Unsurprisingly, this man appears to have ties to
Strategic Allied Consulting, the disgraced firm that was until recently employing by the GOP to drive voter registration efforts, which was accused of systematically employing this tactic in various swing states since at least 2004.
Before anybody tries to play the whatabout game and bring up ACORN, the reason why this tactic is worse is quite clear. What ACORN was doing was paying its agents by the number of completed registration forms returned. Therefore, ACORN agents were encouraged to return as many forms as possible; throwing any away would mean they wouldn't get paid. The problem, of course, was that eventually false registrations were being filled out, e.g. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, etc. However, although Mickey and Donald were often added to the voter rolls, they obviously never showed up to actually cast a ballot, and therefore the risk of fraudulent votes was mitigated.
This tactic employed by these Republican operatives is worse because they are in most cases posing as non-partisan election officials, and giving prospective voters the belief that they will be registered. By the time they realize that they haven't been registered at all, it'll most likely be too late.
