RNC/Romney Contractor Under Investigation For Voter Fraud

[ebacon]

Whatchu talkin' 'bout consent decree?

Election law is far from my bailywick but I'm curious as to the situation.

This Sproul character sounds like a real piece of shit. According to the KDVR.com article his old Lincoln firm registered Democratic voters and then threw away their paperwork.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by ebacon

Whatchu talkin' 'bout consent decree?

Ever since 1982 the RNC has been bound by a consent decree because of their illegal voter caging activities.

http://onward.justia.com/2012/03/13/...nal-committee/

http://www.brennancenter.org/content...onsent_decree/

http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/094615p.pdf

This Sproul character sounds like a real piece of shit. According to the KDVR.com article his old Lincoln firm registered Democratic voters and then threw away their paperwork.

And the RNC continues to use him. So do Republican campaigns, including Romney's. One can only wonder why.

John

[ebacon]

Interesting. I never heard of that.

In an nutshell the decree forbids voter caging based on race or ethnicity.

With regard to the instant situation it appears that a lawyer could defend the voter caging actions in the context of the decree on the grounds that caging actions, if any were taken at all, were based on voters' party aspirations and not their race or ethnicity. It's a cheap but plausible argument. Of course the DNC lawyers would argue that even if what the RNC says is true, the effects of their actions would be to disenfranchise voters based on race or ethnicity.

What an embarrassing clusterscrew for self government.

What shocked me was that the RNC, in ther motion for rehearing en banc, characterized the decree as "antiquated". Really, one man, one vote, is an antiquated concept?

If I was the judge it would be all I could do to refrain from telling the RNC's lawyers to pack their shit and get the fuck out of my court room.

At the end of the day I think it will be attorney generals in the affected states that carry the biggest sticks, not the decree.

Thanks for the lesson.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by ebacon

Thanks for the lesson.

Happy to provide it. From my perspective, the more people know what absolute gangsters the Republican Party are and for how long they've been pulling this shit (thirty years and counting since the consent decree) the better for the country.

So, next question counsellor. What about the RNC and/or the Romney campaign as RICO defendants?

John