rssMcCain Campaign Has Own Voter-Registration Scandal
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 6:02 am
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After weeks of escalating Republican attacks on the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, for alleged voter registration fraud, it turns out the McCain campaign has its own fraud charges to respond to.
The Huffington Post reports that McCain has paid $175,000 to Lincoln Strategy Group, a political consulting group based in Arizona and run by Republican operative Nathan Sproul, who’s been accused of voter registration fraud in several states — in the form of throwing away Democratic registration forms and suppressing Democratic voter turnout.
HuffPost also reports that the Republican National Committee separately paid Lincoln Strategy another $37,000 to register voters for this election. Sproul, meanwhile, has donated nearly $30,000 to the McCain campaign. He’s also a former leader of the Arizona Republican Party and of the state’s Christian Coalition.
9 Comments
Comment posted October 22, 2008 @ 5:30 am
Funny. I cannot find any imperical information on this or any other related article (other than the ACORN fraud).
Comment posted October 22, 2008 @ 6:33 am
Have you actually looked?
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/070505Miller-…
http://www.azcapitoltimes.com/story.cfm?id=9647
Comment posted October 24, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
Interesting article, my son is a college student who was registering voters in Ohio for the McCain campaign and when he went to pick up his check he was told to not cash the check until next week. I told him to take it to their bank and he did that same day and the bank cashed it and I think they were banking on the kids not cashing them until next week and then they were probably going to take the money out before they could release the funds.
Comment posted October 27, 2008 @ 12:01 am
As noted, Spoul has a history of using dirty tricks to assist the GOP, especially during the 2004 election. Democtatic registrations are thrown away, canvassers are instructed to only register Republicans, and etcetera. The GOP paid Sproul $500,000 in 2004. It liked his company's work.
http://legalramblings.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/…
Comment posted October 28, 2008 @ 10:08 am
Obama is leading by a wide margin in every poll, so why would he cheat? McCain is the one who is losing, the Republicans are in the position to resort to cheating.
Comment posted October 30, 2008 @ 8:51 am
And we are not hearing this on the major news providers because ? If you have the info, it should be all over the front pages of every newspaper and on every computer monitor. Along with the info about the McCain car wreck – I imagine it would be harder to deny the FOIA requests if all the major news outlets were screaming for the facts! If the tables were reversed, trust me, we would have heard about this long ago – now is the time for this info, not after the election!
GO OBAMA!
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