500 new voters might not exist ([Ohio Vote Fraud Alert----ACORN!!!)

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH ^ | August 11, 2006 | Robert Vitale and Mark Niquette

[Timeout]

Workers paid by a liberal group to register voters in Franklin County have turned in more than 500 forms with nonexistent addresses and potentially fake signatures, elections officials said yesterday.

Board of Elections Director Matthew Damschroder said he has forwarded the cards to county authorities for possible criminal charges.

Elections workers verifying new-voter forms discovered signatures with the same handwriting, addresses that were for vacant lots and incorrect information for voters who already were registered, Damschroder said. One card had the name of an East Side man who’s dead.

All the questionable cards were turned in by workers for Ohio ACORN, a group that’s also paying people to gather signatures for a proposed November ballot initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage.

Katy Gall, the group’s head organizer, said ACORN is cooperating with the investigation and already has fired some of its paid circulators.

"We are interested in seeing people who are gaming the system prosecuted," she said.

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, faced similar problems in 2004 during a drive that added 189,000 new voters to Ohio’s rolls. Prosecutors were unable to trace the originators of some falsified forms, but one ACORN worker was indicted by a Franklin County grand jury.

State law now requires people paid for registering voters to add their own names to the forms. James Lee, a spokesman for Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, said the new provisions make it easier to investigate problems.

Lee said Blackwell’s office also has had inquiries recently about potential voter-registration fraud in Cuyahoga and Summit counties.

In its six Ohio offices, ACORN has about 50 circulators who are paid between $8 and $11 an hour, Gall said. The group has eight circulators in Columbus.

Gall complained that the state’s election-law changes make it harder for groups to catch problems because circulators must submit forms directly to elections offices in person or by mail.

In 2004, ACORN began running its own checks on voter forms before submitting them to the Franklin County Board of Elections.

Lee, however, said internal checks are still possible.

It’s a felony in Ohio to submit voter-registration forms with false information. The penalty is up to 18 months in jail.

Damschroder [the Board of Elections Director ]said he doesn’t think the fake forms were submitted by people intending to cast fake ballots in November.

"I think it’s just somebody out there trying to make a fast buck," he said.

ACORN is helping lead the coalition that collected more than 765,000 signatures to put the minimum-wage issue on the Nov. 7 ballot, but Gall said the group has no concerns about the signatures its circulators obtained.

Franklin County elections workers will verify those collected locally, Damschroder said.

[Republican Babe]

That is interesting. Now can anyone here please tell me if the ACLU is funded by Soros? Please tell me that the ACLU does NOT get any tax dollars?

[Minus_The_Bear]

These are the same people that registered "Mary Poppins" & "Daffy Duck" in 2004

[OldFriend]

I worked the polls in my town several times. On one occasion I opened the back of the machine to verify that there were ZEROS where the count begins.

Lo and behold there were votes already in the machine....for a republican.

We reported the 'error' and reset the counter to ZERO.

[OldFriend]

Which is why it is imperative that Blackwell be elected in Ohio. He was the counterpart to Katherine Harris.

He kept the election in Ohio relatively fraud free and how the dems hated him for it. They will stop at nothing to keep him from becoming Governor.

Ohio is the battleground state that decides the election.

[hoosiermama]

Here's the one that got me started collecting stories on voter fraud (Trype in REPOSITORY and go to the archive you'll find several convictions.....This one was turned in by the democrats he was running against in the primary:




Indiana (East Chicago)


Media source/Times NWIndiana
Date/Sept 30
State/Indiana
City orCounty/East Chicago, Lake COunty
# of suspect votes/
past history/Residents say Stiglich campaign workers bought votes with cash, crack
city's 1999 mayoral election
.
Pastrick's administration, which provided free new sidewalks, concrete patios and tree trimming services in return for votes.

East Chicago police also seized a number of completed absentee ballots from the trunk of a city-owned car driven by a Stiglich worker. .

source of fraud:
individual Stephen R. "Bob" Stiglich, who was challenging Mayor Robert Pastrick.


who is taking action against/* vote fraud investigation by former Sheriff John Buncich
Buncich assigned four detectives to interview those whose absentee ballots were found
state and federal prosecutors.

Link;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1231144/posts
PARTY: Mirror Mirror on the wall, Who’s the biggest fraud of all? (In “the Region” they don’t need any outside forces to organize the corruption)



150 posted on 09/30/2004 1:39:47 AM EDT by hoosiermama (Bush Democrats = Zell's Angels)

[Dr.Deth]

I can just see it now: Hillary leading a charge up Pennsylvania Ave. toward the White House, dressed in camos, firing a Chinese AK-47 from the hip

I think you could probably fire a 25mm GE Gatling off that hip.

[telebob]

Ha! Yup. It's in the genes.