ACORN is standing behind this registration
Posted on 10/29/2009 12:36:23 PM PDT by Ballygrl
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Democrats Ask New Jersey Secretary of State to Ignore Mismatched Signatures on Absentee-Ballot Requests
This year, New Jersey’s registered voters can request a mail-in ballot for any reason. (Before 2005, voters needed to provide a reason for why they needed an absentee ballot.) The state received about 150,000 absentee-ballot applications this year.
On about 2,300 of those applications so far, the signature on the request form does not match the signature on the voter’s registration forms with the state.
In a development that is depressingly predictable, the New Jersey Democratic party is asking the state to provide provisional ballots for all these voters. Those ballots could, presumably, be used to overcome any narrow lead by Republican Chris Christie over Democrat Jon Corzine on Election Day.
A mass distribution of provisional ballots, at the request of a political party, would represent a significant change from established law. Currently, when a county clerk rejects an absentee-ballot request, the clerk tries to contact the voter — through mail, by phone, and in some cases, by attempting to contact the voter in person. And a person who has spoken to some of New Jersey’s county clerks says they’re granting wide latitude on signature styles; for them to reject a ballot request because of the signature, it has to be dramatically different from the one on file.
Could some of these cases be an election official misjudging the natural deviation in two handwriting samples from the same person? Certainly, and that's why the current system has clerks reaching out to rejected voters (presuming they actually exist) to sort out the discrepancy. But Democrats want to short-circuit the established methods of sorting out the problem, and in fact to ban rejections based on signature mismatches entirely.
Paul P. Josephson, a lawyer representing the New Jersey Democratic State Committee, wrote to Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells, asking her to “instruct County Clerks not to deny (vote by mail) applications on the basis of signature comparison alone.”
Josephson claims that “the data reveal a troubling disparity in rejection rates — from hundreds of applications in Atlantic (271 rejections, or 5.84 percent) and Hudson (362, or 4.13 percent) to just a handful in counties such as Hunterdon (6, or .20 percent) and Mercer (35, or .49 percent). We also note that staff and unaffiliated voters are being rejected at a far higher ratio than Republicans by a ratio of three-to-one.” But a source who has seen the data disagrees, contending the number of rejections is consistently proportional to the number of absentee ballots requested. This source described the rate of rejections as within a normal range, and he saw no clustering in particular regions.
Josephson contends that “even if the county clerks notify voters by mail that their applications have been rejected, too many of those voters will not have an opportunity to correct the situation.” But besides the county clerks’ efforts to contact voters laid out above, those who have not received an absentee ballot will still be able to vote on Election Day.
Democrats have never made this request before, not even in 2008, where many more New Jersey residents were voting through absentee ballots. Of course, that year Democrats Barack Obama and Frank Lautenberg were expected to win the statewide races handily.
Last year, the state party had no objections to the actions of county clerks; now, the party's counsel fears that the county-clerk staff “may be overworked and are likely not trained in handwriting analysis.” Strangely, these same county-clerk staffers managed to handle this year’s primary elections in New Jersey without any major complaints.
The fears of absentee-ballot fraud in New Jersey is not theoretical or far-fetched. Earlier this year, Atlantic City councilman Marty Small and 13 people who worked on his unsuccessful mayoral campaign “were indicted on charges they conspired to commit election fraud during the June Democratic primary through a variety of schemes involving messenger absentee ballots, state Attorney General Anne Milgram announced in Trenton.” One of those workers has already pled guilty. Five workers were indicted on similar charges in Essex County in August.
Suspicious minds see the letter as an attempt to create a pool of emergency votes to be used if Christie holds a small lead on Election Night. The Secretary of State has not yet responded to the Democrats’ request.
“You can never steal too early.”
Dem motto.
If I were the state...I’d tell the Democrats that I’ll be real fair about this...inviting twenty-five of these mismatched signature folks to come down to their county offices, and as long as all twenty-five are explaining this signature issue...we’ll say ‘fine’.
My guess is that none of the twenty-five knew they had submitted a ballot request.
The dead are voting early this year!
Democrats have NO SENSE of when to be ASHAMED.
We’re going to have to send hundreds of people undercover into the dem party to prove what really goes on.
What else do they have to do?
Two prerequisites for being a leftist/democrat: utter hypocrisy and complete shamelessness.
The fix is in.
I’m so ticked off at the thought of that. The only hope, if Corzine does get in with about 40% of the vote? that he’ll be rendered useless and the people will make their unhappiness known next election.
Yes, the fix is in. Corzine by a “landslide”, i.e. on the 50th recount, he finds the 250 votes needed to win.
RATs will lose when the Stanley Cup Finals are played in Hades.
Institutionalized corruption. I don’t even know why they bother with pretending to have an election.
