Republicans Fraudulently Re-register Dems in OC, CA

[LiviaOlivia]

Republicans Fraudulently Re-register Dems in OC, CA
by bajadudes
Tue May 23, 2006 at 10:43:11 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/23/134311/606

Just got this a few mins ago:

Can you smell 'disenfranchisement' in the air off of Huntington Beach? Well, I can! Here's the dirt straight from my inbox ---
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This message was sent by your Democracy for America - Orange County organizer, Susan Kopicki.

Dear DFA-OC Member,
Please read the press release below from the Orange County Democratic Party. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of OC Democrats have been fraudulently switched to Republican registration and the Registrar of Voters is avoiding fixing the problem, a problem that could disenfranchise hundreds or thousands of OC Democrats on June 6.

Attend the press conference if possible.
Thanks,
DFA-OC
Melahat Rafiei
Susan Kopicki

Press Release

Victims of Republican Voter Registration fraud must be contacted before the June 6, 2006 Primary election.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Susan Freeze (714)
835-2122

200 N. Main Street Santa Ana CA 92701

SANTA ANA, CA Frank Barbaro, Chair of the Democratic Party of Orange County will conduct a press conference at 8am on Thursday, May 25, 2006 at the Orange County Registrar of Voters 1300 S. Grand Avenue in front of Building C to address the probable disenfranchisement of hundreds and possibly thousands of Orange County voters who were tricked, bullied or fraudulently registered by bounty hunters hired by the Republican Party of Orange County and the Republican Party of California between the months of September, 2005 and February, 2006. "From an estimated 3,500 questionable affidavits, the Orange County Register contacted 134 of them and found that 112 of the134 (83%) were fraudulently switched to Republican between December 2005 and February 2006 without their knowledge. I do not know why the Orange County Registrar of Voters cannot contact these voters and repair the damage", said Frank Barbaro, Chair of the Democratic Party of Orange County. "This is a potential disaster on election day. I am particularly concerned with the 34th Senate, 69th Assembly and 40th Congressional races." "I believe the Orange County Registrar of Voters needs to act immediately to locate and rectify these fraudulent changes. They have known about this for 8 weeks and have done nothing. We are forwarding about 10 complaints a day to the Registrar and Secretary of State that we have found in our registration effort."

[stop the bleeding]

1. well they should be, I can not even imagine how much BS corruption

is hidden away in their offices

[Capn Sunshine]

2. I wonder

if that group of bounty hunters is the same company who threw away all those Dem registrations in Las Vegas.

Hey, whatever happened to those guys? That was a Federal Felony.
:hi: Melahat :loveya:

[ThomCat]

3. It would have been a felony if it benefited Dems.

But because it's the republicans who did it you know this just quietly died and fell down the memory hole.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. I don't imagine that this is a high priority for the registrar there.

The fraud they are claiming is absolutely true.

[xxqqqzme]

5. OC Democrtatic Party has been

on this since January - NOBODY registers 3500 new voters in December! I don't care how good you are or what you are being paid.

Woo-hoo that's my DFA group - BTW.

[windy252]

6. At least the local party is paying attention.

That a bit of a silver lining.

[xxqqqzme]

8. Oh yes, a complaint against the OC rethuglican

party was filed in March w/ the SoS but since mcpherson is a rethug appointment, I expect it 2 go no where before November.

[ArbustoBuster]

7. I honestly think there's only one thing that will stop this kind...

...of corruption. The death penalty for knowingly interfering with a citizen's right to vote. (Or, if you're one of the many people who have quite understandable problems with the death penalty, life in prison without the possibility of parole.) The Republicans don't seem to have any ethics nor even a basic sense of decency and fair play. They only seem to understand personal fear. And a law making it viciously dangerous to take away someone's right to vote might scare them off.

If nothing else, it would clear out a lot of corrupt Republicans at the county and state level before they get to turn into the Karl Roves of the mid-twenty-first century.

Wow, I'm getting really angry lately...

[xxqqqzme]

9. Welcome to the 'really angry' club.

Being used as a doormat by the rethugs and being ignored by party reps & senators will do that 2 you.

[robinlynne]

12. I'm with you.

mandatory sentence of 5 years would do it.
let's get a senator to sponsor it...

[AtomicKitten]

10. So what's new?

This is simply their M.O., a time-honored tradition in the Republican Party of winning at any cost. The Dems must remain ever-vigilant and expose and correct the dirty tricks. And I'm po'd enough to consider pulling some of our own.

