Wednesday, October 13, 2004
America Votes Voters Outreach, but only for Republicans
Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash.
Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.
The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed at Democrats. The focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.
The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.
Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.
But this isn't an isolated incident. America Votes Voters Outreach of America is doing this in several other key states as well. And where do they get their funding? That's right:
The company has been largely, if not entirely funded, by the Republican National Committee.
These people play DIRTY.
UPDATE: Edited for accuracy.
posted by chris at 4:52 PM
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