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.
Come on guys this is the best post I've seen all day. It got everybody's juices flowing and gave us something to do. The fact is this is a real story being cover by some nut-job at KLAS TV in Vegas. The guy that posted it was only bringing it to everyones attention. Don't shoot the messenger
Republicans in the area mentioned may want to check their voter registrations. I have a hunch that if any registrations were destroyed they were republicans.
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This is total BS! I'll go out on a limb and say that the exact opposite is closer to the truth and these scum are trashing Republican registrars.
Acuse the other side of the very thing your doing to put them on defense and CYA.
KLAS leans Left. This must be in retaliation for the report of Democratic voter fraud. They've been going into the Barrios and bars and signing up anyone who breathes without ID. With a 40% increase in Illegal Mexicans, I don't want them electing our local officials, much less the President of the United States and Senators who will pick my pocket to give them everything they want.
Well .. I find this very hard to believe. I have never ever heard of any Republican doing anything so terrible as to throw registrations away.
Based on this companies affiliations, this is not a Republican affiliation, but a big lib one possible making up a story to spread a lie to cover up all the Democrat criminal activity that was found.
http://www.americavotes.org/
Check out the affiliations. Do you think these would be groups ripping up Republican or Democrat votes?
The big answer is either the charge by the employees was bunk, or the Republican registrations were being ripped up, not Democrats.
Time for bloggers to expose this bunk.
Excuse me, check out all the affiliates for AmericaVotes, they are all extreme liberal groups that would NEVER successfully register a Republican.
The victims were either Republican or this story is pure bunk.
http://www.americavotes.org/
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 company has been largely, if not entirely funded, by the Republican National Committee.
Are you sure?!
America Votes, Inc.
888 16th Street, Suite 440
Washington, DC 20006
If you have any questions, please call 202-974-8330.
e-mail us at action@americavotes.org
Cecile Richards, a veteran labor and political organizer, serves as the President of America Votes. Before joining America Votes, she served as Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leader, Nancy Pelosi.
NEVADA
Carrie Sandstedt
NV State Organizing Director
Reno Office: 775-337-2595
Fax: 775-337-2578
carrie@americavotes.org
AMERICA VOTES NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
888 16th Street, NW, Suite 440
Washington, DC 20006
Office: 202.974.8330
Fax: 202.974.8335
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America Coming Together (ACT)
American Federation of Teachers
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence United With the Million Mom March
Clean Water Action
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
Democracy for America
EMILY's List
Environment2004
The Human Rights Campaign
League of Conservation Voters
The Media Fund
MoveOn.org Voter Fund
Moving America Forward
Music for America
NAACP National Voter Fund
NARAL Pro-Choice America
National Education Association
National Jewish Democratic Council
National Treasury Employees Union
Partnership for America's Families
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Planned Parenthood Action Fund
SEIU
Sierra Club
USAction
Voices for Working Families
Young Voter Alliance
21st Century Democrats
Why would a company that has partner affiliations with all communist and extreme Democrat leftists be ripping up Democrat registration cards and successfully registering Republicans?
Makes no sense, and either the Nevada story meant to say Republican registration cards were being destroyed or this is a set up place out there in an attempt to balance the crimes Democrats have been pulling off with voter fraud, shootings and break-ins.
Acorn was cornered in the report today from Colorado on Voter registration fraud there, too. These people are not even remotely connected to Republican activities. There is a video report here:
http://www.9news.com
Employees made a claim and submitted some ripped up registration forms according to the story.
But, this has to be a Democrat set up. This is one to be moved on.
How does a company with all communist and liberal group connections get supposedly almost completely funded to do this by the Republican party?
Doesn't happen, this is a set up, potential October surprise and should be made an example of NOW.
Thank you! That's exactly what I thought!!
If you have any good ping lists, get people here, we have another Rathergate going here by Democrats and the press. This thread is not being read as it needs to be.
This is ripe to be ripped open and thrown back at them.
Oh yes, that's the ticket, let's pray. Good Grief!
Try "rintense" she originated the A Day in the Life thread, and she has lots of ping lists.
That's exactly what I'vwe been wondering. How does anyone know it's a Republican registration form?
Good job, guys! The Dims always forget to wipe their fingerprints away from the scene of the crime.
Excellent, excellent catch. Looks like this may be another score for the Pajamahadeen (Allah FUBAR!). Of course, the retraction (if any) would never get the play that the original story did.
}:-)4
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