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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
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movonne
(9,623 posts)pscot
(21,024 posts)they've been trying to warn us about. Quelle surprise.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)to prove voter fraud is a problem that needs to be dealt with.
Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)Might as well be.
patrice
(47,992 posts)than the fake sex-offender petitions mentioned in this article, that is, if there were other issues.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Looks like she packed up and moved to California to see how she could help there.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)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). . . 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 . . .