Originally Posted By skinnerbox Brad Friedman has been covering the voter suppression fiasco since the beginning. Now he's uncovered voter registration fraud in 11 counties in Florida, as well as Colorado and California: <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9598" target="_blank">http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9598</a> <> Nationwide GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal Widens, Becomes Criminal Matter in Florida By Brad Friedman on 9/30/2012 6:35am PT A major element of the Republican National Committee's overall attempt to game the 2012 elections by trying to affect who gets to vote and who does not, has just been stopped dead in its tracks. Along with it, a criminal election fraud complaint has now reportedly been filed with law enforcement in the state of Florida against a Republican firm, owned by a paid Mitt Romney consultant, which was hired by the GOP to carry out partisan voter registration operations in at least five battleground states. Millions of dollars were spent on the aborted effort by the GOP over the last two months --- their largest single expenditure in several of the states where the scheme was in full tilt --- to seek out Romney supporters only, and sign them up to vote. The strategy resulted in (or included) fraudulent registration forms collected by the firm and then submitted in Florida by the state GOP with voter addresses, signatures and party affiliations changed. Election officials in the state have told The BRAD BLOG that they fear the scheme could result in the disenfranchisement of a still-unknown number of otherwise legal voters, and they are taking extraordinary measures to try and contain the potential damage as they attempt to work through more than 45,000 new and updated registrations submitted by the GOP and verify their legitimacy. The fraudulent voter registration forms have so far been discovered in "at least 11" FL counties at this hour, all submitted by the state Republican Party and collected by the RNC's top voter registration firm, a shell company formed in June called Strategic Allied Consulting, as owned by a notorious GOP operative named Nathan Sproul. On Thursday night, the RNC finally fired the firm which they'd paid more than $3 million dollars over the past two months alone, for voter registration work in at least five key battleground states, and "Get Out the Vote" efforts in at least two more. But, despite the efforts by the RNC and Strategic Allied Consulting, run secretly by Romney's paid political consultant, the 2012 GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal, which The BRAD BLOG initially reported late last Tuesday night as it began to break, is not over yet. Not by a long shot... <> More of the story at the link. So... where is Fox News to cover this story? Fox made a HUGE deal about the ACORN volunteers who were engaging in registration fraud, by attempting to register fictional individuals like Mickey Mouse in order to receive payment for the registration cards they submitted. Of course, ACORN did not submit cards for fictional individuals to local election officials, but Fox conveniently ignored that part of the story, choosing instead to smear the reputation and ultimately kill one of the best urban outreach organizations in mostly minority districts across the country, in an effort to suppress the Democrat vote. And now there's solid evidence to implicate Nathan Sproul and his organization of doing *exactly* what Fox and GOP officials accused ACORN of doing.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Fox made a HUGE deal about the ACORN volunteers who were engaging in registration fraud, by attempting to register fictional individuals like Mickey Mouse in order to receive payment for the registration cards they submitted. ... And now there's solid evidence to implicate Nathan Sproul and his organization of doing *exactly* what Fox and GOP officials accused ACORN of doing. >>> I think it's far worse than what you describe. Registering Mickey Mouse to vote 100 times at various fictional addresses, although illegal, isn't going to affect the outcome of any election or disenfranchise any legitimate voter. On the other hand, <<< The strategy resulted in (or included) fraudulent registration forms collected by the firm and then submitted in Florida by the state GOP with voter addresses, signatures and party affiliations changed. Election officials in the state have told The BRAD BLOG that they fear the scheme could result in the disenfranchisement of a still-unknown number of otherwise legal voters, >>> what's involved in this current GOP-rated scandal would result in the disenfranchisement of legitimate voters. That's 100x worse than having extra fictional cartoon characters on the rolls that as a result of their non-existence never cast a ballot, and don't affect the voting of any actual voter.
