Brad Friedman Wrote...

Since that appearance, FL officials are now confirming "suspicious and possibly fraudulent voter registration forms" in "at least ten counties" in the state, which shatters the "one bad apple", "just one individual in Palm Beach" talking point which the AP had been helping both the RNC and Sproul's shell company, Strategic Allied Consulting, pass on to the public late last night.

There really are some shameful occupations on the world, eg pimp, looting BOFA banker, lying mainstream AP media shill, psycho health insurance executive (ie siphoning money from sick and desperate people)...

Stuffing the E ballot box...how quaint. Didn't even have to get out of the La-Z-Boy to do it.

Since Nathan Sproul is back in the news this from the 2004 election cycle: http://baltimorechronicl...070505Miller-Irmus.shtml

Brad, the girl in CO was working for Sproul's compnay.

"FOX31 Denver has confirmed that the young woman seen registering voters outside a Colorado Springs grocery store in a YouTube video, in which she admits to trying to only register voters who support Mitt Romney, was indeed a contract employee of Sproul’s company." http://kdvr.com/2012/09/...ith-ties-to-voter-fraud/

As the article points out, although Colorado is not aware of" any voter registration fraud in that state, election authorities would have no way of knowing whether Sproul's company simply threw away registration forms filled out by Democrats, as it did in Oregon & Nevada in 2004 (both swing states at that time also, I believe).

Maybe you've already seen this, but there is also a pretty good discussion of some of the Colorado backstory here. http://www.politicususa....ud-colorado-springs.html

It's appropriate that Brad appropriately credited NBC for their report that Sproul's election fraud antics have now been discovered in four FL counties.

Too bad that neither NBC nor MSNBC credited Brad for breaking this story to begin with.

Too bad that neither NBC nor MSNBC credited Brad for breaking this story to begin with.

At least there's nothing new under the sun, including the Republican strategy of blaming the opposition for doing exactly what you're doing.

Great reporting, Brad!

Sadly, this is yet another re-hash of the RNC and state GOP's illegal voter "slamming."

Brad has covered this before. One of the more notable stories was the arrest and coviction of Mark Jacoby in CA in the 2008 cycle. He was head of YPM "Young Political Majors" another GOP allied/owned group for voter registration fraud.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7237

And now in 2012. Very same playbook, but new actors.

But Mark is also allegedly out of jail and back at it. But overall this strategy, cynical strategy to win at all costs, unfairly and illegally manipulating the system is entirely Karl Roves. He implemented this.

Erin Conroy -

Yup. Saw it earlier tonight. Been chasing that one down all week. Had suggested that the CO registration worker in the viral video was working for Strategic Allied Consulting in my very first story on this whole fine mess on Tuesday.

The Comm. Dir for the CO GOP had been giving me the run around on it for days. Happy to see that Fox Denver finally got hard confirm! Will try to cover it in my follow up piece tomorrow.

C&L has a good piece citing bradblog, among others, and includes Cali where a fellow named chuck hahn is apparently the west coast sproul.

http://crooksandliars.co...gistration-tricks-contin

Karoli speculates possibly- probabl?- this crap is going on in every state. Enormous implications.

I heard you on "Make it plain" yesterday also. Good work mate!

Just wanted to say, that in view of recent events in Florida and GOP Voter Registration Fraud investigations, I checked my Voter Registration status. It stated the following.

"Voter record not found or record may belong to voter with information protected from public disclosure per section 119.071(2), (4) , or (5) , Florida Statutes.
Contact your local Supervisor of Elections office to determine your registration status.
Or Return to Voter lookup and try again.
The Sup.of Elec. link was a redirect. When I got to the other page, it simply told me I was to vote in SRQ.
I also felt the popup message window was annoying to read, as it has select letters that are in bold that seem arbitrarily placed or used.

I have already received online confirmation that I am registered ,back when I received my absentee ballot via snail mail, along with many other documents form SRQ Sup. of Elections. So how is it possible that I'm all of a sudden being informed I am not in their data base? Anyone else have a similar problem? I did a screen grab of the SRQ Sup.Of Elec. web site telling me I am not listed.

