Republican Lies category archive

Tamba Bay dot com’s John Romano confesses the error of his ways:

They were right, I was wrong.

They knew better, I knew nothing.

When I recently criticized the state’s Republican leaders for chasing nonexistent voter fraud, I should have bowed to their insider knowledge.

After all, they were the ones paying $1.33 million to a company that has apparently turned in phony voter registration forms across Florida.

Daniel Ruth dismembers Florida governor Rick Scott’s claim to disinterested non-partisanship as motive for the Florida gut out the vote movement. A nugget:

About the time the public received the governor’s rambling missive, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was reviewing suspicious voter registration forms filed by a Republican vendor, Strategic Allied Consulting.

To date, dubious voter registration forms collected by Strategic Allied Consulting have been unearthed in about a dozen counties stretching from South Florida to the Panhandle. FDLE launched a formal criminal investigation this week.

Many of the forms cited mythical addresses and at least one (ahem) was for a voter who had long since passed on to that Chicago ward precinct in the sky.

Yet, while Scott’s letter was waxing ridiculous about the sanctity of the voting booth, his own party was busily at work trying to cook the books. This was a bit like Mexico’s Zetas cartel claiming to be outraged over epidemic drug trafficking, oblivious to all the shooting in the streets.

Strategic Allied Consultants, the Republican voter registration outfit that was filing fraudulent registration forms in Florida, tried to raise the dead.

Here’s a snippet from Dick Polman’s article (emphasis added):

“The problem” apparently includes: incorrect addresses, addresses that don’t exist, signatures that don’t match the names, signatures in the same handwriting, dates of births that don’t match the names, and (my favorite) names that match up with the names in death records. As one unamused Florida country supervisor tells a local reporter, “A number of dead people were trying to register to vote.” In another county, roughly 25 percent of the registration forms are suspect or bogus. And in the wake of what has surfaced in Florida, election officials in North Carolina are now reviewing the local activities of that same registration group, Strategic Allied Consultants.

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Voter fraud.

It’s a Republican thing.

More indications that Republicans are so hyped about voter fraud because it’s what they do:

Aggressive recruitment efforts in one of California’s most hotly contested voting districts has created a surge of newly minted Republicans like Marleny Reyes. Except she had no intention of joining the GOP.

The Moreno Valley College student is among scores of voters in Riverside County who say they were duped.

Formal complaints filed with the state by at least 133 residents of a state Senate district there say they were added to GOP rolls without their knowledge, calling into question the party’s boast that Republican membership has rocketed 23% in the battleground area.

Via Unqualified Offerings.

Via Romney the Liar.

More evidence has been uncovered that the Republican hysteria about “voter fraud” is a manifestation of psychological projection.

Voter fraud is not just a Republican lie.

It’s a Republican practice. Projection, anyone?

A vendor fired by the Republican Party of Florida for submitting questionable voter registrations forms in Palm Beach County is also responsible for filing flawed applications in other counties and states, election officials confirmed Friday.

Earlier this week, Florida Republicans fired Virginia-based Strategic Allied Consulting after Palm Beach County flagged about 100 registration forms that looked suspicious because of signatures that looked alike and incompleteness. The Palm Beach County state attorney’s office is reviewing those forms, said spokeswoman Christine Weiss.

But subsequent to that revelation, other counties have reported irregularities with voter registration forms with the identification number of 11-93 — which traces back to the Republican Party of Florida.

The slideshow at Newshound lays it out. (Click to advance the slides.)

Via TPM.

Chauncey Devega decodes the code. It’s the odious Southern strategy once more all over again.

. . . this (the “makers” vs. the “takers” construct–ed.) is a lie and a misrepresentation of reality (more whites are poor and on government assistance than any other group in America); nevertheless this fiction serves Romney’s campaign of overt and subtle racism against Obama quite well.

Romney’s narrative of “makers” and “takers” is rooted in the Republican Party’s ability to put a black and brown face on poverty in America by the use of what has come to be described as “the Southern Strategy.” Since at least Richard Nixon, conservatives realized that by linking anti-poverty programs to people of color that white support for these policies can be undercut.

Because it’s all they got.

Sarah Silverman, below the fold (warning: extreme language).

Via Rolling Stone.

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Via Romney the Liar (he keeps track of Romney’s lies so you don’t have to).

Section V of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania states

Elections shall be free and equal; and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court seems to have read that bit:

Pennsylvania’s highest court on Tuesday told a lower court judge to stop a tough new law requiring voters to show photo identification from taking effect in this year’s presidential election if he finds voters cannot easily get ID cards or if he thinks they will be disenfranchised.

The 4-2 decision by the state Supreme Court sends the case back to a Commonwealth Court judge who initially said the divisive law could go forward. The high court asked the judge, Robert Simpson, for his opinion by Oct. 2.

If Simpson finds there will be no voter disenfranchisement and that IDs are easily obtained, then the 6-month-old law can stand, the Supreme Court said.

Of course, the purpose of the law was disenfranchisement, so we shall see whether Judge Simpson will try to spin his way out of this one.

Via Balloon Juice.

The related website is here; it’s still very new: http://www.aclu.org/blog/letmevote

Oliver Burkeman explores the emptiness.

Mike Papantonio discusses the plan for wingnut whackjobs to use their magic clipboards to keep you from voting this fall.