Keenan Loc: Central Coast California

I guess too many new v***r r**********ns this year were Democrats and that did not sit well with the right wing assholes controlling the State of Indiana.

I really have come to h**e these GOP criminals playing dirty tricks to win e******ns and disenfranchise v**ers. They just won't stop the dirty tricks. When Jim Crow laws were declared unconstitutional, they instituted poll taxes. When Poll Taxes were outlawed, they devised other games - discriminatory v**er ID laws, eliminating early v****g, removing legitimate v**ers from the v**er rolls, playing tricks with polling stations and shortage of v****g machines, etc. I don't understand why these assholes are allowed to keep doing this and not go to jail.

Indiana just shut down the largest v***r r**********n organization in Indiana a month before the e******n, and confiscated all of the 40,000 plus v***r r**********n forms "to hold for investigation for 30 days" - conveniently making sure that they can't finish registering before November 8 - on flimsy and laughable reasons that they "need to investigate possible v***r f***d".

Goddamn assholes! The US needs to join the civilized world and get partisan officials far away from our e******n processes, because Republican scumbags just cannot help themselves but to continue to c***t and tamper with our v****g rights for their benefit.

If the facts here are true, it sounds like this is a concerted effort to shut down a group that is trying to register actual live v**ers who will actually v**e

Why Did Indiana State Police Raid A V***r R**********n Group's Office?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/in-indiana-police-raid-a-democratic-v**er-registration-office

In Indiana, an investigation into alleged v***r r**********n fraud intensified rapidly Tuesday when state police reportedly raided the Indianapolis office of a v***r r**********n group and confiscated computers, personal cell phones and paperwork, according to a report from the Intercept.

The Intercept reported that workers at the site told them that state police stopped one person from recording the incident and that the group's lawyer said he was unable to enter the building.

State police are investigating the Indiana V***r R**********n Project's efforts in nine counties after claims that the group fraudulently registered v**ers, according to the Indianapolis Star. Indiana's Secretary of State Connie Lawson, who was a key sponsor of Indiana's 2005 v**er ID law that went all the way to the Supreme Court where it was upheld– announced the investigation in September.

According to the Intercept, Lawson alleged that “nefarious actors are operating here in Indiana." The Intercept also wrote that Lawson had cited 10 individual v***r r**********n forms as fraudulent. But, according to the Intercept, the state of Indiana doesn't allow v***r r**********n forms – even those the group conducting the v***r r**********n drive worries may be inaccurate– to be discarded without being looked over by the state.

Patriot Majority is the D.C.-based group managing the v***r r**********n drive in Indiana. Its leader, Craig Varoga, told the Intercept that it is not unusual that they would turn in questionable forms and f**g them to e******n officials.

What is unusual, e******n law experts says, is for police to raid a v***r r**********n office, and the proximity of the raid to the e******n, seemed troubling.

Daniel Tokaji, an e******ns law professor at Ohio State University, said he was worried that such a raid – if it happened in the manner described in news reports– could have a chilling effect on other v***r r**********n drives across the country just a month ahead of the e******n.

"My concern is it is going to intimidate people who are registering people to v**e," Tokaji said.

Tokaji argued that while limiting early v****g and requiring photo ID all had negative affects on v**er turnout, launching an investigation like the one in Indiana – which has essentially stopped the group from registering v**ers– represented a new level of potential v**er suppression.

"There is nothing that affects turnout on E******n Day more than v***r r**********n," Tokaji said. "V****g registration is really the big thing. If you make it more difficult to register, you will decrease the number of people who v**e. ... These sorts of law enforcement activities are extremely worrisome."

Social science research has repeatedly show that instances of v***r f***d are extremely rare and Tokaji reiterated that a statewide v***r f***d operation seemed to be out of the range of possibility especially because state police told the Intercept that they were looking into the incident because "we found instances of totally fictitious information."

Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California Irvine and founder of E******n Law Blog, reiterated that it may be too early to tell if some of the forms actually contained fraudulent information. Regardless, he pointed out that a f**e person would never show up .
"It is important to distinguish the very real problem of v***r r**********n fraud...from the question of whether it would impact the outcome of the e******n," Hasen said. "Lumping all claims of fraud into one is very convenient but turns out to be quite misleading."

Tokaji agreed that registering f**e v**ers would not lead to v***r f***d.

"So far as I know Micky Mouse hasn't showed up yet. The risk of this turning into actual v***r f***d, is infinitesimally small," Tokaji said. "If the facts here are true, it sounds like this is a concerted effort to shut down a group that is trying to register actual live v**ers who will actually v**e."