Campaign 2004: Voter registration workers cry foul(PA...Sproul..voter reg)

[RedEarth]

An ostensibly nonpartisan voter registration drive in Western Pennsylvania has triggered accusations that workers were cheated out of wages and given instructions to avoid adding anyone to the voter rolls who might support the Democratic presidential nominee.

Sproul & Associates, a consulting firm based in Chandler, Ariz., hired to conduct the drive by the Republican National Committee, employed several hundred canvassers throughout the state to register new voters. Some workers yesterday said they were told to avoid registering Democrats or anyone who indicated support for Democratic nominee John F. Kerry.

"We were told that if they wanted to register Democrat, there was no way we were to register them to vote," said Michele Tharp, of Meadville, who said she was sent out to canvass door-to-door and outside businesses in Meadville, Crawford County. "We were only to register Republicans."

Tharp said volunteers were sent door-to-door to seek registrants but were instructed to first ask prospective new voters which candidate they planned to support.

"If they said Kerry, we were just supposed to say thank you and walk away," Tharp said.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04294/398767.stm

[aquart]

1. This needs to be a federal crime.

I need to see Sproul in Marian.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. I do not want to hear one single, solitary, word

from the Republican Party about Democrats and organizations like GOTV, MoveOn, etc. Not one word!!!

These assholes in the RNC will stop at nothing. Dirty, underhanded, scumsucking bottom feeders need to be thrown in jail. :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Moderator]

3. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=918348


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