State elections director Gary Bartlett heard about the RNC conference call today saying that voter registration fraud is rampant in North Carolina, and wants to clarify the state board's position.
The state elections board takes voter fraud seriously, but organizations have the right to participate in voter registration drives, Bartlett told Lynn Bonner.
"Certainly, when someone tries to commit fraud...it does slow us down, there is no doubt about that, but we have to balance everything," Bartlett said. The suspicious forms are "just a small portion of many things we’ll be reviewing."
The state has not finished its investigation into the bogus registration forms submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, he said, but it appears so far that the people who submitted them were motivated by "personal greed," not partisan politics.
"It doesn’t have anything to do with them supporting or opposing any cause," he said.
Update: Deputy Director Johnnie McLean told the Charlotte Observer that the bogus forms appear to have been filed by "a lazy worker" hired by ACORN. She says she does not see any evidence of voter fraud.
"For somebody to say that with no apparent evidence to support it, it just doesn't do very much to establish trust in the elections process," she said.
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Re: Bartlett: It's greed, not partisan politics
Mr. Bartlett was quoted:
"It doesn’t have anything to do with them supporting or opposing any cause," he said.
I wonder how many people really believe this. ACORN is one of those organizations which is exempt from any type oversight because they are "pure as the driven snow."
I don't think it's greed, it's manipulation.