The allegations involving voter fraud by the GOP consulting firm is a new twist in the national controversy over the threat posed by voter fraud and the impact of new state laws passed by Republican-controlled legislatures to combat it.

Not surprised.

@Pigotry,

"Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican." Obvious to any objective observer these days.

The GOP seems hell-bent on destroying itself.

They fired the firm, they did not defend them.

Before they fired the firm, they first had to hire them.

And it's too easy for me to assume as I am that the firm was only doing what their bosses asked them to -- @!$%# with our elections.

About sick and tired of the GOP's election cheating.

ACORN was cleared of any and all wrongdoing. But yes, voter registration fraud is not really an issue when there is no actual voter fraud. Homeless people make up registration names to get paid more, then the ballots are eventually discarded.

jh47998

Zero,Nada,Zip,0 Acorn workers is how many. If you're going to be a RWNJ Tool/Troll, at least keep up with the daily talking points.

This article should show where the real voter fraud is being committed.

This Republican Party needs to be disolved.. Everything about it stinks. I'm sure that there are a few good. But, well majority are insane, racists, and down right ignorant. Sorry to the few good men.

My head just exploded. I tried to imagine what spin this will have on Fox.

And THIS is the party that always screams VOTER FRAUD!!!! OMG the GOP has sunk soooooo low!

Obama/Biden 2012

Voter fraud by the Republican Party?? Why am I not surprised?

I tried to imagine what spin this will have on Fox.

Megyn Kelly will be projectile vomiting pea soup when she hears this! Stay tuned!

Layton -- Wasn't that nice of Romney to have said that on video? LOL

Vultures.

"Bain Capital is an investment partnership which was formed to invest in startup companies and ongoing companies, then to take an active hand in managing them and hopefully, five to eight years later, to harvest them at a significant profit," Romney tells employees of Bain & Company, the consulting firm that spawned the new venture.

http://news.yahoo.com/romney-bain-builds-then-harvests-companies-171619152--abc-news-politics.html

I wonder if this "consulting firm" also provides voter-id on demand in support of the Republican vote.

Since 2000, 134 cases of voter fraud identified, 1/2 dismissed before trials, 34 convictions. Thirtyfour convictions in 10 years of voting, that's like 0.0001%.

Voter registration fraud is a problem, voter fraud is not. Voter ID laws are designed by the GOP led legislatures strictly to suppress the votes of the elderly, minorities, poor and students; all groups that tend to support democrates. You don't you see them on the ballot in any Dem controlled state.

Voter Fraud, another GOP Lie.

This little old lady calls 911. When the operator answers she yells, "Help, send the police to my house right away! There's a damn Democrat on my front porch and he's playing with himself."

"What?" the operator exclaimed. "I said there is a damn Democrat on my front porch playing with himself and he's weird; I don't know him and I'm afraid Please send the police!" the little old lady repeated.

"Well, now, how do you know he's a Democrat?"

"Because, you damn fool, if it was a Republican, he'd be screwing somebody!"

The republican party is so sick it should be put out of its misery in November!

John Doe - typical Republican - you from the party of FRAUD!

Obama/Biden 2012

There is NO real voter fraud !!!!!

This article is more evidence that the Republican/Tea Party hates democracy. They will do anything to obstruct American voters from exercising their right to vote.

The Republican Party is like a cancer spreading hate and division across America. The Republicans have calculated that in order for them to grab more power they must debauch our voting system......... If this were 1790 the leaders of the Republican Party would be arrested for treason.........

Jail is needed for those involved. Gitmo as this is treason.

Take away their citizenship since they devalue ours.

There is NO real voter fraud !!!!!

Absolutely correct:

http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/policy_brief_on_the_truth_about_voter_fraud/

I guess the Republicans finally found their voter fraud. Fox will be so happy.

If they we're working for the democrats, they would have gotten a pay raise.

The republican party is so sick it should be put out of its misery in November!

These two comments are symbolic of the problem we have in politics these days. What really happened is that the Republicans were trying to figure out a way to "legally" push people away from voting; this seemed to work if they ginned up a whole fear-mongering campaign against something that wasn't really an issue in the first place.

Then, Karma came along and bit them on the ass. Their base is so ape-crap crazy over doing "anything" to get rid of Obama that the "hired help" helped themselves to a bunch of dead voters who live in gas stations.

So, Republicans, I guess that voter fraud REALLY does exist....now....not before however.

The RNC refuses to do business with any consulting firm that gets caught.

So, John, the GOP wants strict voter ID laws because of a Democratic conspiracy to commit voter fraud and when it turns out the Republicans are the culprits it is then a Democratic conspiracy because they haven't been caught? Are you serious??

You know, John, the reason you don't get any eye contact as you amble around town is because you tend to share your insane fantasies with people.

Damn.

This is not at all surprising. Considering the most egregious voter suppression laws passed since early 2011 based on fraud by GOP legislators, the GOP is getting a taste of their own medicine. It's telling how these RWNJs are only concerned about getting into power, not truly concerned with free and fair election where everyone participates. When the GOP wins elections, the voter laws are OK by them, but when they lose, they want the laws changed.

The GOP as a party needs to be dismantled as a recognized party, considering they've lost all credibility and ethics.

JH-479998

ANYONE convicted of voter fraud should be jailed.

Don't know if we have enough jail space for the RNC.

I know someone is losing an argument when they have to resort to personal attacks.

No, you pretty much lost that argument without any help from anyone else. Circular logic isn't working for you at all.

Fail.

lvingbarefoot

YOU LIBS ARE PATHETIC!

The DNC would have given them a raise and increased their responsibilities!

Still...it was the Republican Party caught with their fingers in the cookie jar...not an independent community organization...the Republican Party.

na na na na na

Get to know Susan Bucher, I am not buying what she is trying to sell.

Read about her and if you think she should be trusted, you are just a pathetic blind party hack. I am not saying she is lying, if they arrest someone, who was not a plant, then she was in the right, but until then, this is just crap info from a crappy person.

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/how-many-more-susan-bucher-sci-fi-thrillers-can-palm-beach-county-tolerate

For anyone interested in the truth, try this;

Fraud by individual voters is both irrational and extremely rare. Most citizens who take the time to vote offer their legitimate signatures and sworn oaths with the gravitas that this hard-won civic right deserves. Even for the few who view voting merely as a means to an end, however, voter fraud is a singularly foolish way to attempt to win an election. Each act of voter fraud risks five years in prison and a $10,000 fine - but yields at most one incremental vote. The single vote is simply not worth the price.

Because voter fraud is essentially irrational, it is not surprising that no credible evidence suggests a voter fraud epidemic. There is no documented wave or trend of individuals voting multiple times, voting as someone else, or voting despite knowing that they are ineligible. Indeed, evidence from the microscopically scrutinized 2004 gubernatorial election in Washington State actually reveals just the opposite: though voter fraud does happen, it happens approximately 0.0009% of the time. The similarly closely-analyzed 2004 election in Ohio revealed a voter fraud rate of 0.00004%. National Weather Service data shows that Americans are struck and killed by lightning about as often.

http://www.brennancenter.org/

So yeah!

I wonder why the sudden urgency to fix something which isn't broken...?

Wow...

Just....

Wow....I'm at a loss for words here, the right to vote is a fundamental part of this country, and here is the right, claiming to be defenders of this right, yet here they are try to rig the system themselves.

The word shame-full is barley enough to describe something like this.

Where is the "loop" in my logic. Please point it out.

I suppose it was a stretch to call it "logic". Still it wanders around, as I pointed out before:

"So, John, the GOP wants strict voter ID laws because of a Democratic conspiracy to commit voter fraud and when it turns out the Republicans are the culprits it is then a Democratic conspiracy because they haven't been caught?"

Doesn't sound good, does it, John?

I can only think of one thing to say................Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

That's just too damn funny!!!

John Doe - you can't spin this any way except the real way. The Republicans commited voter fraud and got caught! Had they not gotten caught - it would have continued. Wonder how many of those names got onto the voter lists before the fraud was found?

The GOP - win at all costs - to hell with the law!

Obama/Biden 2012

It seems more than ironic... however, we need to see if this is systemic, or the workings of a very few. The article does state that multiple signatures had the same look, which would point to one person.

