GOP Voter Registration Strategy ... 'Taking a Poll' to Screen Out Obama Supporters

[Kurovski]

Brad Blog via OpEd News:

Strategic Allied Consulting's "Voter Survey" Lie

In the very first of our continuing series on the GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal last Tuesday, as Palm Beach election officials confirmed to us that the state GOP had turned in more than 100 apparently fraudulent registration applications, we raised the question of whether the FL scheme was tied to a Youtube video out of El Paso County, CO which we'd reported on that morning, after it had gone viral just days earlier. The video shows a young lady serving as a registration worker outside of a Colorado Springs Safeway grocery store, claiming to be "polling people," and asking the woman who caught the encounter on video tape: "Would you vote for Romney or Obama?"

The woman knew the young lady was not "polling people," but was registering voters, so she was understandably aghast to discover that the young lady was screening out potential Obama supporters, and appearing to only offer voter registration forms to Romney supporters.

When we initially covered the fraudulent voter registration forms turned in by the GOP in Palm Beach County (similarly "potentially fraudulent voter registration forms submitted on behalf of the state GOP" have since been discovered "in at least 11 Florida counties," according to the LA Times) we connected a few evidentiary dots to ask: "Was the young worker in Colorado Springs hired by Strategic Allied Consulting for her work with the local GOP?"


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A Nationwide GOP Voter Registration Strategy?

Strategic Allied Consulting was formed in June, without Sproul's name attached to it, at the request of the RNC, according to Sproul, due to past allegations against his companies. (We summarized those allegations in our first report.) Their role was abruptly halted last week when they were fired by the Republicans. But The BRAD BLOG has collected additional evidence suggesting that the strategy of lying to potential registrants about being pollsters rather than registration workers to screen out certain voters, is not only being used by the Sproul group, but may well be a nationalized GOP effort.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/GOP-Voter-Registration-Str-by-Brad-Friedman-121002-502.html

[leftyohiolib]

1. they are doing exactly what they accused acorn of doing

[Raster]

4. The difference is that ACORN was electorally empowering minorities, lower income, persons of color..

...and others typically disenfranchised in the American political process. ACORN's goal was to give people a voice. The republican goal is to limit anyone from voting that does not support their candidate. The republican goal is to continue to disenfranchise minorities, students, seniors, lower income voters, persons of color. The republican goal is to drastically limit the electoral voice.

[cstanleytech]

7. Oh I agree its their goal but I wonder if they are trying to backdoor it.

By that I mean we all know alot of the republican voter ID laws have been getting thrown out by the courts so this could very well be a tactic designed to reinforce the "need" for the republican voter ID laws in the minds of the public and the courts.
Sure in the short term it will hurt the GOP but in the long run if those republican voter IDs get put into place it will help secure their power.

[Atman]

2. So happy to share this!

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I have a friend in Palm Beach, a rich real estate developer, who is a big Allen West backer, and even campaigned for Newt Gingrich and met with him when he was in town. He is always posting bullshit on his FB page about rampant voter fraud. Supposedly, in his district alone, hundreds of dead people had voted for Obama -- although upon further grilling, he admitted that they'd found a couple hundred dead people registered to vote; none actually showed up at the polls, though.

I've tried to explain this kind of trickery to him. He insists it couldn't be true...it's the Democrats who steal elections. Remember Kennedy? Yeah, that's all he's got. It'll be a treat sharing this with him.

[Kurovski]

3. And reference is also made to the LA Times and at least one network news outlet.

I hope the denial is not too strong over there on Facebook!

[intheflow]

5. "...not only being used by the Sproul group, but may well be a nationalized GOP effort."

And still they're not registering voters as fast a Dems.

Washington Post: Democratic voter registrations in Nevada outpace Republican numbers in September

Orlando Sentinel: Democrats' voter-registration effort swamps GOP's

[Skidmore]

6. I hope there will be charges brought against this company's personnel.

[Dustlawyer]

8. The League of Women voters stopped doing voter registrations why? It appears that,

once again, the Repugs are projecting when they charge Democrats with illegalities regarding voter registration! Me thinks they dost protest too much!

[myrna minx]

9. K&R n.t

[Coyotl]

10. There is a verb for this type of voter registration, "Sprouling"

To Sproul, new verb, to corrupt the voter registration process in favor of fascists