Stockton woman warns of voter registration fraud

[The Straight Story]

STOCKTON, CA - A Stockton woman claims she nearly gave up her right to vote to a phony petition outside of Walmart Wednesday afternoon.

Karen Griggs said she was waiting for the bus on Hammer Lane with about 20 people when two young, African American men approached asking people to sign a petition to extend the prison time for convicted sex offenders. When the two men reached Griggs at her seat they asked her to sign her name and initial a second spot so they could get paid.

"I remembered that I've never signed a petition where you had to initial for them to get paid and then it dawned on me that I never signed a petition where it was just one signature per page," said Griggs, who is legally blind.

Griggs grabbed the form off of the mens' clipboard and later found out that it wasn't a petition she was signing, but a California voter registration form. Griggs said the two men walked away with at least 20 people's signatures. On the form, a party affiliation was already filled out and the initialled spot said the voter wanted to a receive mail-in ballot.

http://www.news10.net/news/article/171891/2/Stockton-woman-warns-of-voter-registration-fraud

[golddigger]

1. Smells like bullshit to me.

[WingDinger]

2. Happened to me.

And since the voting was in my own condo complex, 'I was too ashamed to fight it. Not registered here. And I lived there five years already.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Party affiliation already filled out with which party?

[CanSocDem]

5. Probably blank.

Blank, signed voter registration forms with ballot request sounds like a vote to me.

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[proud2BlibKansan]

6. From the story:

"On the form, a party affiliation was already filled out"

[RandySF]

4. Karen Griggs is a teabagger.

Jean Sadler and Karen Griggs of Stockton, Calif., met online a few months back as they were looking for a tea party event to attend. Sadler said she attended a Tax Day protest on April 15.

"That was the first time in my life I've ever protested anything," Sadler said. "I've been hot on it ever since because I don't like anything that this administration is doing." Now health care and the threat of more government involvement in it motivates her to keep active with Tea Party events, she said.




http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112377549

[a simple pattern]

11. Nice catch.

ETA, if she grabbed the form off the man's clipboard, where is it now? Why isn't it reproduced in the article?

[Whiskeytide]

7. If she's blind...

... how did she know they were African American?

[RandySF]

8. And how did she know it was not a petition?

[Riftaxe]

12. Much as this might be a shock to you

legally blind people can actually see. I have had legally blind professors before.

They are not going to become marksmen, but if they are anywhere near the definition, they can sure as hell tell people apart, read letters and *gasp* determine colors.

[arcane1]

9. While I have no doubt such things do happen...

I'll need more than one person's claim before I believe it. Too much hearsay in this story.

[southernyankeebelle]

10. Did she report it?

[democratsovstockton]

14. VIDEO evidence

watch the video and pause it at :55 seconds it'll show where it was marked already stupid republicans


http://www.news10.net/video/default.aspx?bctid=1373286538001

[REP]

15. What does the race of the men with the 'petition' have to with this story? At all?

"...when two young, African American men approached asking people ..."

How does knowing their race add to the story? Does it make a rat's ass worth of difference?