Virginia voter fraud case expands to focus on GOP firm

[Sparkly]

Source: Washington Post

By Carol D. Leonnig and Tom Hamburger, Published: November 2 | Updated: Saturday, November 3, 7:47 PM

The investigation into the arrest of a man on charges of dumping voter registration forms last month in Harrisonburg, Va., has widened, with state officials probing whether a company tied to top Republican leaders had engaged in voter registration fraud in the key battleground state, according to two persons close to the case.

A former employee of Strategic Allied Consulting, a contractor for the Republican Party of Virginia, had been scheduled to appear last Tuesday before a grand jury after he was charged with tossing completed registration forms into a recycling bin. But state prosecutors canceled Colin Small’s grand jury testimony to gather more information, with their focus expanding to the firm that had employed Small, which is led by longtime GOP operative Nathan Sproul.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/virginia-voter-fraud-case-expands-to-focus-on-gop-firm/2012/11/02/76285252-24eb-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_story.html?hpid=z2

[elleng]

1. Will be in Harrisonburg Tuesday doing Voter Protection,

maybe helping some of those whose registration documents were dumped.

Gotta study up on the rules and WHAT DO I DO!

[Angry Dragon]

2. Should just declare all democrats the winners so there is no dispute

[carolinayellowdog]

3. canceled grand jury testimony to gather more information?

many more questions for Mr. Small when he does appear, sounds like

[formercia]

4. All roads lead to Rome

as the old saying goes.......

[inamatteroftime]

8. Hope he sings like a Canary! nt

[BlueToTheBone]

5. Why didn't the guy use a cross cut shredder and

throw it in the recycle at his office? Or throw it in with the garbage? I'm glad he didn't but they are even stupid in their registration fraud. I hope he/they spend long days doing nothing in prison for years on end.

[Heathen57]

13. Even worse

he tossed them in someone else's dumpster. The man found them when he went out to toss it in the correct bin.

If he had used his own, the guys who dump the trash would never have seen it.

[Dustlawyer]

18. How many more did we not catch b/c they were not completely stupid or Cocky?

[BlueToTheBone]

19. Exactly. I think these kind of people

want to get caught because what they're doing is so horrible. His will be a sort of instant karma as he goes off to prison. (Where he will probably learn to pick locks as well.)

[CitizenPatriot]

6. I wonder what the other criminals are thinking

as they read this -- will they still put it on the line for the GOP? 8 felonies is no laughing matter

[zbdent]

7. Not exactly "voter" fraud, since nobody fraudulently voted ...

looks like felonious document destruction, possible identity theft ...

[Sparkly]

9. I know, but that's the title

in LBN using the published title is required.

[zbdent]

10. Not a knock on you ... I just don't like how they term it ...

[obxhead]

12. Election fraud.

?

Documentation fraud makes it sound like they failed to check a box properly on a form. This is a fraud that could alter an election.

[Coyotl]

15. Washington Post knows better too! But this is the GOP mantra to justify the very crime committed

"Voting suppression" is what they are doing.

[Mc Mike]

22. Maybe 'De-frauding voters' of their rights? Nt.

[RedCloud]

11. IOW. let the supression take place, THEN the trial.

[Coyotl]

14. Finally, given sprouling has been a verb for quite some time now!!

Let it be true, thast the man has finally been caught and goes down for his crimes.

[Mnemosyne]

16. More election fraud, misnamed to mislead. nt

[SheilaT]

17. This very much points up why our entire system of

registering to vote needs to be completely revised. Why aren't people automatically on the voting lists? Why should anyone have to do anything special to get registered?

How do they do it in other countries, especially the ones that have a large turn-out?

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. K&R (nt)

[lonestarnot]

21. K & R! Mrs. Spark!