{"id":7177,"date":"2004-10-13T11:05:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/13\/another-reason-to-check-on-your-voter-registration.html"},"modified":"2004-10-13T11:05:21","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T18:05:21","slug":"another_reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/13\/another_reason.html","title":{"rendered":"Another reason to check on your voter registration"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to go out and register folks in just one party, that’s fine and legal (and the way the electoral game is played).<\/p>\n

If you pretend to register folks from both parties, then throw away <\/em>the registration forms of all but one party — that’s fraud. It’s also something that should get you bitchslapped and tossed in the clink. And if it’s actually being paid for by the political party in question (the Republicans, in these stories) I hope they get fined until their eyes bleed, and the folks responsible face felony charges.<\/p>\n

More details here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, if you still need to register, don’t rely on some unknown person or persons sitting in front of a supermarket to take care of the paperwork for you. Do it right<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want to go out and register folks in just one party, that’s fine and legal (and the way the electoral game is played). 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