.. Jude Rouslin said on 9/29/2012 @ 9:20 am PT...

"Voter record not found or record may belong to voter with information protected from public disclosure per section 119.071(2), (4) , or (5) ,

Here's a translation:
We have determined that you are part of a demographic more likely to vote Democrat, so have deleted you from the Voter Registration database.

Tip Du Jour (I'm Canadian, so use French sometimes) Tip Du Jour (I'm Canadian, so use French sometimes)

Join the NRA and you can use the ID they provide you to vote, since NRA members overwhelmingly vote Republican.

http://politic365.com/20...ocks-texas-voter-id-law/

Adam8 (unjustly banned and slandered by Rawstory, due to their erroneous software, then banned again by Rawstory's autocratic dear leader Roxanne Cooper for defending myself.)

(Feel free to comment on Canadian politics, but please don't send drones over here.)

Hey, Brad, it would be really cool if we could edit our own comments sometimes. Some WP plugins offer that functionality, you know.

Brad, I think you did an amazing job in that interview. Kudos.

Adam

PS It is time for you to produce a documentary of ACORN to set the record straight. I'll bet it wouldn't be so hard to line up investors for that.

I just ran a family members name through the SRQ Sup. Elec site and the same thing happened. Despite the individual has already received snail mail ballot and info that she is a registered voter as well. We both have Absentee Ballots. I also was merely following the directions that were in the Sarasota Herald Tribune / SHT news paper for people to check their status as well as their signature. The article appeared in Sunday's Op-ED ,Editorial section Sept. 23,2012 pg 16A

This is very odd. I checked again and I was still not listed. The site I went to was the site that Sarasota Herald Tribune told readers to go to, in order to check voter status. My brother, using a different link directly to the SRQ elec. was able to confirm I am an active registered voter, as are the other 2 family names I entered, that initially stated no record found.
My brother using his own computer checked the site I did, had one no record, then tried it again, it stated I was active.
So my question is this. Why would the newspaper provide a web site that works sometimes? I'm confused. But again, this is so floriduh......

Ernie @ 6 writes, "Too bad that neither NBC nor MSNBC credited Brad for breaking this story to begin with."

Yah, that didn't escape my notice, either.

This story has me seething. While we've known about Sproul and Ass(es)for years thanks to Brad's reporting, what we didn't know was that election fraud was now a 'job' posted on Craigslist!

I guess those REPUB ass-hats really ARE job creators! jeezus.

Putting together the pieces of this sick and hypocritical GOP puzzle thanks to Brad's stellar reporting - article in the LA Times on WED re: a TRUE THE VOTE outfit in OH challenging minority voters right to vote based on erroneous housing / address info and challenging OH students right to vote based on the lack of "STUDENT DORM NUMBERS" on their voter registration forms...

Bet they're connected, too.
Perhaps TRUE THE VOTE org picks up where STRATEGIC ALLIANCES leaves off - compiling and sharing the FALSE info that will lead to voter-roll purges and legitimate voters being disenfranchised.

Comment and a question for you, Brad and Ernest:
a) GREAT that Brad broke this story BEFORE the election - and that it's got legs! I'm thrilled that it's going national, and that the MSM / HUFFPO is reporting it even where they don't have the decency to give Brad credit where credit is (long) over-due...

...if nothing else, the national play this story is getting exposes the STUNNING GOP hypocricy re: the election fraud / voter fraud canard; sheds light for millions of voters who are now well aware of the FRONT END voter suppression tactics BRADBLOG readers have become all too familiar with over the years, but who have been kept largely in the dark re: how that ties into the BACK END of voter suppression - the electronic manipulation of our voting systems.

I've been doing a lot of interviews lately, and that is the one thing I try to stress. If they're this willing to cheat on the front end, where we can all see the manipulation - how is it far-fetched to assume they'd do the same on the BACK END, where the election manipulation is undetectable?...

I'm tweeting / circulating your links wide - encouraging everyone reading this to do the same.
This is kinda huge, Bradtribe!

