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This election year’s ugly and illegal ‘dirty tricks’ could end up ‘backfiring’: experts
Scare-mongering ads, voter registration forms dumped in the trash and misleading statements on the stump: the list of dirty tricks sullying the US presidential election is seemingly endless. With the high-stakes race culminating with voting Tuesday, experts warn that the unfortunately typical attempts to keep a rival’s supporters from the…
Democrats urge Justice Department to probe alleged GOP voter fraud
Three House Democrats on Tuesday called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate alleged voter registration fraud carried out by a firm hired by Republicans. “We are writing today to urge the Department of Justice to conduct a multi-state investigation to determine if a pattern of voting registration irregularities…
Colbert: Dumping voter forms is ‘how the electoral sausage is made’
Stephen Colbert opted not to “bore” viewers Monday with examples of voter fraud, but he did condemn Colin Small, the Republican operative accused of trashing voter registration forms. “You destroyed voter registration forms, but only eight?,” Colbert asked a mugshot of Small. “What’s the matter — was the paper stock…
Virginia AG won’t investigate GOP worker who dumped voter registration forms
The Virginia State Board of Elections announced Friday that it will not ask the state’s attorney general to investigate the Republican operative accused of tossing out eight completed voter registration forms, rejecting Democratic-led efforts at a full investigation into the alleged tampering. State Senator and chairman of the Senate Democratic…
U.S. civil rights groups ask international election monitors for assistance
NAACP and others say voter restrictions and ID laws ahead of 2012 US election require planned observer mission to expand American civil rights groups have appealed to the world’s biggest election monitoring organisation over concerns about controversial changes in voter registration ahead of the November 6 White House poll. The…
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…
GOP contractor arrested for destruction of voter registration applications
The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia announced Thursday that it had arrested the man who allegedly tossed completed voter registration forms in a dumpster. Police on Thursday arrested 31-year-old Colin Small, who was a voter registration supervisor employed by Pinpoint, an independent firm contracted by the Republican Party of…
Voter registration slumps amid lack of enthusiasm for Obama and Romney
The Democratic and Republican parties are struggling to engage new voters in this year’s presidential race, with an apparent deficit of enthusiasm suppressing the number of people who have registered to vote ahead of the 6 November election. A Guardian survey of six of the most crucial swing states upon…
Republicans fire voter registration firm owned by Romney consultant
The Republican National Committee fired a voter registration firm owned by a paid consultant to the party’s presidential candidate Mitt Romney Thursday, after Florida officials traced more than 100 possibly fake registration forms back to the company. NBC News reported that the RNC cut ties with Strategic Allied Consulting (SAC),…
SC lawmaker said ‘Amen’ to supporter’s racist email
The author of South Carolina’s voter ID law admitted Tuesday to a “poorly considered” encouraging response to a supporter’s racist email. According to McClatchy Newspapers, state Rep. Alan Clemmons (R) admitted to writing “Amen … thank you for your support” to an email from a supporter defending the law by…
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