Posted on 09/28/2004 2:58:21 PM PDT by EllaMinnow
Some folks rooting for Bush are worried about two recent New York Times articles.
Article one on Sept 26 reported:
A sweeping voter registration campaign in heavily Democratic areas has added tens of thousands of new voters to the rolls in the swing states of Ohio and Florida, a surge that has far exceeded the efforts of Republicans in both states, a review of registration data shows. Article two in today‘s paper reports:
In the state's 20 most populous counties, which account for about 60 percent of the vote, more than 140,345 absentee ballots had been applied for as of last Wednesday, according to a survey of county auditors by The Des Moines Register. Under Iowa law, anyone can request an absentee ballot, no questions asked, and roughly three times as many Democrats as Republicans did so in the counties studied by The Register. Early voting began on Thursday, 40 days before Election Day. So - is there panic in Republican circles? Is a surge of new Democrats flocking to the polls going to quash the GOP’s hopes in these three states?
Don’t jump to conclusions, warns Christine Iverson of the Republican National Committee. She points out that on Sept. 17, the RNC announcedthat it had registered 3,047,073 voters. Of course, those new voters could be in places besides Ohio, Florida, and New Hampshire.
Interestingly, the Times article about Ohio and Florida reports that “Steve Rosenthal, the chief executive of Americans Coming Together, or ACT, a soft-money group that is trying to register Democrats, said he believed they would. "I think what's happening on the streets, below the radar, is what's going to make the big difference on Election Day," said Mr. Rosenthal, who said his organization and the other groups would register two and a half million new Democratic voters nationwide.”
And Americans Coming Together has been in the news lately for its voter registration activities in Ohio.
More than 1,000 voter registration forms and absentee ballot requests may be fraudulent in Lake and Summit counties, where investigations of irregularities are broadening.
Lake County Sheriff Daniel Dunlap said Thursday that he will investigate an attempt to register a dead person and other possibly fraudulent documents that were submitted to the Lake County Board of Elections…
Elections officials have said hundreds of absentee ballot applications and dozens of voter registration cards are in question. Lake County Prosecutor Charles Coulson, also involved in the probe, said the problems are more significant than originally thought.
"We've seen voter fraud before, but never on this level," Coulson said Thursday. "I grew up in Chicago and this looks like the politics of Mayor Daley in the '50s and '60s."
Lake election and law enforcement officials said their investigation is centered on absentee registration attempts by the nonpartisan NAACP's National Voter Fund and an anti-Bush, nonprofit group called Americans Coming Together, or ACT Ohio…
In one other instance, an elderly nursing home resident who usually signs with an "X" appeared to have a firm, cursive signature when she registered.
"We are going to have to see who's alive and who's well," Dunlap said. "We're going to have to burn up some shoe leather."
In Summit County, meanwhile, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation has agreed to assist the Sheriff's Department in the examination of 803 suspect voter registration applications.
Bryan Williams, director of the Summit County Board of Elections, said high interest in this year's presidential election has resulted in unprecedented numbers of voter registrations, absentee ballot requests and irregular voter applications.
Williams said the suspect voter registration applications include some with nonexistent addresses while others from the same street all have the street identically misspelled.
Still other voter registration cards bear strikingly similar handwriting, suggesting one person submitted a group of fraudulent voter registration cards.
Wait, when else has Americans Coming Together been in the news ?
America Coming Together, contending that convicted criminals deserve a second chance in society, employs felons as voter canvassers in major metropolitan areas in Missouri, Florida, Ohio, and perhaps in other states among the 17 it is targeting in its drive. Some of the felons lived in halfway houses, and at least four returned to prison.
A review of federal campaign finance and state criminal records by the Associated Press revealed that the names and hometowns of dozens of ACT employees in Missouri, Florida, and Ohio matched those of people convicted of crimes such as burglary, forgery, drug dealing, assault, and sex offenses.
Hmmm. In Ohio, you say? And Florida? And, according to another AP article, Iowa is another state that American Coming Together is working in?
So - this organization hires individuals - some of whom are felons - and pays them $8 to $12 per hour to collect filled-out voter registration forms and applications for absentee ballots. Is it possible that some of these ACT workers are simply going through the phone book and writing down names and addresses, and forging signatures?