That said, I can't help but think there is an incentive program here vs straight pay, which would lend itself to shenanigans.

That said, I have seen that much of the registration drive on the left is reliant on volunteers vs paying.. that should tell us something.

Is there nothing the GOP won't do to stop people from voting this November or anytime a vote is scheduled??? The GOP has lost all hope. They can't wait for 39 days to tick away fast enough so they can start their task of obstruction part 2. The GOP blast ACORN, yet no-one has ever been charged, yet a GOP is investigated and is in the process of being indited for what, anyone, Bueller, anyone? VOTER FRAUD!! LMFAO!! The GOP should adopt a clown as their mascot instead. Oh Wait, they have Todd Akin for that role! He's not very ladylike is he? LMAO Ladylike.. Such a 50s term!

@ American Socialist.. WOW indeed..

The GOP will not see the inside of the White House for at least 8-12 more years after this charade called Mittens was cast upon the people. The Republicant party is run by people aka the Tea-Tards who are destroying this nation one city, one voter at a time. They want a "puritan" nation and will do what it takes.. Those who don't kowtow to their religion, their way of doing business shall be dealt with. They want to rule America with a AR-15 in one hand and the babble in the other.

Isn't this much like ACORN? The same that the GOP was having such a fit about a couple years ago.

hmmmm I'm trying to remember........ What county in Florida was the most screwed up during the hanging chad idiocracy in 2000?

You guessed it! Palm Beach county!

I'm shocked! Do you hear - Shocked - to find the Republican party partaking in voter registration fraud. Who knew?

OMG - I can't wait to watch Rachel and Lawrence tonight!

In truth, the Republican party must be destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up. Oh how I long to have a thoughtful, well spoken, articulate conversation with a rational republican. This country needs to hear both sides of the argument, and meet somewhere closer to the middle than any current republican is now willing to go. That's when this country is at its' best.

Like I said, in the end common sense prevails.

I just keep wondering how you'll cope with the crushing disappointment when common sense finally does prevail. How will you prepare yourself for it?

I think it speaks volumes here that only 2 people John Doe and LivingBarefoot are not taking responsibility for their party. So far your answer has been look over there. Its the Democrats or its the author of the story.

John Doe, you lost the argument when you pointed your finger at Democrats liberals etc. Logic for you is to blame others for your party's failure. They call that projection. However, you want to spin this it wont work. This company was working for the Republicans and until you can prove they worked Democrats then youre speaking in hypotheticals.

You 2 are pathetic with your denial of this company being related to Republicans or that it was a Democratic plant. Ha ha ha. I suppose if I played your game then it would seem they were only outed after an independant investigation revealed the fraud. Then they come clean.

Try as you might there is no way to come out ahead in the matter and on Nov 6th.

I approve this message because you have no substance, as if you have had any since 1988. Dont go away mad, just go away.

Oh, it won't disappoint me to see Pres. Obama go.

Bless you, John. You just don't see that kind of hallucinatory craziness since the advent of behavior modifying drugs like Prozac. Stay just the way you are!

John Doe-2241225, and the evidence of democratic voter fraud is that you say it exists? If you have proof, let's see it.

just another assault on our country. this is a war to destroy our very freedom of choice: the VOTE! every vet who stood for this just cause, this freedom to vote, should be furious at what some of those who also reside in the USA want to deny others from using the very foundation which makes this a great country. shame cannot be a word for these people care about. bring in the FBI and begin arresting these spineless people. this is a national disgrace.

Better get your @$$es out and vote in November. It doens't matter what the polls say. If it is even close, the GOP will steal this election. They have a huge ground crew ready to intimidate voters. They own most of the election equipment and are in charge of the election bureaus in most states.

Vote like your life depended on it, it does.

John Doe-2241225 wrote:

"Don't bring the blame game into this. Democrats excel at that. All democrats ever to is try to explain away Pes. Obama's failures by blaming them on the Republicans. Wow, a democrat talking about the blame came. Pot calling the kettle black."

I guess the best response to that is:

"I know someone is losing an argument when they have to resort to personal attacks."

The Republican party of hypocrisy is now finally laid bare for all to see. They have been running a campaign of registration fraud to fight a phantom voter fraud problem and got busted as frauds!

I love it! Wait until this filters through to the "low information" voters, this is something even they can't ignore. I would feel sorry for the Republican party if they weren't such ^#$%#$%#.

John Doe-2241225 wrote:

"Who was I personally attacking?"

Ummm... All democrats? You seriously need that explained?

Holy Freaken "Shoes on the Other Foot" Batman!!!

Wow, I didn't think the GOP would stoop that low. Well, I should say SOME in the GOP. I guess I should be glad they fired the firm, now how bout those in the GOP who condoned it to begin with too?

You seriously need that explained?

Yes, sadly he does.

Queue the lies about ACORN and Solyndra... if the Republicans can't project their fraudulent activities onto Democrats they have nothing else to say.

Perhaps the seasonal summer home rich that reside largely in FL , should be checked for voting in two states?? Absentee ballot .............Wonder what party has most of them???

I'd love to see that investigations results.

@JH

Fail!

ACORN did not commit voter fraud so stop spreading that tired old lie.

"The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) did not commit voter fraud, and it didn't misuse federal funding in the last five years, according to a recently releasedreport prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a nonpartisan investigational arm of Congress."

http://archive.truthout.org/1230091

If you can read better than honey boo boo here is the report.

http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/CRS-ACORN091222.pdf

But, voter suppression is the only way that the Party of No (read: Party of Dinosaurs) could ever win.

The Party of No will no longer exist in a generation.

Mockingbyrd

My head just exploded. I tried to imagine what spin this will have on Fox.

just like JH above, they will cling on to ACORN.

I don't think it is so much that a company working for the GOP was caught commiting fraud as it was that the Republicans were so boisterous about voter fraud and how bad it supposedly was yet it is the company hired by them, not the Democrats, but Republicans that was caught. Maybe fraud does exist but if it does obviously it is by companies hired by Republicans rather than by Democrats. Could it be the Democrats screen their surrgates better or was this a case where the Republicans got caught this time. Often when one points out the worst in others it is because they are experts at doing the same themselves.

So now we know the nazi talking point for today - "the Democrats would have given them a raise". It's not even clever - but we have seen that one doesn't have to be clever to appeal to the politically retarded.

Going down with the ship is not noble if you are too stupid to know the ship is sinking. The teabaggers hate what they call "obamacare" and despise ACORN because of perceived voter fraud (though nothing was proven). Their own candidate stabs them in the back over healthcare and their own party just disgraced them with voter fraud. Where is the outrage???

Oh...that's right. When you are a blood-sucking leech, you have no choice in how your host behaves.

I would feel sorry for the teabaggers if they weren't so despicable.

LMAO... suuuure they fired them. AFTER the work was done and the bill was paid they "fired them." We'll see what name they reappear under for the 2016 elections. The GOTea knew EXACTLY what they were doing and all along they were crying about Dem voter fraud. What is the lesson learned here, boys and girls?

GOP bank robber to Police:

Now we need to wait and see if it was one stack of bills or one hundred that was in my bag to call me a THEIF damnit!

Asked for comment, Sarah Pompei, a spokeswoman for the Romney campaign, said by email: "We used this vendor for signature gathering services during the primary but have not used them since 2011."

That's right. They were used, but not since 2011.

Aren't you supposed to wait until Election Day to start voter fraud?

GOP = Corrupt

How can anybody with a conscience vote for a republican, ANY republican?

Jeff-1592116

Holy Freaken "Shoes on the Other Foot" Batman!!!

Wow, I didn't think the GOP would stoop that low.

where have you been???

Charlie White, the Indiana secretary of state, guilty of six of seven felony charges: two counts of perjury and one each of false registration, voting in another precinct, submitting a false ballot and theft.

A Pinal County supervisor candidate has withdrawn from the race in the wake of voter-fraud allegations involving a former companion who, records show, has continued to vote by absentee ballot in the five years since her death. John Enright, 66, had been seeking the Republican nomination for county supervisor of District 5.

