Back in 2004 and 2008, GOP operative Nathan Sproul was constantly being accused of voter registration fraud — including having his workers misrepresent themselves as nonpartisan, and then having them throw away or destroy registration forms turned in by Democrats. (One Utah Republican noted, “the difference between ACORN and Sproul is that ACORN doesn’t throw away or change registration documents after they have been filled out.”) But back in 2004 and 2008, Republicans hadn’t spent a year trying to disenfranchise olds, poors, youngs and minorities with voter ID laws, so so what, who cayuhs? Now the RNC is shocked — shocked! — that the man they’ve paid $2.9 million to so far this year to conduct voter registration in five battleground states has apparently been caught turning in voter registration forms for dead people in Florida. No really, they’re shocked. They have totally fired him, and he’s super-blacklisted until Karl Rove’s Crossroads or the Koch Brothers’ AFP puts him on the payroll. (Or until, like Blackwater, he changes his firm’s name.) So we figure he’ll still be blacklisted until at least next Tuesday.
So what was Sproul’s Strategic Allied Consulting doing this time? Oh, just turning in voter registration forms for dead people, giving their addresses as gas stations and a Land Rover dealership. Fully a third of the forms they turned in to the Palm Beach registrar look to have been fake.
This is excellent news for John McCain.
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"See, there is voter fraud! Purge those voter rolls!"
Self fulfilling prophesies abound.
Oh, come on! You had to know they were doing it from the first moment they started pointing fingers.
"I'm not cheating on you! You're cheating on me!"
Wait till Karl Rove appears in a robe, waves his hand and sez: "These aren't the fraudsters you're looking for."
Jedi libel! Unless you're suggesting he's Sith.
Same powers… but definitely a sith.
Oh, he's full of Sith.
Vader fraud?
"You don't need to see his identification."
You mean voter trolls?
I got into a "discussion" with a right-wing asshat (sorry for the redundancy) FB "friend" who threw out the old trope about "illegals" voting for democrats. He: 1) couldn't produce ANY evidence this has occurred more than a handful of times nationwide in the last decade, and 2) ignored my counterpoint that to have ANY effect on an election, you'd have to have tens or even hundreds of thousands of illegal votes cast which would be virtually impossible to pull off logistically, not to mention keeping that many people quiet about it.
The whole "massive voter fraud stealing elections meme" is just ridiculous from a logical point of view, even ignoring the fact that there's zero evidence of it happening at all. Except on the GOP side, of course.
They learned well from the Ronnie 'Welfare Queen' BS.
I swear all the GOP needs to do is start growing a mustache to twirl so that it can become a complete stereotypical villain.
It's like Snidely Whiplash and Dishonest John had a gay sex baby.
Nya-ah-ãhh!!
Where's James O'Keef? He should be on this story like zirconium on a pimp cane.
Oh right… it's a real story… Carry on then.
We're all over this story like acne on James O'Keef.
Or James O'Keefe on a Dildo rapeboat…
He's determining if any of the dead people were Democrats when alive so he can spin this as Democratic voter fraud.
Dead people are people too, my friend. Just because they're dead doesn't negate their peopleness.
I've been to Florida, and, in all fairness, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
Nathan Sproul has stuffed moar ballot boxes than all the turkeys are at Thanksgiving. Stuffed moar than Dick Daley teh elder, too, also
Dick J is still voting.
Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, well, you can't fool us twice cause the first time was like your audition. Carry on!
"… fool me once, shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —President George W. Bush,
I thought that was The Who.
I miss that whole rhythm section.
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!
Oh, put your sunglasses back on.
I thought that was Paul Ryan.
Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, you're hired!
I'm beginning to suspect that these Republicans aren't completely on the up-and-up.
Well, let's not be hasty. I'm sure there is a good explanation for this.
I agree. I'm sure those dead people were alive at one point.
Perhaps they drove the hearse with their bodies through the gas station or the Land Rover dealership. See, those forms… mostly true!
