Orange County authorities are launching an investigation into possible voter registration fraud after a local newspaper reported over a hundred cases of voters being tricked into registering as Republicans by petitioners who asked them to sign petitions for, among other causes, legalizing pot.
The Orange County Register reported last week that the Orange County District Attorney's office announced it would team up with the Secretary of State on the case, following a Register report that 99 written complaints were filed since March by voters who said they were registered as Republicans without their consent.
Another 74 voters reached by the Register said they, too, were unwillingly made members of the GOP.
According to the story, those trying to get the phony petition signed apparently told most skeptical respondents that they had to fill in the "Republican" in order for their signature to count.
I'm sure that most people, especially now, would be very wary when signing something and being asked to claim that they were Republican. I'm sure there's lots more trickery to this than we know right now. Then again, some people can be easily duped. Could this be another conservative filmmaker stunt trying to show that voters in California are "stupid"? Who knows.
Considering Fox"News" went full bore on ACORN and the alleged voter registration fraud from '08, I won't be holding my breath waiting for them to cover this story.
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