Sen. Lugar has been registered to vote at a house he has not lived in since 1977

Samantha Vos, the estranged wife of Wisconsin Republican State Representative Robin Vos, voted even though she was not eligible to vote as a Wisconsin resident. The Republican Attorney General of Wisconsin has no interest in prosecuting; he's too busy going after Democrat leaning voters.

Paul Schurick, 55, campaign manager for former Maryland governor Robert Ehrlich was accused of election fraud in Maryland; he was charged with two counts of conspiracy, one count of election fraud and one count of failing to include a mandatory line indicating which candidate approved the calls. His goal was to suppress black Democrat voters.

I can keep going but why? The righties here have ACORN to hang on to. They will claim that voter fraud exists because some ACORN workers wanted to make extra cash by making some fraudulent registrations but at the same time ignore the total Republican hypocrisy, lies and fraud.

The Republicans only cut them loose once the fraud was exposed.

This is only the beginning of the Republican dirty tricks.

The baggers can not fairly win elections, they stooped to the level of the Communist and Nazis and just "fix" the elections to go their way. Democracy is dead in America!

G.O P. message

Your mission should you decide to accepted it is to register as many people as possible. You will be paid 3 million dollars. If caught or captured, the GOP will disavow any knowledge of your mission. This message will self destruct in 10 seconds.

Sproul has been previously accused of suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms, and manipulating ballot initiatives. His firms -- formerly Sproul & Associates, Lincoln Strategy, and Strategic Allied Consultants -- had previously worked for RNC voter registration efforts during the campaigns of George W. Bush and John McCain. In 2004, Democratic Senators Leahy and Kennedy sent a letter to then Attorney General John Ashcroft requesting that he "launch an immediate investigation into the activities of Mr. Sproul and his firm." But the request did not lead to any criminal charges against Sproul.

So, Sproul did this many times before.

Sproul, together with The republican U.S. Supreme Court conspired in perpetrating voting fraud upon the American citizens in 2000. The result is a destroyed American financial system and the middle class. No wonder Ashhcroft hid the truth--the truth that is coming out now.

So yeah!

I wonder why the sudden urgency to fix something which isn't broken...?

I guess it's kind of like when a spouse accuses their partner of cheating when in reality it's them that's cheating. The faithful spouse is so busy defending the accusation that they can't focus on the underlying truth.

"Strategic has a zero tolerance policy for breaking the law..."

Didn't Sproul really mean to say that Strategic has zero tolerance for getting caught breaking the law? How long did it take Nixon to disassociate his bad self from the plumbers, Reagan from Ollie, Curious George from reality, it's a party tradition!

Strategic is like the spouse accusing the other half, in this case the Democrats (Acorn) of cheating because they know they're the ones cheating?

That's the sudden urgency of fixing something that isn't broken.... a double bubble if you will. the agenda is winning an election by whatever means possible. If your candidate is ethically and morally challenged , unlikeable, and the silver spoon shoved so far up his backside having long since removed any empathy for the condition of others less fortunate, the strategy has to include stopping the Dems from voting by whatever means possible, including voter fraud.... covering it up by keeping eyes focused on the other side by introducing laws to prevent the voter fraud that you are currently involved in. The double bubble....on top of illegally trying to add votes to your total, you accuse the other side of doing what your doing and your remedy just happens to conveniently disenfranchise millions of likely votes for your opponent.

James O'Keefe, the GOP ace undercover reporter, accused ACORN of mass voter fraud and introduced a tape purporting to show him, dressed as a pimp, receiving what appeared to be instructions from ACORN staff ways to commit voter fraud. In reality, O'Keefe edited the tape by inserting footage of him dressed as a pimp. In fact he did the interview dressed like a law student and the ACORN staff called the cops on him. A future attempt to embarrass Democrats resulted in his arrest. This tool of the GOP is a fraud, nothing more.

Like Clinton said....."You gotta have brass..."

The allegations involving voter fraud by the GOP consulting firm is a new twist in the national controversy over the threat posed by voter fraud and the impact of new state laws passed by Republican-controlled legislatures to combat it.

Really, a new twist? GOP has no doubt been involved in this for decades.

OBAMA/BIDEN....2012!!!!

The REPUBLICANS have no morals or ethics to speak of, these people will cheat their own mothers if there was a chance that they could gain something, Cheating is the only way they even have a chance come this November, they have NO clue as to right or wrong just read most of their comments on any topic here, makes you wonder if these people have any clue what being educated actually means.

1. Kick the elderly off voting rolls, and make the lines at the motor vehicles too long for elderly to get their I.D. 2. Register the elderly without their knowledge and vote for them (don't think nursing homes want to earn a little extra cash?). 3. Add dead people into the mix. 4. Fly people from state to state to vote at all their residences. 5. Use bad computers in voting machines that can be manipulated at a distance, with no paper trail. 6. "Consolidate" polling places and offer fewer places to vote, with plenty of confusion about where to vote. 7. Call people up and tell them to vote on the wrong day...

This list goes on and on... they are having a Grand Ol' Party at America's expense.

The same guy running this firm was caught shredding Democartic voter registrations in 2004 while passing on Republican ones. He was working for Republicans then. His company changed names, but the same guy running it.

So Republicans found out about this and fired them, only to rehire them this year after the obligatory company name change. Hey, he probably said he was sorry. It isn't like the Republicans "found out about this", they were caught by election officials.

Are we really to believe that "a few bad apples" were registering dead people? So were these few bad apples planning on they themselves voting hundreds of times? Why would they go through that trouble and take that risk for $12/hour? Seems like just firing the company isn't the solution. Seem like maybe we should have a huge Congressional investigation about this considering the same guy was caught cheating before. Maybe every previous registration they did should be checked to see just how many dead people have voted previously or what other voter scam these guys are using. My guess is that Darrell Issa will get right on this.

Maybe James O'Keefe should go under cover dressed up like a corporate business owner with a personal secretary and go to these guys and try to get them to register all his employees right off of an employee database.

But you know, that kind of scam could just work. As a business owner you've got access to all the employee's info, you could check your list against voter registrations, register anybody not yet registered, and then have them work overtime on election day, while someone votes in their place. Being that they wouldn't even know they were registered, plus keeping them at work, the odds of getting caught would be slim.

1NewDay: That's precisely what is being done to the elderly. They can't get to register (except for a few whose families take them to Motor Vehicles for ID), and the nursing homes vote for them.

Wow! How funny. It's been the lying, cheating,war-mongering, vote suppressing republicans all along. IMAGINE THAT!

This is SO rich... these are the same people fighting to prevent voter "fraud" in only battle ground states this election. While they have only found like .002% fraudulent votes in these states, this guy is out there actually DOING this stuff. The week just keep getting better and better for O....

I'm not counting chickens YET... but should O win... I would love to be a fly on the Koch Brothers wall on election night.... All the bazillions these and other conservatives have thrown at O and his numbers just keep getting better and better.

Damm..Romney doesn't even have to put his foot in his mouth anymore..his own GOP is doing a better job f**king it up!!!

OBAMA 2012..this is to easy!

Empty chair to nation..I'll vote for Barry.

John Doe--okay, I'll bite. I know you are probably being paid by the post, but what the heck.

ACORN was investigated--they were found not to have (as an organization) done anything wrong. They had a "few bad apples." This new group was not investigated by the GOP--they were identified by election officials in six Florida counties. Again, the group has a "few bad apples." When the GOP looked into it, they immediately severed ties because they knew that otherwise it would look bad. You can't really compare the GOP (which has already seen what can happen if it stands by an organization like this--which, by the by, might not as an organization have done anything wrong) to the original response of the Democrats, as the GOP already knows what kind of damage can be spun.

If the GOP is sitting back and waiting for Democrats to investigate Democratic voter fraud, when the GOP was in power throughout the Bush administration (by the by, they did look a bit and found nothing) and once the GOP won back the House and got major power in the Senate in 2010 they still couldn't do anything about it but waited for the Democrats to investigate themselves . . . well, just how pathetic is the GOP party that they cannot manage to do anything about this? Seriously?

