Looks like the same people involved! :evilgrin:
http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/the_convoluted_story_on_voter_registration_fraud.htmlThe Convoluted Story On Voter Registration Fraud
Group Caught In Nevada Might Have Been Working Downtown PortlandBy The One True b!X
(October 12, 2004 at 11:22 PM) --
It's already started to reverberate into the local Portland blogosphere. According to this story out of Las Vegas, an organization conducting voter registration around the country has apparently been caught in Nevada only processing registration forms for people registering as Republicans.
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Problem is, there's another America Votes, and we're told by a source who works with that group that they are not the America Votes referred to by the article out of Las Vegas.
Initially, we assumed this opened up the possibility that the Las Vegas story might have been mistaken that the group engaging in illegal voter registration activities in Nevada was at work here in Oregon -- thinking that perhaps the reporter simply saw that there was an America Votes here in Oregon and that it must be the same people.
However, a report just aired on KGW's late-night newscast makes us rethink that take on it, and that the mysterious Voters Outreach of America might indeed have been active here.
According to KGW's report, they managed to corner a man conducting voter registration in Pioneer Courthouse Square today who was only accepting Republican registrations. In fact, the report said, he sometimes simply tosses Democratic registration cards in the trash. Why? Because he's getting paid $5 for every Republican registration, but nothing for Democratic registrations.
At the end of the KGW report, they stated that the man said he was from what he called the "traveling team" (no idea if that should be capitalized). They then referenced the story out of Las Vegas. Why? Because, they say, the man they cornered told them that his group had just recently been in Las Vegas.
So it seems that this group indeed may have been active here in Oregon after all. One thing that needs to be cleared up right away is whether or note Voters Outreach of America really does business as anything called America Votes. Why? Because, as we said, the America Votes that works here in Oregon is unaffiliated with the organization engaged in voter registration fraud, but the KGW report specifically used the name America Votes and never once referred to Voters Outreach of America.
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