If we can't stop the brazen cheating now, I have no hope for the future. There's not near enough people fighting this kind of fraud, it's a matter of life and death for Democracy.
Same solution as always. If it ain’t close they can’t cheat.
bttt
What is the story here, is that the state has received 2300 dubious requests for absentee ballots. 2300 applications with signatures which are not remotely similar to the original voter signature. That tells me someone is asking for ballots and that "someone" is not the original voter. This is disturbing.
Where's ACORN?
And that should definitely be investigated.
They have NO problem getting absentee ballots out to dead people
but they DO have a problem getting the military’s ballots out in time.
LOL
Don’t count on that... :>))
Only thing the donks have`nt done is go on CNN or MSNBC and verbally say,,,”we are going to steal the election.” Given their cockiness, I would`nt even put that past them.
Fortunately for us, these sub-humans can actually see the body of Nicolae CeauÅŸescu slumped against a wall and believe that it can never happen to them, here, soon...
Here’s the Obama Big Union/ACORN plan.
John Liu easily won last nights runoff election & Bill de Blasio handed a major boost to the Working Families Party http://tw0.us/4QQ FRAUD
ACORN-connected Working Families Party and local Democrats are under investigation by a special prosecutor http://tw0.us/4QO
Dems in VOTE fraud probe http://tw0.us/4QO Obama and dems plan for 2010 & 2012
Special prosecutor to probe allegations of forged Working Families ballots http://tw0.us/4QN Al Franken win this way?
Sources claim applications were fraudulently requested by people who lived in Troy Housing Authority had not lived there for several years
“The entire ballot is fraudulent, and I have never seen it before,” the affidavit continues. http://tw0.us/4QM Vote theft in Troy
A shadow cast over Troy ballots http://tw0.us/4QK What did ACORN & WFP do for Obama’s election? i.e Texas Fraud.
Ballot problems trigger lockdown in Troy http://tw0.us/4QJ Working Families Party line,ACORN Obama voter fraud
NJ ping
tell me scumbag Corzine ain’t in trouble.....
This is why Dems win close races.
The Repubs should do the SAME THING.
Obama inviting dems only.
It’s never been easier to vote than today with Obama’s Unions and ACORN stealing absentee ballots. New Jersey Democrats,general admission and do not guarantee you entrance.
I’m excited to write to you today to announce that President Barack Obama will be participating in two campaign rallies for all New Jersey Democrats on Sunday, Nov 1st in Camden and Newark:
Rally with President Obama - Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden
Doors Open - 10:30 a.m.
Visit www.njdems.org/obama to request your tickets.
Rally with President Obama - Prudential Center, Newark
Doors Open - 11:30 a.m.
Visit www.joncorzine09.com/NewarkRally to request your tickets.
The tickets are for general admission and do not guarantee you entrance. The events are first-come first-served. Once the venues reach capacity, you will not be permitted to enter, so we urge you to arrive early.
We strongly encourage you to use public transit to reach the Prudential Center. The venue is easily accessible via New Jersey Transit. Click here to get directions via public transit.
We hope to see you on November 1st.
Thank you for your support.
Maggie Moran
Campaign Manager, Corzine ‘09
Paid for by Corzine ‘09, Inc., Governor - D
1 Gateway Center, Suite 1102
@JonCorzine said: Tim Kaine to 100s in Harrison: Govs across the US look to Corzine & know u have a great gov here in nj http://twitpic.com/ngl5z
@JonCorzine said: http://twitpic.com/nfvdx - VA Gov Tim Kaine stumps for Corzine/Weinberg in Saddle Brook.
@FrankPallone said: RT @JonCorzine Pres @BarackObama returning to NJ for 2 rallies on Nov 1 in Camden & Newark. Ticket info at http://joncorzine09.com
This is a prelude to the 2010 elections. If the GOP thinks 2010 will be a cakewalk they are sorely mistaken. The Dems will steal every election they can and will challenge every GOP victory in court and will have the willing democratic judges overturn them. That is why they don’t give a rats ass about polls or what the American people think..
I’m to the point where if the SOS agrees to the provisional ballots, we play their game. Let’s get some absentee ballots and start filling them out. I’m done being cheated.
(a) every TV ad Corzine puts on the air is being screened by the Obama's WH team.
(b) The governor’s aides give the WH daily briefings.
(c) Obama’s pollsters have taken over for Mr. Corzine’s polling team, and,
(d) White House operatives are on the ground for everything from internal strategy sessions to secret, obscure pep rallies with Latino supporters.
ILLEGALS "VOTING" CORZINE Corzine has a "Peruvian PAC" endorsing him. Latino invaders from Ecuador, Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Spain are "registered" to vote in NJ (or being trucked in election day). All voting for Corzine under several identities.