It is a bit like the argument that under Clinton (when the GOP had huge gains in the Congress), they were stymied by Clinton. But, under Bush (when the GOP still had a good voting bloc in the Congress, though the Democrats eventually got a majority), they still couldn't do anything. It's always the Democrats who are evil little devil's minions who are spending too much despite the Republicans--whether or not the Republicans have the presidency, the Congress, or both.

If a party is this pathetic against the mean nasty little Democratses, why would anyone want to vote them into power?

I can see a new party coming forth--one that is reasonably progressive on social issues as far as they can be funded but also fiscally conservative. Sadly, in the US, populist tickets have typically been racist and so this has a bad name. Still, there's a lot to be said for Blue Dog Democrats who are, in fact, socially progressive when they can be, pretty darned socially conservative on many issues, and fiscally conservative.

Republicans, on the other hand, talk a good game but dole out money to industry that the country doesn't have, get into wars we can't afford, and spend money like drunken sailors. Some of us paid attention during the Bush presidency . . . how about you?

The entire GOP should be indicted on numerous counts including corruption, election tampering and fraud.

Truly ironic. ;] In fact I hope that many in the gop camp are brought to bare charges in this country for not only there obvious corruptions on many fronts. But also voter fraud suppression. The FACT remains that the gop KNOWS how bad they are going to lose this election because I TOLD them so over many years and they have chosen every step of the way to do the opposite and are paying for it with there own destruction. ; ]

All the voter fraud and suppression is meant to accomplish is making it LOOK like they aren't as BIG HUGE losers as they truly are. They cannot stand the humiliating effect it will have on there Psyche because they have never made it passed the Bush debacle of our economy world economy and depression THEY caused with there "ideas" as it were. ;]

Cheers

Cheers!

John, what a pile of malarky you spew... Leadership can't be achieved if the opposition decides early on (my main goal is to make sure O is a one term pres) to block any and everything a Leader tries to acheive. Due to the type of govt we have, it allows a minority party to block something even if they ARE in the minority. I'm sure you will spout off the Dems had control, but unlike Bushwhacked, the Dems don't vote lock step on every bill by the Pres. On top of that, they had to make sure the independents voted with them as well... So stop the crappy "he isn't a leader" routine and come up with a valid argument. Oddly enough, doesn't seem America is buying YOUR theory right now.. If Mittens and the Reps can't win in the current situation, I think it speaks VOLUMES about what America really thinks about the Reps.

Fox and the tea maggots will simply spin it like this: Our campaign refuses to be based on FACT CHECKS, and until it is proven by us we consider it another effort by the left to make us look like the idiots sweet Jesus made us"... or something like that. lol The Christian Right... which is usually neither.

Mockingbyrd

My head just exploded. I tried to imagine what spin this will have on Fox.

Possible spins...

1) "No big deal, they won't translate to actual votes unlike ACORN's would have".

2) "The guy committing fraud must have been a Democratic Party plant."

3) "Give us a break... dead guys are all we have left! Besides, we only registered old white guy dead guys."

4) "Supreme Court says corporations are people... we just registered Mr. Car Dealership."

5) "See? This is 'proof' we need tough voter ID laws."

I'm sure they'll think of something ignorant.

John Doe:: You said that the minute the RNC discovers that kind of stuff they fire them? Oh good God! Can't you read?

"Sproul has been previously accused of suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms, and manipulating ballot initiatives. His firms -- formerly Sproul & Associates, Lincoln Strategy, and Strategic Allied Consultants -- had previously worked for RNC voter registration efforts during the campaigns of George W. Bush and John McCain. In 2004, Democratic Senators Leahy and Kennedy sent a letter to then Attorney General John Ashcroft requesting that he "launch an immediate investigation into the activities of Mr. Sproul and his firm." But the request did not lead to any criminal charges against Sproul".

The above is a paragraph copied from the article you said someone didn't read. Me thinks it is the pot calling the kettle black. Evidently YOU are the one who can't read-- or you don't want to read something against the republithugs.

What rings false about part of what was stated in this article was that these contractors were paid $12 an hour to register voters. Clearly no one would go to the trouble of looking up lists of dead people and forging signatures unless they were paid a commission on the number they submit which would be unethical. For the republicans to deny any culpability in this when this company had previous allegations of destroying forms that didn't support their party makes denial tough.

John Doe.there is simply no way to talk about this intellectually with the liberals here. They turn and spin anything away from Obama.

Marie91: You're right, there's no way to discuss a topic intellectually when someone like you is so twisted to think focusing on an article about republican voter fraud is twisting and spinning discussion away from Obama. The only twisting or spinning is done by you. The rest of us are focusing on the articles content, when Obama's the topic that's what we discuss. If you really want intelligent 2 way conversation try staying on topic instead of turning every conversation into an anti Obama rant.

Why cut their ties? Theyy belong together! Hypocrisy!

Republicans are suppressing the vote all over the nation in many forms.

Teabaggers in Ohio are trying to stop college kids from voting. Teabaggers are filing to have ballots thrown out that have the dorm address but did not list...their room numbers........Time to throw the election rigging teabaggers and repubs OUT!

Keep this conversation of election rigging in conversations daily!

Obama/Biden and Team Democratic Party 2012

OutOfTheWoods @ 1.94

"When Republican supporters commit voter fraud we chastise them, and Libs attack.

When Libs commit voter fraud, you hush it up, encourage more of it, and deny everything.

That says a lot !"

You do understand that there are different types of voter fraud, correct?

The most prevalent type of voter REGISTRATION fraud is where people who are being paid based on the number of people they register make up names and submit bogus voter registration forms. If it doesn't get caught these imaginary people are added to the voter rolls but never actually cast a vote in an election.

The other type of registration fraud- which Sproul and the various companies that operate under his leadership have a history of doing- is to go out and register actual living and breathing voters and then throw away the registration forms of any that have indicated that they are a Democrat. That person then believes that they have registered only to turn up at the polling station to vote only to be turned away because of what Sproul and his minions did.

And contrary to John Doe's claim that "The moment the fraud was discovered the company was fired. Why? GOP does not tolerate that activity" the Republican Party of Florida engaged Sproul exactly BECAUSE he has a history of doing this sort of thing.

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Looks like that voter fraud net has caught something.

First of all, until there's some evidence of people actually VOTING fraudulently in significant numbers we're still talking about inaccurate REGISTRATION. THERE IS NO EVIDENCE of people voting fraudulently except for the odd occasion out of millions. It isn't enough to move elections and existing laws already deal with it.

That said, the hypocrisy of the Right on this is unbelievable. ACORN was driven entirely out of existence nationally over some irregularities THAT THEY REPORTED TO AUTHORITIES and never made it into the voter rolls. Republicans HIRED PEOPLE TO DO THIS and threw them under the bus when county election officials caught them. And they expect it all to just go away because "we fired the offenders."

Oh, and shame on all the Democratic lawmakers who cooperated in destroying ACORN in order to save themselves the discomfort of fighting for an organization that worked on behalf of the little guy.

Typical GOP approach: lies, lies, and more lies.

You don't expect them to limit themselves to legal means like voter suppresion laws do you? There's more than 1 way to skin a cat.

Why am i not supervised? They knew from the start that they are not capable of winning an honest election. The percentage of people that buy into their narrow minded views are dwindling. Even with full control of major media, they still can't dumb down everybody. When democrats win an election, it means that the republicans could not cheat enough like they did in FLA in 2000. and 2004. But don't worry republicans, god will explain it to you.

Bush 2000?

John Doe: Good leaders can make things happen despite opposition.

John would be the guy yelling at the Captain for arriving late to port even though the anchor is stuck dragging along the sea floor. If we really want to get the economy going, it is time to remove the Republican Anchor!

How can poor people be disenfranchised?????

Every entitlement program asks for identification. Why is voting for an American president supposed to be so ID FREE?

If the US government has the right to draft Americans and have them kill foreigners on behalf of the United States, they should be able to make you identify yourself for an honest election.

Probably a former ACORN employee, just doing what comes naturally. Kudos to the GOP for firing the entire firm. Now you all go ahead and say that Republicans are throwing people out on the street.

If the Dems. would stop fighting a Voter ID law, any fradulent voters who slipped through would be stopped in their tracks. But Dems. see that as discrimination and voter suppresion. Suppresing whom? Frauds? Go figure.

