Guys, guys, calm down now. You may have thought you finally found some voter fraud after all these years of searching far and wide and under every ACORN, but it is pretty clear to the Virginia attorney general, registrar and Board of Elections that you didn’t. To them, it is quite obvious that a guy working for the RNC conducting voter registrations, who was caught blocks from their office shadily throwing completed voter registration forms in someone else’s Dumpster, simply cannot be guilty of voter registration fraud, despite working for the company widely known to commit voter registration fraud for the RNC. How do they know this? Because nowhere on Virginia’s voter registration applications does it list party affiliation! Therefore, dude would have no way of knowing the forms he was throwing away belonged to Democrats. And there are so many other reasons he might have thrown away people’s applications! Investigation closed! Wait, really, the investigation’s closed? Sho nuff.
“There’s no way to tell by party when people fill out these forms, what party they’re affiliated with, so I don’t think there’s any political motivation,” Virginia Registrar Brandi Lilly said Friday.
Obviously, the folks being paid millions to do voter registration for the RNC in Virginia could not possibly have come up with any super sophisticated ways of knowing if they were registering Democrats or Republicans. Like for instance, they could definitely not use precinct data to determine if someone registering were statistically more likely to be a Democrat or a Republican. And they certainly would never use demographic data, like happening to notice if the person attempting to register was, say, BLACK BLACK BLACK OMG SO BLACK Y’ALL. And a third thing they would never do is happen to ask that voter while they were registering that voter if he or she happened to be Democrat or Republican. It is just logic!
So Brandi Lilly is obviously correct. There could have been no political motivation for throwing out those registration forms that one and only time (that Colin Small was caught). It must have been something else entirely to make that guy throw out those voter reg forms!
Like …
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Like they said, case closed!
[WTVR, via Wonkville miner Terry]
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Fuck these crooked GOP villains, really, just fuck these bastards.
And these are just the ones we KNOW about.
I shudder to think…
With votes. GOTV, y'all! Especially if you live somewhere you don't think it matters – Obama and the Dems need to win the popular vote, and the GOP is going to try and run up the score in the South to muddy the waters.
Nothing to investigate here. Move along.
I wonder if actor212 has any interesting comments along this line.
I claim refresh error. Besides, mine's bigger.
Great minds clearly run in the same channels.
The man has good taste.
Phew I feel much better.
Nothing to see here! Move along! Round up the usual suspects!
Isn't James O'Qeefe already in custody?
And naturally, suspects are brown. Not like this angel and his cold dead eyes
Clearly, he doesn't have the blahs.
This is not the voter registration fraud you're looking for. This the the voter registration fraud hiding in plain site.
Exactly so. The voter registration fraud you are looking for is only done by Democrats. It's ok if you are a Republican. Duh.
The great thing is they probably rationalize it by saying "Oh well, them balcks is already doin' it, yeeehaw!" and they probably actually believe it.
These people are about as smart as pondscum.
Well I at least would like to pin a medal on the store manager who saw this dreg of society dumping the forms behind his place. He didn't need long to put 2 and 2 together.
Now the good people of Virginia need to call their State reps and the Board of Elections and demand an investigation.
What part of "case closed" don't you understand?
He probably pays his carting service by the pound and said "WTF?"
I'm certain the fine, christian, law-abiding Repubs will immediately start boycotting the store that reported this crime. Cause that's the kind of petty vindictive assholes they really are…
Snark Off: Does the GOP *genuinely* so hate and fear the American electoral process? Is there truly *no* corruption or crookedness these people will not stoop to in order to continue their rape of America?
No. They want only to "win". Of course, the rest of us lose. And people vote for them.
So. "We must destroy democracy in order to save it"?
Yes. Yes they hate democracy, yes they loooove winning – however that has to happen. It's just what HAS to be. They must win this battle however they can. It's just what's right. Always. Right.
They must win this battle because they have never won anything else in life's lottery.
