line ’em up and pants ’em

Dr. Joshua Ellis weighs in on the voter registration obscenity in Nevada:

I thought the name sounded a little too patriotic,” Justin told me last week over the phone from a gig in the Caribbean. “But I thought, y’know, it’s the DMV, so it can’t be bullshit. When I was signing up, I almost -- almost -- didn’t put down ‘Democrat’ as my party affiliation. But I did it anyway.”

When [local Vegas CBS affiliate] KLAS broke a story featuring claims by former Voter Outreach of America employees that the company was illegally destroying voter registration forms from Democratic voters, Justin called the local registrar – and discovered that, in fact, he was not registered to vote.
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The fact that Sproul continues to register (some) votes suggests that the RNC either doesn’t know or doesn’t care about these allegations. They’re certainly not making much of a big deal about it, or conducting any sort of big internal investigation. In fact, according to the Center for Responsive Politics database, they’ve paid Sproul and Associates, Inc. over $600,000 this year alone for voter registration and “political consulting”. Such a sum almost certainly suggests that Sproul has transcended the lame-duck Arizona GOP and found himself some new fishing buddies in the rarified circles of the national party. (via flummox)

Update: Sorry about the multiple-posting. Blogger was being a bit catty last night, and apparently I lost the yarn ball.