't see the problem.

As for assuming the worst of the RNC, I will simply give the you the runner up for my sig. "I will stop being cynical when it ceases to be an accurate predictor of future events."
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I wouldn't be surprised if it was true. I don't have any money in RNC coffers to worry about going to dirty tricks like this so I could care less.

However, the simple answer is that there vote drives run by conservative and liberal groups and its safe to assume these groups get money from RNC/DNC.

If something more nefarious pans out, I would not be surprised. But since this is a skeptic board I'll wait for the evidence.
 
The firm ripped up hundreds of Democrat voter registration forms! What do you consider more nefarious - that they kill the Democrats?

Now, why was it so important to poison the well and mention the national org is RNC funded?
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How is reporting a fact "poisoning the well"? And are you trying to make the same argument made about Abu Ghraib - that it was the underlings, not the higher ups?

There may be other stories that indicate a more widespread problem with that group (as i think some are pointing out here.
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There sure are. And the fact that there are many complaints against this group and the RNC hired them anyway tells me the RNC knew what they were doing.
Local party officials said there is no way the GOP would instruct the company to trash democratic registrations. However, similar problems have been alleged elsewhere. In Washoe County, the registrar says he too has turned over information to the FBI about Republican backed registration efforts.

In Oregon, the same company that was operating here has been criticized for its tactics in signing up voters. There, it used the name America Votes, which is actually the name of a Democratic organization.

Employees in Las Vegas say they too were told that the name of the company was America Votes. "They confused us with the name. They told us one thing and told the temp force something else. They told us America Votes," Russell said.

So, why has this company used the name of a Democratic organization as it signs up voters here and in Oregon? It's a question Eyewitness News is investigating.
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http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe
 
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