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Three plead guilty in fake voter scheme
The Seattle Times ^ | October 30, 2007 | Keith Ervin

Posted on 10/30/2007 2:13:05 PM PDT by Monitor

Three of seven defendants in the biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history have pleaded guilty and one has been sentenced, prosecutors said Monday. The defendants were all temporary employees of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, when they allegedly filled out and submitted more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties. No votes were cast in the names of the phony voters. Prosecutors said the defendants committed fraud in order to keep their jobs without actually registering voters. King County election workers brought the fraud to the attention of prosecutors last October, after noticing that signatures on many registration forms looked like they had been written by the same person. Ryan Olson, 28, of Needles, Calif., was the first to be sentenced. He pleaded guilty Thursday in King County Superior Court to two counts of providing false information on a voter-registration application, a felony. Court Commissioner Kenneth Comstock sentenced him to 30 days in jail or in electronic home detention, the sentence recommended by prosecutors, said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecutor's Office. Tina Johnson, 24, of Tacoma, and Jayson Woods, 20, of Elkridge, Md., also have pleaded guilty to eight counts each of registration fraud. Donohoe said prosecutors have recommended 120 days of jail for each of them using the same formula applied to Olson: 15 days for each count. Brianna Debwa, 35, of Tacoma; Robert Greene, 56, of Tacoma; and Clifton Mitchell, 45, of Lakewood, Pierce County, have pleaded not guilty and are scheduled to appear in court in November. Kendra Thill, 19, no known address, was charged with voter fraud and is wanted for failure to appear in court.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: acorn; aliens; corruption; fraud; gregoire; moveon; seattle; soros; voter; voterfraud
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1 posted on 10/30/2007 2:13:07 PM PDT by Monitor
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To: Monitor

Let me guess, “Democrats”, “activists”, “progressives”,
“environmentalists”, etc.? The usual suspects.


2 posted on 10/30/2007 2:18:05 PM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
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To: Monitor

So will the governor now recognize she was voted in based on fraud and now resign?


3 posted on 10/30/2007 2:20:07 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Monitor

Big deal, did you see how fat Britney looks in that outfit?

( /sarc barely off)


4 posted on 10/30/2007 2:20:11 PM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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To: Monitor
No votes were cast in the names of the phony voters.

Sure ... we all believe that. /sarc

5 posted on 10/30/2007 2:21:04 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: Monitor

When there is a penalty stiffer than 30 days of home arrest for election fraud, it will likely stop. People who participate in actions like this defraud honest voters without worry of punishment and are no doubt well compensated for their efforts.


6 posted on 10/30/2007 2:22:33 PM PDT by penowa
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To: Monitor
The defendants were all temporary employees of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, when they allegedly filled out and submitted more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties.

"Allegedly"? They just plead guilty, how is this alleged?

7 posted on 10/30/2007 2:23:11 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Learning the Mexican Hat Dance.)
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To: Monitor

Interesting. Two of them were from Elkridge, MD - just a stone’s throw from DC. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm..................


8 posted on 10/30/2007 2:23:35 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: garyhope
Let me guess, “Democrats”, “activists”, “progressives”, “environmentalists”, etc.? The usual suspects.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

9 posted on 10/30/2007 2:24:50 PM PDT by alicewonders (Duncan Hunter needs to be our next Secretary of Defense.)
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To: penowa

“When there is a penalty stiffer than 30 days of home arrest for election fraud,...”
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It’s not 30 days, it’s 15 days....for a FELONY!!! From the article;

“He pleaded guilty Thursday in King County Superior Court to two counts of providing false information on a voter-registration application, a felony.”


10 posted on 10/30/2007 2:29:43 PM PDT by Roccus (Someday it'll all make sense.....maybe.)
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To: Monitor

all lib/dems that are involved in the corruption...

just wait for the lib/dem msm to report of this!!


11 posted on 10/30/2007 2:32:04 PM PDT by nyyankeefan
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To: Monitor

Gee Wally I didn’t see the word Democrat in that article. Ya ‘sopse they were Republicans?”
“Nah Beav, it was just ratmedia scumbags tryna hide the truth again.”


12 posted on 10/30/2007 2:43:28 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
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To: Monitor
ACORN: Doing the job real Americans won't do.

ReDefeat Bush in '08!

13 posted on 10/30/2007 2:57:26 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Incorrigible
“So will the governor now recognize she was voted in based on fraud and now resign?”

It’s never fraud when a Dummie wins, only when they lose.

14 posted on 10/30/2007 3:01:47 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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To: Monitor
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and the RATS, take another one in the...............HA ha!!!

15 posted on 10/30/2007 3:13:19 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: Incorrigible
So will the governor now recognize she was voted in based on fraud and now resign?
Well, this incident won't do the trick. If you read more than the first 2 lines you will see this:
No votes were cast in the names of the phony voters. Prosecutors said the defendants committed fraud in order to keep their jobs without actually registering voters.
Acorn was being ripped off. These guys were a boat anchor on their efforts.

There are better and more accurate arguments to be made.

16 posted on 10/30/2007 3:33:44 PM PDT by 21stCenturyFreeThinker
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To: Old Sarge
where?

/sarc sincerely off

17 posted on 10/30/2007 3:35:03 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult)
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To: Monitor

Not long ago a woman in Washington state who happened to be a Republican, file a fake voter registration for her dog for what she said was making a point about how easy it is to commit fraud.

I was part of the very small minority who believed she should have been prosecuted and served time.

The majority here were OK as long as she didn’t actually vote and commenced passionately defending her.

Now the shoe is on the other foot. My position hasn’t changed, prosecute them.


18 posted on 10/30/2007 3:36:08 PM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: (n) The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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Yet Greg-Gore is still in office.

And she had the Stalinist gall to demand recounts until she won.

I explained why her taking of office was a genuine theft of an election, unlike the Left’s claim that “Bush stole the election,” though it was completely constitutional.

Some ignorant leftist blogger from Seattle lifted my lines from FR and posted them under the caption of “the right whines about blah blah blah.”

Once again, leftists prove themselves to be the stupid, criminal, Stalinist bastards that they are. They can only gain office by lying about who they are and what they’ll do or stealing elections through fraud.

I wonder how far they’ll be able to push us before we crack.

19 posted on 10/30/2007 3:44:48 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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Let’s not forget that the court decided in Greg-Gore’s favor because of all the questionable ballots, one voter who voted fraudulently (an inmate) “admitted that he voted for Rossi.”

Now, of course, a criminal who votes illegally wouldn’t do something so wrongful as lie about who he voted for, would he?

The judge, a leftist, ruled that because there was no evidence who the questionable votes went to, rather than throw them all out (which would have given the race to Rossi), threw out only a handful, which ensured that the lying, thieving leftist (I know, redundant) would legally steal the election.

20 posted on 10/30/2007 3:48:53 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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