GOP masters at fraudulent voter registration drives
Registration drives outdo vote fraud at polls as election problem
New voter ID laws take aim at election fraud at the polls, but a bigger problem may be abuses in voter registration drives.
By Joseph Tanfani, Washington Bureau, LA Times
6:20 PM PDT, November 1, 2012
WASHINGTON — When elections officials in Palm Beach County, Fla., checked out a form indicating that Carlos Ferrer, 36, wanted a new voter ID, they knew something was wrong. Ferrer is 43, and, instead of his home, the form listed his address as the Land Rover dealership where he works.
Ferrer didn't fill out the form. It was one of the suspicious registrations linked to a voter turnout campaign financed by the Republican National Committee, an operation that has spawned criminal investigations in Florida and elsewhere.
The allegations are just the latest to spring from partisan voter registration drives, one of the darker corners of the political consulting world. Almost every election season, these campaigns — which typically pay workers to collect registrations — lead to charges of trickery and fraud: forged signatures, made-up names, voters who say they were duped into registering with the wrong party.
Earlier this fall, some voters in California's Riverside County who thought they were signing petitions for ballot measures to legalize marijuana or create jobs said they unwillingly ended up registered as Republicans.
(More here.)
By Joseph Tanfani, Washington Bureau, LA Times
6:20 PM PDT, November 1, 2012
WASHINGTON — When elections officials in Palm Beach County, Fla., checked out a form indicating that Carlos Ferrer, 36, wanted a new voter ID, they knew something was wrong. Ferrer is 43, and, instead of his home, the form listed his address as the Land Rover dealership where he works.
Ferrer didn't fill out the form. It was one of the suspicious registrations linked to a voter turnout campaign financed by the Republican National Committee, an operation that has spawned criminal investigations in Florida and elsewhere.
The allegations are just the latest to spring from partisan voter registration drives, one of the darker corners of the political consulting world. Almost every election season, these campaigns — which typically pay workers to collect registrations — lead to charges of trickery and fraud: forged signatures, made-up names, voters who say they were duped into registering with the wrong party.
Earlier this fall, some voters in California's Riverside County who thought they were signing petitions for ballot measures to legalize marijuana or create jobs said they unwillingly ended up registered as Republicans.
(More here.)
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