[banana republican]

11. My 1959 Civics teacher said

it's Ballots or Bullets....

Looks like the Pukes have made their choice...

[mom cat]

13. Same song, eighteenth verse ... just another form of vore theft.

[mikelgb]

14. Hmm

I am in the 40th congressional district the press release mentioned. I have been a registered dem scince the '04 primaries and have not knowingly re-registered scince so I don't think I am affected. I wonder what makes him particularly worried about this race?

Here are the Current Contenders:

Republican Congressman Edward R. "Ed" Royce (as candidate)
• First elected: 1992
• Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006
• Renominated - 6 June 2006 Primary
• FEC: $1,026,298

Democratic PRIMARY June 6:
Christina Avalos
• FEC finanical report not available
Florice Orea Hoffman
• FEC: $77,846

Libertarian Philip H. Inman
• FEC finanical report not available

[xxqqqzme]

20. If you signed ANY petition between

October and the end of December, 05 - then you more than likely 'signed' a voter registration form. The petitions require your signature, printed name and address. Then the bounty hunters had people sign on a second line 2 'verify' their signature. The 2nd signature was a signature on a voter registration form - the signature line was visible, the rest of the registration form was not. After wards the hunter took the addresses off the petitions made up driver's license numbers, and registered the petition signer as a rethuglican.

A voter registration form is not valid w/o a signature which is why they had people sign in two places...So if YOU signed a petition for pre-K education in October, November or December, 2005, you are most likely registered as a rethuglican.

go here - call - contact:
http://www.oc.ca.gov/ELECTION/

[cascadiance]

15. I wonder if this is related to the newer "voter verification" BS...

... that McPherson puts in that has tons of false failures when folks' driver's license data doesn't match what's in their voter registration data.

This is only now affecting new voters. One might argue that that statistically that might be affecting both parties equally amongst new voters, though perhaps newer voters (especially those that might not have been "warned" ahead of time to ensure that they used their DMV data when registering to vote, like certain Republican groups aware of McPherson's plan might have advised them to do). 26% voters have been thrown out statewide and as many as 43% of newer voters in L.A.

Now, if you suddenly decide to "re-register" existing registered Dems as Republicans, even if you get caught and are forced to cancel these registrations, if they are then forced to "reregister" as Dems again, then they could get caught in this new registeration verification SNAFU moreso than other voters that haven't been "re-registered", therefore causing a greater imbalance of Democratic disenfranchised voters.

In any case I sense a Katherine Harris style voter fraud scheme going on here that could be used to fix some elections down here. Democrats should DEMAND that they shouldn't have to be "re-registered" back as Dems again, forcing them to go through the newer voter registration SNAFUs. The old data of them being registered should be restored without any purging AT ALL!

[catzies]

16. It happened to my daughter in 1998 in Ventura County (north of LA)

She registered as a Dem & when we went to vote she was on the rolls as a Repub & we had to re-register her. It was NOT our mistake -- I'm certain someone switched it but I can't prove it.

Ventura County is red, BTW. "Reagan Country." :puke:

[Capn Sunshine]

19. Not for long, Catzies my dear

Not for Long............

[catzies]

22. Yessir, Capn sir and good to see you! Workin' hard up here, how about you?

:hi:

[Mnemosyne]

17. Here in Pa. you must vote your registered party in the primary. Is

that the case in CA? If so, I foresee major problems on June 6 - all to the benefit of the pukes.

[xxqqqzme]

21. no, California is an open primary - it was voted on a few

years ago. If you are party registered, that is the ballot you are mailed or given @ the polls. If you are 'declined to state', you may request any party ballot you want, but the parties consider it a 'provisional ballot' unless there is a dispute.

[Mnemosyne]

24. Pa. sucks. If you are an Independent, or anything other than

a D or R, no vote in primary unless you have a candidate for your party running. State legislators have no interest in changing this either.

Thanks for the info on CA.

[Le Taz Hot]

18. This has been going on for YEARS here

and our illustrious head of the County Office of Elections does NOTHING, though we've notified them countless times.

[arikara]

23. I'm really confused by your system

Why can't you vote for whoever you want? Why you have to register with a party to vote? What's the point of even having a secret ballot then?

In Canada, we just show up on election day and give our name. We don't get asked for ID. If we aren't registered, it is taken care of right there; although you do need ID if you aren't registered.

I wound up donating to 2 different parties in the course of the election year and they each sent me membership cards. I could have voted for a completely different party if I had wanted. Nobody would dare ask to see a party affiliation at the voting place.