{"id":54490,"date":"2016-11-01T19:13:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=54490"},"modified":"2016-11-01T19:13:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:13:46","slug":"voter-fraud-in-pennsylvania-police-raid-advocacy-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=54490","title":{"rendered":"Voter Fraud in Pennsylvania: Police Raid Advocacy Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"title\">Pennsylvania Police Raid Democrat &#8220;Advocacy Group&#8221; Office Over Alleged Voter Fraud<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Zerohedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania state police have raided offices of a democrat &#8220;public advocacy&#8221; group, FieldWorks, LLC, seeking evidence of possible voter-registration fraud.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/politics\/20161101_State_raids_Delco_offices__seeking_evidence_of_voter_registration_fraud.html\">The Inquirer Daily News<\/a>, cited court records in a report published earlier today noting that police were seeking templates that were<strong> &#8220;utilized to construct fraudulent voter registration forms.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0 The office being investigated is located in the city of Norwood in Delaware County, PA.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p>In a warrant filed late last week in County Court, investigators said they were <strong>seeking documents, financial information, and lists of employees at the Norwood office of FieldWorks LLC,<\/strong> a national organization that often does street work for Democrats, records show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The warrant did not specify the nature of the probe, but said agents also were <strong>looking for &#8220;templates . . . utilized to construct fraudulent voter registration forms&#8221;<\/strong> and <strong>&#8220;completed voter registration forms containing same or similar identifying information of individuals on multiple forms.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Delaware County judge on Friday afternoon signed the search warrant, but it was not known when it was executed. The warrant application was approved by the Pennsylvania Attorney General&#8217;s Office. Jeff Johnson, a spokesman for the Attorney General&#8217;s Office, declined to comment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldworks.com\/\">FieldWorks<\/a> describes itself as &#8220;a nationally recognized grassroots organizing firm founded to help progressive organizations, advocacy groups, and members of the <strong>Democratic family take their public engagement and electoral strategies to the next level.<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0 Yes, we would also confirm that committing voter fraud is indeed &#8220;taking things to the next level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldworks.com\/about\/\">FieldWorks website<\/a> notes that the organization utilizes &#8220;<strong>innovative grassroots strategies&#8221; to &#8220;t<\/strong><strong>arget the right voters in the right places, and using the right tactics at the right time.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0 The website also lists its core competencies as &#8220;vote-by-mail, early voting, <strong>voter registration<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 <strong>Somehow, we wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if they also specialized in helping dead voters as well<\/strong>&#8230;though it would be a little reckless to put that directly on a website&#8230;that&#8217;s more of a message that should be communicated in person or over the phone.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p>Led by experienced national and international strategists with their hearts in grassroots organizing, FieldWorks creates campaigns that combine <strong>innovative grassroots strategies<\/strong>, the newest online and communication technologies, and <strong>time-tested shoe leather tactics<\/strong> with one thing in mind: achieving our client\u2019s goals.<strong> Targeting the right voters in the right places, and using the right tactics at the right time <\/strong>(Vote-by-Mail, Early Voting, <strong>voter registration<\/strong>, mail, phones, direct voter contact, message integration, and the Internet), <strong>FieldWorks puts the plan together that will yield the winning results. <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user230519\/imageroot\/2016\/11\/01\/2016.11.01%20-%20Fieldworks%202_0.JPG\" alt=\"FieldWorks\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just in case you think this may be a non-partisan organization, FieldWorks&#8217; website also includes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldworks.com\/case_studies\/dccc.asp#title\">case study<\/a> on work they did for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Comittee:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>In 2006 and 2008, FieldWorks was part of a team brought in by the DCCC to work with their most targeted races to develop Field and GOTV Plans.<\/strong> FieldWorks was responsible for working with the Field Directors to ensure that a quality Field Plan was in place, direct voter contact plans established with clear metrics and deliverables, establishing paid canvass operations and managing Get-Out-the-Vote activities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to the police raids, the FieldWorks organization released a statement saying that they have &#8220;zero tolerance for fraud&#8221; and are cooperating with authorities in their investigation.\u00a0 Meanwhile, we&#8217;re sure it&#8217;s only a matter of time before Harry Reid or Donna Brazile claims this is just another effort to restrict minority voting in a largely African American county in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p>In a statement Monday, a spokesman for FieldWorks&#8217; national headquarters in Washington, said the company has <strong>&#8220;zero tolerance for fraud.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;FieldWorks is now working with county officials to provide them with information on our program and applications they are investigating,&#8221;<\/strong> said the spokesman, Matt Dorf. &#8220;In keeping with our regular practice, we will work aggressively with authorities to seek the prosecution of anyone involved in wrongdoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The company did not respond to requests for comment <\/strong>on which campaigns or political groups have hired them to work in Pennsylvania.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, FieldWorks also denied similar charges in Ohio during the 2012 election cycle that landed one Ohio University student in jail.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p>In 2012, FieldWorks&#8217; voter registration efforts in Ohio sparked some controversy. <strong>FieldWorks employees filed thousands of new voter registration cards in the final week before the registration deadline. Some of them were found to be fraudulent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In that same election, FieldWorks included a cover letter with its mass voter filing warning that it itself viewed scores of the submitted names as fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Police in Cincinnati arrested a former Ohio University student in 2012 working in FieldWorks on charges of forging 22 signatures on a petition drive. <\/strong>Police said at the time that FieldWorks itself played no role in that man&#8217;s scheme to pad his list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day. Why do Republican leaders deny what is going on? So naive!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/787995025527410688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-11-01\/pennsylvania-state-police-raid-offices-democrat-advocacy-group-seeking-evidence-vote\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-11-01\/pennsylvania-state-police-raid-offices-democrat-advocacy-group-seeking-evidence-vote<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"node-links\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Police Raid Democrat &#8220;Advocacy Group&#8221; Office Over Alleged Voter Fraud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}