As long as they are dead WHITE people
The RIGHT kind of voter.
White makes right.
I'll be waiting for the 24-hour outrage-palooza on Fox.
Suggest you don't hold yer breath during that wait.
Me too. If you call, ask for Blue Boy… 'cuz I'll be holding my breath.
Their Senior Voter Fraud Correspondent will be all over this.
The ends justify the means, therefore the asses justify their voter suppression tactics. It's for Amerikkka!
Alinsky!
We had to kill the voter in order to save him.
We can't have the American people voting for Obama. They don't know what he would do if he were president!
Land Rover dealerships normally vote Republican. I’ll believe there is real fraud only after I see the Pimp-Cam footage.
If Conservatives are having whiny, baby, wet diaper fits about something, it's 1,000% certain that they are actually doing said something.
The Doth Protest Too Much Syndrome. Yes.
Larry Craig gives a wide stance of approval from the closet…
It's just too confusing for them to distinguish a pot from a kettle.
You mean like when they rant and rave about some moral issue, then it turns out their doing meth off prostitutes' bellies or tapping their feet in public rest rooms?
Or when they wrap themselves in the flag and then vote constantly against programs for Veterans? Yes.
Or wearing diapers and asking to be spanked.
Well they have to — ever since Nixon accused JFK of stuffing ballot boxes in 1960, the misdeeds that Democrats have probably perpetrated in Republicans' imaginations are much worse than those the Republicans were actually gonna do — so the GOP has to respond by being even worse than they had wanted to be. It's a sad escalation, but that's what you get when there's no limit to what you can imagine your adversary doing.
Psychological projection explains so much of Republican policy.
What's wrong with the dead voting? They can't be any stupider than the typical teatard, and they want less Obamacare, because they are, well, dead.
Oh, well. At least the GOP can still rely on brain-dead voters.
Zombie libel!
If it was legitimate voter fraud, the voting system magically defends itself by rejecting the vote, thus it's impossible for there to be voter fraud.
It has a way of shutting that whole thing down. Anyone who says that they voted illegally is a lying whore.
The dead have risen! And they're voting Republican!!
They've been risen for the last thirty years.
Shouldn't they see a doctor about that condition? The warnings say anything over 4 hours…
It's the Rapture!
A simple surgical procedure can fix that. No more irritating belts and trusses.
Its only fraud when black people vote. These ballots represent the true will of America and the Constitution.
"They have totally fired him….."
Oh great. Now he is eligible for an Obamaphone and will pay no income tax, is dependent upon government and believes that he is entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. Loser.
Well at least he'll vote for Obama now. He can even drive to the polls in his free Government Motors car, and Obama will pay for his gas.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED, to find gambling going on in a casino!
How come I don't get paid when I do voter registration?
*ideaspark*
I just realized that I could if I turn Republican! I wonder if my khakis still fit…
You'll need a fresh polo shirt, too. And a nice big SUV to ride around in. Yes, it's an investment, but don't worry, you'll be paid back, plus a little for being good.
Cheater cheater, baby eater. This has to be Clinton's fault somehow.
And because baby eating is involved, clearly papists are in on it too.
And if it's Christian babies, Jews and Muslims too.
Clinton was accused of a lot but his, I.e., Carvelle's, election plan in 1992 was spectacular. Contacts were made all the way down to the voter district level and each district was evaluated as to how many Democratic votes were needed to win that district. Then this was walked up the hill to whether each winning district producing X number of Democratic votes would win the state. It was awesome. I pulled my weight and got a free ticket to an inauguration ball.
Thanks for your service at the ball.
It was really quite boring.
I'm waiting for the RNC statement today: "THIS is why we need voter ID laws."
Have the True the Vote assholes come riding to the rescue yet? What's that? Oh..Republicans. Right.
been caught turning in voter registration forms for dead people in Florida.
To be fair, Editrix, it's Florida. Sometimes it's hard to tell if they're dead or not.
Old people and their parents. When I lived there I always kept that in mind when driving.
