:evilgrin: - 'Republicans Play Defense Over Voter Registration Fraud' - MaimiHerald

[WillyT]

Republicans play defense over voter registration fraud
BY MARC CAPUTO - Miami Herald
9/30/12

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President Barack Obama has received unexpected help from the unlikeliest of quarters: The Republican National Committee.

Devoted to bashing Obama, the RNC gave the president’s reelection campaign a political contribution of sorts by insisting that state parties, such as Florida’s, hire a vendor that’s now under investigation for voter-registration fraud by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in as many as 10 counties involving at least 220 suspect forms.

Remember all that talk from Republicans about voter fraud?

Well, it ain’t just for ACORN anymore.

Now, instead of being on offense against Obama, Republicans are playing defense over voter-registration fraud. Some organized Republican voter-registration drives have virtually ground to a halt as Republicans fired the firm, Strategic Allied Consulting, in seven battleground states.

It’s such a mess that the Republican Party of Florida has filed an elections complaint against the Strategic Allied Consulting, which then turned around and bashed…. The Republican Party of Florida.

“When the Republican Party of Florida chose to make likely libelous comments about our effort and stated that the Republican National Committee suggested us as the vendor, the RNC was put in the unenviable position of ending a long-term relationship for the sake of staying focused on the election,” a company statement said this week. “While we wish their comments yesterday would have more accurately addressed the situation, we understand the logic of ending distractions and winning elections. We wish our friends there nothing but success going forward,” the statement said.

The Florida Democratic Party couldn’t have paid for such a result: The RPOF bashing an RNC vendor that turns around and bashes RPOF for slander.

Way to go, RNC.

In all, Strategic Allied Consulting earned at least $3 million from the RNC nationwide for voter-registration drives. In Florida, the state party received $1.3 million from the RNC to pay Strategic. The contracts have been cancelled and, in Florida, Republicans now have to come up with a new way to add new voters ahead of the Oct. 9 registration deadline for the general election.

Republicans this year in Florida have added about 46,000 new voters to the rolls. Democrats have added 220,000 — and a good deal of that work was done by the Obama campaign and unpaid volunteers, Democrats say.

Democrats now lead Republicans by 443,166 active registered Florida voters. Expect that lead to grow.

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More: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/30/3027663/republicans-play-defense-over.html

[WillyT]

1. Kick !!!

[malaise]

2. Sweet as...!

K & R
Go ReTHUGs in name and nature

[freshwest]

3. No honor among theives after all...

[underthematrix]

4. GOP is desperate and

their use of a crook to register non existent and dead voters just further demonstrates their level of desperation. We need federal marshalls at polling places in the swing states.

[ZX86]

5. This is not like ACORN.

There is a world of difference between a minimum wage worker padding his work load with Mickey Mouse type names to cheat an extra 20 bucks out of his employer and company management instructing it's workers to circumvent the law by not registering Democrats or worse, invalidating their registration forms by revising addresses etc.

[WillyT]

6. Psst... We All Know That Here...

But the rightwing heads exploding over the comparison is music to my ears.

[ZX86]

7. I'm not so sure.

ACORN went down in flames with little or no help from Democrats.

[WillyT]

9. And THAT... Is The TRUE... ACORN Scandal...

But...

This can be used as a teachable moment...

About GOP Projection, and the actual facts of the two cases.

I'm just loving the Karmic back-bite.

[cr8tvlde]

8. Two things on our side (1) Political race is pretty much decided (2) MSM Press is going to need

something other than "it's still a dead heat" for the next 6 weeks and this subject should work out just fine.

[NBachers]

10. So it's time to spread investigation to all other states and suspend Republican registration drives

until the felons are arrested and put in jail.

[WillyT]

11. Sounds Good To Me !!!

At least... take a look at what is going on in those states.

[jackbenimble]

12. They'll probably just create an offshoot company

with a different name and be right back at work shortly. Contracts aren't so easily broken in the real world.