Posted on 10/12/2004 11:12:38 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
LAS VEGAS – The FBI has been notified that hundreds of voter-registration forms have been intentionally discarded or destroyed by a private company hired by the Republican Party to sign people up to vote.
According to KLAS-TV, the local CBS affiliate, employees who worked for Voters Outreach of America allege scores of registration forms were thrown in the trash.
The company, also known as America Votes, reportedly employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day.
But according to some former employees, Voters Outreach of America sought only Republican registrations. The station reports the company has been largely, if not entirely funded, by the Republican National Committee.
Two ex-workers for Voters Outreach say they personally witnessed company supervisors tear 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," said Eric Russell, a former employee interviewed by KLAS. "I grabbed some of them out of the garbage and she tells her assistant to get those from me."
Russell was able to retrieve some shredded paperwork including signed voter-registration forms, all of which were from Democrats.
The television station pieced the forms back together, and presented them to the Clark County Election Department confirming they had not been filed with the county as required.
No one from the company was available for comment, as the local office was rented out to another tenant, with the landlord telling the station non-payment of rent was the reason. Another source said the company was now registering voters in Oregon.
Similar complaints have been received in Reno, Nev., where officials have asked the FBI to investigate.
The discovery could pose a problem for those going to the polls on Nov. 2, thinking they're already registered to vote, when officials have no record of that. In fact, the deadline to register to vote in Nevada was last night.
Clark County residents can check online to see if they are indeed registered to vote.
"Clark County residents can check online to see if they are indeed registered to vote."
Good.
If true, it's wrong and outrageous, but note the media doesn't pay much attention to the normal stories of dem voter cheating that goes on all the time.
Republicans need to win through fair and just means.
If we don't, then we have sunk to the very level of corruption we accuse the Democrats of having.
Don't assume this story is true just yet.
See also the earlier:
Voter Registrations Possibly Trashed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1243310/posts
A CBS affiliate...I'd say the dems are putting their ducks in a row if Reid loses. They'll have grounds to contest the results. I just don't trust CBS.
Terrible news.
Makes me sick to my stomach.
I hope it can be corrected somehow.
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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Bradbury plans to investigate election complaint
http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D85MC9480.html
10/13/2004
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI / Associated Press
Secretary of State Bill Bradbury and Attorney General Hardy Myers plan to investigate allegations that a paid canvasser might have destroyed voter registration forms.
"There have been allegations made that someone threw out some voter registration forms that had been submitted to them," Bradbury told The Associated Press late Tuesday. "This is a violation of the law and I will meet with the attorney general in the morning to talk about what we can do to pursue this, and to make sure it doesn't happen again."
Bradbury learned of the conduct from KGW-TV, which interviewed Mike Johnson, 20, a canvasser who said he was instructed to only accept Republican registration forms. He told the TV reporter that he "might" destroy forms turned in by Democrats.
"I have never in my five years as secretary of state ever seen an allegation like the one that came up tonight — ever," Bradbury said. "I mean, frankly, it just totally offends me that someone would take someone else's registration and throw it out."
Bradbury said the law requires that groups registering voters submit forms no later than five days after they were filled out. He added that canvassers can't turn away a voter because of his or her party affiliation.
Rory Smith, a spokeswoman for the Republican Party in Oregon, said the young man interviewed by KGW-TV was not in their rolls. "We do not condone this type of behavior," Smith told the Portland-based station.
In Nevada earlier Tuesday, KLAS-TV, a CBS affiliate, interviewed an employee of a private voter registration organization who said hundreds — perhaps thousands — of Democratic registration forms had been destroyed.
Eric Russell, a former Voters Outreach of America employee, told the TV station he had personally witnessed his supervisor take out Democratic registration forms from the pile and shred them.
A spokesman for the Las Vegas bureau of the FBI said he did not know if an investigation had been initiated.
Check their website...
http://www.americavotes.org/
You can tell them (Eyewitness News, Las Vegas, Nevada) to GET THEIR FACTS CORRECT BEFORE THEY PRINT A STORY!!!
cbleakley@klastv.com
My policy on CBS is that anything they say is a lie unless conclusively proved otherwise.
This has to be a Democrat setup. Why would a company that partners with what appears to be communists and extreme liberals destroy Democrat forms and successfully complete Republican ones? No F'ing way, this is BS.
Would these groups rip Democrats up and leave more Republicans at the ballot box in Nevada or elsewhere? NO!
This is exactly the same as the draft where it was only Democrats that wanted and were pushing a draft in fact.
The list of partners to this group are all communists or extreme liberals from what I can see.
How does a group like that destroy Democrat applications and successfully complete Republican forms?
I smell BS in the way of a set up for miles here.
Check their website...(they are ALL DEMOCRATS!)
Cecile Richards, veteran labor and political organizer, has been elected President of America Votes. Ms. Richards, a native Texan, has worked as a labor and political activist for more than twenty years. She recently led a national program for the Turner Foundation to educate and organize reproductive choice supporters across the country. Before coming to America Votes, she served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.
http://www.americavotes.org/
You can tell them (Eyewitness News, Las Vegas, Nevada) to GET THEIR FACTS CORRECT BEFORE THEY PRINT A STORY!!!
cbleakley@klastv.com
You mean you don't believe the CBS report that these conspirators stupidly tore up and trashed completed registration forms in front of a non-conspirator witness who intervened and took those forms away from them?
Yeah, neither do I.
Some people have a talent for lying, but CBS should really keep its day job.
I emailed KLAS with these facts well over an hour ago, but thanks.
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