Posted on 10/12/2004 7:35:34 PM PDT by AdamSmith1790
George Knapp, Investigative Reporter
Voter Registrations Trashed
(Oct. 12) -- Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash.
Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.
The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed at democrats. Thee focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.
The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.
Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.
"We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant and he ripped them up right in front of us. I grabbed some of them out of the garbage and she tells her assisatnt to get those from me," said Eric Russell, former Voters Outreach employee.
Eric Russell managed to retrieve a pile of shredded paperwork including signed voter registration forms, all from Democrats. We took them to the Clark County Election Department and confirmed that they had not, in fact, been filed with the county as required by law.
So the people on those forms who think they will be able to vote on Election Day are sadly mistaken. We attempted to speak to Voters Outreach but found that its office has been rented out to someone else.
The landlord says Voters Outreach was evicted for non-payment of rent. Another source said the company has now moved on to Oregon where it is once again registering voters. It's unknown how many registrations may have been tossed out, but another ex-employee told Eyewitness News she had the same suspicions when she worked there.
It's going to take a while to sort all of this out, but the immediate concern for voters is to make sure you really are registered.
Call the Clark County Election Department at 455-VOTE orclick here to see if you are registered.
The company has been largely, if not entirely funded, by the Republican National Committee. Similar complaints have been received in Reno where the registrar has asked the FBI to investigate.
Sorry to bring this back up but your reply did not answer my question. How do they know it is a Republican registration card? I live in Texas where we do not have the option to check for party afilliation on our registration card. Is it different in other states?
I completely understand about this being a plot because just yesterday in the local news they were claiming the same thing, but at least the news reporter had the guts to mention that in Texas there is no way for anyone to know what party affiliation the regsitrant is choosing because there isn't that option on the registration card.
Well, duh. If you find out that you're working for somebody who wants you to help him commit a federal felony, I presume that you'd quit too.
As you've probably learned, that wasn't exactly the point.
From G.K.:
Wow, that's quite the expose' you dug up about my interest in UFOs. My station is well aware of my interest in UFOs since the stories I've reported were first broadcast right here, but it's interesting that you would bring this up and I'm curious what it has to do with this story. (I have also reported about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the drought, Donald Trump, cattle mutilations, and the Mafia, so maybe they are relevent to this as well.)
America Votes is an entirely different organization from Voters Outreach, but for some reason, Voters Outreach repeatedly told its own employees, and others, that it is America Votes. it did the same thing in other states, which suggests that it is not entirely accidental.
> Wow, that's quite the expose' you dug up about my interest in UFOs.
Google. If you're not familiar with it, I can forward you a link.
> America Votes is an entirely different organization from
> Voters Outreach, but for some reason, Voters Outreach
> repeatedly told its own employees, and others, that it is
> America Votes. it did the same thing in other states,
> which suggests that it is not entirely accidental.
This would have been interesting information for a news program, you know. Some news program somewhere. Maybe on TV. Who knows?
Perhaps, just perhaps, America Votes is actually the actual organization and they were posing as a pro-GOP group. A lack of presence on the web of an organization that claims to be doing something so public as pushing for registering voters, and getting out the vote is a bit suspicious. The proof is in the paystub, as they say.
If, I repeat, IF this is true, the guilty parties should be punished to the full extent of the law. All I ask is that ALL of the private voter registration organizations be audited and treated the same.
I'll bet that ten times more leftists end up in the pokey.
Last message from G.K.:
Believe what you want.
I e-mailed this to Matt Drudge and asked him to check on it.
Thanks!
Here is somewhat of an update. Interesting how the article doesn't go into greater detail of what the judge said.
Thanks!
Here is somewhat of an update. Interesting how the article doesn't go into greater detail of what the judge said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1246756/posts
Thanks for the link to the update!
good work digging things up.
it is encouraging to see some effort to draw these people out and see what they have to say.
thanks amishdude.
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