Posted on 12/08/2007 12:46:15 PM PST by james500
The Jefferson Parish registrar of voters recently received about 1,000 erroneous voter registration applications, sparking a state-level investigation for fraud, the Jefferson registrar of voters said Friday.
The registrar's office discovered that the names and addresses on applications often matched voters already in the parish system, while birth dates, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers and signatures rarely matched the names on the applications, Registrar Dennis DiMarco said.
The secretary of state's office and the attorney general's office have begun asking questions about the matter, parish and state officials said Friday.
"Falsifying any voter record is a felony," DiMarco said. "It's a pretty serious matter."
The cards appeared to originate with a group that has been hiring hourly workers to canvass shopping centers and grocery store parking lots, trying to sign up new voters, DiMarco said. The group allegedly published an anonymous ad in Gambit Weekly last month to hire "activists." DiMarco declined to identify the group because of legal concerns, but a spokesman with the secretary of state's office said Grassroots Solutions, a political advocacy group with offices in Maine, Minnesota and Washington, D.C., was behind the ad. A message left with a project manager's cell phone seeking comment went unanswered Friday.
DiMarco said that the hired workers were telling potential voters that they worked for his office and that Hurricane Katrina had destroyed the registrar's computers and all voter rolls in southeastern Louisiana. Both statements are untrue, he said.
A message left at the phone number on the ad was also not returned Friday. A greeting on the voice-mail box called the project "Our Voice Registration Program."
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"I'm not saying that any group that's behind this is doing this on purpose," DiMarco said. "It's more the people they're hiring."
Louisana? Shocking!
Do i need to guess what party they registered as? Nah, didn’t think so.
I’m surprised that even counts as news in greater New Orleans.
Bogus voter registration forms turned in (La.)...
lib/dem politics as usual....
bump
The same thing that’s been going on for decades - if we EVER get a clean vote, I suspicion the country will be surprised to learn that the country isn’t quite as 50-50 as is thought....I wish the republicans would make the routing out of voter fraud a top priority and prosecute a whole bunch with high publicity...that would curtail a lot of it....
Cutting out voter fraud, I suspicion, would all but guarantee republicans victories for decades
Slow news day. I posted it because of “Grassroots Solutions” not New Orleans.
If you check their website, you’ll find biographies on the team that includes one whose favorite ‘organizer’ is Malcom X.
http://www.grassrootssolutions.com
Right, in Louisiana or Chicago this should be on page 37E in the Lifestyles section of the paper.
I agree.
Cal - I already posted it. ;*)
I figured this might be in Boguslusa, but that’s in a different parish.
That is....... unless your a Democrat. Then you are a hero!
Yeah yeah yeah
Heard that year after year,,,and read many cases of it - still waiting to hear of the prosecutions -
There are so many of these types of things going on........to explain them one can only do so with the idea of a grand conspiracy against the common folk.
I don’t suppose anybody will bother Rahm Emanuel for a comment.
Most I've seen for anybody found guilty was 30 days, probation, a slap on the wrist, virtually nothing. Doesn't look like a "serious matter" to me.
Democrat politicians promote it (motor voter;) Republican politicians don't seem to care or they would have done something about it long ago when they could have.
“Bogus voter registration forms turned in (La.)...”
I have NOT registered to vote in La.!
The thing is, I imagine that the people who are doing this think they are totally justified because of the deliberate attempt by the Republicans to drive black people out of New Orleans.
The more lurid the fantasy, the easier it is to break the law.
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