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.
IF the allegations in the attached story are true, then these voter registration firms are stealing honor from myself and the Republican Party.
If the race really is as distant as it seems, then the theft is double repugnant.
Ted
this is civil disobedience in a massive scale and it is coordinated across the coutry by some one......
bid link...please try again.
AdamSmith1790
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CBS is not credible. This story is crap.
I don't think this is a case of civil disobedience. It could possibly be a felony. I'm not a lawyer, but destroying or otherwise tampering with official government documents is a serious offense, and if not, it should be.
Link bad.
Downright amazing that this story should materialize in the midst of dozens of stories of voter-fraud allegations where no party has been implicated--headline or otherwise.
First thing I'd like to know about is the source (the news medium), then about the allegers. This just doesn't sound "Republican."
http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe
here is the link again. sorry for error.
"Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats."
Operative word here may be "former."
A Google search reveals nothing regarding Voters Outreach of America.
That is true. I suppose that it depends on what level of the organization they worked in. I don't know, but I bet that voter registration companies, which move from state to state, recruit locally for some of their employees. In which case the work would have been temporary for those employees. Thus "former" status would not necessarily be evidence of bad performance.
But that does not rule it out either.
ted
Thanks.
From the article: 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.
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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.
well have the legal battle now or later it is a strategy that if it is done on a massive enought scale it is hard to proscute all who were in volved..... or to find out who actually did it.....
I agree. "We come from the land of ice and snow...."
They took shredded papers to find out they were filed????
The Republican Party called me today and left a message stating we can VOTE EARLY from Oct 14 to Oct 30 at Library or Board of Elections. I suppose this is Nationwide...so most people can go and find out if their registration is current.
>>CBS is not credible. This story is crap.
Good point!
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