Posted on 10/30/2007 2:13:05 PM PDT by Monitor
Three of seven defendants in the biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history have pleaded guilty and one has been sentenced, prosecutors said Monday. The defendants were all temporary employees of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, when they allegedly filled out and submitted more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties. No votes were cast in the names of the phony voters. Prosecutors said the defendants committed fraud in order to keep their jobs without actually registering voters. King County election workers brought the fraud to the attention of prosecutors last October, after noticing that signatures on many registration forms looked like they had been written by the same person. Ryan Olson, 28, of Needles, Calif., was the first to be sentenced. He pleaded guilty Thursday in King County Superior Court to two counts of providing false information on a voter-registration application, a felony. Court Commissioner Kenneth Comstock sentenced him to 30 days in jail or in electronic home detention, the sentence recommended by prosecutors, said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecutor's Office. Tina Johnson, 24, of Tacoma, and Jayson Woods, 20, of Elkridge, Md., also have pleaded guilty to eight counts each of registration fraud. Donohoe said prosecutors have recommended 120 days of jail for each of them using the same formula applied to Olson: 15 days for each count. Brianna Debwa, 35, of Tacoma; Robert Greene, 56, of Tacoma; and Clifton Mitchell, 45, of Lakewood, Pierce County, have pleaded not guilty and are scheduled to appear in court in November. Kendra Thill, 19, no known address, was charged with voter fraud and is wanted for failure to appear in court.
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I think almost all Dems are liars, thieves and traitors.
I don’t understand for the life of me why you don’t need a valid ID and proof of citizenship to vote.
I also think the country should pay people to vote (if you can prove you’re a citizen and registered and eligible to vote). Why not give everyone who votes $100 or $500 or more off of their taxes if they can prove they voted? Increase the turnout.
Why would you want to increase the turnout?
In the desperately naive hope that that more voters might mean more intelligent government or better decisions?
I’d like things to get better and more rational and pragmatic. Is that naive or Pollyannish? Stupid?
Perhaps I’m too idealistic. I’m tired of cliched and predictable cynicism.
and a P.S.
And more honorable and ethical? Is this possible?
[... I am virtuous. Oh wait - on second thought...]
There you go being all cute again.
ping
“The defendants were all temporary employees of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, when they allegedly filled out and submitted more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties.”
After they get done with their trials and sentences, they should sue ACORN for their repetitive motion injuries. There is, after all, no honor among thieves.
Oh wow....this will seriously stop voter fraud. /sarcasm
Voter fraud is a federal crime, right? I thought a federal crime came with a minimum of 1 year in jail?
Having hope for that is fine...but the way to do that is by getting voters to care about the performance of the government and be educated about it. It's not by supporting whimsical voting. As it is right now, there are too many ignorant voters, and a program that pays them to vote only makes the problem worse.
I'm not particularly bugged by a socialist that votes for a Democrat. I'm quite annoyed by a guy that goes into the voting booth and just votes for names they think they recognize, or association with catchy campaign theme music, or some vague recollection of the candidates shoes.
It’s really expository when you see that it is the left who are the only ones fighting to make sure that we can’t know that the person voting is who they say they are, and an eligible voter. The explanation is simple, despite their lame excuses, that they WANT ineligible (ILLEGAL) voters.
And, for all their whining about “disenfranchisement” - what the hell do they think they’re doing to legitimate voters when an illegal vote cancels it out? I know, I know, they don’t care, really, they don’t care - the outcome of them in power is all that matters.
BTW, I really disagree with your paying people to vote. I DON’T WANT increased turnout. I want informed voters who care. Everyone else can stay home. The only thing that increased turnout might do in a positive sense is expose the vote fraud of the left.
“But Mr Smith, our sheet shows that you already voted - you came in with a busload of people with sequential voter registration numbers...”
It is a federal crime but never gets prosecuted much. I don’t recall any federal stories, only local ones where the perps get a slap on the wrist. They need to start doing some serious time, if there is to be any disincentive.
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