Posted on 10/18/2004 10:22:26 AM PDT by Crazieman
Edited on 10/18/2004 10:39:07 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The Defiance County Sheriff's Office arrested Chad Staton, age 22, of Stratton Ave., Defiance, on a charge of False Registration, in Violation of Section 3599.11 of the Ohio Revised Code, a felony of the fifth degree.
The SheriffÕs Office alleges that Staton filled out over 100 voter registration forms that were fictitious. Staton was to be paid for each registration form that he could get citizens to fill out. However, Staton himself filled out the registrations and returned them to the woman who hired him from Toledo, Ohio. Deputies allege that Staton was paid crack cocaine for the falsified registrations.
Defiance Deputies along with Toledo Police Department detectives conducted a search warrant of a residence on Woodland in Toledo, believed to be the home of the woman who hired Staton to solicit voter registration. Officers confiscated drug paraphernalia along with voter registration forms from the home. The occupant of the home, Georgianne Pitts, age 41, advised law enforcement, along with Ohio B.C.I.&I., that she had been recruited by Thaddeus J. Jackson, II, of Cleveland, to obtain voter registrations. Pitts admitted to paying Staton crack cocaine for the registrations in lieu of money.
A business card provided by Pitts indicated that Jackson is the Assistant NVF Ohio Director of the NAACP National Voter Fund.
The initial complaint received by the Sheriff's Office came from the Defiance County Board of Elections. The Board had received the 100 plus registration forms from the Cuyahoga Board of Elections that had been submitted to the Cuyahoga Board by the NAACP National Voter Fund.
Developing...
Oh my, they have reached new lows....
Crack? Aren't they supposed to bride them with cigarettes?
Hmmmmm-m-m-m...which political party do you suppose he's working for?
I wonder if his "boss" was Republican or Democrat...
The wheels are falling off. Maybe the RAT lawyers that volunteered will decide that prison is not an option and abandon ship.
Wellll ... at least it wasn't cigs like in 2000
Errr, highs, is more like it. :-)
"MAN GIVEN CRACK COCAINE TO REGISTER VOTERS ARRESTED IN OHIO... DEMOCRATS AND LIBERTARIANS DECRY BUSH ADMINISTRATIONS'S ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE FREEDOM-LOVING VOTERS... DEVELOPING..."
;0)
Roger Clinton is back?
Stupid. Mad Dog 20/20 is A LOT cheaper and would've worked just as well.
We may have stopped the fraud now before it was too late. I hope..
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
Maybe highs and five minutes later lows....
Well, thank God he wasn't handing out something really dangerous like cigarrettes or lite beer ...
If this is how they are getting new registrants then how can anyone assume they will actually show up to vote?
This is outrageous! They're wasting good crack that could be going towards convincing the public to elect Kerry.
Finally!
An answer to the question we've all been asking:
What are those Kerry people smoking????
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