MASSIVE REPUBLICAN VOTER FRAUD IN L.A.: WHO’S THE CRIMINAL NOW, MR. MCCCAIN?
ACORN works very hard to make sure that it catches bogus registrations and terminates those that commit registration fraud. Filling out a bogus voter registration for a fictitious person is not voter fraud. It’s just fraud. It’s a fraud committed against their employer, ACORN. When those registrations slip through, and some inevitably do, it is an added hassle for the people in City Hall that have to process voter registrations, but it isn’t voter fraud because no fictitious Mickey Mouse or Tony Romo ever turns up to vote. It wastes resources, but that is the extent of the harm it produces.
Except of course when it comes to the GOP, which tricked tens of thousands of Californians into registering as Republicans:
“I am not a Republican,” insisted Karen Ashcraft, 47, a pet-clinic manager and former Democrat from Ventura who said she was duped by a signature gatherer into joining the GOP. “I certainly . . . won’t sign anything in front of a grocery store ever again.”
It is a bait-and-switch scheme familiar to election experts. The firm hired by the California Republican Party — a small company called Young Political Majors, or YPM, which operates in several states — has been accused of using the tactic across the country.
Election officials and lawmakers have launched investigations into the activities of YPM workers in Florida and Massachusetts. In Arizona, the firm was recently a defendant in a civil rights lawsuit. Prosecutors in Los Angeles and Ventura counties say they are investigating complaints about the company.
The firm, which a Republican Party spokesman said is paid $7 to $12 for each registration it secures, has denied any wrongdoing and says it has never been charged with a crime.
The 70,000 voters YPM has registered for the Republican Party this year will help combat the public perception that it is struggling amid Democratic gains nationally, give a boost to fundraising efforts and bolster member support for party leaders, political strategists from both parties say.
Your modern GOP: fruitcakes, liars, criminals, pedophiles, nativists, no-nothings, and bigots. Why would ANYONE want to be associated with that kind of scum?
