Oops. We found out.

I found this internal email posted at DailyKos (care of the Dead Letter Office at GeorgeWBush.org):

----- Original Message -----
From: "dullain Ehrlich" [dullainehrlich@wsrp.org]
To: "'Donald Povia'" [dpovia@georgewbush.com],"'Peter Abbarno'" [peterabbarno@wsrp.org], "Jon Seaton" [jseaton@georgewbush.org]
Sent: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:07:52 -0700
Subject: FW: RE: Federal Campaign Law FYI DULLAIN

-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Humphreys [mailto:ash439@gte.net]
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 7:03 PM
To: Dullain
Subject: Fw: RE: Federal Campaign Law

----- Original Message -----
From: "ardean anvik" [ardeananvik@hotmail.com]
To: [ash439@gte.net]
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 10:08 AM
Subject: FW: RE: Federal Campaign Law

FYI - I sent a request to Chris and here is his reply

Ardean Anvik

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Vance" [chrisvance@wsrp.org]
To: "'ardean anvik'" [ardeananvik@hotmail.com]
Subject: RE: Federal Campaign Law
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:52:54 -0700

Will do!

CV

-----Original Message-----
From: ardean anvik
[mailto:ardeananvik@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 12:47 PM
To: chrisvance@wsrp.org
Subject: Federal Campaign Law

Chris,I took the information you gave me regarding usage of County Party assets (e.g. newsletters, phone banks) for federal candidates to my County Central Committee and asked for direction as to accepting ads from campaigns or individuals. I explained the information you had provided. Steve VanDenover, Mason County Chair, asked me to check with other counties as to how they are handling national candidates, such as Nethercutt, Bush and Congressional Candidates.

I called a few counties and discussed this issue in detail with the State Committeewoman and Editor of the Skagit County Republican newsletter, Ann Marie Humphreys. She was unaware of the prohibiitions that you had outlined to me for newsletters. IN fact she had an ad for George Bush in her latest Newsletter. I told her what you had explained to me about newsletter prohibitions.May I request that you or someone on your staff send directions regarding what Counties can and cannot do as it pertains to newsletters and phone banks usage for federal candidates.

There is a great deal of ignorance out here and many counties are violating the campaign law as I understood it from you. God help us if the Democrats find out.

I think we all need direction. Can you help us?

Thanks, Chris

More dirty tricks

The BBC reports:

A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.

And the show has reached a new low...

Wonderful.

Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds,
perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely
surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms
were thrown in the trash. Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.

The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed at democrats. Thee focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.
The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.

Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats. "We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant and he ripped them up right in front of us. I grabbed some of them out of the garbage and she tells her assisatnt to get those from me," said Eric Russell, former Voters Outreach employee.

Eric Russell managed to retrieve a pile of shredded paperwork including signed voter registration forms, all from Democrats. We took them to the Clark County Election Department and confirmed that they had not, in fact, been filed with the county as required by law.

So the people on those forms who think they will be able to vote on Election Day are sadly mistaken. We attempted to speak to Voters Outreach but found that
its office has been rented out to someone else. The landlord says Voters Outreach was evicted for non-payment of rent. Another source said the company has now moved on to Oregon where it is once again registering voters. It's unknown how many registrations may have been tossed out, but another ex-employee
told Eyewitness News she had the same suspicions when she worked there.

It's going to take a while to sort all of this out, but the immediate concern for voters is to make sure you really are registered. Call the Clark County Election Department at 455-VOTE to see if you are registered.

The company has been largely, if not entirely funded, by the Republican National Committee. Similar complaints have been received in Reno where the registrar has asked the FBI to investigate.

Insomnia

I'm stuck in this cycle...either I'm sleep deprived and never have enough time to catch up on sleep, or I dedicate my weekend to sleeping and then have insomnia during the week.

I know I haven't been writing much recently. Sorry. Give me another two weeks and I'll be back.