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Disgraced national voter company tied to controversial video in Colorado Springs
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Last Edited | COSDem Sep 29, 2012 02:56pm |
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News Date | Saturday, September 29, 2012 08:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | It began with a shaky video posted on YouTube of a voter registration drive in Colorado Springs. But a flap over the drive hardly ended there, as new details emerged Friday, including ties to a discredited Virginia company.
The video shows a young woman trying to sign up Republicans to vote in the Nov. 6 election. Another woman, a Colorado Springs grandmother and Democratic precinct captain, shot the video on her camera phone, thinking she had stumbled upon an illegal voter registration drive. But there was nothing illegal about what the young woman was doing.
The video has since gone viral, viewed nearly 425,000 times by Friday afternoon.
The El Paso County clerk’s office spent hours explaining how voter registration works and how what the flustered 20-year-old woman said in the video — that she was working for the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office — was patently wrong.
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