Voter Fraud in Virginia

Update 4:37pm:This from the WDBJ7 Roanoke News:

Three people in Hampton were recently charged with voter fraud. Now Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Jeff Frederick is calling for a statewide investigation.

See commentary at end of Press release.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Virginia GOP Chairman calls for criminal investigation into mounting evidence of coordinated voter fraud activities

Richmond, Virginia (July 28, 2008) – Delegate Jeff Frederick, Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, this morning called on Governor Kaine and Attorney General McDonnell to open a thorough and rigorous investigation into what appears to be coordinated and widespread voter fraud activities occurring throughout Virginia.

Frederick’s request is in response to a report last week of three individuals in Hampton, Virginia being arrested and charged with voter registration fraud, a Class 5 Felony, as well as reports of fraudulent voter registration forms in Richmond. According to a signed affidavit, a Richmond voter had a fraudulent new registration card submitted to the local registrar. When the victim was notified on Thursday afternoon, the registrar informed her that there were other similar applications submitted in Richmond. (see affidavit)

The individuals in Hampton worked for Community Voters Project – a 3rd party group with ties to Fund for Public Interest and the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). PIRG, which seems to be a front group for a number of left wing causes, has a documented history of attempting to add fraudulent, phony or duplicative names to the voter registries across the nation.

“It seems nearly every day, I read or hear of some news report about how many new people are being registered to vote in Virginia in anticipation of the Presidential race this year. Getting more citizens involved in the process is great – that’s what democracy is all about. Yet, nothing undermines democracy more than poisoning the process and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections,” said Frederick.

“This is a very serious and troubling trend that we are seeing in Virginia,” he added. “Laws are being broken and Virginians have to wonder if there is a deliberate effort underway to corrupt and affect the outcome of November’s elections. I urge the Governor and Attorney General to take immediate action to investigate these matters.”

Even more troubling, Frederick said, was the opportunity for identity theft when citizens register to vote with these groups, as people must give a correct social security number on the voter registration form.

“People must exercise extreme caution when putting their private information into the hands of a stranger, for obvious reasons. I encourage voters to contact their local registrars and the major credit bureaus to verify that their voter and financial information has not been tampered with.”

Jeffrey M. Frederick, Chairman
The Richard D. Obenshain Center
115 East Grace Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
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END OF PRESS RELEACE

Beginning of commentary:


I'm perplexed as to why voter registration drives are necessary in a state that has moter-voter laws. Everyone who has a driver's license issued in this state is offered a voter registration form. If there is a necessity it would be for the election board to update the registry to eliminate people who are not longer eligible to vote such as the illegal, incarcerated and interred thus eliminating most of the Democrat base.

More perplexing is the near exclusive interest Liberals have in corrupting the vote. This is the best clue as to how they would rule over us if they had unfettered power. No rules, just do as you are told.

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