From Breitbart.
Battleground Texas (BGTX) may have failed to take any action regarding the “admission” of an undercover volunteer with BGTX that she had broken multiple election laws, according to a new video investigation by journalist James O’Keefe’s organization Project Veritas. The allegations come on the heels of sting earlier this year that busted BGTX, a group attempting to turn Texas blue, for illegally copying voters’ personal data for campaign purposes.
Project Veritas claims that BGTX personnel did not take action after being told by a volunteer that voters were registered by an individual who did not have the authority to do so, and that completed voter forms were lost.
Under Texas law, voter registration can only be performed deputized voter registrars. Volunteer deputy registrars must deliver completed forms to the registrar, and they must receive proper training.
These rules are “very important. It’s a crime to handle a completed registration form without being officially certified as a [volunteer deputy registrar],” Mimi Marziani, the Voter Protection Director for BGTX says in a video on the organization’s website.
“We wondered how seriously they took their own advice, and the laws of Texas,” O’Keefe said.
So Project Veritas sent an undercover investigator, identified as “Ronnie,” to find out.
Ronnie started working with BGTX and became acquaintances with several of the organization’s staff members. On the tape, Ronnie can be seen telling Emma Bauer, who works for Battleground Texas, that though Ronnie was not properly deputized, she still registered several people to vote.
“Somebody handed me a registration card, and so I don’t know how it happened but I accidentally signed some people up,” Ronnie said.
Ronnie additionally told Bauer that she no longer has the forms and does now know where they went. She added that some of the registration cards she filled out were destroyed because she “had a problem” with some of the people she had registered.
According to Battleground Texas’ own website, “You can’t refuse to register someone to vote simply because their views differ from your own.”
They ought to follow their own policy.
The newly released video appears to show that subsequent to speaking with Bauer, Ronnie approached Sam Kraus, a more senior BGTX operative, and repeated her story. “I accidentally signed up some people without having deputization…Also there was another thing too, there was some people that were giving me a hard time. I kind of tossed those in the trash, regrettably.”
The people doing the registering weren’t even authorized, by law:
“The lesson is that you should never have thrown that voter registration form away,” Kraus told Ronnie. “Tell [Bauer] that you definitely need to get deputized.”
And now comes the cover up:
Ronnie then approached Bauer and informed her that Kraus said they were going to “leave this alone.” “We’re going to follow Sam,” Bauer said. “As long as it’s not on me, we’re going to follow. I’m all good with that, I’m all good with that.”
According to O’Keefe, Bauer’s comments implied that no action would be taken by BGTX to report Ronnie’s apparent “illegal” registering people to vote without being properly deputized or the loss of completed voter registration forms.
Except that those registration forms weren’t “lost”, they were thrown away because the registrants were probably Republicans.
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