Salon.com > Colin Small http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Wider fraud investigations sought in GOP vote scandal http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/wider_fraud_investigations_sought_in_gop_vote_scandal/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/wider_fraud_investigations_sought_in_gop_vote_scandal/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:25:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13050760 [UPDATE 10/24/12: Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli will now be investigating after all, following a unanimous vote today of the State Board of Elections to refer the matter for a statewide criminal probe. Our concerns about Cuccinelli's conflicts of interest, as partially detailed below, still stand. BF]

Broader investigations are being sought, on a number of fronts, into the nationwide GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal including, finally, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Over the weekend, a Democratic state legislator in Virginia asked the state's Republican Attorney General to open a statewide probe, though AG Ken Cuccinelli (above right) has said he has no plans to carry one out. Given the photographs recently posted of Cuccinelli on Twitter (see below), that's probably a good thing.

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