Voter Fraud under investigation in Oregon - aimed (you guessed it) against democrats.

This is just getting rediculous. First a voter outreach group tied to the republican national comittee is tearing up democrat's registrations in Las Vagas, now this.

They are also investigating similar claims in West Virginia, where that same group has been active. (more on that here: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/9915462.htm?1c)


http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/9912044.htm?1c

Oregon Opens Probe of Voter Fraud Charges


[size=-1]JULIA SILVERMAN[/size]

[size=-1]Associated Press[/size]


PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon officials have opened an investigation into alleged improper voter registration practices, Secretary of State Bill Bradbury said Wednesday.

The investigation follows a television report in which a paid-per-registration canvasser said he had been instructed only to accept registrations from Republicans, and that he "might" destroy those from Democrats.

It was not immediately clear what group employed the canvasser.

Bradbury said the investigation would be based not only on the KGW-TV report, but also on other complaints that have not yet been made public.

In Roseburg, Douglas County Clerk Barbara Nielsen said she had received a complaint from voters who said canvassers working for a Chandler, Ariz.-based consulting firm, Sproul & Associates, tried to push them into registering as Republicans, saying otherwise the canvassers wouldn't get paid for their efforts.

Additionally, Nielsen said she had gotten calls from voters who said canvassers from the same group had implied that their cards wouldn't be turned in if they registered as Democrats.

Sproul & Associates is run by Nathan Sproul, a former head of the Republican Party in Arizona who has subcontracted with the Republican National Committee to do voter outreach.

Reached in Arizona, Sproul told The Associated Press that "we registered anyone who wanted to register."

A spokesman for the Republican National Committee said the party has "a zero-tolerance policy for anything that smacks of impropriety in registering voters."

Similar voting fraud allegations surfaced against Sproul & Associates in Nevada, where authorities said Wednesday that they were "looking into whether any state or federal laws were violated."

In Nevada, a former employee of a Sproul & Associates group called Voter Outreach of America told reporters Wednesday that he had seen his boss shred eight to 10 Democratic registration forms.

Sproul denied any shredding occurred.

 

Big suprise there.

The neocons will stoop to any level to keep the scam going another four years.

Unfortunately, the links don't work for me, got any others? I want to share this with a more conservative forum I frequent.

 

In the meantime, if you are registering to vote, register undecided so your registration isn't trashed.

 

Hmm...do these work for you?

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1014reporter14.html <--the AP article

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1097755372271960.xml

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&tab=nn&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/9915462.htm <--this is the google link for all news articles related to the story.

Edit: I changed these links so you don't have to register to look at the articles. Let me know if they work or don't

 

The first one does, the second one wants me to register.

 

Absolutely! And if you registered in a swing state, you may want to call and make sure that you are truely registered.