GOP projections of voter fraud prove right

[peter grimes]

http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/d...ught-destroying-voter-registration-forms.html

"I just saw a guy throw a bag of trash in my cardboard dumpster and speed off. I went to get the bag and throw it in the trash dumpster. In the bag was a folder containing FILLED OUT VIRGINIA VOTER REGISTRATION FORMS!!

The car that drove up was a black Toyota Camry with Pennsylvania license plates. Who would be in the Valley from Pennsylvania and have a bunch of completed voter registration forms that they wanted to destroy?

the state GOP "Victory Office" was just a couple blocks away. Yesterday afternoon, guess what car was parked in front of the office?

Yep, a black Toyota Camry from Pennsylvania.
Police are investigating and the local media has begun reporting on this story. The Sheriff (a Republican) has said the person who destroyed the forms was a different person than who collected them. NBC29 also reports that the Sheriff will decide if this is a criminal case today.

C'mon, people - I'm sure the Democrats are doing the same thing, right? I mean, both parties are awful, so we should be seeing the same sort of behavior from both.

Anyone?

Or is this yet another case of Republicans allegedly engaging in far worse voter fraud than anyone else?

 

[Murky]

I've heard more accounts of Republicans doing things like knocking down Democrat campaign signs and vandalizing cars with Obama bumper stickers on them.

 

[Leonel]

I've heard more accounts of Republicans doing things like knocking down Democrat campaign signs and vandalizing cars with Obama bumper stickers on them.

Democrat infiltrators and trouble makers!

 

[Formaldehyde]

Some prominent Republicans are getting a taste of their own medicine. And they don't like it one bit:

Bogus letters target Florida Republican voters

TALLAHASSEE —The Florida Division of Elections and state law enforcement officials are investigating reports from at least 24 counties — including Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas — that eligible voters have received bogus letters saying they have been flagged as suspected noncitizen voters.

The letters are written to make it look like they came from the recipient's local supervisor of elections office. The envelopes carry a similar notation. But they are not official letters and supervisors are alerting residents of the hoax.

Seemingly aimed at politically active Republicans, it's the latest case involving voter fraud to emerge in Florida and it comes less than two weeks before the Nov. 6 election.

"It makes me angry," said Jeff Guerra, a 43-year-old sales representative from New Port Richey who received a letter Tuesday. "I want this to be an honest election. Something like this is obviously a scam, I'm really taken aback."

"We don't know the intention of the letters," Cate said. "They certainly have the possibility of intimidating voters. … We're going to make sure the people who did this are brought to justice."

"I've never seen anybody go this far in trying to fake something from this office," said Linda Tanko, a senior elections supervisor in Orange County. "It's mean-spirited and it's causing confusion at a critical point in the election."

The recipients are similar — most are Republican, vote frequently and contribute to campaigns. Jacksonville City Council President Bill Bishop and former U.S. Ambassador John Rood each got one.

Bogus letter

Bogus envelope

Since everybody knows how easily intimidated such prominent Republicans actually are, this could have a major impact on the upcoming election if even one of them doesn't vote as a result.

 

[JollyRoger]

The most effective way to keep Republicans from voting is to tell them there is a tax to vote.

 

[DinoDoc]

Some prominent Republicans are getting a taste of their own medicine, and they don't like it one bit:

I'm confused. Do you consider this tactic acceptable or not?

 

[kochman]

I've heard more accounts of Republicans doing things like knocking down Democrat campaign signs and vandalizing cars with Obama bumper stickers on them.

That's because MSNBC doesn't report when Dems do it.

http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/d...ught-destroying-voter-registration-forms.html

C'mon, people - I'm sure the Democrats are doing the same thing, right? I mean, both parties are awful, so we should be seeing the same sort of behavior from both.

Anyone?

Or is this yet another case of Republicans allegedly engaging in far worse voter fraud than anyone else?

Well said my friend.

 

[Formaldehyde]

You might be a prominent Republican if you are so offended by an obvious practical joke that you contact the authorities and the press to launch a costly full and complete investigation.

 

[Leonel]

I'm confused. Do you consider this tactic acceptable or not?

I agree, it's completely not acceptable for any side although I do enjoy seeing the GOP do exactly what they're preaching against AGAIN

 

[DinoDoc]

You might be a prominent Republican if you are so offended by an obvious practical joke that you contact the authorities and the press to launch a costly full and complete investigation.

Is I did it for the Lulz a recognized defense to criminal activity now?

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

Can't people get a ID already......

 

[JollyRoger]

Can't people get a ID already......

Are you huggung the criminals in the OP?

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

Nope. It's called:

Get a ID

I have one, why don't you?

 

[JollyRoger]

Nope. It's called:

Get a ID

I have one, why don't you?

I have several, but I don't need them to vote.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Is I did it for the Lulz a recognized defense to criminal activity now?

So your premise is that these prominent Republicans were actually "intimidated" by this?

And I am hardly "defending" this activity, even though I do think it is hilarious.

What is your opinion of the actual similar intimidation being perpetrated by the Republican Party in many states? What is your "defense" for that?

 

[kochman]

Must you constantly use quotation marks for effect?

 

[bhsup]

Regarding that florida thing, I am half way with Forma on this one. Yes, it should be investigated, but to suggest that it is in any way "intidimating" is just ridiculous. And if that does intimidate anyone, they they are intimidated waaaaaaaay too easily. For one thing, just contact your election commission and verify your status. Or, get cool and hip like Missouri and get online to confirm your eligibility to vote right from the internet.

Also, the letter came from Seattle, WA per the envelope linked. That's kind of a tip off...

EDIT: Also with forma on quotation mark usage for

 

[peter grimes]

Nope. It's called:

Get a ID

I have one, why don't you?

I'm actually OK with the idea of voter ID in principle.

However, why is it that we only see voter ID laws being proposed just before elections? If the goal is to make our electoral process more secure then logically we should see proposals to tweak the system in the months after an election - when the results are in, the lessons learned, and solutions proposed for going forward.

But no. We only see proposals offered in the months leading up to elections - proposals that nearly universally result in fewer people voting, rather than more people voting - no matter their eligibility.

How on earth is that fair or democratic? If you truly believe that everyone who is eligible to vote should do so, then you should be on the side of expansions in the voter rolls, not reductions.

Voter ID laws proposed to go into effect months before an election have the opposite effect.

Or is that really what you want...?

 

[Murky]

That's because MSNBC doesn't report when Dems do it.


Well said my friend.

I seldom watch MSNBC. I might have seen it on a local Fox News channel.

 

[kochman]

Here's an inconvenient video for those on the left that deny the left engages in voter fraud...

Link to video.