Hmm. Florida requires photocopies of ID and a Florida driver’s license number or Florida identification card number, or the last four digits of a Social Security number. Same for Ohio. Iowa requires an ID number that can be either a driver’s license number or a Social Security number, date of birth, sex, name, address and signature. Do the various Secretaries of State check this information?
The Times article about Ohio reports that Matt Damschroder, the director of the Board of Elections, he had to throw out many of the cards he got because the voters were already registered. “One woman had signed a card three different times,” with three different groups, he said.
Maybe on Election Day we will see a massive tsunami of new Democratic voters showing up at the polls. Or perhaps Americans Coming Together will realize that felons don’t make the most reliable employees.
Go nab those frauds!
We cannot ignore those report and should do everything we can to register more voters.
If these groups are found to have committed fraud, their leaders should be punished, or at the least, their permission to register new voters should be denied.
I agree. I'm going to be helping out with a voter registration drive here in the Peoples Republic of Connecticut on Saturday morning.
Great post.
BUMP!
How many newly registered RAT voters are in the cemeteries, drunk tanks, homeless shelters, prisons, tomato fields and how many will be voting twice?
Unfortunately, we would likely know the extent of vote fraud after the elections. I'm sure the libs are counting on that.
I forgot asylums.
The left in this country feels that it is perfectly okay to commit massive voter fraud and any other means necessary in order to steal the election. They feel that their cause actually justifies the undermining of democracy in this country. Bo on the lookout for voter fraud unlike anything we have ever seen! There are those in the Democratic Party who have perfected this practice. It has always been a primary campaign strategy of the Democrats.
We all know dead people are a great democrat voter bloc.
OH man absentees that are dead too boot...WE NEED TO GET OUT THE VOTE...As Hugh Hewitt points out THEY CAN"T CHEAT IF IT IS NOT CLOSE
As I understand it, these groups pay the layabouts who register new voters an amount per new voter registered. Obviously, these individuals have a real incentive to register as many names as they can find (whether legitimate or not), so they can make more money. The key is whether the sponsoring (and paying, courtesy of George Soros, the AFL-CIO and other likeminded groups) organizations encourage or even knowingly tolerate fraud. If so, they would seem to be as guilty as the layabout submitting the fraudulent registration.
In the past Republicans have had to be a million votes ahead of the democrats to break even. This year it will probably be closer to 2 million.
Ellen Malcolm, president (president, EMILY's List),Steve Rosenthal...both Hillary buds?
America Coming Together, 2004 Election Cycle
Formed: July 2003
http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527events.asp?orgid=10
One of the leading Democratic interest groups dedicated to defeating President Bush in November. Run by longtime Democratic operatives and financed in part by wealthy Democratic donors, the group plans a massive voter mobilization effort in 17 battleground states.
Affiliated Personnel:
• Ellen Malcolm, president (president, EMILY's List)
• Steve Rosenthal, chief executive officer (former political director, AFL-CIO)
• Minyon Moore (former Chief of Operations, Democratic National Committee)
• Carl Pope, treasurer (executive director, Sierra Club)
• Cecile Richards (president, America Votes)
• Andy Stern (president, Service Employees International Union)
Donors:
• Peter Lewis (chairman, Progressive Corp.), $10 million pledge
• George Soros (financier), $10 million pledge
• Sierra Club
• $8 million pledged from labor groups, including SEIU
Budget:
• $30 million raised by Jan. 2004, with a goal of $125 million
527 Activity:
Total Receipts: $26,905,450
Total Expenditures: $24,196,532
Note: This data is based on records released by the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, September 20, 2004.
We've registered over 3 million with the RNC Registration Rig. The difference is that registrants have to go to the rig to register through it, and not just register because someone comes and knocks on the door.
While I like the Kerry Spot, I am afraid he is engaging in wishful thinking --- massive Dim fraud is afoot.
PLEASE go to your registrar and/or polling place, especially if you live in a battleground state like Florida, Ohio, and Iowa.
The Dims WILL lie and cheat. Do your part to stop them.
"How many newly registered RAT voters are in the cemeteries, drunk tanks, homeless shelters, prisons, tomato fields and how many will be voting twice?"
Answer: A lot.
B U M P
This is soo sad, the Democrats are going nuts.
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