In February, Colorado became the poster child for the importance of voter ID laws when 17,000 Coloradans received voter registration forms without a signature space from a liberal-backed group called the Voter Participation Center.

To register, by law, you must sign your registration form, but the liberals sending out the forms "forgot" to include this critical detail. No signature means there's no way to verify that the person voting is legally registered. 

Colorado Peak Politics reported the liberal connections of the Voter Participation Center after this story broke.

Here's why this story is important. The errors uncovered in Voter Participation Center mailings to potential illegal voters shows the crucial importance of Voter ID laws – the kind of ballot integrity systems that liberals abhor and Obama's highly politicized Justice Department opposes under some adventuresome legal theories. Coloradans need to understand that fair elections are under attack by the liberals – and they have the cash to succeed unless challenged.

Bogus Registration Bonanza

  • Colorado was the the Voter Participation Center's practice run. They've gotten bolder at eliciting phony voters since then.
  • New Mexico non-citizens got voter registration forms from the VPC people. The Secretary of State's office pointed out the problems VPC might cause for a child who got VPC's forms, since kids aren't legally entitled to register to vote. Doña Ana County Clerk Lynn Ellins, a former Coloradan, "warned people against responding to mailers of any kind if The Voter Participation Center is the sender." The response: it's not our job to check, or even care about, registration validity.
  • In Louisiana, the Secretary of State's office got more than 200 complaints about registration errors. VPC pre-completed these forms with bad information. It walks the line right up to identity theft.
  • Florida's Tampa Bay Times reported on 420,000 registration forms VPC mailed there. At least one went to a person who had never lived at the address on the mailing. Proof of residency required? Poof!
  • In Washington State, the Voter Participation Center mailed a very cute dog an invitation to vote. His picture shows he wasn't a Blue Dog or a Yellow Dog, so they couldn't have known how he'd vote. (Photo here.) Well, maybe they did know; the dog was long dead, so it probably would have voted Democrat.
  • In Virginia, it was dead people (they vote all the time in Chicago) and felons. And, while the Voter Participation Center was at it, they spoofed the Virginia State Board of Elections. Instead of a signed registration form going to the Board, it went to a private mail box. Photo proof here. Curiously, the box owner is from Colorado. Even worse, the registration forms violated the Virginia State Code according to Justin Riemer, Elections Deputy Secretary.


With these coast-to-coast errors, does the Voter Participation Center care much about technical issues like legality?

The VPC response? They posted a video of a cat and a dog. (Watch it here.) When honorable people make a mistake, they apologize. VPC laughed it off.

Encouraging voter registration fraud is no laughing matter. Does the Voter Participation Center think the laugh will be on honest Americans whose votes will be diluted by their efforts to register a lot of names who aren't legal voters?

The  2012 performance tracks what happened the last time Obama ran. A  Virginia voter – recruited to the voting rolls by VPC despite a previous  felony conviction – pled guilty to two counts of election fraud after registering and voting in '08.

Maybe  not. Virginia officials have been asked to make a formal inquiry into  these shenanigans. Given the national symphony of errors, reasonable  people could suspect the Voter Participation Center wanted to register a bunch of phony voters.

DO IT ONCE, IT'S A BOO-BOO; DO IT EVERYWHERE, IT'S A STRATEGY.