OCR - "Petitioners conned voters into switching to the GOP" - Where's the National outrage?

[TomCADem]

VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD! PARTY IDENTIFICATION IS FRAUDULENTLY FILLED OUT! Oh wait, this is for Republicans, not Acorn? Oh nevermind.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/-244428--.html

Petitioners prowling parking lots and community college campuses tricked dozens of young Orange County voters into registering to vote as Republicans, an Orange County Register investigation has found.

The con occurred at the end of January and the beginning of February at places like Cypress College and Golden West College, and outside of discount stores like Wal-Mart and Food 4 Less. It appears to be the same kind of voter registration fraud that engulfed Orange County four years ago and landed eight signature gatherers in jail.

Since mid-March, at least 99 written complaints have been submitted to state elections officials by Orange County residents who say they were registered to vote Republican without their consent. The Register found an additional 74 voters who said they were duped or coerced into registering to vote as a Republican by signature gatherers who initially asked them to sign petitions for causes like legalizing marijuana, fighting cancer or cleaning up beaches.

In all, the Register called 348 registered Republicans in central Orange County and reached 90 of them. Of those, only 16 said they wanted to be Republicans. The rest told stories of fast-talking petitioners, some advertising free sunglasses if they signed.

All of the voters identified by the Register are listed as under 28 years old; many said they knew little about politics or voting. A few, when told they were listed on the county voter rolls as a Republican, asked, "What is a Republican?"

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1. Decit - It's the Republican Way.

The ONLY thing they know HOW to do.

[pinboy3niner]

2. What, they thought they didn't have enough GOP voters in OC????

Sounds like the gang that couldn't shoot straight. They decided to stick their necks out to commit voter reg fraud, and the place they thought was worth it to make a difference was OC! In addition to whatever other punishment they they get when they're convicted, they ought to have to complete a class in remedial poli sci.:eyes:

[gratuitous]

3. Look for the flashing red light on this at Drudge

Some time around the fourth of never.

[bluedeminredstate]

4. Okay...

"What's a republican?"

Perhaps it's best if people like this were not registered to vote in the first place.
How can you get to be in your twenties and have missed the concept of political parties? I know lots of people don't read newspapers or pay attention to the news, but if you've been conscious and breathing in the last ten years it seems that you would have been exposed political campaigns.


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