The company doing the registration shredding in Nevada "America Votes," is an arm of the Republican consulting firm Sproul & Associates, run by a former head of the Arizona Republican party, and directly funded by the Republican National Committee. They have complaints against them in four other states for refusing to register Kerry voters, pressuring people to register as Republicans, and misrepresenting themselves as nonpartisan.
Unless the Republican party denounces their misdeeds and stops funding their activities, no arguments about it being "a few rogues" are going to hold water.
Correction -- the company is "Voters Outreach of America." Apparently another one of their fraudulent activities is claiming to be part of claiming that his group is part of America Votes, a voter education and registration group organized by the AFL-CIO, Emily's List, the Sierra Club, and others.
There need to be major legal repercussions to this. Before 2 November.
It's been nearly 16 hours since I learned of this, from a Nevada-based news source. Google News still doesn't show any major network coverage of it. Reuters has nothing about it. I can't seem to be able to connect to wire.ap.org (Associated Press). It's not even on the blogsphere, at least not the bits I see (major political blogs might have covered it, but I don't follow them).
There need to be news about this, somewhere other than Las Vegas. Preferably before 2 November.
And for the rest of your post, as prophetkristy would say, word with a side of word and extra word sprinkles on top.
It's in the Post at last (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30917-2004Oct13.html), going to be on page A08 as far as I can tell. I finally found a San Francisco Chronicle article with an AP byline (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/10/13/politics1629EDT0129.DTL). Both accounts are watered down from the Las Vegas TV website story, though. There was only the San Francisco hit a few hours ago, but a Google News hunt on "Nevada voter registration" is finally turning up what look to be related stories (I haven't checked every one) at Reuters, the Miami Herald, Newsday, npr.org... still not enough, and not front-page.
In Maryland/absentee-voter news, " Deborah Martinez, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Republican Party, said the GOP targeted specific counties across the state and has made some progress over the last few months in recruiting new members.
"We were able to overtake Calvert County," Martinez said. "It now has an "R." And in St. Mary's and Harford, we're closing the gap."
Martinez would not provide numbers on the GOP voter-switch campaign, which is designed to persuade Democrats to change their registrations. For now, she said, the party is focused on making sure registered voters are aware of the next deadline they face: Oct. 26 for sending in absentee ballots. " -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25395-2004Oct11.html
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Unless the Republican party denounces their misdeeds and stops funding their activities, no arguments about it being "a few rogues" are going to hold water.
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http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/the_convoluted_story_on_voter_registration_fraud.html
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There need to be major legal repercussions to this. Before 2 November.
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It's been nearly 16 hours since I learned of this, from a Nevada-based news source. Google News still doesn't show any major network coverage of it. Reuters has nothing about it. I can't seem to be able to connect to wire.ap.org (Associated Press). It's not even on the blogsphere, at least not the bits I see (major political blogs might have covered it, but I don't follow them).
There need to be news about this, somewhere other than Las Vegas. Preferably before 2 November.
And for the rest of your post, as
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This should be front-page news in the Washington Post tomorrow. Perhaps they are just trying to do some research to verify the facts?
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In Maryland/absentee-voter news,
" Deborah Martinez, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Republican Party, said the GOP targeted specific counties across the state and has made some progress over the last few months in recruiting new members.
"We were able to overtake Calvert County," Martinez said. "It now has an "R." And in St. Mary's and Harford, we're closing the gap."
Martinez would not provide numbers on the GOP voter-switch campaign, which is designed to persuade Democrats to change their registrations. For now, she said, the party is focused on making sure registered voters are aware of the next deadline they face: Oct. 26 for sending in absentee ballots. " -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25395-2004Oct11.html