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THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR Ohaha hid $14.5B federal stimulus in Jersey. According to an investigative news report, the billions have simply disappeared.....never to be seen....never used for the muni projects the WH heralded.
Obama and Biden visited Corzine couple times (Ohaha put Biden in charge of the stimulus dispersal). We can safely conclude Ohaha hid $14.5B stimulus in Jersey to aid Jonny’s reelection. $14.5 B is a lot of walking-around "street money." Will buy Jon Boy all the hyphenated voting blocs he needs to get back in. Let’s not forget Corzine was sucking up to 2008 candidate Hillary ---and even offered to fund primary do-overs for her (that she lost when states broke DNC rules).
But when push came to shove, faster than you can say “I’m a loser with Hillary,” at the DNC convention, Corzine gave all of NJ’s primary votes to Obama (even though Hillary won the NJ primary).
As for Christie, Giuliani's campaign manager is engineering this fiasco for Christie. If Christie knew what's good for him---he'd have fired this loser campaign manager long ago.
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PASS THE WORD: How to eject lib Dems from office. THE SUPERSONIC RELEASE LEVER Polling suggests that any lawmaker that supports ObamaCare's idea of imposing a fee on Americans who don't sign up for health care (under whatever reform bill that might emerge) might be performing the political equivalent of swallowing a time-release poison capsule.
How 'bout that, America? ObamaCare's death panels------killing off pols not grannies. Not what Ohaha intended.....(/sarc).
THE ACORN FACTOR
In a shocking report, Elizabeth Kingsley, who is an ACORN attorney, expressed concerns that ACORN and Project Vote may have violated federal laws because of how they interacted. Project Vote, the Kingsley report says, hires ACORN to perform voter registration drives. Project Vote is a 501(c)(3) federally tax-exempt organization, which means that it is subject to prohibitions on partisan political activity. ACORN, however, is not subject to those same restrictions, because it’s not federally tax exempt.
Michael Slater, executive director of Project Vote, told the New York Times that,“Project Vote and Acorn have a written agreement that specifies that all work is nonpartisan.” Kingsley, however, claims that the way records were kept made it impossible for her to tell whether or not PV’s money had, at the end of the day, been used for strictly non-partisan purposes. Until 2007, Project Vote’s board was exclusively composed of ACORN staff. Kingsley said about this, “As a result, we may not be able to prove that 501(c) 3 resources are not being directed to specific regions based on impermissible partisan considerations.”
Kingsley also claims that governance issues plagued the organizations: “Board meetings are not held, or if they are, minutes are not kept, or if minutes are kept, they
never make it into the files. “Several Project Vote board members claim that they were unaware that they served on Project Vote’s board: George Hampton, listed as a board member on federal tax filings from 1994-2006, said that he had never heard of Project Vote.
Cleo Mata, listed as a board member on tax forms from 1997 to 2006, also said she was not aware she was on the Project Vote board. Although ACORN represents itself as separate from its related or associated entities;these companies are in reality all ACORN. The entities share common goals, management,control, locations, financial management and interlocking directors and staff. (In a presentation to ACORN Funders, Steve Kest describes the
Association or “ACORN Family” of as one corporation.) END BACKSTORY
REFERENCE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT COMPLAINT——January 7, 2009
IN RE: ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FOR REFORM NOW
EXCERPT The undersigned State Board delegates and National Board members of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (“ACORN”) file this criminal complaint againstACORN Staff and Executive Board members for fraud, embezzlement, conspiracy and concealment, and criminal civil rights violations. Additionally, since there has already been thepublic admission that a felony was committed, it is also possible that other federal offenses have also been committed including but not limited to;
Titles 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud,
18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to the an Agent of the United States Government;
18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and other possible offenses including civiland/or criminal RICO violations.
18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act)
18 U.S.C. §1001 (False Statementsto Agents of the U.S. Government),
18 U.S.C. §1341 (Mail Fraud),18 U.S.C. §1027 (ERISAViolations), and,
18 U.S.C. §241(Conspiracy Against Civil Rights).
Finally, the complainants contend that full investigations of a RICO conspiracy under 18U.S.C. §1962(c) are warranted because they assert that (1) the defendant persons (2) were employed by or associated with an enterprise (3) that engaged in or affected interstate commerceand that (4) the defendant persons operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a pattern (6) of racketeering activity, and (7) the complaints were injured in its business or property by reason of the pattern of racketeering activity.
Thus, the complainants feel that a formal RICO investigation is also warranted.
1. The Alleged Offense: The Complainants hereby allege a violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §241 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional Rights – which prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, erritory,Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilegesecured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having soexercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
—SNIP—24 pp complaint
SOURCE http://www.acorn-8.net/PDFs/USAttComp.pdf
Press Release: CORZINE ACCEPTS PERUVIAN PAC’S ENDORSEMENT
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