#1- American Crossroads- the superpac founded by Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie

There is much evidence.

bag of discarded votes as evidence to find out where it came from, and
make a court case out of it. Some people belong in jail. The Repubs.
will keep on throwing away or destroying votes as long as they know they
can get away with it. But when some of them begin to serve jail sentences,
it will be a different story.

traitors

drives a car....hopefully a black Toyota Camry.

This is absolutely one of the most F'd up things I've heard yet.

Props to the person who was curious enough to dumpster dive, retrieve the forms AND alert about it. He didn't have to do it and a good citizen for doing what he did .

Damn these people to hell.

it doesn't seem like they were but you'd think something could be done to get those people's registrations in.

This is not those people's faults and they shouldn't have to be denied their vote!

Culprit should have to serve time in prison... Several years.

This should be a felony.

Not certain what degree, but it carries a fine and jail, maybe six months? Any attorneys out there?

with an election official. Ugh! But for fingerprints etc I imagine they'll hold onto them.

until AFTER the election. Anyone who's registration form is in that batch will not be able to vote on election day because their information will not be on the voter rolls. So, the GOP gets their way after all.

From the above-linked NBC29 story:

But will they be allowed to vote for anyone? The registrar went to the state to ask, and came back with good news.

Geib said, "The guidance I received from them was, yes, that they did meet the deadline. They were delivered to our office, and so they are going to be able to vote in the November election."

That's Nathan Sproul's group that was engaging in registration fraud in Florida. And the story also says it shares a nearby office with both Rove's American Crossroads and Virginia state senator Jill Holtzman Vogel. According to Sourcewatch, she's got an interesting resume:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jill_Holtzman_Vogel

According to her firm profile, Vogel "specializes in ethics, campaign finance and tax exempt organizations. In addition to managing the firm, in February 2004, she was named Chief Counsel of the Republican National Committee. As counsel, she led the national party’s legal effort during the 2004 Presidential election. Prior to founding the practice, she served as Deputy Counsel at the Department of Energy, overseeing the transition and working with the White House, Energy Secretary Abraham, and other Federal Agencies to implement Energy initiatives. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Counsel at the Republican National Committee. During November and December of 2000, she served as counsel in the Florida Presidential Recount, acting on behalf of the Bush-Cheney campaign in West Palm Beach and in Osceola County.

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Vogel's name shows up at a DU thread from 2004 about the georgewbush.com emails:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1165947

Vogel and her husband were also closely associated with the American Center for Voting Rights -- a group formed in 2005 by people close to the RNC and Karl Rove to push the fake claims of "voter fraud." According to something that apparently first appeared as a comment at Talking Points Memo but is now only online at the link below:

http://www.tooconservative.com/?p=1865

In the ACVR 2005 990, the DC consulting firm of Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti is listed as the executive director. Alex Vogel, GOP operative, almost certainly serves as the ACVR’s actual executive director. . . .

The ACVR paid more than $70k to Holtzman Vogel in 2005.

Holtzman Vogel and the RNC are so closely linked that HV operates on the RNC internet server.

The Vogels may have brought Robin DeJarnette, Thomas M. Lawson and Whitson Robinson into the ACVR. DeJarentte and Robinson both endorsed Jill Holtzman’s candidacy.

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And in 2010, she and her husband and another ACVR veteran were linked to the American Future Fund and its dirty tricks operations.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/shadowy_gop-linked_group_plans_barrage_of_2010_rob.php

So if the Vogel campaign is involved in this latest stunt, it doesn't just look like a local one-off bit of election skullduggery. It has multiple links to a pattern of top-level election fraud going back to at least 2004. And that could be very interesting.

(I know some are called something different) should suspend the organization from doing business in each individual state and look into whether an investigation needs to be launched. The DOJ should be scaring the shit of out them to make them squeal like pigs.

I hadn't realized until I checked last night that the Vogels were the people actually running the American Center for Voting Rights in 2005 -- because the two names that were most visible at the time were those of Jim Dyke and Thor Hearne.

Dyke was a protege of Ed Gillespie who had worked for him since 1999. He was RNC communications director during the 2004 election when Gillespie was RNC chairman and was responsible for such things as sending out astroturfed letters to the editor. He also worked closely with the deputy communications director, Tim Griffin, of US Attorney scandal fame -- and it was Griffin who sent out the infamous "caging" email that summer.

Hearne was a Republican National Lawyers Association type who'd first gained notice for making claims that ACORN was carrying out voter fraud in Missouri in 2000 and then became national counsel to the Bush campaign in 2004. He was also best buddies with Todd Akin, who promoted those same Missouri voter fraud claims.

Just before Election Day in 2004, Dyke, Gillespie, and Hearne were all making claims of voter registration irregularities in Ohio. Immediately after the election, in December 2004, Dyke left his official RNC position to form ACVR, with Hearne as counsel, as part of that same propaganda effort.

That was seen as a strange career move for Dyke even at the time, and there are indications that it was part of an operation masterminded by Gillespie and/or Rove that also involved pressuring the US Attorneys to turn up cases of voter fraud.

I find something in my notes that appeared in the Washington Post in 2004:

Because Bush lost the popular vote in 2000, his advisers launched an effort to register millions of new GOP voters, calculating that, by raising the overall GOP percentage a point or two, they could go a long way toward ensuring the president's reelection. The Bush team concentrated efforts in heavily Republican precincts, particularly in fast-growing exurban counties, and last month, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie announced that the party had achieved its goal of 3 million new registrants.

The GOP efforts, however, produced a counter-effort among Democrats, fueled by strong anti-Bush sentiment. Democrats, aided by independent but allied groups such as America Coming Together and ACORN, mounted registration drives in cities, aimed at minority voters.

They knocked off ACORN claiming it was committing fraud and then turned around and did the same thing.

After all, we gave the world Eric Cantor and Bob McDonnell and Ken Cuccinelli and George Allen.

Yep. We be fuckin' idiots down here. No doubt about it.

It happened in FL and those other battleground states with the shady Republican-linked voting registration firm. Now this. Lets be vigilant.

We'll keep tabs on it and keep DU posted.

Thank you for posting this, I didn't have time to do so myself yesterday.