March 02, 2006

State looks into charges of GOP registration fraud

"The California Secretary of State's Office launched an investigation Wednesday into hundreds of Republican registrations in Orange County done during a $100,000 drive to increase GOP voters in a Democratic stronghold.

As Republican leaders continued to blame three rogue circulators who were paid for each registration, most of the questions centered on Christopher S. Dinoff, 30, a Riverside man who was fired by a GOP-hired contractor after Dinoff was accused of strong-arming voters into registering as Republicans.

Meanwhile, the Orange County Registrar of Voters has confirmed 76 instances in which registrations were involuntarily changed. Most were changed from Democrat to Republican, a review of the records show. Of those, 35 are attributed to Dinoff, who signed up voters in Westminster, Anaheim, Stanton and Garden Grove."

Posted by Randy Riddle at March 2, 2006 11:13 AM