Who will probably never get to vote again. Thank goodness.

when he gets out of prison. Pennsylvania does restore voting rights to ex-felons after they've done their time.

Denying felons the right to vote is voter suppression. Thank god they don't do that here in California, where the jails and prisons are chock full of brown people.

my son who just turned 18 registered @ a table set up in Akron and
when he went on line to see if he was registered he was not ..... but
he was still able to register @ a local Obama office on the last day
to sign up.

Same thing happening in other battleground states.. GOP voter fraud is rampant!

Cummings, ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, took the lead in the probe even as scandal engulfed the Republican Party of Florida, caught red-handed in voter registration fraud by its hired agent, Strategic Allied Consulting (SAC). The Florida GOP hastily terminated its contract with SAC.

The Republicans hired SAC to register voters not only in Florida but also in other battleground states including Nevada, North Carolina, Colorado, and Virginia. The SAC scandal recalls the stealing of the 2000 election in Florida when the Republican-right-dominated U.S. Supreme Court halted the vote count and handed the White House to George W. Bush even though he had lost the popular vote to Democrat Al Gore.

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee is Rep. Darrell E. Issa, R-Calif., a loud-mouth GOP hatchetman ever ready to attack organized labor and any other progressive organization that seeks to defend working people. Yet Issa has remained silent on this strong evidence of Republican voter fraud.

http://www.peoplesworld.org/lawmaker-probes-florida-republican-voter-fraud/

Man Tied To Va. GOP Arrested In Voter Form Destruction
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/colin_small_virginia_gop_voter_registration_fraud.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

So blatant and outright below-the-level...

and I don't recall where it was, but witnesses said that someone was there throwing away bags upon bags of ballots into a land fill.
I don't recall if anyone went to prison over it, but I sure hope that, Republicans who do this, get the full extent of the law down on their necks.

disenfranchising voters, election fraud, voter intimidation; you'd think this could happen in one of those banana republics. you know, those countries that we help elect their corporate stooge, or if the people elect the leader that benefits them, then it was cheating, they are communists. and any neocon who talks about spreading democracy, I just got to laugh, more like spreading bullshite.

because these cretins don't want a democracy, they want a corporate plutocracy where they get what they want at the expense of the people and country-as long as they make profit. they'll do anything, I mean anything to win. and if it's not stopped, how morally bankrupt and corrupt can we go?

I think it was in Florida.

There is also the story of the Florida State Trooper who was delivering the ballots from three counties. He was several hours late and no one could reach him on a cell phone or the dispatch radio. It held up the election results and I believe it was a factor in the weird reversal of the call for Gore's victory. There was no follow up on that story that I remember. There was also the paper sack filled with Democratic voter's ballots behind a filing cabinet in one of the polling places.

The saddest part of these events is that those votes never get counted. You can send a guy to prison but in the meantime they've managed to send the wrong guy to Washington.

Just in case.

Sprouling, new verb
The transitive verb "to sproul" refers to obtaining and then destroying the voter registrations of political opponents. The neologism is also used as a general term for any illegal action to suppress opposition voter registration.



Conservative operative’s sketchy past
This isn't the first time Nathan Sproul's efforts have come under scrutiny.
By Jillian Rayfield - http://www.salon.com/2012/10/01/a_history_of_the_gops_favorite_voter_registration_professional/

Brad Friedman from Brad Blog has been reporting, Sproul and his firms have been consistently hired as consultants to Republicans despite their legal — and ethical — troubles. Here’s a brief history:

June 2004: Lincoln Strategies, a group headed by Nathan Sproul, attempted to siphon votes away from John Kerry by pushing to get Ralph Nader on the ballot, while also under the employ of the national Republican Party.

October 2004: In Nevada and Oregon, former employees of the group Voters Outreach of America allege that they saw the company’s staff members shredding registration forms from Democrats. VOA, another Sproul-run group, was paid $500,000 by the Republican National Committee for voter outreach. In Nevada, one former employee said in a lawsuit that he was told to ask prospective voters, “Who would you vote for in the next election?” and then to only register those who said they would vote for Bush. The employee added that he believes his pay was also docked because he registered members of both parties. In Minnesota in the same year, VOA was accused of firing employees who brought back Democratic voter registration forms. Other employees in West Virginia and Pennsylvania made similar allegations.

October 2008: Despite the earlier concerns, Sam Stein of the Huffington Post reported that “a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy in June for purposes of ‘registering voters.’” In addition, Stein reported, the RNC paid Sproul’s firm $37,000 that election cycle. ................

UPDATE: Sources close to the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office are telling me that Strategic Allied Consulting is involved in this. This is the same group that was in the national news two weeks ago for their "registration" drive in Florida that had forms with made up voters.

Are there phone #'s we should be calling?

Like local media/papers/TV?
National media? MSNBC/CNN?
The county sheriff's office, so that they know the outside world has an eye on this?
The local and state Democratic Party?

Slimy republicans!!!

Anyone surprised?

person. Is that too much ask especially since we anticipate some sort of arc bending toward justice.

Wonder if these trashed forms belong to voters who are all young and or minority.

but a felony in VA nonetheless...

sP

and was sent to prison for some time - Thomas W. Druce.
I wonder what he's up to these days??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_W._Druce

So when do these people get cuffs snapped on them, and get thrown into jail?

You know, pictures of the registration forms and the car.

That would really help.

These fkers should get a nice long vacation. In the Big House.

Eight pieces of paper and they put them whole and intact in a dumpster in broad daylight? Good grief, getting rid of eight pieces of paper is something I used to do all the time as a kid when I had to bring homework home! It's literally child's play.