They're worried the nation is as liberal as they fear it is.
NEWSFLASH: it is.
Watching conservatism thrash in its death throes is funny but also frightening as hell.
I'm afraid these aren't death throes.
Relax. I've heard rats are really easy to deal with when they'r cornered.
Well yes, of course they do. This is the logical endpoint of ideological extremism.
If you really, truly believe that your policies will be shiny golden salvation for your country, and that your opponent's policies would bring ruin, what would you stop at to make sure you're the one in charge? Assassination probably wouldn't be off the table, so to get squeamish at a little systematic voter fraud would be letting your country down.
So true.
(If only the rest of us could understand their POV.)
As someone (sorry, don't remember who) commented in the last thread about this little cracker, it's crude, like Third World banana republic crude. We're about two months away from loudspeakers on poles broadcasting, "All hail our fairly and democratically elected Beloved Leader!", and no, I don't mean President Obama.
Well when that happens I hope the UN and other developed nations react the same way they do with third world countries….because if not, they would seem slightly biased.
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Wow! Thrown away by the administrator. I haven't even gotten one of these yet.
You know who else got "thrown away"…?
I'm just a prom night dumpster baby
I got no mom or dad
prom night dumpster baby
my story isnt long but boy its awfully sad
My baby!
♪♪
heehee
the one from the Marriott in Gaithersburg?
Lance Armstrong?
I ride, and with all due respect to Lance, AMF.
And I don't mean Adios My Friend.
I hope to get a "This comment has been flushed away by the administrator."
Comment fraud!
I bet we'll find Dean's comment in a dumpster behind a nearby store!
Was your post a voter's registration form?
Wow, I am impressed. The mind boggles.
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In the word(s) of Sterling Archer, sploosh!
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Jesus that fucking psychopath is white.
BMW, MBA
Vote Republican election day.
I'm white, I'm white
And when I walk my buttocks are extremely tight.
Edit, thanks SNL.
He used to be a Republican Hill staffer, too.
Looks like a "staffer."
Looks like a staffee.
Better.
Who? deanbooth?
One look and I knew that skin-head wanna be was a bad-un.
If you close your eyes he's black. Isn't that better?
"Jesus that fucking psychopath is white."
That's how you know he's not a criminal, DOY!
Apparently voter registration fraud is okey dokey if you're a "Real American."
God Bless the baby Jeebus, the confederate flag and semi-automatic hunting rifles.
You can make 'em automatic real easy.
Evil looking little toad, but these workers are generally paid by the registration so why would he be throwing out some of his pay. I have a hard time believing he wasn’t instructed how to profile people and told to do what he did.
He certainly doesn't look smart enough to figure it out on his own…
"And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesk– oh wait; I did get away with it."
“There’s no way to tell by party when people fill out these forms… so I don’t think there’s any political motivation,” Virginia Registrar Brandi Lilly said Friday.
Rethuglican
secretoperative Lilly also said that it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime.There's a mighty thin line between being disingenuous and being stupid…
The stupidity goes to 11.
She then went on to say that no one could possibly have expected Bin Laden to strike in the U.S.
The really sad thing is that this guy didn't even RECYCLE the forms.
Recycling is for socialists.
Maybe not, but they've successfully repurposed the Constitution as toilet paper.
Really, this is just a big old compliment to the power of the Democrats. This skinhead-wannabe here actually literally defrauding and denying people the ability to vote, he's powerless compared to those two New Black Panther dudes standing on the side of the road yelling – I mean, it's just so obvious who the REAL scourge on all that is voting is, no?
See? The system works!
For "some" people.
I know I say this about a lot of people, but he shore has a purty mouth.
You know who else has a pur….
I'm sure those DSLs have seen plenty of use. Here in the South, at least, the old joke is as true as true can be:
"What's the difference between a straight guy and a gay guy?"
"About 4 beers."
Good thing I only drink Tall Boys.
