Hope these people see time in prison.

people at the voting places, either early or Election Day. They will have accept anyone who shows up. There is no way the lawyers are going to let this lie.

Your solution sounds like the only one. If they don't it will be a royal mess as well as a monumental injustice.

We don't need timidity here in the face of voter intimidation, dumping Dem registrations and outright crimes

one is not applying for multiple/exclusionary jurisdictions or attempting to vote more than once. it should be PRESUMED that on street type voter registrations may be lost, stolen, or dumped, and the person registering should not be penalized when that happens.

last paragraph

According to the Los Angeles Times, Small, the arrested operative, was “working as a supervisor as part of a registration operation in eight swing states financed by the Republican National Committee,” run by a company called Strategic Allied Consulting. When questions arose about Strategic’s practices, including allegations of “submitting forged forms and of dumping Democratic registrations,” the RNC fired the company, at which point Small and his team were re-hired by the Republican Party of Virginia.
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1qvXQ)

It definately looks like they were hired to engage in criminal activities.

legislation allowing anyone to vote in VA if they can show residency.

I know those are silly questions. Of course they aren't. But it shows how much more vote theft there is on the part of Republicans than voter fraud on the part of Democrats. Thousands compared to dozens.

they Always are!

They will never cover actual news.

first time..why only a handul were tossed? What would be the point?

I HOPE this can get resolved in time for those whose registrations got Trashed to be ABLE to VOTE!

as he was in the Bush/Kerry Ohio mess. I just want to know when his ass is gonna occupy a jail cell!

But you know he's got plenty of distance from himself and the incidents.
He's like the criminal CEOs that destroyed thousands of people' lives to satisfy their own greed and still walk the streets free from any threat of prosecution.

to check their registration to make sure they have not been disenfranchised by these jerks.

In fact, the Democratic Party itself needs to run ads everywhere telling people that if they registered at one of those conveniently set up tables or with someone walking around registering people, they might not actually be registered after all and should check to make sure.

And those ads should include references to every one of the incidents discovered so far, as well as the information that in every case it was a Republican outfit destroying or discarding registrations for those deemed likely to be Democratic voters.

The MSM will not do anything to get that information out, so the Dems need to really spread it around.

On edit: I hope the law enforcement agencies will take these felonies seriously. They could easily flip these low-level lowlifes to turn state's evidence against the masterminds--maybe even all the way up to Rove himself. That is, i]if they actually have any desire to prevent the disenfranchisement of potential Democratic .

Unfortunately, I fear many who are in a position to pursue such investigations and prosecutions are not on the side of the angels in these matters.

Should qualify as a public service announcement on radio stations (especially university stations)
urban stations and TV stations in states that have been targeted by the repukes. Stations are required to provide a number of PSA's per month and will probably be cooperative.

[link:http://canivote.org|

and hope that somehow people will realize that their registration might be bogus.

People who think they have registered and those who think that their registration from past elections is still functional won't be thinking that they need to check whether their registration is valid, unless some organized effort is made by the Dems to spread the word that everyone needs to check their registration--especially new voters, of course, but all voters, really, because of the caging and purging tricks the Republicans are constantly using to drop registered Dem voters from the rolls.

The cutoff date for registration was at least a week ago and Republican lawyers will be able to tie up the issue for weeks or months.

Whatever repercussions come from this, those who are disenfranchised will remain so in this election, of that I am nearly sure.

If it's legal, I recommend instead taking a page out of President Obama's playbook and using the Republicans' own mechanism of corruption against the guilty.

Virginia is a "right to work" state, which really means workers have no rights at all and can be fired at any time. Communities that identify election thieves in their midst may well be able to contact the future employers of those people, and demand their immediate termination, or face reprisals like boycotts and protests. No Virginia business can afford that. If it's legal, I think we can ensure that these chumps never work outside of the GOP in Virginia, ever again.

Interestingly enough, I think there is another shoe to drop in this emerging scandal. Several Republican campaign workers have stopped by my store. You know what they all had in common?

They're all on food stamps. Apparently the GOP doesn't pay their workers a living wage, and has been encouraging their shutzstaffeln to apply for EBT cards instead.

What we are seeing is a slow-motion train wreck of what was once the greatest country in the world. I am sickened at what the right wing is doing to dismantle democracy. I know I've just invoked Godwin's Law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
but there really are parallels to Nazi Germany, and it's frightening to the extreme.
This country is broken, and I don't see the will to fix it from 50% of the population.

That's what's gonna happen, right? I need reassurance.

I have had MSNBC and ABC on this morning and NOTHING has been said about this. How can they get away with this. IT SHOULD
BE ALL OVER THE NEWS. Correct? Or am I not seeing something.

I would never give someone my info outside a supermarket. I would go to the local Dem party or the DMV.

Man... scary stuff.

many people would never take that initiative because they don't know where to go or can't get there. I've registered many people like that outside of grocery stores and on the street. We do have same-day registration in Wisconsin, but at that point proof of residence is required and some people don't have utility bills in their name and so forth. Registering early saves them that hassle and also frees up the time of poll workers on election day.

need to make sure everybody checks there registration status and anybody who was mislead or didn't get there registration sent in they should be allowed to vote... I'm sure this is going on in other states as well....

He's one of the only people in the media I've seen properly address this Republican fraud epidemic.

This part makes it even worse "When questions arose about Strategic’s practices, including allegations of “submitting forged forms and of dumping Democratic registrations,” the RNC fired the company, at which point Small and his team were re-hired by the Republican Party of Virginia"

They knowingly HIRED them after the other issues. And the guy who was caught also worked for the RNC for a while. I saw his pic.. "consultant" yea riiiight, looked like his last job was in fast food. Sort of a consultant, like Doug Kaplan at Gravis.

going to sadly be a joke if something major is not done throughout the Country asap. This is breaking my heart and making my stomach hurt.

I'm wondering how closely aligned Small/Pinpoint is to Rove's group.

throw out people that registered as Democrats. Scum.

These felony actions are in the midst of all their "voter fraud" whining. Oh, and their supposed religious high ground status. I'd call these people pond scum but that's not fair to pond scum.

The democrats are timid about bringing this stuff to light, thinking it will depress turnout. Please sir may I have another. what wimps.

I did hear this crime mentioned on "Up With Chris Hayes" this morning on MSNBC.

I hope someone goes looking for him.

I bet that he doesn't stay around Harrisonburg, though -- I'm sure that the RNC will want to keep him out of the public eye until November 7.

I have been on top of this story on my Facebook page since Monday, but I haven't seen any talk of there being thousands of forms found. What is the source of that? Got a link?

But there is nothing in there about "thousands," which is what the DU headline screams. I don't post about things I can't document, and I'm not going there without some source.

I'm happy to spread truth. If there were "thousands" of registration forms found in dumpsters, then I want the story out. But I can't find anything about that by Googling, except for the one blog story cited here.

Does anyone have credible sourcing for there being more than a handful of forms thrown away? Even a handful is reprehensible, but I'd like to be reporting the truth if I'm going to spread the word.

Then report back if there is an irregularity. I already did this in Fla because of the news about registration fraud and I am ok but if thousands of DU members and friends did the same thing and if we had a central reporting point that would be a way to uncover more evidence and even look for patterns of fraud. Anyone who registered recently at a public event should definitely check online to make sure you are actually registered. We could crowd-source an investigation here. Anyone with the tech skills to set this up? People would need to report when and where they registered if there is not the info they expected to find.