Librarian bares possible voter registration dodge (a Sproul scam)

[donsu]

http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2004/0921/local/stories/02local.htm

Company claiming affiliation with the non-partisan ‘America Votes’ group appears to represent the GOP


A local librarian checking on a company’s request to set up a voter registration booth in the library discovered the company was not affiliated with a non-partisan national group as it claimed.

Sproul & Associates, Inc. of Phoenix, Ariz., phoned and mailed the library in September, saying it had been hired by America Votes.

That came as news to America Votes.

"This organization (Sproul) absolutely has nothing to do with America Votes," said Kevin Looper, the state organizing director for America Votes.

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Libraries in Oregon and other states have been contacted by Sproul. Looper said attorneys at America Votes’ Washington, D.C. headquarters have taken over.

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read the rest of the article for the particulars of the scam

alert your library

[skooooo]

1. kick

:kick:

[Logansquare]

2. Hey republicans--librarians, unlike reporters, actually do research!

Don't lie to them.

[tanyev]

3. Another excerpt:

Sproul said Monday the name selection was an honest mistake.

"You telling me that they even exist was really the first time I’d heard it," said Sproul. He said his company, hired by a number of clients to register voters, came up with what he believed was a generic name.


I call bullshit! Anybody else?