Virginia is currently looking good for Obama. No Democrat has carried that state in the Presidential election since 1964. And a perusal of VA blogs will show that the wingnuts are in full on panic mode.
Now comes news of potential voter fraud in Rockingham County, home of James Madison University, where Obama is slated to speak tomorrow night.
And, for good measure, let's throw in a false-flag call to the Vice Chair of the 6th District Democratic Committee...which was traced to the son of Harrisonburg's Registrar of Voters.
More below the fold.
I'm going to basically cut and paste most of this from my friend Brent Finnegan's hburgnews.com. He's given me permission to use his material freely. This is the fastest way to get this out to the community, as I'm at work, just started this job, and don't have the Internet at home yet.
On October 6, the last day to register to vote, volunteers from the Obama HQ delivered a stack of registration forms to the registrar’s office. Among those forms was the registration of an Obama staffer.
But six of the forms that were delivered in person arrived back at the office in the mail a week later, with a Richmond postmark. Joe Fitzgerald, Vice Chair of the 6th District Democratic Committee, wrote in an email yesterday:
The form went to the Registrar’s Office on Oct. 6. Somehow, it left that office, went to Richmond, got in a mailbox, and came back to Harrisonburg. In a handwritten envelope, with the Obama office written as the return address.
The forms were rejected. The Obama staffer, along with several witnesses, appealed the rejection of his form to a judge in Winchester. The judge said that the case needed more attention, so the case will be heard again, this time in Harrisonburg on Wednesday, October 29.
But it gets weirder. Yesterday (Friday) morning, Fitzgerald received several threatening, obscene messages on his voice mail. The caller claimed to be calling from the Obama Campaign. According to Fitzgerald, HPD traced the threatening calls to Ellis Logan, son of Harrisonburg Registrar Debbie Logan. According to Debbie, Ellis has lived in Richmond since June.
Fitzgerald wrote:
Maybe [Ellis] thinks I’ve been picking on his mother... Maybe that justifies him lying, and saying he was a concerned citizen calling from the Obama campaign when he called from Richmond, where somebody mailed the hijacked registration forms, claiming they were from the Obama campaign.
How and why did those six registration forms end up in the mail, postmarked from Richmond?
Debbie Logan said that Ellis never had access to any of the voter registration forms in Harrisonburg. She said that the only time he was in the office recently was to vote absentee. "He did go to the DMV [in Richmond] and tried to register, but he didn’t get it done in time, so he has one last time he can come back to his old locality and vote absentee, which he did. He came in here and voted," Logan said.
Logan declined to comment about the postmarked voter registrations or the threatening phone calls, adding, "I have an election to run, and I’ll be more than happy to talk to you at length on anything you want to question me on after November 5th."
Scan of voter registration rejection letter received from Debbie Ellis' office available here.
More on potential vote suppression efforts in Harrisonburg here.
Tyhreats against scholarships of Virginia Tech students, also involving Harrisonburg Registrar Debbie Logan, are detailed here.
The sweat stench is strong in Virginia.
From a Rockingham County wingnut POS blogger, who attracts the vilest of the vile:
Anyone who has paid attention to this election and votes for Obama....
...is a traitor to this nation.
You can justify and rationalize your vote all you want, but if you vote for Obama....YOU ARE A TRAITOR.
You are knowingly voting for a socialist who is supported by radical fringe groups, third world dictators, and religious wingnuts. Anyone who would vote for someone who voted three times to let babies die after being born is a freak. There is nothing moderate about you. Karl Marx would be proud.
This is what we're up against down there.
These people have no shame, not a shred of integrity, no standards.
The fear and division tactics, the robocalls, the Ayers and ACORN lies....the Republicans in Virginia prove time and time again, they will stop at nothing to win. Vandalism, intimidation, and now this, which to my eyes appears to possibly be criminal behavior on the part of Debbie Logan and her son.
Don't let them steal it this time. Speak out.
Barack Obama's Campaign for Change will be at the JMU Convocation Center on Tuesday, October 28. Doors open at 3:15 PM and the rally begins at 5:15 PM. Free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but an RSVP is encouraged. First come, first served. For security reasons do not bring bags and limit personal items. No signs or banners permitted.