[EL] Gingrich's signature fraud problem

[Doug Hess]

I don't know if Gingrich, in the past, was one of those actively attacking
voter registration drives with the fraud angle, I don't believe he was, but
it looks like he got stung in VA by the analogous problem in the petition
industry; i.e., workers faking signatures to get paid without doing the
work (the Census Bureau has this problem, too, called "curb stoning"). As
I've mentioned on this list before, I think looking over the petition
history of any politician or activist that spreads misinformation about
voter registration drives would be worth doing to put this management
problem into some perspective. Generally, a non-trivial percentage of
signatures are removed from petitions for office, or ballot measures, etc.
(Not all of that is "fraud," of course, just as many of the registration
form problems weren't fraud either.)

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/28/gingrich-campaign-workers-signature-fraud-cost-slot-on-virginia-ballot/

Doug Hess
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