Oh, look. These are the exact same things the Republican always accuse ACORN of!
Orange County authorities are launching an investigation into possible voter registration fraud after a local newspaper reported over a hundred cases of voters being tricked into registering as Republicans by petitioners who asked them to sign petitions for, among other causes, legalizing pot.
The Orange County Register reported last week that the Orange County District Attorney’s office announced it would team up with the Secretary of State on the case, following a Register report that 99 written complaints were filed since March by voters who said they were registered as Republicans without their consent.
Another 74 voters reached by the Register said they, too, were unwillingly made members of the GOP.
In a lengthy investigation published earlier this month, the paper pointed to an $8 “bounty” offered by the California Republican Party for each new registration as a cause for the problems. It identified multiple petitioners who work for vendors “with ties to the California Republican Party.” Back in 2006, a similar scandal led to the convictions of several petitioners.
Not the Democratic Party. Not ACORN. Imagine that!
I posted a link to this same story on the Swampland blog just yesterday. I wanted to know where all the right-wing outrage is over this. No headlines on “Faux” News, no endless tirades from Beck et al.? Typical right-wing hypocrisy and so much for the vaunted “left wing media” that has hardly mentioned it.