Wait.
It's a lot less purty when you can hear the words that come out of it.
Nice wonky eye.
It was probably because of Libya.
Any chance that Virginia Registrar Brandi Lilly is a GOP toady??
100% chance. Probably personally selected for the job by either Virginia's illustrious governor or attorney general.
It looks like the two titles are pretty much synonymous…
Given what a good person this Romney guy is and what a lovely family he has, I'd say let's just be done with this whole "voting" experiment and just make him our king. Ann would make a fine queen and she has has horse experience, which I believe you have to have to be a monarch.
If it would make the election be over sooner, it'd be worth considering.
Do the Romney's have any Corgis? Those are important to royalty as well. We already know they own an obscene amount of real estate for their personal use.
Don't Roof Rack Me, Bro! http://www.dogsagainstromney.com/2012/10/mitt-rom…
Nice!
Okay. The "Pee Here" yard sign is fucking brilliant.
My fave, too.
Heard at the dog-park:
A great Halloween costume idea (for your dog), is to put a "cone of shame" on the dog along with three giant olives on a toothpick, and call it a "muttini."
I'd bet she has a little donkey experience too, IYKWIM.
Catherine the Great libel!
Like . . .
He used them to wipe some boogers while he was travelling between voter registration drives (come on, we've all been there).
I would be extremely hesitant to hand a voter registration form to someone who looked like that guy.
I'd be hesitant to take a blank one, too.
Is the whole state full of fucked up Mike Judge drawings come to life, or is it just this guy?
Add a pair of Aviators, and you have Dale.
"Rusty Shackleford!!"
Shackleford wants a pizza…
About 90% of the South is full of fucked up Mike Judge drawings come to life, only wthout Mike Judge's wit and humor.
No snark, I am not in a funny mood today, because I fear that tonight "O" is going to come across as the smart, reasonable guy, which is just not popular. Mittens will sound like the bellicose table thumper who's going to rebuild our dreadnaught fleet and get the Air Force back up to parity with China with a crash program to build more Sopwith Camels. And also start doing some bombing, not with panty weight drones, but with bombers.
He's going to close the trebuchet gap!
Buck up, Mitt's overdue for a major Bain fart.
O needs a chart for tonight:
Mitt's foreign policy expertise —————> <—————
Three words: Osama bin Laden.
You can fill in the rest.
I beat people over the head with that constantly. If they are real snotty, I remind them that as CINC, O has commanded combat forces (unlike them).
Only if you don't count their video game experience!
Don't worry.
Mitt?
Foreign policy?
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
As long as they replay the hits from Romney's "Piss Off As Many World Leaders As Possible" tour, everything should be fine.
I hear he's also planning to have our autogyros storm the consulates of Prussia and Siam.
"Mittens will sound like the bellicose table thumper"
Haw, I read that as "bellicose Bible thumper", althought that, too, I guess.
I think Mitt's about one broken shoelace away from a major meltdown a la the "Saturday Night Live" sketch, and I hope he has it on camera.
"I'M TIRED OF ALL THIS TALKING! YOU PEOPLE HAVE TO DO WHAT I SAY! I WANT MY CROWN! GIVE IT TO ME!! GIMME GIMME!! WAAAAAAAHH!!!!"
It must have been something else entirely to make that guy throw out those voter reg forms!
Because SHUT UP! That's why.
Yeah but the kathryn Harris's of the world are still at large. What difference does it matter if you vote or not if people like she can still throw out your vote?
Down ticket races, friend.
"the kathryn Harris's of the world"
Now *there's* a name I haven't thought of in years!
"That bitch. She looks divorced." — somebody or other
Let's play, 'Guess that Affiliation', where you, the audience, guesses which way a registrant will vote!
Here we go:
Rashon Robinson
Latonya White
Abdul Adi Asad Muhannad
Leeroy Jenkins
30 seconds…
Alls I know is that one of 'em is going to accidentally vote for the Horde.