...
QUESTION: In light of these recent revelations brought forth by the BRADBLOG (and especially in light of how ACORN was dismantled for FALSE allegations of the same despite NO EVIDENCE) - how do we get PROSECUTIONS this time, damnit!??!

I'm so so so so sick of this BS.

I sincerely doubt we're gonna see much action from Rick Scott's FL DA, and Holder's DOJ has been all too flaccid in the past when it comes to prosecutions of wrong-doing in cases like this (or any cases involving GOP infractions)...

Do we need to flash mob 'em? A massive info campaign urging millions of folks to call 'em up and demand justice? Is learning how to apply critical mass / public pressure the only recourse for the citizen activist, at this late juncture?

If that should fall short - should we appeal directly to the U.N.? Some kind of international election monitoring org? Do we file a RICO suit?

How do we proceed? How do we rectify? How do we move this case forward in light of this breaking news re: the NATIONAL coordination of dirty tricks (er...FELONIES)exposed wide?
...
Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have.

I'm not sleeping, again.

I've lost more sleep from regularly reading the Bradblog than I have from any other news source.
Congrats, Brad! Must mean you're doing it right, or that I need more AMBIEN.

..oh! And as a (former) FL VOTER - want to thank HERO FL SOE Susan Bucher from the bottom of my broken-heart! Twice now, she's stepped up to expose election "irregularities" that have real impact on Palm Beach Co. elections.

Balls-a-licious.

If only more SOE's could emulate Susan Bucher and Ion Sancho - we'd have a different world by now.
I'm certain of it.

(Also thanks to Citizen92 for all the great links. I've been following your important posts - great info in there.)

... Jude Rouslin - woah! Okay. I'm a former SRQ voter (my vote was stolen in the 2006 Christine Jennings race - that's the race that bit me like a vampire squid and changed me forever, a turning point in my life I didn't recognize as such at the time.)

I might be able to help you sort out the SRQ mess.
I'm sort of an expert on Kathy Dent. I followed her around with a video camera for 3 years...
...and I wasn't even in love.
:)

..over 80 videos on YOUTUBE exposing her lies and lack of transparency, here: http://www.youtube.com/p...ACC0&feature=mh_lolz

..she's a bad witch.

Double and triple check your registration status.
Go pay her a little visit down at the SRQ BOE...
...tell her Jeannie sent ya!

I was reading (cover your eyes!)Pattirico’s site last night ( I was offline when Breitbart died so ended up there when reading about him)and saw this outfit mentioned, "kingstreetpatriots.org" and after some poking around you see they are affiliated with True the Vote. One of the headlines for volunteers says "Are You Ready To Make a Difference in the 2012 Elections" . What an understatement!
What a f@#king mess eh.

oh..and Jude: try not to vote absentee in SRQ if you can help it. It's a huge fraud vector.

We were never ever allowed to see the absentees being counted or scanned...
they go directly to Dent, then disappear, then we have to "trust" the count on them is correct.

...and lord knows Dent hates paper. She's STILL pissed that she was forced into an OP SCAN system by the state after her OWN botched election fiasco in 2006 when 18,412 votes went "missing" from the ES&S touchscreen machines.

Dent has been encouraging absentee ballot voting for years, and we know she is not to be trusted with our most sacred ballots.

Try to vote in person at the polling place, if you can. And spread the word...!

Regarding the non-recognition of Brad breaking this story...really, really, annoys me.
I wrote to Reilly at TPM but they haven't acknowledged him either. Someone did put it up in comments though. I guess after all the years of ignoring this travesty they don't want to admit they should have listened.

as the saying goes...
"Got to blow your own horn or someone else will spit in it."

(@GWN - your comment in the other thread re: your cynical reading of the FL GOP's statement: "We're firing Strategic Alliance because there's no place in FL for election fraud" - as "..we're firing them...because there's no place in FL to commit election fraud, creased me up for hours. Thanks for the belly laughs!)

