Republican Voter Registration Fraud Leads To Voter Suppression

Acorn is accused of submitting duplicate voter registration cards, which does NOT lead to voter fraud or disenfranchisement. Also, even if a non-existent person, like Snow White, is submitted, there is no harm so long as Snow White does not show up to vote. Acorn can't simply toss such registration cards, because the law requires such outfits to turn ALL registration cards in.

Now compare this to what Republicans have done and are doing, which is NOT reported by the MSM with near the same degree of intensity. Here are examples of proven Republican voter registration fraud back in 2004:

NEVEDA:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/14/nevada.registration/

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CNN) -- Nevada election officials have launched an investigation into allegations that a Republican-led voter registration drive improperly disposed of forms it collected from potential Democratic voters.

Secretary of State Dean Heller said Wednesday that his office was reviewing the allegations, first raised Tuesday in a report by CNN affiliate KLAS-TV in Las Vegas.

"We are researching state and federal law to determine what violations may have occurred," Heller said in a statement. "If, in fact, the allegations are true and federal law has been broken, all efforts will be made to prosecute the individuals and/or the organization responsible."

The probe centers around a private voter registration firm, Voter Outreach of America, which collected registrations from voters in Nevada, a pivotal presidential battleground state. The company was set up by Sproul & Associates Inc., a Republican political consulting firm based in Phoenix, Arizona.

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OREGON:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/14/politics/main649380.shtml

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Officials in Oregon have launched a criminal investigation after receiving numerous complaints that a Republican-affiliated group was destroying registration forms filed by Democratic voters statewide, Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury told CBSNews.com.

Meanwhile, CBS affiliate KLAS-TV is reporting accusations of similar malfeasance in Nevada.

Both state's allegations are linked to a Phoenix political consulting firm called Sproul & Associates run by Nathan Sproul, former head of the Arizona Republican Party. Sproul & Associates has received nearly $500,000 from the Republican National Committee this election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

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The Acorn allegations are the opposite, i.e., that Acorn workers are submmitting duplicative and non-existent voters such as Mickey Mouse. However, as noted by several folks, there is no voter fraud unless Mickey Mouse actually shows up and tries to vote.

With the GOP, if you are a Democrat who registered with one of these Republican groups, then show up to vote, you would discover that you were never registered, thus you end up being disenfranchised.

Which one is worse?

it ruins everything. I so wish we had a Justice System.