The Portland State University
Vanguard reports that a group looking for people to sign a "petition" to lower auto insurance costs used voter registration cards to "verify" the signature of those signing the petition.
Only the name and address portion of the registration forms were directed to be filled out, with one petitioner explaining that the intention was to file the registration cards with "Republican" checked under part affiliation.
The group's actions, while misleading, are not illegal unless they are telling people that they must register Republican, according to Anne Martens, chief of communications for Secretary of State Bill Bradbury.
Not illegal? I'm not a lawyer, but surely having people fill out partial unnotarized registration forms and then having someone else fill in the rest of the registration after then fact falls under some law somewhere. Maybe Bradbury needs to be directed to where those laws are?