@Jeannie # 20 "I've lost more sleep from regularly reading the Bradblog than I have from any other news source."
I blame Brad too for my lack of sleep (and I don't even live in the US but see what might be coming our way in the future) but on the positive side I am losing weight:)

I must say though that I think things are turning around for you guys. I see it at other blogs, there is an optimistic, though cautious, attitude happening. Trolls get high sticked for any disinformation they put up and they are becoming fewer as time goes on. It's good to see.

Sorry...my off topic topic but this has bothered me for ten years.
I am so pleased to say that our Canadian 15 year old,"child soldier", Omar Khadr is back home today after ten years in Quantanamo- where he was tortured- but our Harper didn't want to fight for him...
He had to plead guilty to get out of there sad to say.
“It’s a pattern of ‘If you make a deal with the Americans, they do let you go back to detention in your home, Miami Herald journalist Carol Rosenberg, who has been covering Guantanamo for nearly a decade, told CTV.
http://www.globalpost.co...tainee-heads-back-canada

Wow, GWN. I hadn't heard that. Well, I guess it's good that he's out...? But not good news that he is not free.

Sigh.
...and I was feeling so encouraged by your previous post re: the change of tone you're seeing from our (all too) recent, collective national awakening.

...dunno, friend. It feels really really bizarro world from ground-battle, here.

This is so huge, and it's such fun to see elements of this story showing up in various national press accounts.

The writers fail to credit Brad Friedman, however.

But WE know who broke this story, and guess what? We're telling!

PS Brad, if you want to do an ACORN documentary, I'm in!

FWIW, to those who have raised the issue here, the Christian Science Monitor's coverage today by Patrik Jonsson includes a generous hat-tip.

Other coverage in the "alternative" media, such as Lee Fang's at The Nation, Alex Seitz-Wald's at Salon and Eric Boehlert's at Media Matters, among others, have been kind enough to cite some our coverage as well.

And, FWIW, National Memo has been cross-publishing some of The BRAD BLOG's reports in this series, as has Salon, Truthout and Alternet.

Now, back to covering it...More soon...

Interesting segment of the Fox31-Denver story:

Sproul told the [Los Angeles] Times he formed Strategic Allied Consulting at the request of the RNC for publicity's sake, given past negative media coverage of Lincoln [Strategy Group] stemming from past allegations going back to 2004, when employees in Nevada and Oregon signed up Democrats but threw out their forms instead of turning them in.

Sproul has also been linked to signature fraud this election cycle in his home state of Arizona where he was working on a ballot initiative that would allow the state to nullify any federal laws it finds to be unconstitutional.

The RNC has lot's of 'splainin' to do about their "zero tolerance" claims!

Filthy cheats..why isn't this getting more headlines? They knew Sproul was dirty when they hired him. Sad to say, but he'll get away with it, everyone will forget & he'll be hired again in 4 yrs under different company names. The "investigation" will go nowhere same as the others. Round & round the tea baggers go. Do as I say not as I do. I'm so sick of their "voter suppression" hypocrisy I could scream.

Great job, Brad! I hope to see you interviewed at the very least by all the anchors on MSNBC regarding your work in breaking this story. Hopefully that will lead to right into all the other election fraud stories you've covered over the years. We know what repubs do when they want to win and can't do it fairly. We just can't let them commit election fraud again!

Is their a way to reverse the damage already done by the victims of Nathan Sprouls shenanigans who thought they were registering as Democrats & had the forms thrown away or forged as Republicans?

Former ACORN employee, Anita Moncrief, discusses voter fraud

WHY DID the obama administration hire BRIAN FRIEDMAN a DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL BLOGGER HACK to report theses so-called accusations of voter fraud by the Republican Party?...

[ED NOTE: Rest of comment deleted as absolute, complete, knowing, if pretty funny, wingnut disinformation, which is in strict violation of the very few rules we have for posting at The BRAD BLOG. By the way, my name is BRAD Friedman, not Brian. And no, I'm neither Democratic, nor "hired" by anyone. Whether or not I'm a "hack", I'll leave to others to decide. But, clearly, you sir, are fool. - BF]