Carlos Menendez
Maria Conchita Perez-Castro
Sarah Rabinowitz
Also, too.
This is clearly a trick question.
Even I know that Leroy Jenkins is a character in a video game.
Green?
Go to 0:45 of this for a dramatization of Colin Small leaving Rockingham County Courthouse.
I'm kinda shocked. I thought all Republicans were wealthy enough to have access to a shredder.
Only the wannabes buy a mechanical shredder. The lords of the party can afford to pay some pantload like this guy minimum wage to make him eat documents they don't want discovered.
So he's basically a sheep?
On many levels, you slyboots you!
They are the puppet masters, but without their millions of puppets, I think we could muster 401 votes in November.
That's what bothers me: the ignorant yet willing handmaidens for those 400 gits. I expect the gits to be gits.
Fear. Fear is the mindkiller. We have to change the culture of fear. It's going to be hard work, but it will happen one day and sooner rather than later.
Well, yes, imagined fear is often trumped by actual starvation, misery and finding your ownself completely fucked. Luckily (luckily?) we are at the point where these terrible policies are sorta screwing enough stuff up for folks that they have to look at self-interest and their 'actual' misery instead of their perceived fear of what does not exist.
Here's the thing: when people in the 40s and 50s were dying in the streets and on the roads of Appalachia of starvation (that's right, during and after WWII, people starved in America) that's what it took to get America to recognize there was an issue of poverty.
But people fall into poverty and hunger now one at a time, and so it's viewed as a social problem: this person doesn't work hard enough to feed his/her family.
I'm hoping it doesn't get to the point it did under Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower for things to change.
Hopefully, the cunts who want to see the safety net gutted will opt out of Social Security and Medicare when the opportunity arises. If this privatization happens in the next decade, I give it about twenty five years before the greedy forty and fifty somethings, who thought they could manage their money better, are out dumpster diving.
I like the sentiment, although I had it for real when George McGovern ran. This sh1t has taken a lot longer than I thought it would.
I bet he loves them "french fried taters."
Freedom fried, puhleeze!
I'd like to see CNN do an expose on people who commit voter fraud, specifically, what they eat for breakfast and what kind of tires they prefer.
Hanchob tires.
He's certainly got the face for mugshots. I predict that this one is just the first of many.
He's def. got that "Hello, Clarice" thang goin' on…
I think it's more "prison shower water streaming down his cheeks".
Those are tears.
Do we know it's his first? Maybe he's more experienced than we thought.
This is par for the course among the Grand Old Tea Partiers.
Rule 1) Run out the clock;
Rule 2) Kick it up to the Feds, to buy time (see Rule 1);
Rule 3) Complain of political witch hunt conducted by the President who controls the Justice Department;
Rule 4) ???;
Rule 5) Profit!
Steal underwear.
They can't be stolen, they're magical.
Alarmed, no doubt.
The ACORN didn't fall far from this tree, that's for sure.
Goldurned Acorn — making this creepy-eyed dude look like a GOP frame job when he's probably just an innocent, god-fearing pimp.
Sounds like the Virginia election officials are exactly as fair, impartial, and unbiased as the Florida Secretary of State was in 2000.
Where IS Katherine Harris now? Did she write a book? Did she get shipped off to Elba so as not to ever accidentally talk about what she did? Did she suffocate under all that Mary Kay like the chick painted gold on James Bond? Is she subverting a Texas school board somewhere? Where the hell is she?
For those of you who are/were fans of Pink Sugar:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/p…
Busy overdosing on capital gains in 2012 to hedge on the gridlock upping the rates in 2013
You know that part of the U of F stadium is actually named after her father, such a giant booster was he? I hang my head in shame.
Ah, but we can thank Kitty Harris and her two, enormous talents for THIS:
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Phot…
There ain't, by God, no crazy like *Florida* crazy!
