Sheriff Joe Arpaio makes bogus voter fraud claims in voter suppression effort
Sen. Russell Pearce makes bogus voter fraud claims in voter suppression effort
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the GOP has annually engaged in voter suppression efforts built around exaggerated claims of "voter fraud" by minorities, felons and illegal aliens. Michael Bryan has been posting articles about this on his twitter feed and Mike's AZ Political News Clips.
As I have told you about previously, the GOP has been under a consent decree for many years not to engage in voter suppression, A primer on GOP voter suppression: voter caging, so the GOP gets around this court order by farming out voter suppression operations to independent groups like the Republican National Lawyers Association, GOP Lawyers Group Warns Newsmax Of 'Epidemic' Voter Fraud and, of course, the GOP's propaganda network of FAUX News. Michelle Malkin: 'We Are All Voter Fraud Police Now'. Corporate lobbyist sponsored (FreedomWorks)Tea Party groups are also getting into the voter suppression efforts this year.
Here in Arizona, our nativist racist fear-monger-in-chief Sen. Russell Pearce is the leader of the GOP voter suppression efforts. Writing in the American Post-Gazette, distributed by Common Sense and posted at the right-wing blog Sonoran Alliance (I also received a copy of his e-mail), Sen. Pearce alleges Massive voter fraud in Arizona and Colorado:
There has been an accusation that 65% of 5000 voter registration forms, submitted by Mi Familia Vota and One Vote Arizona, in Yuma County on the last day of filling are invalid due to the registrant not being a citizen, wrong/invalid address, false signature, etc. I also understand that these 2 groups have signed up 20,000 states wide and they have requested that 45,000 be put on the permanent early ballot. If 65% of these last minute registration forms in Yuma are invalid, which may be more as they are still checking the rest, then what is the percentages of invalid in Maricopa, Pima and other counties.
This is a very serious accusation that needs to be investigated to the fullest extent of the law. If this accusation is true then the perpetrators of this hideous crime against America citizens should be prosecuted to full extent of the law by Arizona Courts and not the federal courts as they do nothing on voter fraud and voter intimidation. All participants should be locked up and the key thrown away. This is an attack against sovereignty of this state and our freedoms for a socialist agenda.
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They will stop at nothing to steal our elections and it appears that the friends of Raul Grijalva are doing everything they can to keep Ruth McClung, Janet Contreras and David Schweikert from getting elected. ACORN & SEIU are doing everything they can to find loop holes in our laws to use illegal’s and dead people to vote for their socialist, Anti-American agenda incumbents.
Yesterday a Colorado judge threw out 6000 bogus voter registration forms submitted by the same SEIU off shoot Mi Familia Vota here in Arizona.
I am going to pursue this matter, the State Legislator has full investigative powers and I will not let this rest. I will be pursuing for a full investigation and if violations are found, I will push for aggressive prosecution with jail time imposed.
The Yuma County Recorder says our fear-monger-in-chief is full of crap. Election official: Claims of voter registration fraud not true:
The Yuma County Recorder's Office says it has processed a large number of requests to be put on the permanent early voter list but claims of fraudulent voter registration is not an issue in Yuma County, despite reports in the blogosphere.
On Oct. 20, The Yuma Sun reported that representatives with two organizations, Mi Familia Vota and One Arizona, registered 3,000 eligible Hispanic voters for permanent early voting ballots.
This apparently led to claims on the Internet that there were groups fraudulently “registering” voters here, and Yuma County Recorder Robyn Stallworth Pouquette said Monday that is not true.
Enrolling voters on the permanent early voting ballot list is different than registering people to vote, she said.
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“During this election cycle, the Recorder's Office has processed over 14,000 PEVL requests, and over 8,000 eligible voters have been added to the PEVL in Yuma County,” she said. “The remaining requests were reviewed and rejected, under Arizona law, either due to the fact the request was a duplicate or the requestor was not eligible to vote in this election or within the jurisdiction.”
The recorder has maintained checks and to maintain the integrity of every election conducted in Yuma County and staff is working overtime so that every request received is properly processed according to Arizona law,” she said.
After some reports of the perceived voter fraud hit the Internet over the weekend, one local group of residents held a protest Monday evening on the corner of 24th Street and 4th Avenue. One report of “voter registration” came from a blog called Publius Pundit; it was also circulated on other websites [e.g., Sonoran Alliance].
(Maybe the Arizona Daily Star should report about this "speculation and innuendo" that leads to actual voter intimidation and suppression? Oh right, IOKIYAR).
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