Republican Throws Voting Registrations In Trash

The Radical Republicans that surrounded John and Jessie Fremont went down south and forced Confederate Traitors to hold fair elections.

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ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va (WTVR) – Police in Rockingham County arrested a man hired by the state Republican Party for allegedly throwing voter registration forms in the trash—forms he was hired to collect.

Twenty-three-year-old Colin Small is facing 13 felony and misdemeanor counts all related to alleged voter fraud. Small was contracted by the Republican Party of Virginia to register voters, but was spotted allegedly tossing a trash bag containing eight forms in a dumpster just ahead of the Oct. 15 registration deadline.

Rob Johnson owns a nearby store, and says he spotted Small throwing the bag into the dumpster–which is only supposed to be used by his private business. Annoyed, he walked over and opened the bag–and discovered the fully filled out voter registration forms. He called police.

“When I reached in and picked up the bag, I thought it was an empty bag and that’s when I opened it up and saw just the single manilla folder with the 8 or 9 applications inside,” Johnson told WHSV in . “If I really wanted to take advantage of the situation, I could have had 8 or 9 nice credit cards. All the information was there!”

Johnson says he was even more concerned about whether or not the people who filled out the forms would be able to vote. He discovered them on Oct. 15–the same day as the deadline.

“Those eight or nine people may not know what happened, and imagine how they’re going to feel the day on election day, they go into vote and their name isn’t on the list. I’d be a little bit ticked off,” Johnson said.

The Rockingham County registrar’s office is confirming that the people who filled out the forms will be able to vote.

“We did get the applications delivered to us, and it was before the deadline, but it was not the custom way of delivering the applications,” County Registrar Doug Geib told WHSV.

Small, a Pennsylvania resident, is charged with four counts of destruction of voter registration applications, eight counts of disclosure of voter registration applications, and one count of obstruction of justice.

Officials say there is no indication that this was a widespread incident, or that it was politically motivated.

The Republican Party of Virginia has released a statement, saying Small’s alleged actions are a direct contradiction of both his training and the explicit instructions given to him.

The Radicals at first admired Johnson’s hard-line talk. When they discovered his ambivalence on key issues by his veto of Civil Rights Act of 1866, they overrode his veto. This was the first time that Congress had overridden a President on an important bill. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 made African Americans United States citizens and forbade discrimination against them. It was to be enforced in Federal courts. The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution of 1868, (with its Equal Protection Clause) was the work of a coalition formed of both moderate and Radical Republicans.[8]

By 1866 the Radical Republicans supported federal civil rights for Freedmen, which Johnson opposed. By 1867 they defined terms for suffrage for freed slaves and limited early suffrage for many ex-Confederates. While Johnson opposed the Radical Republicans on some issues, the decisive Congressional elections of 1866 gave the radicals enough votes to enact their legislation over Johnson’s vetoes. Through elections in the South, ex-Confederate officeholders were gradually replaced with a coalition of Freedmen, southern whites (called Scalawags), and northerners who had resettled in the South (called Carpetbaggers). The Radical Republicans impeached Andrew Johnson in the House but failed by one vote in the Senate to remove him from office.[8]

Grant’s last outrage in Louisiana
in Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper. With nation tired of Reconstruction, Grant remained the lone President protecting African American civil rights.
January 23, 1875The Radical Republicans led the Reconstruction of the South. All Republican factions supported Ulysses S. Grant for president in 1868. Once in office, Grant forced Sumner out of the party. Grant used Federal power to try to break up the Ku Klux Klan organization. Insurgents, however, and community riots continued harassment and violence against African Americans and their allies into the early 20th century. By 1872 the Liberal Republicans thought that Reconstruction had succeeded and should end. Many moderates joined their cause as well as Radical Republican leader Charles Sumner. They lost as Grant was easily reelected.[13]

In state after state in the south, the Redeemers movement seized control from the Republicans, until only three Republican states were left in 1876: South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. Republican Presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes announced that he favored restoring “home rule” in these states, provided they promised to respect the rights of the freedmen. When Hayes became president in 1877 he ordered the removal of federal troops and Redeemers took over in these states as well.

Liberal Republicans (in 1872) and Democrats argued the Radical Republicans were corrupt by the acts of accepting bribes (notably during the Grant Administration). These opponents of the Radicals demanded amnesty for all ex-Confederates, restoring their right to vote and hold public office. Foner’s history of Reconstruction pointed out that sometimes the financial chicanery was as much a question of extortion as bribes. By 1872 the Radicals were increasingly splintered; in the Congressional elections of 1874 the anti-Radical Democrats took control of Congress. Many former radicals joined the “Stalwart” faction of the GOP, while many opponents joined the “Half-Breeds”, but they differed primarily on patronage rather than policy.[14]