GOP Invalid Voter Registration Forms

GOP Invalid Voter Registration Forms

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GOP Invalid Voter Registration Forms


California’s Sacramento County elections officials have turned over what they say are several suspicious voter registration cards that were collected by a for-profit company hired by local and state Republicans to state election fraud investigators.

State and federal campaign records show Momentum Political Services was paid some $49,000 by the Sacramento County Republican Party to boost GOP registration ranks in key battleground communities.

Those efforts appear to have been successful, especially in eastern parts of the county.

But a number of what election experts refer to as “bad” registration cards – ones that, for one reason or another, are invalid – have also been submitted during the drive. Sacramento County elections officials put the tally of the GOP invalid voter registration forms submitted by Momentum Political Services at more than 31,000.

In some instances, cards were submitted with street numbers or names that can’t be found. In others, the voters themselves don’t appear to exist, as formal county registration letters come back undeliverable. Officials said a number of cards were also submitted for individual voters who not only couldn’t be located, but who also all had the same last four Social Security digits.

And in some instances, the voter’s party affiliation appears to have been changed, by someone, to Republican.

The charges of serial submission of GOP invalid voter registration forms sound very similar to those leveled in 2008 against another outfit hired by the California State GOP to register Republican voters before that year’s Presidential election. In that case, the head of the firm was arrested, and eventually pleaded guilty to voter registration charges himself.

In 2006, another firm hired by the CA Republican Party turned in thousands of registration forms with fake names and an error rate as high as 60 percent. And in 2004, a firm hired by the GOP was investigated in a number of states for shredding Democratic voter registrations and tossing them into dumpsters. Despite those allegations, the same folks were later hired by the McCain/Palin campaign in 2008 to run voter registration drives before the Presidential election.

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Voter ID laws, voter registration laws nothing but political game

Voter ID laws, voter registration laws nothing but political game

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Voter ID Laws Political Games


Voter ID laws and other voter registration laws are being fueled by voter suppression politics.

Four years ago, Democrats expanded American democracy by registering millions of new voters – mostly young people and minorities – and convincing them to show up at the polls. Apparently, the GOP is determined not to let any such thing happen again.

According to the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, which keeps track of changes in voting laws, 22 statutes and two executive actions aimed at restricting the franchise have been approved in 17 states since the beginning of 2011. By the center’s count, an additional 74 such bills are pending.

In theory, what could be wrong with demanding proof of identity? In the real world, plenty.

As Republican strategists are fully aware, minorities are overrepresented among the estimated 11 percent of citizens who do not have a government-issued photo ID. They are also painfully aware that in 2008, President Obama won 95 percent of the African-American vote and 67 percent of the Hispanic vote. It doesn’t take a genius to do the math: If you can reduce the number of black and Latino voters, you improve the Republican candidate’s chances.

If photo ID laws were going to be the solution, though, Republicans had to invent a problem. The best they could come up with was The Menace of Widespread Voter Fraud.

It’s a stretch. Actually, it’s a lie. There is no Widespread Voter Fraud. All available evidence indicates that fraudulent voting of the kind that photo ID laws would presumably prevent – someone shows up at the polls and votes in someone else’s name – just doesn’t happen. read more by Eugene Robinson

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