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BREAKING: Judge “not convinced” of Pa. GOP allegations of voter fraud
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The AP reports that Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson rejected a motion yesterday filed by the Pennsylvania Republican Party in their lawsuit against ACORN demanding that ACORN turn over a list of the 140,000 names of people their organization has registered in Pennsylvania
According to the AP:
Simpson, who presided over a nearly eight-hour hearing on the GOP lawsuit Wednesday, said he was not convinced that the party and its fellow individual plaintiffs can ultimately prove their allegations that ACORN is fostering voter-registration fraud and that the state's election system lacks the safeguards to stop it.
In a statement released from ACORN last night, Pennsylvania ACORN board member Carol Hemingway says:
We are pleased court saw through the Plaintiff’s blatant attempt at voter suppression & fear mongering to denied the Plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction. The simple fact remains: the existence of widespread voter fraud in Pennsylvania is a myth.
This isn't the only case of the GOP doing everything it can to hype the idea of voter fraud (yesterday on the Clog, an ACORN organizer speculated that the Republicans are simply laying the groundwork for a post-election lawsuit now).
MarketWatch reports that what appear to be voter intimidation tactics in New Mexico; the GOP is apparently targeting legitimate voters whose registrations had been submitted by ACORN.
A day after GOP presidential candidate John McCain made public allegations about voter registration fraud, the New Mexico GOP held a press conference to present information on 10 voters they claimed voted illegally in the state primaries. Following the press conference ACORN made contact with eight of the ten voters named, and discovered that they were all legitimate voters.Following this information, however, two of these voters have reportedly been harassed by private investigators. Guadalupe Bojorquez of Albuquerque said the private investigator who came to her home claimed to be working for the law firm of Pat Rogers, a GOP attorney who was one of the key players in the firing of U.S. Attorney David Iglesias for refusing to prosecute bogus "voter fraud" cases.
For more details on voter intimidation in New Mexico, check out http://www.newmexicoindependent.com.
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