She has a face that would, umm, that would make my new avatar go soft, you know what I am saying?
Truly. The Rethugs have stolen one presidential election and will not hesitate to steal another, if they think they can get away with it again.
Can we get Darrell Issa on this?
This is voter fraud. He is grand theft auto. Please.
NIKO BELLIC LIBEL!
And arson-let's not forget arson.
someone check him for a backwards "B" carved into his face by the black Barack Obama supporters who forced him to throw away all those voter registration forms (and carved his face with backwards "B" because it was definitely not him using a mirror).
i was really sad that she didn't become a huge meme.
Why don't Liberals play the same game? I'm ready to see one of two outcomes for the virus that has become GOP: (i) give up and let me them have it for a few years until America wakes up, or (ii) play their dirty game in way's they can't imagine (e.g., something parallel to a GOP human centipede).
One tiny problem. They had it for 8 years and want nothing but more.
I suppose you're right, but it doesn't stop me from hoping that Mitt's aging body exports a clot to his brain at tonight's debate.
From your mouth to Platelet-God's ear.
Well this certainly goes a long way toward explaining that "So now you're living in a banana republic" pamphlet I got in the mail last week.
I like how this is one time when I could say I'd like to beat the fuck out of this guy next to a dumpster with votes and it would be literally applicable.
Beat the fuck out of him with Promnight Dumpster Ballots!
Now just calm down a second — see, voter fraud is only real if it's imaginary. Therefore, Democrats, Planned Parenthood, ACORN and the SEIU are all guilty of voter fraud. Real actual observed voter fraud, on the other hand, is simply not voter fraud — so this guy, Kitty Harris, Rick Scott and the Supreme Court are never guilty of it. Now just go back to sleep — nothing interesting going on here until about November 7th.
She seems perfectly nice in photographs…
Isn't that Kate Gosselin?
Until you register as a Demoncrat!!11!
You know who ELSE looked perfectly nice in photographs?
Michelle Obama?
In this little jerk's defense, no one looks good in a mug shot.
There are one or two of Lohan that are arrite…
I'll allow it.
Given how many mug shots Lindsay Lohan has, some of them were bound to come out OK.
"no one looks good in a mug shot."
James Brown on Line 1…
Nick Nolte on Line 2…
From The News Virginian:
Working to ensure voters are registered is keeping those local registrar’s offices hopping right now.
“We are flooded,” Augusta County voter Registrar Brandi Lilly said. “We’re processing applications as quickly as our fingers can type. We’re swamped.”
The article is filled with registrars politely bitching about how tough it is to enable folks to vote. So you can see how she's not real worked up about dumpsters full of paperwork that never make it to her desk.
Is anyone else imagining a lady in a pantsuit with a small styrofoam plate of ham biscuits on her desk, absolutely pissed because she's running five minutes late for her monthly dye job?
No see upthread she's actually kind of a hottie. I'm thinking ex-cheerleader wife of former athlete/current GOP "small businessman" party-affiliated muckety muck. And the poster child for white entitlement.
No way to tell which party they are affiliated with, except for the little box that says Republican or Democratic.
And any name that sounds off-white.
And the area the forms come from.
Other than that, there's no way he could know which way they will vote.
It really doesn't matter why he threw the registrations away, unless the reason is, "I changed the address of all my Democrat [sic] friends. I felt guilty and threw them away."
In my state, we do all this shit online.*
* Washington State's online registration is, sadly, not very secure. So my entire argument is a red hearing.
Yes, Colin, there really is a Santa Claus.
The investigation is closed and now what? So it's OK with the registrar that he 86'ed a shit ton of forms? He walks?
He got a midnight call from Karl Rove, and (after putting on clean underwear) he decided it would be wise to shut up and plead guilty. No investigation needed, see?
Thought Bubble: "You will NEVER find the fucking bodies……NEVER!"
"…A-hyuk!"
