Posted on 10/12/2008 4:25:51 PM PDT by lowbridge
I was taking my dogs to the bathroom when some car stopped in front of my house. a few kids got out, they looked like the typical thug types. Unwashed, scraggly hair... pants down past their ankles... unshaven... wife beater shirts.
the car took off and the kids it dropped off dispursed. A few of them looked at my McCain signs in my yard and started walking away. I took my dogs inside and noticed one of them came back and walked up to my door. I thought "Oh great. someone selling something."
He looked at my house for a minute on my doorstep, and started writing something down, like my address or something, then walked away. After a few minutes he came back, and repeated the same thing.
I opened the door and asked if I could help him. I think he was surprised because he didn't expect me to open the door when he didn't knock obviously. he started stuttering right off the bat. So I asked him who he was.
He kept saying he was from an independent polling company and that he just wanted to ask a few questions about the upcoming election... (odd that 2x he didn't bother knocking on my door. And don't you usually dress somewhat decently if you're going to be representing a company or social group of any kind?)
when I asked him what it was for and who he was with, he wouldn't tell me. I asked him again for that information, and again, he wouldn't tell me. So I told him to leave my property. He basically refused and started copping an attitude with me saying he had every right to be there because he is there for a legitiment reason.
one of my brothers (a cop in the area) was there visiting and explained to him that if I ask him to leave my private property, he DOES have to leave or it's tresspassing. He asked him for his name and he refused to give it to him saying that he didn't have to tell him anything. I was starting to get worried he was a punk casing the joint... so my brother told him to leave one last time. He basically said that my brother couldn't do anything to him because he was off duty. My brother once again told him to leave.
he called my brother few choice names starting with an F'bomb and ending with something that rhymes with witch.
So he called in ON DUTY officers.
After getting his information, they found that he was a volunteer for ACORN, they had already been reported by others for harrassment in days previous.
My theory, it is possible they were targeting McCain supporters, and using their addresses to register fake voters because all he did was come to my door 2x and write stuff down on a pad of paper. the only thing I could think of was my street address that is displayed next to my door. that's my concern at least, and I'm currently investigating to see if anyone other than myself is registered to vote under my address.
This afternoon I received a call from an individual stating they are a conducting a 5 question poll.
Thank God I asked the caller, “please identify yourself.”
The female caller stated she was with the Obama campaign.
I specfically told her to never call me again and said I am NOT voting for Nobama.
She immediately hung up. Caller ID revealed the call originated from a local residence.
Last weekend our neighborhood McCain/Palin yard signs were removed by vandals in the middle og the night.
My daughter, military spouse, has been registered in NC since 1999. Our house is her address of record with the military. Without any notification she was struck from the voter rolls because they said it is policy to do so when someone requests an absentee ballot 2 times. Our County GOP Chair had never heard of this policy and is looking into it with state attorneys. Our daughter has reregisterd and will be voting. Lucky we found it, some inner instinct told my husband to check our family registrations and that’s how he found our daughter had been dropped.
Wow.
Most (all?) of them are paid by the number of names they bring in to register, not by the number of legitimate names.
Yep! This time through Obama is right in the middle of it! He probably trained them to do this illegal dirty work. Well, hopefully the FBI will perp walk someone soon. it would be so sweet if that someone were Obama. (I know, I know but I can dream can't I?)
What if you are homebound? Probably a second requirement is that you are a registered Republican.
gnip
That was our question too. My mother has received absentee ballots for more than two elections, she’s elderly and chronically ill and she wasn’t dropped. She’s in a different county, so it obviously is not the state’s policy as we were told. We figure local dems trying to get rid of Republican military voters. If my husband hadn’t checked the registration she wouldn’t have known until she requested an absentee ballot or showed up to vote and it would have been to late too register then.
Thank God for that little inner voice my husband didn’t ignore. ;)
as in Kenya..
I wonder if Republicans have been re-registered as Democrats by ACORN en masse.
So MANY illegal acts, so little time.
Great info thank you.
That’s why we have Operation Chaos. Register as Democrat and they leave you alone.
My husband, son and I are active in the local Party. Everyone knows we’re Republicans.
So is my husband, and they keep calling him. What pests.
They’re getting paid based on how many registration forms they turn in. Nobody at ACORN is checking whether they’re real before paying the troops. And why would anybody expect ACORN to check, since our local elections boards rarely do?
Weren’t some of them paid with crack cocaine in Ohio in 2004?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.