California investigates voter fraud

[Judi Lynn]

California investigates voter fraud
Apr 9, 2006, 3:43 GMT

LOS ANGELES, CA, United States (UPI) -- Elections officials found thousands of flawed registration forms submitted by private firms hired by the Republican Party in Southern California.

Orange and San Bernardino county officials have received complaints from residents who said they had been improperly registered as Republicans, The Los Angles Times reported.

The state Republican voter registration program paid private contractors $3 for each new registration submitted. It was credited with adding 750,000 Republican registrations to state voter rolls in the last three years.

 State Democrats run a similar program, but said they pay only volunteers affiliated with party clubs or committees.
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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/article_1153745.php/California_investigates_voter_fraud

[EFerrari]

1. That's not "voter fraud". That's Thug voter REGISTRATION FRAUD.

They just LOVE having it both ways, don't they.

[Cobalt Violet]

2. They can't win, so they have to steal.

And they want California bad.

[xchrom]

3. let's look at this one more time...

''Elections officials found thousands of flawed registration forms submitted by private firms hired by the Republican Party in Southern California.''

'' hired by the Republican Party...''

''hired by the Republican Party...''

''hired by the Republican Party...''

[Igel]

4. It's the same problem ACORN had in 2004, for the

dems. They passed the problem off on the personal quirks and foibles of the people they hired. The MSM acknowledged the problem, the reasons given, and the issue mostly died as a PR problem. Except among die-hard RW partisans.

The only people that actually profit from mis-registering voters are the people getting paid to do the registering. There might be a small partisan advantage, but all it means is that the voters can't vote in their party's primaries without reregistering. (But wait ... in this case, isn't California an open primary state? ...)

There may be a small PR bump from being able to say "We registered 2 trillion new voters as republicans" (or democrats), but I'm not sure how much anybody pays attention to such drivel--it may serve to get out the opposing party's vote as much as to energize the party's base, or make them lethargic; but the downside is the reports when those misregistered voters actually vote in the elections: "Of those 2 trillion new voters, apparently 98% voted democrat" (or republican).

Bounties for registration should be banned, if such a ban would be Constitutional; they just corrupt the process. Then again, the party-based registration system also produces the occasional glitch.

[goforit]

5. This will be the biggest travesty for us all.