They STOLE Florida in '2000 and knowing it's their only HOPE are trying it again... May GOD HELP US ALL!!!

Nice. Well done FL GOP. You saved the sanctity of the vote once again.

POS!

Guess we really don't need any voter idenification. The parties will take care of it themselves. The only difference between this and the ACORN voter fraud is the TAXPAYER paid for ACORN fraud while the republicans paid for it themselves.

Why should the Dems worry they have been doing this kind of thing for ever in Chicago. There have been generations of dead people voting there.

Now where all those guys with all those studies that claimed that there is little voter fraud and that the system will take. Hope they got all the bad registrations but I don't think so.

First of all, there is a clear distinction between registration fraud and voter fraud. Quite frankly, I'm more concerned about election fraud (simply changing the results or calculating them erroneously) than a person or two voting fraudulently.

But here is the thing, as any good business person will tell you, there are always cost / benefit ramifications to any decision. Does the cost (making 10's of thousands ability to rightfully and legally vote more difficult or not at all) justify the benefits (preventing about .0001% from voting illegally)? The answer is obviously No.

So the real question is if implementing that type of policy and cost associated with it doesn't solve any real problem, why is it being proposed?

Every entitlement program asks for identification

What entitlement program asks for a government issued photo ID as it's sole means of identification?

The GOP wanted these people to get caught. The whole thing was a planned setup. In order to advance voter ID laws to suppress Democratic votes, they felt they had to prove that voter fraud actually was a problem and rampant even though all evidence of actual cases of voter fraud are so low to be almost considered non-existent as such a small fraction.

These were soldiers taking one for the team.

The amount of voter fraud that is claimed to occur in the entire state of Florida does not even come close to the amount of voter fraud in many precincts in Chicago.

Uh...Marie...this article isn't about Obama so there's nothing to deflect from him with this issue. I think the only way an intelligent conversation can be had is for you to not be involved in it.

Also, can someone please post where ACORN was proven to have committed voter fraud? I'd like to check the link on that.

Bill...can you substantiate that claim? Or are you just talking without being able to back your claims up?

Was'nt it the repubs. who threatened the league of women voters with a 10k fine for each instance of fraud if a voter being registered was not legitamate? and now they are doing what they were accusing the ladies of doing. What a bunch of unscrupulous hypocrites.

Break out the check books boys... you need to be held to your own rules huh?

Bali Bob

@Pigotry,

"Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican." Obvious to any objective observer these days.

The GOP seems hell-bent on destroying itself.

I would like to help them on their continued demise in any way I can.

In 2004, Democratic Senators Leahy and Kennedy sent a letter to then Attorney General John Ashcroft requesting that he "launch an immediate investigation into the activities of Mr. Sproul and his firm." But the request did not lead to any criminal charges against Sproul.

They have a history of doing this. But Bush's boy Ashscroft is not here to protect them this time. I hope They go after him this time.

E Pluribus Unum, Togeather as one, I am the 47%

The guy who own's this company worked for Rmoney in 2011.

Just pulled this off of FOX news dot com Sproul, a longtime GOP operative who leads Strategic Allied Consulting, previously worked for Romney's campaign through a separate firm, Lincoln Strategy Group. Romney spokeswoman Sarah Pompei says the campaign has not used Sproul since 2011, when the campaign was using Lincoln to collect signatures to get on primary ballots.

Pigotry said,

"How can the GOP still pursue disenfranchisement of minorities on the grounds of voter fraud when actually they themselves have committed such fraud"

Maybe you didn't read this part...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- The Republican Party of Florida is filing an election fraud complaint against a vendor suspected of submitting questionable voter registration forms.

Kind of shoots holes in your statement does it!!

Pathetic just pathetic

I still don't understand how bringing a birth certificate with no picture on it, validates a photo ID?

Splain it to me Lucy!

Repulicans. Intended to cheat, didn't intend to get caught.

Obama/Biden 2012

TO: thewordsmith who wrote:

"Bush 2000?"

Of course.

If it weren't for Republicans cheating, we would have never had a George "Curveball" Bush.

Obama/Biden 2012

What a bunch of crap from the nazi teabaggers. The fact that Vitter from Louisiana is still a sitting congressman spits in the face of your "we take care of the problem immediately" lie. Last time I checked, hiring prostitutes is illegal, is it not? Or is it only legal when Republican perverts do it?. How about Ensign of Nevada?? He didn't resign for screwing his employee or when he then had ANOTHER sitting congressman (wasn't it Cochran?) act as go-between when paying off his ho's husband. How about Sanford?? The man ABANDONED HIS STATE, lied to the lieutenant Governor and flew off to Argentina to bang his slut. Did HE resign??? No. How about Karl Rove committing TREASON by outing an undercover CIA operative? Why is he not in prison with his hot-tub buddy Tom Delay??? How long did Tom Foley stalk and molest male interns while his right-wing buddies just turned the other other cheek?? Yeah - those Republican douche-bags sure know how to take care of business, don't they.

JohnDoe, outofthewoods and barefoot - you should be ashamed of yourselves. How dare you barf your canned rhetoric in defense of people that spit in the face of America and all that America stands for?? You are sickening, pathetic, dishonest and anti-American.

Next talking point for the nazis..."They only got caught doing what everyone does. Both parties suck....Throw 'em all out" blah, blah, blah...

I would tell the three of you to shove your idiot propaganda where the sun doesn't shine, but your heads are already taking up all of the space. So - you can simply burn in your christian hell (that's where liars go, right??), You should be happy there, it will be run by Republicans (just don't use the restroom...Larry Craig will be there a tappin').

Republicans take care of things right away....That's the biggest lie I've seen on here in a long time.

I shall try very hard to be serious here. I am not a man of profanity, nor one who is easily given to shortsighted emotional outbursts. Republicans, as I understand it, have been caught committing both election and voter fraud in the state of Florida, and at least 1 or 2 other states. Calmly now, Is anyone really surprised? Republicanism in general, is, and, since inception, has been based in, and upon, a very shi^^y, selfish, and small minded idiopathic political condition. A part of that idiom manifests, in accusing Its opponents of the unholy perversions, and illegal constructions, often, grandiose dreams if you will, of Its founders, and handed off to its inbred, mostly, breech born progeny. Everyone of the hypocritical, sh^t eating, sons-ah-bitches need to be whipped like a borrowed mule, then sent to insane asylums, and assigned to the cleaning and polishing of bedpans for the rest of their miserable lives! Gwaddamn! Ignore the 1st two lines of this post. I was trying, but, came up short.

Voters fraud is a GOP "HOAX" to steal the Election, these Potheads will do anything to get elected "ANYTHING" We have to Vote this trash out !!!!!

You didn't come up short, Mac. You are responding just as any good American should.

Hang in there Mac. We're with you!

Everyone of the hypocritical, sh^t eating, sons-ah-bitches need to be whipped like a borrowed mule

I agree with you 100%, Mac, except you misspelled @!$%#. Well done!

After each recount of the Bush/Gore results in Fla. Bush STILL came out ahead and by an ever bigger margin. He didn't steal anything, but Gore sure tried HIS damndest to steal it.

But they are privately funded!

(Scratches head).......how is it perfected if they get caught so easily?

To me, perfected means not getting caught.........

I guess we wouldn't be seeing any comments from our groupies GOP here on FR!

Obama/Biden 2012

Elise, that would be sweet but you know they'll stop by and spin away as usual!

Obama/Biden 2012

Got to be the Sunshine State... Again!

Maybe just perfected the many different ways to perpetuate fraud.

Glad your back Feisty, missed you., searing wit and a voice of reason

Thanks Skyparrot!

It's good to be home! ☺

When did voter registration drive become a for-profit venture? It used to be done by community volunteers.

Thank goodness we now have the profit motive driving voter registration - maybe Bain can make some money on this.

GreenTimer - I'm sure they have - over and over again!

Obama/Biden 2012

John, that is some fantasy world you'r living in. I mean, really.

JohnDoe,

It's a liberal conspiracy. Better lock your doors.

But seriously, its probably that old Republican stand-by....GREED.