Brandi Lilly? Really? LOL
Local pole dancer- hope to move to porn
That guy is extremely white. One of the whitest white guys ever.
Some folk'll never lose a toe, and then again, some folk'll…
I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon to discuss just such a possibility…
You don't have a case of voter fraud unless we say it's a case of voter fraud. When we say it's voter fraud, it's voter fraud (unless it isn't then it's still voter fraud).
Democrats voting = voter fraud.
Actual voter fraud commiteed by Reep = move along, nothing to see here.
Well, the ones that vote for the corporate overlords tend to be pathetic non-winners and frustrated, but dumb, working class white males. At least in my experience.
Edit – I guess I could have finished reading the thread.
I CONCUR!
While we weren't looking, the right to vote in America is under
TERRORIST
9/11
GOP ATTACK….
Does it matter if there were political motivations? Isn't it illegal to throw out voter registration forms, period?
You are being rude by questioning Cuccinelli's excuse.
Attorney General Cuccinelli claims that his hands are tied, and that he cannot begin an investigation without instructions from the Virginia Board of Elections. In case you’re interested, here are the email addresses of two of the three members of the Board of elections: charles.judd @sbe.virginia.gov, and don.palmer @sbe.virginia.gov.
Silly Wonkette! You can only call it "voter fraud" when it involves non-existent, dead Black Panther types who vote Democrat.
When you disenfranchise college-age, poor, elderly and minority voters and throw up multiple obstacles for them to vote, that's just "protecting the integrity of the election".
Funny, I do not recall such reservations about "investigating" the EPA and the PPACA.
Also, nothing a few drone strikes would not fix.
OT, but for regular doses of Floriduh's most photogenic mug shots (and biggest idiots), there's no better source than the Floriderp blog.
As I posted at my blog today, the people who really need to be banned are the folks who made him the hero he was.
He had a lot of help and it's the same people who are all "ooooh, look!" now.
Me too, raced even, the best comment I've seen yet was "next thing you know he's gonna admit he has two balls". I have been trolling velo news ect… I am particularly amused that a "smoking gun" would have come from Sheryl Crow, his fiance he dumped when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
LOL. One of my siblings took second in the Colorado roads some years back. Said that even amateurs had about 50% on roids.
Funny that so many on the team finally turned on him. Hamilton and Landis, no surprise, but Andreau?
Andreu was one of the first. In fact, he and his wife Betsy were (still are) basically persona non grata.
You might recall Andreu was one of the first American commentators on the TdF when Outdoor Living Network starting broadcasting it live. As soon as he raised a stink about Armstrong, he was canned.
ETA: Actually, it was Betsy who testified under oath that Lance had admitted doping in 2006. Andreu supported his wife's testimony and himself was caught on EPO.
I actually raced with Andreau as a youngster. I have a crush on his younger sister to this day!
I doubt most men have looked up high enough to see her face…
Well, if they did, that was the end of it.
I haven't lived in the states since 1990, so my info probably has a rather outdated date stamp on it…
Very cool. I'm nearly 60 and still ride, MTB more than road though. I've lived in SW Germany for the last 20 years and the trail access and road courtesy is really amazing. I got started living in Boulder, back in the days of the Red Zinger Classic.
yeah I remember the Coors Classic and please tell me …
YOU WORSHIP JENS VOIGHT !!11
http://bikeportland.org/2012/06/12/team-profile-j…
Andreu has a long history of…shade…when it come to PEDs. For instance, he aligned with the Rock Racing team in 2007, whose owner said "If you don't win, you're off the team"
It's no surprise that squad was hit with any number of suspensions…
"Shut up legs" is my motto.
"OW! I cut my tongue really bad licking the inside of this empty can! Oh, well, at least the queers can't get married."
More like: "I cut my tongue on the inside of this can, but we're still free from socialism."
Funny, because accurate.
Then again, that's not funny.
"It's only cold until your hands go numb" is mine this time of year.
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