Gov. Bush Calls Reports Of Voter Registration Fraud 'Bizarre'

The Associated Press ^ | October 20, 2004 | http://www.wkmg.com

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Gov. Bush Calls Reports Of Voter Registration Fraud 'Bizarre'

POSTED: 5:40 pm EDT October 20, 2004 UPDATED: 5:41 pm EDT October 20, 2004 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Jeb Bush says he's bothered by reports of possible fraud involving some voter registration forms that have been turned in across the state.

Election supervisors in a few counties have reported that the party affiliation of some voters have been changed without their approval.

One of those cases was in Alachua County.

The elections supervisor there gave more than 500 voter registration forms to local prosecutors. Some of the people whose names were on those forms say their party affiliation was fraudulently changed to Republican.

The governor says he's troubled by those reports. He calls it "bizarre" and questions whether it's part of an organized effort to cause problems in this election.

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Yes. They want to create CHAOS and that gives them a reason to have a swarm of lawyers come in and contest the election.

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Arno has mainly worked on Republican campaigns, according to their client list. I think they may have been duped into hiring Jacoby.Found this:

Arno Political Consultants doesn't directly employ the hundreds of paid signature gatherers working on its behalf in Florida. As company president Michael Arno made clear to Monroe County investigators, they work as independent contractors and even subcontractors who pay them for every name brought in.

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In this case (under "Former Workers Charged"), Arno themselves found the fraud and reported it. The State Attorney cleared them of any wrongdoing in the matter. In this case Arno fully cooperated with authorities and "welcomed the prosecution" of those submitting fraudulant votes. In another story he called the gatherers "self serving mercenaries". I have actually found no cases where Arno was prosecuted, only the subcontractors that worked for them.

From what I have read, the answer to the problem is finding an alternative to paying for each individual signature.

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Thanks for looking into this and getting the truth. The media (of course) made ARNO look like they were corrupt mentioning the lawsuits but not the final outcome.