Has the Republican Secretary of State reported ONE case of POSSIBLE REPUBLICAN Hispanic or African/American name being fraudalent to the County registrars?

CORRECTION FEISTY....

someone put FOX in charge of the conservative brain trust,

they left the valve open & it all drained into the TeaParty Pot .

The RWNJ's have just been handed their FACE AGAIN by the NRC/GOP biggies,

there is NO responsibility or reputation at the top.....

just look at Mitt !

(where are the missing 2009 Tax Returns Mr. Pillar of the Mormon Community ?)

Elise, that would be sweet but you know they'll stop by and spin away as usual!

@Layton - and you know the first thing they will do is blame it on Obama .. ie, if Obama weren't ahead in the polls, we wouldn't have had to commit voter fraud.

GreenTimer

When did voter registration drive become a for-profit venture? It used to be done by community volunteers.

Thank goodness we now have the profit motive driving voter registration - maybe Bain can make some money on this.

I understand Halliburton just received a GOP no-bid contract.

Ol_Doc, Wow, a return of the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice triumverate -

(sure I know it's four, not three, but we're talking about GOP arithmetic here)

I bet Rachael Maddow will be in fantasy land for sure tonight when the GOP hands her stuff like this. Looking forward to watching her giddiness.

Can we go ahead and declare Nov 8th a day of national morning for what's going to be left of the Republican party?

I have a fantasy of my own that someday there will be no one in Govt that has a D or R behind their name. Just people that want to go there and DO WHATS RIGHT FOR THE COUNTRY. No "party line" to toe.

Gosh I love being an independent!

Republicans, they are such hypocrites.

Thankfully the Supervisors of Election in Fl regardless of party affiliation are keeping their oaths to be fair and to make voting accessible to all who are eligible, that is what we promise to do when we agree to work the elections. In all the years I've worked I have never had a problem, there are many safeguards and it would be hard to fraudulently vote in person in Florida, absentee voting is a whole different story, there I believe it does happen as there are few safeguards.

Tampa Bay Times lead story was... Purge Efforts Start Anew

Florida's noncitizen voter purge efforts surged back to life Wednesday as Gov. Rick Scott's election office "produced" a new list of 198 potentially ineligible voters.

The assmonkey Scott and his slimeball Republican Legislature should ALL be kicked out of office.

So tell me Scotty, did you get this list hand delivered by Sproul himself??? Florida is going down the tubes while assmonkey Scott tries to put dead people and car dealerships on the rolls. Hey, assmonkey Scott, how about looking at the Scientology group if you really want to get rid of voter fraud.

Well, it is unfortunate. If people like "john doe" weren't so lazy and actually held their party accountable, the Republican Party wouldn't be in the disastrous tail-spin they are in.

We get the little talking point for the day, john doe. If you would be an adult and take some responsibility, you might have a leg to stand on. Blindly defending criminals with the line you were spoon fed means you are a thoughtless child - mimicking the actions of your superiors. They would have loved you in late '30's Germany.

This doesn't surprise me coming from the current Republican party - wish I could say it did. It also really doesn't surprise me that this occurred in Florida - wish I could say it did. Explain to me please how their is any satisfaction in winning if your have to cheat to to do it?

Romney deserves to be investigated for hiring Sproul. He knew what he was doing, and he knew what he was buying. Romney is dangerous to this country and should just move to the Camman Islands along with his money. The SOB is a disgrace to this country and should drop out of the race. I think this could well mark the final disinigration of the republican party into a regionalized backwater rather than a party, and it will probably join the Whig party in political extinction.

CPO Sharkey

(Scratches head).......how is it perfected if they get caught so easily?

To me, perfected means not getting caught.........

Well, they got caught with George W. Bush, and he still ended up President.

I couldn't read them all, but I'm happy for the ones who recognize this aroma as falling under the Republican brand: STENCH #9...mmm...gross.

Not in Florida...so just asking..did they ever change that chad card voting system in Florida where Gore won but gave the win to the guy who started two wars for no reason????

Bayyllie, dont forget about Herman Cains campaign manager(he from the infamous,weird smoking add). he was banned from electioneering because of voter fraud.

Oh SCOTUS step in and stop these idiots in their tracks-J, Rob come on!!!!!

The RNC should also cut ties with Gravis Marketing, one of the polling lightweights floating inflated numbers for their candidate.

Why? Not because Gravis manipulates results....as just about ANY polling firm can be similarly complicit.

No, Gravis goes one step further: They front for BAIN Capital.

Why is it the only ones getting busted in regards to voter fraud are the GOP?

Because feisty. Dems do not investigate voter fraud, they welcome it. The reason fraudulent companies get busted by the GOP, is because the GOP does not tolerate

John Doe:This fraud wasn't detected or investigated by the republican party that turned these in but deemed suspicious by an election supervisor and investigated by the state attorney general. They weren't busted by the GOP what an inane statement. No wonder you use John Doe as a name I too would be embarrassed to put my name on such a ridiculous statement.

The best was in 2004. two guys went to jail for election fraud. They used automated telemarketing computers to jam the democrat's phone banks at election time. and their telephone bill had numerous calls to the west wing, and the "liberal" media never reported on it. lol And the white house refused to say who received the calls.

It really is pitiful to read John Doe's posts. God it must feel crappy to try and defend his party, everyone else can see it except him. And of course, the GOTP had NOTHING to do with it because as poor John says "The reason fraudulent companies get busted by the GOP, is because the GOP does not tolerate it". OMG, that is funnier than any comedian I have seen in years, he definitely needs his own comedy show on FAUX NEWS! Unfortunately, like pretty much everything else that comes out of the Republican Party, it too is a LIE! But that is what his troll script says and he is not allowed to stray from it. I think come November, poor Mr. Doe will then be crying in his TEA! Let's watch and see what dazzling drop of dung he tries to spread next! But please don't laugh at him, he doesn't really know any better.

They tend to hire party idealists, carnies and college students. Cheating at college is a big deal now and the idealists and carnies probably have a cheating percentage of 90% or higher. The college stu is probably a cleaner worker in that regard. SO they hire people who are available to hire because serious employers won't touch them for a reason. Then they get dead people signed up as voters. Who is surprised. The law should not allow anyone ever to get paid for signing up voters. Any person or org who is signing up voters should have to register themselves with the supervisor and each voter affidavit they submit should be ID'd as coming from them. Fraudulent affidavits should cause punishment for the registered agent too ! And Supervisors of Elections always have had the responsibility to validate the voter affidavit before issuing a voter card. Supervisors should not be barred from using reasonable methods to determine true identity and validating the affidavits.

CORRECTION FEISTY....

someone put FOX in charge of the conservative brain trust,

they left the valve open & it all drained into the TeaParty Pot .

The RWNJ's have just been handed their FACE AGAIN by the NRC/GOP biggies,

there is NO responsibility or reputation at the top.....

just look at Mitt !

(where are the missing 2009 Tax Returns Mr. Pillar of the Mormon Community ?)

Mister Fids,

I object to the implication that there is such a thing as a conservative brain.

john doh, please go back to the top and find where it said that the gop investigated this themselves. i couldn't find it. also, if you know the dems are doing the same thing please post specific information showing it.

earlier you were moaning about how someone didn't know you yet knew things about you, like you amble around town without eye contact. you do realize the bs coming off your keyboard is the same thing right? hypocrite.

'When did voter registration drive become a for-profit venture? It used to be done by community volunteers.'

The GOP doesn't like to do anything that won't turn profit for someone...

It's still generally done by volunteers if it's Democrats doing it, but the GOP has multiple problems using that method. One, many Repubs won't stoop to manual labor (I have to walk?) as it would wear out their Guccis; they're too used to hiring someone to do this sort of thing. Two, they're afraid someone will steal their BMWs while they're not in them. Three, of the few repubs they can talk into doing this, most will either get thrown off peoples porches as they can't seem to speak without spewing their hate, or won't be able to find their way home (this would be the poor white trash crowd who can't afford a GPS). Small wonder they have to hire it out....

Can't you just see Thurston Howell canvassing for Mitt? Pulling up and sending the chaffeur to the houses?.... LOL

... so maybe Corbett needs to hire these guys.

