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Friday, February 29, 2008

Kristina Wilfore explains how “Fraud Merchants” work

On Washington's KIRO radio station, Kristina Wilfore, the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center explains how "fraud merchants" operate and what citizens like you can do to ensure their initiative process remains open and honest. Click here for the audio.


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Posted by  on  03/22  at  03:10 AM

I have been a petitioner for almost ten years on and off. Really, please a few bad apples should not ruin a process that is really amazing and beautiful. I have ha up to twelve in hand, each one is an individual petition. I have never forged a signature in my life. I have witnessed some people doing so, and I have yet to be able to report it. THAT is the problem. For example in 04’ october in san mateo/san fran area, Tom Badar picked up a 32 dollar per voter registration card contract. This was to register people as republicans in the democratic stronghold area. Brian Schrier and Chris Radcliffe trained thier crews to get them to check the repub box and initial it by making all of thier petitioners carry a petition)plebascite) illegal form unless all are turned in. Usually this is a good idea, because if you want to raise awareness for planned parenthood or something you believe in and you are doing a voter reg drive, its cool, you raise awareness and let them know about various parties and let them decide which onethey want to register with. In this case, apparantly a few weeks ago in redwood city, a school bus rolled over. So chris radcliffe created a plebascite that said seatbelts on schoolbuses, and created a box on the left of the computer paper where they would write in thier voter reg card number. Then he and Schrier tought thm(I was there) that they nod a lot and say “now the republicans are paying for this theyre ok, i mean thats ok right?” and nod, “ok then this is the repub box here,and now you are going to get a call you might get two calls, they just want to make sure you know what petition you were signing , so they will ask you what petition did you sign and youll say.” wait for THEM to say school bus seatbelts-then “and you sregistered with,,,” and THEY MUST SAY REPUB and then you remind them what to say on the phone and say thanks. this was redwood city. We were supposedly going to be paid for our nonpartisan ones, which is what I was pushing, I was wondering why my guys stuff was mising and I sat in and made phone calls to verify validate the cards, Chris and Brian THREW AWAY ANGRY PEOPLE ones that the people did not follow the script of bus schoolbus belts and republican. They were prepping them for when or if voter registrar checked em out. I found photocopies and white out and saw how Brian was fraudulently forging new voter cards for non republican parties. Tom Badar was who the two of them worked for and he was aware of all fraud as he was not paying or doing any checks and balances with Brian. A petitioner showed me information that was video of himself and a gentleman where it was admitted that Tom knew about forged signatures in his current campaign in vegas that was running cuncurrently with the redwood city gig. Badar asked me on the phone if he had the evidence on tape, he was scared. Chris Radcliffe recomeendded that when petitioners talk to black people they should say they have a black bloodline, or mexican, or whatever. So, when I went to blow this and more out of the water, Brian Schrier provably placed his drugs hed been showing us all on his computer in a place the police charged me. So, for the last four years all I have been able to do is to consult with startup groups for free, you know. I used to petition all the time and dammit, very few of us are paid mercinaries,. We are just really good at talking to people. Ask around, a lot of people are not capable of having a 7 hour conversation with a complete stranger on politics on a daily basis. Sometimes we work in snowstorms and some companies dont even pay us what we are worth, let alone what the contract value is. We learn more about the issue from the people we talk to during the day. Like free pre k for all 4 year olds, you wouldnt believe the mothers I talked to, and how hard it was for them. Also, signature gathering must be pretty simple so why need so much time to get sigs for ballot access?hmm? I mean it must be easy if people will just sign 10 thinking they have to, because its all the same. Correct my line of thinking if you wish, but I think maybe it would help if you promoted paid signature gathering/educating local voters because we stay out there longer if we will be able to have dinner and a rof over our head. Most people have 8 hour jobs, this job requires someone to go out for 16 or more hours to make any money. We are the activists that show up, get arrested and the police tell me i was never in thier jail the second they release me. We are the unsung heros. I take pride in what I am. I have been around enough and I am honest, too. By the way, JSM would never hire brian schrier or chris radcliff and I actually learned how to spot forgerys even better now. She does not turn in shit signatures. The owners are such good people I really care about them. ALSO:linsey mcwilliams from humbolt county voter reg.recieved feces and urine on a box of fully completed voter reg cards from brian schrier. Brian was introuble with the law for fraud as he was selling items that did not exist and taking money for them, this was over 15 years ago. He also attacked carl childress with a car during nadars campaign as he tried to block the signatures from being delivered last minute.
Brian Schrier is now working for Eileen Ray in Sacramento. David Crownover threatened my life and said he would make sure I was never in the business again during the redwood city campaign in 04’. So what about these mugs huh? lets get em up, and get jsm off there, she n her husband are nice folks.

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