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Attorney General says ‘hands are tied’ in vote-dumping investigation

Ken Cuccinelli said his hands were tied, offered to support change to Virginia law

A Cautionary Tale for Republicans screaming about supposed voter fraud:

Back in 2012, the Republican Party of Virginia hired a “voter registration supervisor” to register Virginia voters. He was caught dumping completed voter registration forms in the trash. This is, of course, illegal.

The Republican Party of Virginia promptly fired him, and released a statement claiming: “The Republican Party of Virginia will not tolerate any action by any person that could threaten the integrity of our electoral process.”

The Virginia Attorney General’s office “does not have the authority to investigate election matters unless explicitly requested to do so by the State Board of Elections.” One might reasonably conclude, therefore, that the Republican-controlled Virginia State Board of Elections would ask the Attorney General to investigate.

Nope.

The Board felt this “appeared to be an isolated incident,” so:

“The State Board Of Elections says it will not ask Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to investigate the case of a Republican Party contract worker, accused of throwing voter registration forms in the trash.”

Postscript:

Virginia Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, had an idea: He publicized the fact that his office couldn’t investigate without a request from Board of Elections, and the fact that the Board wasn’t requesting an investigation.

It worked: the Board called a special emergency meeting two days later and “voted unanimously that an investigation should proceed.”

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Virginia state officials are expanding an investigation to probe the Republican consulting firm Strategic Allied Consulting after canceling a grand jury hearing scheduled for Tuesday for Colin Small, who faces 13 counts of voter fraud for throwing voter registration forms in the recycling bin.

Two sources told the Washington Post on Friday that officials are investigating whether the firm told Small or up to 40 other employees to ask about political leanings while registering voters. This is a violation of election law.

KDVR’s Josh Bernstein confirmed on Thursday that the company’s Nathan Sproul has been interviewed by the FBI (transcript here) over election irregularities and confirmed that Sproul’s name did not appear on the articles of incorporation for Strategic Allied Consulting.

Sproul told to Bernstein that his name didn’t appear on the firm’s documents because “if you look at what the liberal blogs write about me, it makes it very difficult to operate.”

The Virginia investigation is compounded by an additional investigation into voter registration irregularities nine counties reported in Florida, all supplied by Strategic Allied Consulting. The forms, which KDVR published here, contained false and invalid information.

Democrats have urged the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the firm’s alleged voter fraud. The Republican National Committee paid the firm $2.9 million to the firm to register voters in Florida, Virginia, Colorado, North Carolina and Nevada. Though the RNC cut ties with the firm after allegations of voter fraud surfaced in Florida, the Virginia Republican party re-hired the firm.

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Wastefulness Prevails in American Society

Silly fool. How wasteful!

Breaking: GOP Contractor Arrested For Throwing Voter Registrations In Dumpster

If you are attempting to get rid of voter registration forms for the benefit of your party, you sell them to mailing list brokers. Common sense, the lack of it astounds me.

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Virginia Attorney General and 2013 Gubernatorial candidate, Ken Cuccinelli sent this photo in a tweet on October 6, 2012

Pictured with Cuccinelli is Congressman Bob Goodlatte (VA-6) and Colin Small, the GOP operative who was arrested for voter registration fraud.

Other pictures of Colin Small from the Harrisonburg GOP HQ Twitter account: Oct 6, Oct 3 and Sept 8.

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Based on this screenshot, Wonkette's still got it.

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A GOP voter registration contractor has just been arrested in Harrisonburg, Virginia after a local resident reported to police he had seen someone throwing a “bag of trash” in his dumpster and speeding away on Monday. The bag contained filled out and completed voter registration application forms. Colin Small (image, above), the man whom police arrested, is charged with eight felonies and five misdemeanors.

The Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in the investigation of voter registration fraud that began on the afternoon of October 15th when law enforcement received a citizen complaint of voter registration application forms being found in a dumpster behind a business in the City of Harrisonburg,” according to a press release from the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office

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