About a week ago, I posted about a Dem voter registration drive in Louisiana that had some major credibility issues. Enough red flags were raised that a few people are checking into the validity of the registrations, and the group behind the drive.

The Advocate reported Secretary of State Jay Dardenne was scheduled to meet with VIP, the group responsible for numerous faulty registrations, last Tuesday. It also described the state of the registrations:

Dardenne said cards are being submitted for people already on the voter rolls and “a significant percentage are being submitted without necessary information to register someone and “blatantly false information.

Two cards received in Caddo Parish had George W. Bush as the voter applicant with a 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. address in Shreveport, Dardenne said. Other cards have been filed for prisoners who cannot vote and dead people. In Jefferson Parish, a voter registration card was filed for the registrar of voters.

“We want to safeguard the integrity of the process by making sure any group seeking to register Louisiana voters provide specific information and it’s not bogging down registrars offices with work premised on false information,” Dardenne said.

Little Green Footballs blogs on VIP’s Muslim Society ties. You can gather more information about VIP from their website.

Something stinks in Louisiana, and it’s not the week-old gumbo…

There are few abuses that boil my blood more than improper or fraudulent voter registration. Signing citizens up to cast their inaugural ballot is a sacred privilege that too many groups do not respect. Not only are these cesspools of corruption bilking deserving candidates out of winning elections, but they are also defrauding all voters, and even all citizens, out of a free and fair election system.

Louisiana
The group “Voting Is Power” has a goal of signing up 70,000 new Democrat voters before November 2008.
The Times Picayune has the story:

While Voting Is Power has sent in batches of applications for months, registrars have begun to see a disturbing pattern of misinformation on the forms, including duplicates, cards filled out with different colors of ink, or using the names of pets or dead people. In Jefferson, DiMarco sensed something amiss when a new registration card recently crossed his desk.

The card, partially filled out, had his name and listed his office’s post office box on Citrus Boulevard as the address. It also listed him as a male, a Democrat and African-American.

“And I can tell you I’m only one of those,” said DiMarco, who is white and Republican…”

Kansas
Kansas Meadowlark rants about the ease voters in Kansas and Missouri have in duplicate voting. KS Gov. Sebelius recently vetoed a photo ID bill that would have addressed these concerns. Meadowlark also writes about this issue here and here.

California
Sec of State Debra Bowen prosecutes for voter reg fraud. Twelve people have been charged with the offense- nine have plead guilty.

Missouri
Eight ACORN reps plead guilty to voter registration fraud in St. Louis.

More on this topic to come…