Even AFTER the State of Pennsylvania told the REPUBLICAN judge that they did NOT have ONE shred of evidence of voter fraud, the REPUBLICAN judge sided with the state. That tells how crooked he is.

And my tea party friends are quiet on face book, again... lol

The Republicans in good ole FL are at it once again! Ah, but according to the Republicans response, "It was just a few bad apples." "But it isn't happening anywhere else." Well, if it isn't happening anywhere else, then why are there so many cases now from different states waiting to be heard in the Federal Courts??

Good ole Reince should have a good spin on this, just give him a little time to sleep tonights bender off.

Looked in the dictionary for the definition of voter fraud. There was a picture of the repub/tea party.

Well, my father in law gets mailings from the GOP and Romney's campaign. I've notified them MANY times, he's been dead 8 years and even though his widow (a registered Democrat) lives with us, he never did. Having the local election officials verifying if someone registered him. NOTHING surprises me about the GOP. I'm sure they are just ticked because the company was too sloppy and got caught.

The Tea baggers on here trying to paint this as the GOP being the victim by this person/company. Hard to claim that when this very same person has been accused of fraud many times in the past. They only get righteous when caught.

The firm appears to be another shell company of Nathan Sproul, a longtime, notorious Republican operative, hired year after year by GOP Presidential campaigns, despite being accused of shredding Democratic voter registration forms in a number of states over several past elections.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Strategic Allied Consulting has been paid some $667,000 this year by the Florida GOP, presumably to run its voter registration campaigns in the state. That number, however, does not account for another identical payment made in August. The Palm Beach Post is reporting tonight that the firm received “more than $1.3 million” from the Republican Party of Florida “to register new voters.”

The firm is not only tied to the Florida GOP, but also to the Mitt Romney Campaign, which hired Sproul as a political consultant late last year, despite years of fraud allegations against his organizations in multiple states.

Write what ever it is that you need to write, Joan. It can't be easy admitting that you've been duped by the propaganda of known criminals.

Let it all out, little girl. When you grow up, try cleaning house and holding your party and it's leaders accountable. Making excuses and deflecting simply makes you look compliant with criminal behavior.

Yep, down here in Florida we have the best government money can buy!

Hell, look at Gov. Rick Scott, a known crook/scam artist. he spent 78 million dollars of his own money to get elected to a position that pays $130,000 a year and he told them to keep it, he'll work for free.

I'll bet ol' Ricky is shakin down some folks to get that 78 mil back.

It wasn't really his money. It was the money he defrauded medicare for!

Well they did steal the 2000 presidential election and put their crony GWB in the White House, we all know how well that turned out!

They feel emboldened to lie, cheat, steal and intimidate in order to win elections after their success stealing previous elections. NOT this time!

You are right Overloard

Bush's brother Gov of Fl rigged the election and Bush's daddies appointments to the Supreme Joke oops I mean Court legitimized it

Ain't going to happen this time!

This time if the GOPig tries their crap there will be trouble

No, no, no, BobbyG. You miss the point entirely. If voter-id were just required then none of these phoney voter registrations could have occurred.

That's why the voter-id laws were passed. With voter-id laws, there can be NO ELECTION FRAUD of any kind.

And they prevent waxy build-up from furniture polish. Not to mention overcoming the heartbreak of psoriasis, and rejuvinating tired blood.

Just ask any Republican state legislator. Voter-id laws will fix whatever does not ail us.

Voter I.D. laws are a deterrent, not a "fix-all". But you understand little about criminal psychology.

...and you understand even less about humanity , your country & your political party of choice .

Those who have no clothes have no business pointing to the near naked & laughing,

Your ideology is just as perforated as as that which you cast on others, you are no better than "Political Welfare" and no worse than "collateral damage"....

name ONE PERSON in the GOP/RNC that holds YOU in the same high regard as you HOLD anyone they shove your way....just one !

they care NOTHING about you...otherwise they wouldn't EMBARRASS the BASE with such stupidity .

John Doe-2241225

Voter I.D. laws are a deterrent, not a "fix-all". But you understand little about criminal psychology.

Apparently neither does the Republican Party.

Okay, let me get this straight the Repubs are doing all they can to disenfranchise thousands of most likely legal senior citizen voters with what they, the Republicans, consider legal identification and then they go hire this company that is doing the very same thing they are supposedly fighting. I think there is a word for that, HYPOCRITE. So what if the Repub's supposedly caught these people cheating.

Actually, Ed - this stinks of classic Karl Rove. Pretend to fight against something in an effort to distract people from the fact that you are doing that very same thing.

People like "john doe" fall for it all of the time.

John Doe-2241225

Voter I.D. laws are a deterrent, not a "fix-all". But you understand little about criminal psychology.

John Doe, everybody else calls it suppression, but I guess "deterrent" is just as good an explanation.

Thanks for the additional spin.

John Doe. How much is the RNC/GOP/TeaBaggers paying you to troll the comments sections of these websites. I do have to say you take the job seriously. How many other people, being so thoroughly discredited, would continue to show their moniker time after time. Looking at the number of people that support your comments, I think if I were your handlers I'd be asking for a refund!

True Shocked, being a Machevellian theocrat, Rove WOULD have knowledge concerning being a psychological criminal.

Sure Cheesy, just bush v gore and the hanging chads in 2000, just like the fiasco in Ohio sure democrats are to blame, just like this time. Not.

Obama 2012

You cheating bastards were caught red handed doing the same shyt you accuse Dems of. Now you want to start bringing some shyt up about ACORN. F*cking hypocrites....

Careful there, you're giving one of the Corps greatest heros a bad name.

ChestyPuller - Proof! Post Proof! or SHUT UP!

Obama/Biden 2012

Yo, Chesty Puller!

Bush actually won Pennsylvania but it was stolen for Kerry by crooked counting in the Philadelphia area that claimed he got 81% of the vote.

Isn't is just great that all that "crooked counting" can never happen again - because now we have a voter-id law that eliminates voting fraud.

What? Voter-id requirement has nothing to do with vote counting? But,... but,,,,, but, I they told us that the voter id law would eliminate vote fraud. Surely they wouldn't just make up stuff, would they?

Voter fraud always has been, and always will be majority Democrat. They have no morals to prevent them from doing it, their one belief is that money should be taken from the rich and given to those who don't have much.

Sorry I must have missed something in the article. I could have sworn it was the Republicans who got caught.

As to your second comment, that sounds like you either describing Jesus Christ or Robin Hood. Either way I'm ok with it.

Hey ChesterMolester or ChestyPuller whatever...

Riddle me this...Why did Jeb Bush spend $100 Million of taxpayer money on new voting equipment?

Answer- So he could make SURE the vote in Florida could be thrown for his dimwitted brother. Now where are all those Diebold machines???

Chesty is as big of a fraud as the GOP. I'm betting he never served a day, he just watched a few movies.....just like he formed his political opinions listening to whack jobs like Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity.

Easy, they will ignore it. If they don't report it, it didn't happen.

Either by not mentioning it...

... or, by noting that with a single example, a secret recording proved that ACORN was doing the same thing all over the country for years and years. (I wonder how many secret recordings they had to conduct before they actually found one poor sucker who took their bait - not that we saw how the bait was actually presented).

And besides that: the RNC stepped right up to the plate to fire them (as soon as they realized it was going to be publicized).

You've got to hand to the spinmeisters of Fox. They get paid big bucks for doing their job well. Like NFL Referees, they cannot be replaced by amateurs

You mean they will actually run it? I wouldn't hold my breath. Especially on Fox and Friends, O'Reilly, Hannity.

Should make the Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly debate all the more interesting now!

Shockedandoutraged - Where is your outrage and disgust with the POTUS cozying up to the Muslim Brotherhood and inviting them into OUR house? The very people who are dedicated to killing us are pandered to by the left wingnuts Marxists. Did you not feel outrage and disgust when Hold'em Holder refused to prosecute the NBPP and let them get away with murder? I am outraged and disgusted by your president, his minions and his sheeple who can't see he and his Muslim and Marxist friends for what they are.

