Gość: West
IP: *.lv.lv.cox.net
13.10.04, 17:16
Wczorajsze wiadomosci wieczorne w Las vegas podaly iz w jednym z lokali gdzie
mozna bylo zarejestrowac sie do brania udzialu w glosowaniu 2 listopada
niszczono rejestracje ludzi ktorzy deklarowali sie jako demokraci. W prosty
sposob po wyjsciu czlowieka darto na strzepy jego rejestracyjna karte i
wyrzucano do kosza na smieci. FBI rozpoczelo sledztwo w tej sprawie ale ci
ktorych rejestracje zniszczono stracili juz szanse do glosowania w tym roku,
jest tego sporo, dokladnych liczb prawdopodobnie nie da sie ustalic. Podobna
sytuacja ma miejsce w Reno... i gdzie jeszcze???
"Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds,
perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely
surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms
were thrown in the trash.
Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or
grocery store or even government building may be affected.
The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of
potential registration fraud aimed at democrats. Thee focus of the story is a
private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.
The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months,
registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected
hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say
that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.
Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up
and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.
"We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant
and he ripped them up right in front of us. I grabbed some of them out of the
garbage and she tells her assisatnt to get those from me," said Eric Russell,
former Voters Outreach employee.
Eric Russell managed to retrieve a pile of shredded paperwork including signed
voter registration forms, all from Democrats. We took them to the Clark County
Election Department and confirmed that they had not, in fact, been filed with
the county as required by law.
So the people on those forms who think they will be able to vote on Election
Day are sadly mistaken. We attempted to speak to Voters Outreach but found
that its office has been rented out to someone else.
The landlord says Voters Outreach was evicted for non-payment of rent. Another
source said the company has now moved on to Oregon where it is once again
registering voters. It's unknown how many registrations may have been tossed
out, but another ex-employee told Eyewitness News she had the same suspicions
when she worked there.
It's going to take a while to sort all of this out, but the immediate concern
for voters is to make sure you really are registered.
Call the Clark County Election Department at 455-VOTE orclick here to see if
you are registered.
The company has been largely, if not entirely funded, by the Republican
National Committee. Similar complaints have been received in Reno where the
registrar has asked the FBI to investigate.
www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2421595&nav=168XRvNe