Too dumb. Hope they throw whatever book they've got at 'em.

keep this kicked front and center. These people will do ANYTHING to win: lie, cheat, steal, destroy... so they need to be exposed for the vermin they are.

But I imagine this joker had disposed of a lot more elsewhere... And he'll never tell on the GOP gangsters he's running with.

And all of those people will NOT be registered to vote as it was the last day and their forms were likely held in evidence. This has been going on nationally, they have been pretty blatant about it.

Fascists don't have any patience. They have to steal the election as fast as they can.

Lazy MFer's know what to do.

repug voter fraud in the police academy.

Why else would you throw it in someone else's dumpster?

Fortunately they're too cheap or too stupid to use a shredder.

are we gonna see a real crackdown on transgressions like this??? We need a FEDERAL standard to impose and enforce UNIFORM voting practices across this nation! The rag-tag approach of states making their own rules is NOT FAIR to voters OR candidates.

Which means we'll just see more of it next time.

Why the hell can Republicans flagrantly break the law and suffer no consequences?

spread around the internet while you sit in jail 'getting away scott free' is a phrase that simply does not apply. Several felony charges.

But it remains to be seen if justice will prevail.
Perhaps it will. We'll see.

JUSTICE!!!!!!

Jail.

One party is increasingly misguided but plays largely by the rules - the other has gone scumbag and will do anything, legal or not, to win, and in their warped mind God is cheering them on.

This has been going on for some time. Not only votes and registrations tossed, but how about the rush to non verifiable computer/voting machine voting....machines run my republican controlled companies. Most democrats couldn't check off on this soon enough. They may as well have worn a kick me sign on their back. Since then what do you know, all kind of startling upset wins by republicans.

Now one of the lead republicans on the House Science committees thinks "The Flintstones" was reality. The fact the people actually vote people like him in amazes me.

2012 and it's all getting weirder and in a dark way, not good. Wake Up America!

Main reason for Al Gore losing and Bush stealing the election...

than these eastern states that generally put us down. (No comments about gun violence please!!) Anyhoo, when we registered voters as a campaign, we were given a certain amount of forms and they were numbered. If we did not return all the forms, they would not count any of the forms. Why can't other states institute this simple safeguard???

State-by-state, sure. But jesus, how much is it going ot take before people finally get fed up and treat these cretins as the treasonous organizations that they are?

And such a promising Hitler Youth Group Bio too......Hopefully, he'll tell the Feds who his handler(s) was. Forensic tracing of phone records and emails should help there. I'll bet this does track all the way back to KKKarl rove et al. This is probably going on in many other states as well. Definitely in Ohio and Florida. Colin Small thought B-I-G, and ended up just on the small end of the stick...so to speak....

If what he has on his linkedin profile is true he isn't simply a State Republican operative tossing voter registration forms. He is an RNC operative.

"
Grassroots Field Director
Republican National Committee

Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Political Organization industry

August 2012 – Present (3 months) Virginia

Manage a team of 15-20 grassroots canvassers, conducting voter registration drives, staffing political rallies, organizing Get Out the Vote Efforts. "

What am I missing here? It says he is presently working for the RNC. That seems like a much bigger story to me than a local guy tossing votes. That sounds like the RNC's "Grassroots Field Directory" tossing votes. Help me out here. What am I missing or how am I misinterpreting this?

And am still reeling from what this means. I predict it tracks ALL the way back to KKKarl rove. It is very likely that this twerp will not roll over and tell who was directing him. He will be well taken care of by KKKarl rove. Hopefully, he'll end up getting a long sentence, and get some "prison love and prison justice." Still, we know how these things go. They stay out on appeal until everyone forgets about it, and then somehow slip away from the long arm of the law. Tom Delay is STILL out on appeal, and has not spent a New York Minute behind bars as yet. What galled me is that he claims to be an Eagle Scout. I am as well. We didn't learn what he did going through Scouts. I am reminded of Paul Simon's Song whenever I run into the shock of how things REALLY are with the hypocrites of the World:

And so you see I have come to doubt
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you

--From "Kathys Song" by Paul Simon

Boy, I'd be mighty mad if I ever discovered that Mr. Colin Small had fucked with my voting rights.

So many people have died to preserve that right that it would be a sin to allow anyone to interfere with it.

Watch your back, Mr. Small, watch your back.

That was for illegally giving money to friends and relatives in 2004 to circumvent the legal personal contribution limit for presidential candidates (it was for Bush in Ohio, surprise).

I hope this guy does 3 years PER voter registration. Maybe THAT will send a signal to Republicans (it's always Republicans, isn't it?) that this will no longer be tolerated, and is not considered a minor prank.

vote. This fucking puke should get life in prison!

Were they indeed destroyed? Or was that prevented? How will those people who stand to be disenfranchised be protected? Anyone have any idea about that end of this crime?

Where was Fox news at on this? Where was right wing nut job talk radio on this? Where in the hell was any media on this? This story should have been viral. The fact is that anytime anything happens that shows what low down, dirty, thieving, rotten scoundrels that republicans truly are it is buried. They practice shoot, shovel and shut up. The story is usually just a blip on the radar screen and then is "old news". Now if a democrat does something or if there is a slight rumor of a scandal - oh boy!! now we got some news that the media and Fox can chew on and regurgitate and chew on some more. We need to restore the fairness doctrine that Ronald Reagan did away with and we need to keep exposing these republicans for lying hypocrites that they are.