Joan, doesn't your gay husband ever tell you that yelling in bold print doesn't prove, or even mean a thing? You're still not getting any... so quieten down, relax, take a breath and try to put your finger on the real problem. It's sure not because our president is wearing a hijab nor does his wife wear a burqa. It's simply because you are thoroughbred UGLY.

Oh Joan - where you Ok when Bush Jr kissed the Saudi Prince on the lips - where you OK when Jeff Gannon the male prostitute visited the White House 30 times

And Baby Joan - you do not own the White House - we voted Obama in and we all own the White House

And the Attorney General has vindicated Eric Holder on any knowledge of "Fast and Furious " or did you choose to over look that - your stupid rantings

In my back yard I have a multitude of holes where moles crawl under take your pick - on second thought moles are not racists - find another back yard - you disgust me lady

Thanks for showing your true colors, Joan. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, but now you've shown the wack-job that you are.

Joan, you are a liar. You are a liar that supports criminal behavior that is the height of anti-Americanism. You should be ashamed of yourself. Go ahead and hate America and all that she stands for, Joan - you will lose. When you repeat that level of propaganda, you spit in the face of all of the brave Americans that have fought and died for your right to act like an idiot.

Joan - there are people who are infirm - who do not drive but that have voted their entire life - no driver's licence

Actually only 30% of Americans have a passport

Guess what in the State of Washington - once registered your ballot is sent to you - registration is as easy as sending in a electric bill, or any other form of identification

And you vote and can put that vote in your mail box - voila - zero fraud!

But after all we are a Blue State - and so nobody has come after us

OK, Joan - you will be happy to give us documentation of your fight for the government to provide free "voter id", right? You do know that the government charging people to vote has been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, right? Of course you do....

Can the rhetoric, Joan. Either provide us with proven support for cost-free voter id or admit that you hate the constitution.

Rilli - it was Florida - let's guess just how long this has been going on?

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I'm sure Ed Shultz or Rachel Madow will have something to say about this gotcha moment.

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I first heard about this from a caller to the Ed Shultz radio show earlier today. I'm sure he'll talk about it.

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Story was on Tom Hartman show thur also....keep it alive.

forgot ask, nazarite, libsareidiots, don't worry they'll turn up, after all cheesy showed up.

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dont forget fools gold

Frank/Skyparrot, they're all busy taking their medications... calling Godfathers for early breakfast.

Pizza Pizza!

P Roberson, that's Little Caesar's (pizza! pizza!), Cain would be miffed...hahaha

Chesty - you're a true idiot. No $10 an hour flunky thought that one up. It was the account executive who called the shots!

The GOP has NO integrity!

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Ah, the republicans has/had no integrity to begin with, evidenced by the hate spewing, the GOP infested by the worst elements on the right, no attempt to take a flea bath and shake off the vermin because the GOP has no spine either like your hero romney.

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Don't worry, GOP integrity is still intact.

W..... is that you?

Cheezy Pullmyfinger, GOP and Integrity in one sentence? HaHaHaHaHa

Chesty, You live in some alternate universe. Not the one the rest of us live in.

Chesty....you're nothing more than a fraud. Slither back over to FOX noise where ignorance is celebrated daily. I hear Palins spot is opening....

Sorry Chester no hourly employee would go to the trouble of digging up dead voter records, forge signatures etc, unless paid a commission on signatures which is unethical. They hired a company with a long record of fraud.

The firm appears to be another shell company of Nathan Sproul, a longtime, notorious Republican operative, hired year after year by GOP Presidential campaigns, despite being accused of shredding Democratic voter registration forms in a number of states over several past elections.

The firm is not only tied to the Florida GOP, but also to the Mitt Romney Campaign, which hired Sproul as a political consultant late last year, despite years of fraud allegations against his organizations in multiple states.

Chesty, if the GOP keeps drawing and moving their 'Integrity' lines backwards in the sand, I'll be seeing bubbles rising out of the ocean very soon from the constant brain farts.

Why is Vitter still sitting in Congress, chesty?? Wasn't it Cochran that played go-between when Ensign, who did not resign, paid off his slut's husband? Can you elaborate on the Republican investigation of that??

You are right - Republican integrity is still intact. They had none then and they have none now. Shame on you for telling lies to support your traitors.

When you are done wiping with the Constitution, try reading it.

Sacred enough to require ID?

Uh excuse ME ?

ACORN was NOT a contractor for the Democratic National Committee...

it was a community deal...

as opposed to the RNC HIRING these turpitudinal twerps !

Apples & grape comparison there bud !

There are numerous issues involving the same problem on the Left, and MSNBC won't squeeze out a paragraph on them

Well then Dave, feel free to share them with us...

Dave D-1046643

There are numerous issues involving the same problem on the Left, and MSNBC won't squeeze out a paragraph on them.

In fantasyland.

By now, the GOP holds the banner of election frauds in the U.S.

Unless you try to convince naive school children.

Dave - Yes, this is pretty incredible. You are obviously a Republican. Doesn't this bother you at all? Is cheating ok with you?

Unless you try to convince naive school children.

....or other republicans.

Gee Dave, about the only thing missing is the audio of your whines while typing your rant and the follow up question "why <insert whine here> does the media keep showing my guy saying stupid sh*t"

Well Dave, because your guy keeps saying stupid sh*t, and the reality is what you believe to be large scale voter fraud on the part of the Democrats is nothing more than subterfuge.

And in the surreal news: FauxNoise is reporting:

"Embattled Senate Hopeful Akin Gets Key Backing" - lead political story

"Drop in Ohio Voter Registration Mirrors Nationwide Trend" - their only mention, at this time, of this situation. However; there's a silver lining: now these crooks have been fired in Florida, they can be rehired by the GOP in Ohio and turn those frowns upside down.

You just keep spreading that stuff "Dave D"; I'm sure it'll make the roses grow better somewhere. What really torques me off is the overwhelming need for discussion and need for new ideas to improve our economic situation, but all the GOP wants to talk about is Voter Suppression (that's what it really is), gay marriage, and anything but specific plans about how to improve the opportunties for the vast majority of Americans.

The amount of hypocrisy the republic party symbolizes in frightening. Twitt's ads complain about intrusive government policies, yet they cannot stay out of people bedrooms, nor keep their policies out of women's private choices.

He complained about the famed 47%, when if the people he denigrated were to vote against him Obama would win with 90 percent of the vote. As Nixon said "I am not a crook". 156 million people receive some form of federal government check or healthcare. That is six times as many black people are there are in the country. I wonder who is getting all of this government money? I guess you should look to the red states in those nice warm climates.

Doesn't this bother you at all? Is cheating ok with you?

This is the truly amazing thing. The last time I could get away with using "everyone else is doing it, too" as an excuse was when I was in first grade.

The ACORN scandal was well reported when it occurred. Obviously it has to be media bias to actually report current news instead of running stories from years past. Can you people even rationalize your logic in your own mind?

Obviously... the Romney Campaign slogan should be "Win At All Costs and Do Not be Constrained By Fact Checks"

Yah Floridians gave Bush an election by voting for him, twice.

In 2000, Bush got more votes in Florida on the count, the recount, and the count after the election by the NY Times and other papers.

In 2004, it wasn't even close.

chestypuller---Are you related to the Marine Corp Chesty Puller famous during WWII and the Korean war??

Just wondering, he was tough but he wasn't crazy.

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Chesty just watched too many war movies and now he's a legend in his own mind, which must be pretty consuming since it's so small.

You are most certainly correct sir. Floridians voted for Bush twice in each of the two elections.

I guess the acorn doesn't fall too far from the tree in GOP fantasy-land.

In the history of US politics, have we ever seen such an inept, bumbling attempt to waste this much money to get trounced in an election?

The GOP Presidential candidate committed voter fraud in 2010. I wonder if he's still claiming residence in his son's basement?

He should take his being the gov. of Mass. off his resume. Since he was never a legal resident. Isn't that fraud? How do some people keep getting away with fraud and treason, especially republicans?

Acorn never committed voter fraud that was proven in court and video that suggested otherwise was created by a GOP operative, so how ironic that the people actually caught paying someone to do voter fraud is the GOP. Amazing didn't hear a word on fixx news or scarborough about this, so much for fair and balanced!