Thursday’s column: Voter registration fraud in Va. could matter
AP
So-called “voter fraud” has been a big issue in Virginia this year. It was huge back in the winter, when the Republican-dominated Virginia General Assembly pushed through new voter identification laws that Democrats warned could suppress the vote.
Its cousin, voter-registration fraud, is big in the news now, after the arrest last week in Harrisonburg of Colin Small. He’s a Republican-hired operative accused of deliberately trashing voter-registration applications.
It turns out Small had worked in Virginia for a GOP-affiliated company accused of similar shenanigans in other states where the election is expected to be close. That company more or less changed its name in Virginia and continued operations.
Until Wednesday, state officials had seemed uninterested in investigating this. So three Democratic congressmen from Virginia have requested U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder look into it. Then the state decided to as well.
Allegedly, Small was spotted throwing the registration documents in a dumpster behind a retail store. The suspicion is, they were from likely Democratic voters who will find out Nov. 6 that they’re not registered.
He got fired, and now that the deadline for voter registration has passed, his former colleagues in Harrisonburg are working on “handling” voter applications for absentee ballots.
Which is where my daughter, Anna, 19, comes in.
READ THE REST OF THIS COLUMN HERE.
October 25, 2012 - 6:00 AM
Waiting to see similar admonishment over this issue regarding DEM Congressman James Moran:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/jim-morans-son-resigns-campaign-amid-video-furor/2012/10/24/95ea4a56-1e23-11e2-b647-bb1668e64058_story.html
I love how it takes the Post until the 8th paragraph to identify his party affiliation. Had Moran been a Republican, it would have been in the headline.
At least the Post has reported the story, as has WSLS…which is more than I can say for the RT.
As always, both sides are guilty.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-pn-va-undercover-video-20121024,0,2265110.story
Methinks if Dano had any inkling his daughter would vote anything but straight democrat he would not have pursued this so vigorously.
Yeah, those Repubs are soooo concerned about voter fraud.
Voter fraud
Patrick Moran video thread?
It’s been some time ago Dan, but a U.S. Senate race in Indiana was so close that it was decided by less than one vote per precinct. In other words, if one voter in each precinct across the state had changed his/her vote, a different person would have been elected to the U.S. Senate. Every vote is important.
Here is something I have noticed. It applies to people and organizations alike. Oftentimes, when someone (or an organization) accuses a rival of some transgression, the accuser is the one guilty of that very transgression. This principle seems to be in play here. The GOP goes on (and on) about voter fraud, while its operatives are actively involved in it. I am sure psychologists have a name for this phenomenon.
Just in case you think this is only happening in Virginia. Read below.
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/24/14677602-feds-investigate-phony-letters-warning-florida-voters-theyre-not-eligible-to-vote?lite
You think wrong again, Bob H. I was urging her to make sure she votes because it matters a lot in Virginia this year. I haven’t urged my daughter in California to vote.
I urge you to vote, too, BobH.
I have never needed urging from my parents to vote. Nor have I ever gotten involved with whether my children vote or not. Lat time I checked, 18 is old rnough to serve in the military, old enough to enter into contracts, old enough to marry without parental consent, and old enough to take repsonsibility for voting without parental interference.
We lost mom last year but she always took exception to the fact that one of my first votes was for Henry Howell, which cancelled out her vote. I got wiser over the years and democrats became more transparent.
I will cancel your vote for Obama with great satisfaction at doing so Dano.
Bob H
What makes you think Dan is going to vote for obama? Kidding, just kidding…
October surprise?
Wow, A sitting Virginia democrat congressman’s son advising how to cheat!! Busted!!! But we don’t need strict voter laws or enforcement of them..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gT77qP2Nai8#!
12 Maloof,
Dan isn’t interested in talking about the Moran voter fraud tape. That involves a Democrat.
Have you seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT77qP2Nai8
#13 Show us where fraud has occurred.
A conversation, even a stupid one, is not “voter fraud”. I think “entrapment” is the more likely “crime” here, if any. O’Keefe is truly scum. Moran, is an idiot, but that does not make him a criminal.
hey you libs,
how ’bout that moron family up in V. VA.? oh, moran family. ooops. Yeah, that family of high-up lying dems…daddy a long-time US congressman from Alexandria…brother the sitting democrat party chairman of Virginia (and got his butt handed to him by Cooch…thank goodness!)…and the one who got “got”, the baby…, patrick…conspiring to defraud, well just about everyone, anywhere in Virginia.
I’m SERIOUS! You can’t make THIS stuff up!