Published on October 15, 2004 By Jamie Burnside In Politics

I was just listening to a broadcast of a Canadian Broadcasting Company feature on a voter-registration group called "America Votes."

America Votes is a group (supported by Democratic-party aligned folks) who supports -non corrupt- voter registration drives.

Now here is where it gets interesting...

In certain "swing" states, an entity referring to itself as "America Votes" (albeit falsely) has been holding registration drives, yet has been discarding registrations of registrants who claim to be "Democrats."

The catch is that this false America Votes is actually an arm of "Sprewell and Associates," which is connected (via funding and other means) to both the Republican National Committee and the Christian Coalition.

Now... I wonder whether this will be covered in the United States.

Secondly, I wonder whether this will be defended as "fair." 

Thirdly, I wonder whether there will be examples of these (or similar) tactics committed by groups associated with the Democratic party.

Lastly, a comment.  A haze of illegitimacy in an election tends to favor the incumbent, does it not?

It seems awfully dirty to me, and the Republican party would certainly find it in their interest to wash their hands of this, if in fact it is actually covered somewhere domestically.


Comments
on Oct 15, 2004
VERY interesting. Not the first Republican dirty trick sadly. I agree with you, the illegitimacy does seem to attempt to favor the incumbent.

I can only hope this story is broken domestically, it's too ridiculous to fly below the radar.
on Oct 15, 2004

I think that it is a "dirty trick" too, so I am (in a way) hoping for a rebuttal.

It would (in a sense) restore some faith in the system.

Please read-into my itallics in the word: "some."

on Oct 15, 2004
I have had phone calls and visits from "Minnesota's young voter project." who fed me a ton of information on statistics and such... I find out last night that is is a democratic thing.... and only then because the girl and I are talking and she starts urging me to "vote for Kerry".

I really think if it is party biased, they should call it the Minnesota's Democratic young voter project."
on Oct 15, 2004
It's a shame that both sides are resorting to such underhanded tactics.
on Oct 16, 2004
both sides
really?
on Oct 16, 2004
There are plenty of articles of Democrats doing the same thing on here.
on Oct 16, 2004
really?


Colorado anyone? [LINK]

- Grimerty Xarian
on Oct 16, 2004
As the article Grim provided points out, those registration workers are registering peoplemultiple times because they get paid per registration. So they are actually stealing money from whatever Democratic group is employing them. Which hurts democrats, but does it influence the election? Probably not. Just because someone was fradulently registered multiple times doesn't mean that person will vote multiple times.

Republicans, on the other hand, are deliberately trying to disenfranchize people who might not vote for them, either by intimidation, deleting them from the registration rolls for false felony charges, or in the case Jamie cites, dirty tricks.

If anyone out there can cite an example of Democrats disenfranchising anyone, I'd like to see it.

on Oct 16, 2004

From http://news.corporate.findlaw.com/prnewswire/20041013/13oct2004135921.html:



Former ACORN Miami-Dade field director Mac Stuart has declared an intent to sue ACORN and has made charges of rampant voter fraud operations. Stuart was employed and specifically tasked by ACORN to generate 103,000 new voter registrations from Dade County. He reports that ACORN threw out Republican registrations while paying for Democratic ones. Stuart also charges that ACORN targeted ex-cons and that he personally set up registration tables outside the Miami police department and Dade County jail. He went on to state, "The voter registration project has been operating illegally since it started."


I really wish people would stop allowing their party affiliation to blind them from the fact that even their own party is corrupt. Integrity and credibility must be bad words these days.

on Oct 16, 2004

Reply #8 By: Iron Rob - 10/16/2004 12:58:20 AM
As the article Grim provided points out, those registration workers are registering peoplemultiple times because they get paid per registration. So they are actually stealing money from whatever Democratic group is employing them. Which hurts democrats, but does it influence the election? Probably not. Just because someone was fradulently registered multiple times doesn't mean that person will vote multiple times.

Republicans, on the other hand, are deliberately trying to disenfranchize people who might not vote for them, either by intimidation, deleting them from the registration rolls for false felony charges, or in the case Jamie cites, dirty tricks.

If anyone out there can cite an example of Democrats disenfranchising anyone, I'd like to see


If this is for real the Dems will be all over it. If there's nothing to it it'll just fade away.
on Oct 16, 2004

As the article Grim provided points out, those registration workers are registering peoplemultiple times because they get paid per registration. So they are actually stealing money from whatever Democratic group is employing them. Which hurts democrats, but does it influence the election? Probably not. Just because someone was fradulently registered multiple times doesn't mean that person will vote multiple times.


By the way, isn't this one reason Kennedy won? Because people who weren't supposed to vote because they were dead or didn't exist did?

on Oct 16, 2004
Nader off the ballot in Florida [LINK]
Democrats Disenfranchise Indians (Native Americans)
Limits on Nader hurt voters
Military Survey 3 to 1

Do I need to keep posting?

Oh well if I do I will post some tomorrow I am going to bed now, good day/night all.

- Grimilitant Xoldier
Liberty-tarian
on Oct 16, 2004
The dead voters are "Dam good democrats"! Come on Jamie and Rob, the dems wrote the book on tricks an deception. A promise for every one. Say what you think your crowd wants to hear. That is why Kerry is a beach shoe. You need to respect a consistent message even if you do not agree with it. Frankly the dems are acting like spoiled teenagers that have been told NO.