We got your 'Voter Registration fraud' right here...

Voter Form Destruction Leads To Arrest
Virginia Voter Registration Destruction Leads To Arrest

A Pennsylvania man with ties to Virginia's Republican Party was arrested Thursday on charges of destroying voter registration forms.

Talking Points Memo reports that Colin Small, of Phoenixville, Pa., worked for a firm hired by the Republican Party of Virginia to register voters. b][color=#FF00BF]That would be [i]"Strategic Allied Consulting"[/i], if you remember...[/b][/color Small was charged with destroying voter registration forms, failing to disclose applications and obstruction of justice. Police told WHSV that additional charges may be forthcoming.

A probe into the alleged destruction began Monday, when a store manager in Harrisonburg, Va. reported seeing a man throw away eight filled-out voter registration forms hours before the state's registration deadline. Police later returned the forms to the county's registrar.

"Everybody that had not been on our records is now registered to vote,” Duck Geib, Rockingham County registrar, said.

According to WHSV, the investigation is still ongoing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/1 ... 83384.html

And just in case you forgot who "Strategic Allied Consulting" is:

Sproul Says GOP Had Him Disguise Involvement in Voter Registration Scandal

Overlooked in the rapidly escalating charges of massive GOP voter registration illegalities is an admission by the coordinator of the scheme: the shady Republican consultant, Nathan Sproul. Having a long history of legally questionable voter registration tactics, Sproul was a known public relations disaster to a party that had trumped up charges of Democratic voter fraud at the polls that was, according to the MinnPost, "virtually non-existent."

So what have the Republicans been up to in creating national hysteria over a problem that doesn't exist? They've been up to, as Greg Palast and Brad Friedman (among others) have detailed, attempting to steal elections and succeeding at times (think Bush 2000) through a variety of strategies.

One of them, championed by the disreputable Nathan Sproul, has been to aggressively register Republicans, even it appears without their consent, while refusing to register Democrats, as legally required, or allegedly dumping the registrations of Democrats into garbage bins.

Meanwhile, the most well-known strategy the GOP has used to commit Constitutional voter fraud is by suppressing the vote of likely Democrats through onerous voter-ID and other restrictions (increasing length of residency requirements, cutting down on early voting hours, etc.). As the MinnPost noted of the highly partisan Pennsylvania voter requirements that were just judicially vacated for the presidential election, "Republican Mike Turzai, Pennsylvania’s House majority leader, spoke approvingly at a Republican State Committee meeting of the state’s new voter ID law, 'which is going to allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania — done.'"

Now, even the mainstream corporate media is taking note of how the Republican Party, from the RNC on down to state and local levels, reportedly paid Nathan Sproul's firm, Strategic Allied Consulting, millions of dollars. {$3.1 million, to be exact...}

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/comm ... on-scandal

This all sounds sooooo familiar somehow.....

Gee...A few other sources, (including the Press Release by the Sheriff.... Just in case this gets ignored as being more "HuffPo" news:

http://www.newsleader.com/article/20121 ... y=nav|head

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.c ... _fraud.php

http://elections.americablog.com/2012/1 ... in-pa.html

Here is the full release from Rockingham County Sheriff Bryan F. Hutcheson:

PRESS RELEASE:
October 18, 2012

The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in the investigation of voter registration fraud that began on the afternoon of October 15th when law enforcement received a citizen complaint of voter registration application forms being found in a dumpster behind a business in the City of Harrisonburg.

The following individual has been charged:

Mr. Colin Small, 31 year old male of Phoenixville, PA
Voter Registration Supervisor employed by Pinpoint, an independent private organization contracted by the Republican Party of Virginia for purposes of general voter registration.
Copy of mugshot attached to this release

The following charges have been placed:

Four (4) counts of Destruction of Voter Registration Application, Class 1 Misdemeanor, Section 24.2-1002.01, Code of Virginia

Eight (8) counts of Disclosure of Voter Registration Application, Class 5 Felony, Section 24.2-1002.01, Code of Virginia

One (1) count of Obstruction of Justice, Class 1 Misdemeanor, Section 18.2-460(A), Code of Virginia

These charges are based upon lengthy consultation with and assistance from the Rockingham County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office regarding the investigation.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/atty ... fraud.html

http://www.wsvaonline.com/pages/1456062 ... d=11664933

so on one hand they are pushing for picture IDs to prevent voter fraud.....while on the other hand they are tossing registrations. Even a photo ID won't help the person whose voter registration is conveniently "lost".

Isolated incident. Move on. Besides Virginia is a lock for Romney :thumbsup:

Yeah... What's a couple of felonies and a few misdemeanors and voter-registration fraud...as long as the person(s) doing it are working for the RNC...

You can't make this sh*t up...

GOP Voter Fraud Accusations Suddenly Blowing Up In Their Faces
Posted 10/25/2012

Republican officials, who have used hysteria about alleged voter fraud as an excuse to support measures that disproportionately block Democratic voters, are furiously trying to distance themselves from a growing number of GOP voter registration drives that either submitted false applications or threw away authentic ones.

The incidents might have been overlooked if not for the GOP's clamorous campaign to restrict registration drives, purge voter rolls, roll back early voting, and pass voter ID laws that opponents point out have the effect of depressing the vote among minorities, the poor and other generally Democratic constituencies.

As one Southern California alt-weekly put it, it's turning into a story of "The Wolf Who Cried Wolf."

Voter registration fraud is different, way more common and considerably less threatening to democracy than actual voter fraud. Registering Mickey Mouse to vote is easy, and a far cry from actually casting a fraudulent ballot.

The Colorado video [of the Strategic Allied Consulting woman trying to register "only GOP/Romney voters"], combined with the fact that the suspicious Palm Beach applications featured so many party switches, suggest that Sproul's group might have added a new wrinkle: rewarding its canvassers for applications from Republicans or independents, but not from Democrats.

What none of that explains, however, is what might have motivated Small -- who, after all, didn't submit fraudulent applications; he's charged with throwing out legitimate ones.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/2 ... 90104.html

It just keeps coming....

archer wrote: so on one hand they are pushing for picture IDs to prevent voter fraud.....while on the other hand they are tossing registrations. Even a photo ID won't help the person whose voter registration is conveniently "lost".

Who is this "they" you speak of. Does your broad brush ever run out of paint?

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Florid ... index.html

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/video-captur ... ote-fraud/

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/24/v ... -colorado/

http://www.truethevote.org/news/eighth- ... raud-probe

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/0 ... 44744.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mar ... _blog.html

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government ... oter-Fraud

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum ... 025293/pg1

I could do this all day long LJ.

Cheating won't matter if the Republicans make it a landslide.

FredHayek wrote: Cheating won't matter if the Republicans make it a landslide.

LJ may need some help after the election.... we should make up a gift basket to ease her suffering.