Sheriff: Man says he was hired to provide phony voter registrations (Drudge bombshell linked!)

The Miami Herald ^ | 10/18/2004 | Associated Press

[mabelkitty]

DEFIANCE, Ohio - A man was arrested Monday on a felony charge of submitting phony voter registration forms, and investigators were looking into allegations that he was paid with crack cocaine in exchange for his efforts, authorities said.

Chad Staton, 22, of Defiance, had fraudulently filled out more than 100 voter registration forms, Defiance County Sheriff David Westrick said.

"Staton was to be paid for each registration form that he could get citizens to fill out," the sheriff said. "However, Staton himself filled out the registrations and returned them to the woman who hired him from Toledo."

Staton was charged with false registration and was released on his recognizance to await arraignment on Friday in Defiance Municipal Court.

No other charges had been filed in the case Monday, authorities said.

[mirkinmuffley]

Obviously the RNC is behind this. Terry Macauliffe and James Carville have proof.

[mabelkitty]

I see they didn't mention that he threw chairs across the room at Council meetings. How typical.

Here's the newsnet5 version of the story - they scrubbed Thaddeus's name off the story and distanced Forbes. How very typical.

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/3829969/detail.html

Ohio Ping! for an update on Crack for Votes!

[NonValueAdded]

They'll probably send him to Florida to help with the "turn out the dead vote" effort.

[Wormwood]

I'm shocked! Shocked!

[lepton]

bookmark bump

[lepton]

Mr. Forbes' expertise in public law and the operation of municipal government is unparalled amongst his peers.

Not unequalled, but unparalleled?

[Southern_Republican]

Isn’t the NAACP is a tax exempted organization; it has no political ties to any party? My bad, The IRS should be in on this also.

[mabelkitty]

I just posted a story from toledoblade.com.
Jackson admits he knows Pitts and is a "volunteer" with NAACP. He shut up soon after and must have lawyered up with Forbes.

[boxerblues]

Fox8 has the same AP story...nothing like protecting those who commit fraud on behalf of sKerry

[metalurgist]

the judge went for ROR???

Too hard to kill him if he's in prison. This judge may need looking at.

[BJClinton]

[BJClinton]

an attempt to head off problems on Election Day

Or getting caught again.

[stockpirate]

Those two are stupid, but not that stupid.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

Even picture ID's can't stop them from going from one poll to another and voting all over the state

[Designer]

"Isn’t the NAACP is a tax exempted organization.."

Now that you brought it up, I would like to know where they get the money. Does the NAALCP get taxpayer funds? Would someone who knows how please look this up?