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Showing Original Post only (View all)Not just a handful: THOUSANDS of voter registration forms found in VA dumpster. [View all]
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/19/third-instance-of-voter-registration-dumping-found-in-virginia/A third instance of fraudulent voter registration has been uncovered in the important swing state of Virginia, where a Republican consultant has been arrested and thousands of discarded voter registration forms were recovered from a dumpster earlier this week. According to the Not Larry Sabato blog, a law student at James Madison University registered to vote on campus, but found when she tried to verify the change online, found that her form had never been submitted.
On Thursday, Raw Story reported that 31-year-old Colin Small, a Republican operative employed by Pinpoint, a firm contracted by Republican Party of Virginia, was arrested and charged with four counts of destruction of voter registration applications, eight counts of disclosure of voter registration application, and one count of obstruction of justice for throwing active voter registration forms into a dumpster.
Not Larry Sabato blogger Ben Trippett wrote that 2 to 3 weeks ago, a woman, identified only by her first name, Lucy, attempted to update her voter registration at a table on the campus of James Madison University.
She stopped to fill out a voter registration form to change her voting address from her parents house in Fairfax to her dorm address in Harrisonburg so she could vote in person on election day, wrote Trippett. On Wednesday night Lucy went online to check her voter registration status and found out she had not been registered in Harrisonburg- meaning whoever was collecting her form on campus had not turned it in.
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Not just a handful: THOUSANDS of voter registration forms found in VA dumpster. [View all]
pnwmom
Oct 2012
OP
My question too, which I just posted below (wish I'd seen yours first, which is the better one)
We People
Oct 2012
#14
filling out multiple registration forms should be legal so long as the information is the same and
msongs
Oct 2012
#4
not surprised but this is outrageous - calling on DOJ to investigate & O should have emergency
wordpix
Oct 2012
#36
THIS is the SAME firm hired OVER and OVER again by the rethugs to steal the election.
Tigress DEM
Oct 2012
#6
So where are the Breitbart gang and Fox News? Are they even covering this?
SleeplessinSoCal
Oct 2012
#7
But the Dems need to push for such announcements to be made. They can't just sit back
tblue37
Oct 2012
#30
And if this were in a third world country, the US would be demanding UN monitors for the election
GCP
Oct 2012
#20
Article doesn't say, but I'm really hoping the recovered registrations were submitted for processing
Jester Messiah
Oct 2012
#21
Please Sign This Petition: Attorney General Eric Holder: Investigate Tagg Romney owning voting machi
Syntara
Oct 2012
#39
there may be a bit of hyperbole on the blog, but here's a start for your research
NMDemDist2
Oct 2012
#48