Um, registering voters as Republicans does absolutely nothing to help them win elections. All it affects is what party you vote in for primary elections.
Paying money to an organization to register people is not a 'crook' thing to do.
Granted, but shreding Democratic forms is.
Actually it isn't. As a private citizen, neither you, I or this guy has any requirement to do anything with voter registration forms, including throwing them out.
Keep in mind that voter registration can be done via mail or at any government office (post, welfare, some libraries). Anyone can get one; they don't even charge postage.
As for "re-registering," big deal. You can register Nazi and go in and vote for Kerry in the fall.
Actually here, you DO have to put a stamp on the form.
Yup. Last summer I had to re-register since I graduated from college & moved back home from the dorms in Suffolk. I actually forgot the stamp the first time & got it back in the mail
You could always just drive over to the County Board of Elections and drop it off. It's right off exit 67.
Well I'm in Nassau County
. I went to STony Brook, dormed there so I was registered in Suffolk when I was in college.
I could have driven from Massapequa to Mineola, but mailing it was easier.
Anyyone while I'm not 100% sure of the legalities surrounding this hwole debacle. Acting as a non-partisan organization in order to get people to register to vote, but throwing out the regristrations of those who go against your political idealogy is certainly unethical.
Its one thing for an organization to target certain people who tend to fit their idealogy. Its another to act as non-partisan, but be partisan in the regristrations you actually receive by throwing out regristrations of members of the other party, while not notifying them & therefore making them think they are registered to vote when they aren't
