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Originally posted by loam
Actually, the ONLY thing you say in your OP is:
Originally posted by wascurious
I expect crickets from the right.
So what's this thread about? The lack of response you expect from the right or discussion of the GOP's move against the fraud?
All while the GOP has been screaming and yelling about nonexistent voter fraud at the actual ballot box, they have been doing what they can to limit the voting power of their opponents. Now for the second time in less than a week suspect registration practices surface.
The Republican Party of Florida's top recipient of 2012 expenditures, a firm by the name of Strategic Allied Consulting, was just fired on Tuesday night, after more than 100 apparently fraudulent voter registration forms were discovered to have been turned in by the group to the Palm Beach County, FL Supervisor of Elections.
I expect crickets from the right.
And if not for the title of your source, you'd miss it was the GOP who addressed it.
edit on 28-9-2012 by loam because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SM2
Originally posted by wascurious
Originally posted by SM2
reply to post by wascurious
blah blah non existant voter fraud yadda yadda. BS. just give it a day or two and the SEIU, ACORN, Urban this or that organization , insert random lefty group here will be caught registering Mickey Mouse and the 1985 Chicago bears offensive line to vote 10 times again. It's not just the right, its both sides.
Prove that happened even once.
I am showing you real voter fraud and all you can do is lob false accusations about things that you think will happen in the future?
What a load of BS.
Believe it or not, some of us actually care that our elections are fair.
I thought this was a big deal for the right?
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Originally posted by onthedownlow
Originally posted by loam
Originally posted by wascurious
I expect crickets from the right.
Wait!
Doesn't the title in your article say: "Florida GOP Fired Romney Consultant's Voter Registration Firm..."
Crickets here (from me), the question seems to have already been answered. Nicely done.
That shows a real desire to not be excessively swayed by emotion. Good work.
I like facts and reality.
The FL GOP hired them to commit registration fraud? As you like facts, would you please indicate the facts that show this was the FL GOP's intent?
Yeah, good job firing the people you hired to do this after you get busted for it.
Sorry? You're complaining about posters who were angry about "Democrat voting fraud?" Oh, I see, you want them to be just as mad at GOP fraud, as they are about Democrat fraud.
But all that anger aimed at non-existent voter fraud that I have had to suffer weeks of just goes out the window?
Oh, I can help you with that, too. Am I not a wonder man? This Florida thing was about 106 registrations? Would you like to try for 5,500?
No. I have no reason to suspect anyone but the GOP people caught doing it so far. Just saying both sides are bad does not work.
Houston Votes, whose registration drive has mostly focused on Latino neighborhoods, did find at least one paid canvasser submitting fraudulent applications, Mr. George said, and that person was immediately fired.
Leo Vasquez, the tax assessor-collector and voter registrar in Harris County, said that of about 25,640 registration applications submitted by Houston Votes, about 5,500 had problems.
So, Houston Votes, a private liberal group is accused by a local Tea Party group of encouraging election fraud. The organization is run by an employee of the SEIU, which has spent well over a hundred of million of dollars in just the last two election cycles electing Democrats
. . .or did I just hallucinate that whole ACORN controversy? The organization has only been investigated for voter fraud by over 20 states in the last two election cycles, and resulting in dozens of felony convictions all over the country. Just this morning, I noted that a former ACORN employee is organizing voter efforts through a related organization even though she goes to trial next month in Nevada for “26 felony counts of voter fraud and 13 of providing unlawful extra compensation to those registering voters.”
Originally posted by charles1952
reply to post by wascurious
Hi! Jiminy here. Just out nibbling on some grass. Kind of dry though, we could use some rain.
I expect crickets from the right.
I'm glad they were fired. That kind of foolishness has no business in American society, let alone our political system. Good for you, FL GOP!
The Republican Party of Florida's top recipient of 2012 expenditures, a firm by the name of Strategic Allied Consulting, was just fired on Tuesday night, after more than 100 apparently fraudulent voter registration forms were discovered to have been turned in by the group to the Palm Beach County, FL Supervisor of Elections.
Are you talking about that confused, flustered, young lady? What's the internet signal for things like that, "meh?"
Now for the second time in less than a week suspect registration practices surface.
The Strategic Allied Consulting thing is significant. I'm glad they were caught and removed in time to repair the damage.
Now that we have reason to suspect both parties of election shenanigans, will you agree that it's time for a strict system of checks and verifications to keep this problem in check? If not, how do we solve it?
All while the GOP has been screaming and yelling about nonexistent voter fraud at the actual ballot box, they have been doing what they can to limit the voting power of their opponents.
Originally posted by NavyDoc
Yet they are continually against voter ID. Seems that they like voter fraud, just only when it benefits their guy.
Why have these guys not been taken to task for voter indimidation?
Originally posted by charles1952
By the way, one can't easily condemn Republican voter fraud in the same breath that one says there is no voter fraud.
SACRAMENTO — Aggressive recruitment efforts in one of California's most hotly contested voting districts has created a surge of newly minted Republicans like Marleny Reyes. Except she had no intention of joining the GOP.
The Moreno Valley College student is among scores of voters in Riverside County who say they were duped.
Formal complaints filed with the state by at least 133 residents of a state Senate district there say they were added to GOP rolls without their knowledge, calling into question the party's boast that Republican membership has rocketed 23% in the battleground area.
WASHINGTON — Election officials in at least 11 Florida counties have uncovered potentially fraudulent voter registration forms submitted on behalf of the state GOP, a debacle that has punctured a hole in the Republican National Committee's get-out-the-vote operation less than six weeks before election day.
By Friday, elections supervisors had found dozens of forms turned in by the party that had wrong birthdays or spellings of names that didn't match signatures. In other cases, multiple forms were filled out in the same handwriting. One voter in Palm Beach County was registered to an address that is a Land Rover dealership.
"It was that flagrant," said Ann W. Bodenstein, the elections supervisor in Santa Rosa County, where officials found 100 problematic applications — including one for a dead voter. "In no way did they look genuine."
State officials in key presidential battleground states have found only a tiny fraction of the illegal voters they initially suspected existed.
Searches in Colorado and Florida have yielded numbers that amount to less than one-tenth of 1 percent of all registered voters in either state
Voter ID fraud is not a real problem and you cannot show where it benefited anyone's guy.
So why are you having a hard time condemning this actual voter fraud?
Originally posted by charles1952
reply to post by wascurious
Dear wascurious,
Who said it?? Really??? You said it, just a couple of posts ago.
Voter ID fraud is not a real problem and you cannot show where it benefited anyone's guy.
So why are you having a hard time condemning this actual voter fraud?
On the other subject, I'd be happy to have you get to me. That's how I learn things. But, in what way are you getting to me?
With respect,
Charles1952
I took that to mean you had identified "actual voting fraud." Let's grant that.
So why are you having a hard time condemning this actual voter fraud?
It seems you are saying there isn't any voting fraud. I can't reconcile those two statements.
Voter ID fraud is not a real problem and you cannot show where it benefited anyone's guy.