Breaking: Voter Fraud Scheme Discovered!

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Breaking news today, as a conspiracy to commit voter fraud has been uncovered! At last, real evidence that the Republican Party’s claims of widespread voter fraud are not just hallucinations!

So which evil scheming liberal group is responsible? Is it the dreaded ACORN?

Well, actually, it’s the Republican National Committee.

WASHINGTON - The Republican National Committee has abruptly cut ties to a consulting firm hired for get-out-the-vote efforts in seven presidential election swing states after Florida prosecutors launched an investigation into possible fraud in voter registration forms.

Working through state parties, the RNC has sent more than $3.1 million this year to Strategic Allied Consulting, a company formed in June by Nathan Sproul, an Arizona voting consultant. Sproul has operated other firms that have been accused in past elections of improprieties designed to help Republican candidates, including dumping registration forms filled out by Democrats, but none of those allegations led to any criminal charges.

Sean Spicer, spokesman for the RNC, said the party, has “zero tolerance” for voter fraud and cut ties to the firm on Wednesday, urging state parties to do the same. The forms in question in Florida were all submitted by one worker and were not the result of an effort to suppress votes, he said.

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18 comments
1 jaunte  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:11:56am

L. A. Times:

Sproul said his company has a vigorous quality control system that includes running criminal background checks on all employees, requiring viewing instructional videos on registration laws (an example of which can be seen here) and cataloging voter cards with serial numbers that identify who collected each registration. That quality check, Sproul said, enabled the company to quickly determine the individual who submitted the problematic cards in Palm Beach County.
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The company helped identify 106 forms submitted by the same worker. Bucher turned them over to Palm Beach County prosecutors, who have begun a criminal investigation.

Chicago Tribune:

The Palm Beach County elections office first reported finding 106 potentially fraudulent registration forms earlier this week that had been submitted by Strategic Allied Consulting (SAC), a Virginia firm hired by Florida's Republican Party.

Since then scores more suspicious forms have been detected in at least five other Florida counties where election officials say SAC worked to register voters.
[Link: articles.chicagotribune.com...]

So, maybe not the work of just one guy.

2 Hercules Grytpype-Thynne  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:12:58am

re: #1 jaunte

So, maybe not the work of just one guy.

One guy who really got around.

3 JAFO  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:13:17am

Voter registration fraud =/= voter fraud

4 Prideful, Arrogant Marriage Equality Advocate  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:13:37am

Did O'keefe break this story????!!111

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5 Killgore Trout  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:14:50am

re: #1 jaunte

L. A. Times:

Chicago Tribune:

So, maybe not the work of just one guy.

Probably not but, like much of the ACORN "scandals", this probably isn't an attempt at actual voter fraud in terms of casting fake ballots. Just lazy workers filling out forms at home instead of going door to door signing people up.

6 jaunte  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:18:44am

The Brennan Center has a good resource site on Voter / Registration Fraud

There are almost no known cases in which individuals have filled out registration forms in someone else’s name in order to impersonate them at the polls. And most reports of registration fraud do not actually claim that the fraud happens so that ineligible people can vote at the polls. Instead, when registration fraud is alleged, the allegations generally fall into one of four categories:
[Link: www.truthaboutfraud.org...]

7 jaunte  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:19:53am

I guess if you pay your workers the minimum, you get the minimum effort.

8 Majacita  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:20:05am

My younger brother, very conservative, lives in Ohio, told me last night that he doesn't see why Romney is even continuing to campaign. He saw that 47% tape and said that it was over for him. He said he didn't want a president who thought of him as dirt under his feet. He had suspected but this final proof was devastating. He said if he had been present he would have punched Romney.

If my brother won't vote for him I don't know who will. My brother isn't presently in the 47%, but he has been, and many others in our family are part of the the 47%. My brother is an anti-gay, pro-life, fiscal conservative who voted for John McCain despite his worries over Palin.

9 Shiplord Kirel  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:20:26am

Probably a false flag operation by Soros-financed ACORN moles seeking to discredit these grass-roots efforts to increase participation.

10 Majacita  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:21:08am

re: #8 Majacita

I know this is OT but I just got time to check in with LGF and wanted to share.

11 jaunte  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:25:17am
12 Henchman Ghazi-808  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:29:02am

re: #7 jaunte

I guess if you pay your workers the minimum, you get the minimum effort.

Pay them like crap and it inspires them to become entrepreneurs who create businesses that pay like crap.

13 BishopX  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:38:43am

Once again, paying people to register voters is bad idea. Especially when you tie the number of registrations to compensation or use quotas...

14 wrenchwench  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 11:43:48am

Looks like the same firm ran NM Governor Martinez's campaign in 2010.

The firm managing Governor Martinez's 2010 gubernatorial campaign is now under investigation in Florida after sources tipped off law enforcement that employees of the company were disregarding Democratic voter registration forms they obtained in registration drives. The firm's owner, Arizona Republican operative Nathan Sproul, was a parnter in Lincoln Strategies, the Jay McCleskey-managed firm behind Martinez's 2010 campaign.

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15 boredtechindenver  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 12:19:28pm

Okay, this company was fired in Colorado after this video (ETA) came out.


Story here.

16 sunnygal  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 1:24:02pm

Yeah, right. The Florida RNC won't tolerate voter fraud. Then, why, after several of Sproul's companies were involved in these same tactics in other states, did the Florida RNC hire them? My guess is that they hoped any fraud wouldn't be detected before the election. They certainly didn't do any "due diligence" and only fired the company once Florida prosecutors got involved.

17 Sophia77  Sat, Sep 29, 2012 3:23:17pm

I honestly think the GOP will stop at nothing to win. Voter suppression is unconstitutional, illegal and wrong - period.

I don't know why more people aren't up in arms about this.

18 lostlakehiker  Sun, Sep 30, 2012 9:59:38pm

I claim first dibs on having spotted this. I brought it up in a comment.


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