Oops!
But were these dead voters white? A dead white vote has priority over a live brownz's vote.
To be fair, they were just taking a page out of the "baptizing the dead" Mormon playbook.
Mormon Methodism, which involves a light baptismal facial sprinkling.
You're getting perilously close to necrophilia there, bub.
Next up on Fox and Friends: James O'Keefe's blistering undercover video exposè of Nathan Sproul’s Strategic Allied Consulting voter fraud scam.
No?
The GOP is no longer a political party. It is now an organized crime syndicate.
Now?
Richard Milhous Nixon resembles that remark.
And Rove is the tutti-di-fruiti capo.
(Or until, like Blackwater, he changes his firm’s name.)
Dickface would be a good name.
Or Feral Express. Vote-in-the-Box. Insta-Constituent.
And would follow the theme: Strategic Allied Consultant (SAC)
"What are those nuts over at SAC up to now?"
"Fraud Is Our Profession"
Totally Not Doing Anything Sketchy, Inc.
I intend to start voting Republican after I'm dead. True fact.
The Republican electorate finally caught up with Republican ideas.
Not me. Great-great-grandad is still voting Dem, and so will I!
Have the Rethuglicans lost faith in Diebold's vote-changing ability?
No need. It's their ace in the hole.
Ever get the feeling that investigations should be launched every time Republicans make some kind of accusation? But the Republican's should be investigation instead of the Dems.
I am terrified to know what Michelle Bachmann's plans were for the re-education camps, but I am sure she had them.
This is a not a rhetorical question – though I have a good guess at what the answer is, I'm not sure.
Isn't this the sort of thing that should have this guy facing criminal charges?
I'm pretty sure that various hapless ACORN workers ended up doing time for less.
Maybe he'll change his firm's name to Blackwater. That name isn't taken anymore, and it couldn't hurt.
It even comes with a catchy theme song by the Doobie Brothers.
Voting Fraud Is Alright With Me (As Long As My Team Wins)?
Jesus is Just Alright; Ronald Reagan is Numbah One!
Nathan's Fandago
Or Backwater. With a theme song by Eno:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YitVQuOBuLc
Hey I want to chage my name to Blackwater, if it's still available. I'd be badass.
Hey, Hey, Hey… Stop it! You think it's easy disenfranchising all those people and stealing their vote? You try it. Get in the ring. This is HARD.
The dead have a right to vote Republican!
So, where's the part from NBC about why he isn't in jail?
I'm confused. How did they get all those dead people to sign the registration forms? Were they zombies?
All you have to do is place a piece of tracing paper on their headstone and rub some charcoal over it a la Indina Jones.
You see! They were right all along! There is voter fraud happening!
*something whispered in Esteev's ear*
Oh, I see. Well it appears these people are complete fascists.
Of course, it's the Democrats pointing out voter fraud who are the real fraudsters.
Only way to ensure a fair election is for Florida now to demand three forms of ID from registered republicans before giving them a ballot. Oh, and a doctor has to declare them to be alive.
And that doctor must be Bill Frist, diagnosing you remotely.
How about requiring a prostate exam, too? That way at least then we will know that they will have been screwed before they try to screw the rest of us?
Stabby. Stabby. Stabby. Stabby. Stabby.
With live votes!
Good old reliable Nathan.
OT but does anyone else find it slightly alarming to wake up to a 'good morning' from bill clinton?
Not really, but I feel so dirty leaving the money on the dresser.
Imagine how shocked and disappointed I was to find out President Clinton wasn't personally emailing me to get my take on pressing global issues, but instead had his name on the same fundraising plea I've received 15 times this week.
What? You mean that wasn't really Barack and Michelle personally asking for money either? Man, what is the world coming to?
Depends: is "good morning" a euphemism along the lines of "happy ending?"
I was a little peeved by that. It seemed smarmy what with me being sick and miserable today.
No snark. How do these people sleep at night?
Vampires don't sleep at night.
Ambien.
Remember, they have healthcare.
