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bigtree

(85,996 posts)
Mon May 7, 2012, 03:28 PM May 2012

Huge Republican Voter Registration Scandal (Momentum Political Services)

SACRAMENTO, CA - Sacramento County elections officials have turned over what they say are several suspicious voter registration cards that were collected by a for-profit company hired by local and state Republicans to state election fraud investigators.

Once they started keeping track, staffers found invalid voter registration cards at much higher rates than previous for-profit registration drives . . . during the month of April, 44 percent of all invalid voter registration cards in the county came from just one company.

The company is Sacramento-based Momentum Political Services, a small operation that hires independent contractors to fan out across the region and register voters. In many cases, those contractors also circulate petitions for ballot initiatives, and often register citizens at the same time they enlist a signature in support of one or more initiatives.

State and federal campaign records show Momentum was paid some $49,000 by the Sacramento County Republican Party to boost GOP registration ranks in key battleground communities.

. . . a number of what election experts refer to as "bad" registration cards - ones that, for one reason or another, are invalid - have also been submitted during the drive. Sacramento County elections officials put the tally of invalid cards submitted by Momentum Political Services at more than 3,100.

In some instances, cards were submitted with street numbers or names that can't be found. In others, the voters themselves don't appear to exist, as formal county registration letters come back undeliverable. Officials said a number of cards were also submitted for individual voters who not only couldn't be located, but who also all had the same last four Social Security digits.

And in some instances, the voter's party affiliation appears to have been changed, by someone, to Republican.

read more: http://www.news10.net/news/article/192033/2/Sacramento-elections-officials-GOP-voter-drive-suspicious


more from BradBlog: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9291

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Huge Republican Voter Registration Scandal (Momentum Political Services) (Original Post) bigtree May 2012 OP
Well that's shocking!!! movonne May 2012 #1
It turns out They are the people pscot May 2012 #2
This is like O'Keefe committing voter fraud Capt. Obvious May 2012 #3
Joementum Political Services? Blue Owl May 2012 #4
It'd be interesting to know what all issue petitions were also being carried, other patrice May 2012 #5
I've been wondering whatever happened to Katherine Harris. lpbk2713 May 2012 #6
kick bigtree May 2012 #7
The petition/registration gatherers don't get paid by the hour, they get paid by the signature. LeftyMom May 2012 #8
I think most of us got that when other registration orgs came under investigation bigtree May 2012 #9

Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
3. This is like O'Keefe committing voter fraud
Mon May 7, 2012, 03:41 PM
May 2012

to prove voter fraud is a problem that needs to be dealt with.

patrice

(47,992 posts)
5. It'd be interesting to know what all issue petitions were also being carried, other
Mon May 7, 2012, 04:10 PM
May 2012

than the fake sex-offender petitions mentioned in this article, that is, if there were other issues.

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
6. I've been wondering whatever happened to Katherine Harris.
Mon May 7, 2012, 04:17 PM
May 2012



Looks like she packed up and moved to California to see how she could help there.





LeftyMom

(49,212 posts)
8. The petition/registration gatherers don't get paid by the hour, they get paid by the signature.
Mon May 7, 2012, 11:03 PM
May 2012

The potential for abuse- whether outright forgery or the more common lying about what a petition is about- is enormous. The pay is very low and the workers tend to be sketchy.

bigtree

(85,996 posts)
9. I think most of us got that when other registration orgs came under investigation
Mon May 7, 2012, 11:05 PM
May 2012

. . . by congressional republicans and others and became a campaign issue.

I'm wondering if there will be as much of a stink over this one. Holding breath . . .

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