They sleep just fine. They have no fundamental belief in democracy.
No conscience, no problem.
They're self-centered sociopaths.
..as opposed to yer empathetic, altruistic sociopaths.
With all the money floating around……….entreprenurial America at its best………miscreants are people too…..
Your move, New Hampshire GOP.
All this makes me long to see the Republican party prosecuted under the RICO Act.
I'm not looksist, but that man just reeks of either corrupt funeral director or pedophilic boys' hockey coach.
I was thinking Press Secretary.
Looks to me like a failed televangelist.
So this voter fraud is happening AFTER all the voter
suppressionverification laws they passed to prevent it? Republicans must be feeling pretty good about themselves right about now.This guy really embodies the American Dream.
Who would have thought a graduate of the Pillsbury Baptist Bible College and the University of Phoenix could pull himself up by his bootstraps to scam millions of dollars from one of the major American political parties? (Oxford or the Ivies, sure, but the now-defunct PBBC?)
It's because PBBC has so much dough, boy.
He borrowed money from his parents, obvs.
Blam-o
Setting 'em up and knocking 'em down.
Funniest comment I've read in awhile. Thanks!
Jerry Garcia weeps.
This Sproul obviously caught a bad case of the Priebus from a cabana boy.
Sproul, who has long worked for the GOP, also criticized Florida and national Republican officials for dumping him.
Awwwww. Widdle Nathan got his feewings hurt after the big bad RNC stepped on his dick. Bless his heart.
That photo looks suspiciously like RNC Priebus….is he dead?…
Psychic Wonkette predicted it months ago http://wonkette.com/475883/romney-campaign-finds-…
Meanwhile, in Colorado, this.
I just FB shared this. Thanks. The added bonus is that this will help reduce my 'friend' list in the best way. :-)
Those dead people were killed by the shame of having a Muslim black Kenyan as president so they should be allowed to vote against him.
GOP: We're Lying, Stealing, Cheating, Raping and Sneering…for Jesus!
If you can re-baptize the dead and make them into retroactive faithful Mormons, why not go whole hog and make them into retroactive Republicans? They'll fit right in at the Tea Party rally in the meeting room at the Sizzler; just less snory.
Get back to me when the New Black Panther Party (Republican) starts harassing voters in Philadelphia.
The reason the GOP gets away with all this horrible shit is because the democrats never call them out on it. By the time the 2014 election rolls around, none of the voter ID laws or the roll purges will be remembered.
It's not a crime if it's done for the Right reasons.
When Zombie Republicans show up to vote, the RNC sure is going to feel bad for firing Mr. Sproul.
The sad thing is, he likely wasn't doing this to improve GOP chances in Florida. He was probably getting paid by the registration and was just trying to make a buck. So, in reality, he was making money and jobs, and he got punished for it. I blame the Democrat party for getting in the way of this job creation effort.
I enjoyed the massive coverage Fox News gave this story.
If it happens in Florida it's criminal and eventually we all find out about it. Is it due to the shape of the state? Or just the state of the shape? Flaccid and pointing towards a "commie" isle full of classic American cars and tons of rum.
Didn't our nation's great supreme court declare that dead people are corporations and therefore eligible to vote for time-everlasting?
All Republican registrations in Florida are suspect. If the Dems in Florida had brass they would sue to challenge ALL RepubliCon registrations until the state can verify they are all legitimate.
Sproul said in a telephone interview that his company has employed between 4,000 and 5,000 people to register Republican voters under its contract with the RNC, including over 2,000 in Florida
You America-hating commenters are all jerb killers!
Bring out yer dead!
"I'm shocked. Shocked to find that
gambling<insert GOP stuff here> is going on in here." With apologies to Claude Rains.Also, would-be Abramoff cell-mate Ralph Reed has been resurrected on Mitten's behalf. I'm wondering just what a hack would have to do to actually fall out of favor with the GOP?
Schaden fraud?
Nicely played, sir!
*polite golf clap*
Martini?
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