Friday, October 17, 2008

Vote ! and vote often?

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Jim Hoft runs the blog Gateway Pundit, following freedom movements from inside Zimbabwe to the streets of Tehran.


North Carolina — State Board of Elections officials have found at least 100 voter registration forms with the same names over and over again. The forms were turned in by ACORN. Officials sent about 30 applications to the state Board of Elections for possible fraud investigation.

Ohio — The New York Post reported that a Cleveland man said he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times. The complaints have sparked an investigation by election officials into the organization, whose political wing has supported Barack Obama. Witnesses have already been subpoenaed to testify against the organization.

Nevada — Authorities raided the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now on Tuesday October 7, 2008, after a month-long investigation. The fraudulent voter registrations included the Dallas Cowboys starting line-up.

Indiana — More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana’s Lake County filled out by ACORN employees turned out to be bogus. Officials also stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

Connecticut — Officials are looking into a complaint alleging ACORN submitted fraudulent voter registration cards in Bridgeport. In one instance, an official said a card was filled out for a 7-year-old girl, whose age was listed as 27. 8,000 cards were submitted in Bridgeport.

Missouri — The Kansas City election board is reporting 100 duplicate applications and 280 with fake information. Acorn officials agreed that at least 4% of their registrations were bogus. Governor Matt Blunt condemned the attempts by ACORN to commit voter fraud.

Pennsylvania — Officials are investigating suspicious or incomplete registration forms submitted by ACORN. 252,595 voter registrations were submitted in Philadelphia. Remarkably, 57,435 were rejected — most of them submitted by ACORN.

Wisconsin — In Milwaukee ACORN improperly used felons as registration workers. Additionally, its workers are among 49 cases of bad registrations sent to authorities for possible charges, as first reported by the Journal Sentinel.

Florida — The Pinellas County Elections supervisor says his office has received around 35 voter registrations that appear to be bogus. There is also a question of 30,000 felons who are registered illegally to vote. Their connections with ACORN are not yet clear.

Texas — Of the 30,000 registration cards ACORN turned in, Harris County tax assessor Paul Bettencourt says just more than 20,000 are valid. And just look at some of the places ACORN was finding those voters. A church just next door is the address for around 150 people. More than 250 people claim a homeless outreach center as their home address. Some listed a county mental health facility as their home and one person even wrote down the Harris County jail at the sheriff’s office.

Michigan — ACORN in Detroit is being investigated after several municipal clerks reported fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications coming through. The clerk interviewed said the fraud appears to be widespread.

New Mexico – The Bernalillo County clerk has notified prosecutors that some 1,100 fraudulent voter registration cards were turned in by ACORN.

That’s not all. So far this year at least 14 states have started investigations against ACORN. Talk about a culture of corruption. It is so bad that Representatives of Congress have asked for the Justice Department to investigate, and GOP presidential candidate John McCain is bringing it up in his stump speeches. The Obama camp is stealthily altering its “Fight the Smears” website to distance themselves from the organization — quite a challenge considering how close their candidate’s association has been with the group.


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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've been following Gov. Blunt's statements calling out ACORN, and I'm quite proud that he's representing our state. This kind of transparent leadership and demand for persevering the free and democratic process we all take for granted is refreshing.

Anonymous said...

How about a post on Diebold voting machines..and how high school students could hack into them..

I do believe their CEO was quoted a few years back as making sure he "was going to deliver Ohio for Bush."

Control the machine, control the vote..a bit scarier than voter registration cards huh?

Anonymous said...

The blog is open for comments - post your links and information instead of anonymous posts littered with "I believe"

Anonymous said...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E3DC1339F93AA35752C1A9659C8B63

"IN mid-August, Walden W. O'Dell, the chief executive of Diebold Inc., sat down at his computer to compose a letter inviting 100 wealthy and politically inclined friends to a Republican Party fund-raiser, to be held at his home in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. ''I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year,'' wrote Mr. O'Dell, whose company is based in Canton, Ohio.

That is hardly unusual for Mr. O'Dell. A longtime Republican, he is a member of President Bush's ''Rangers and Pioneers,'' an elite group of loyalists who have raised at least $100,000 each for the 2004 race."

What an insult to rangers.

Anonymous said...

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E3DC1339F93AA35752C1A9659C8B63

"About 15,000 internal Diebold e-mail messages also found their way to the Internet. Some referred to software patches installed on Diebold machines days before elections. Others indicated that the Microsoft Access database used in Diebold's tabulation servers was not protected by passwords. Diebold, which says passwords are now installed on machines, is threatening legal action against anyone who posts the files or links to them, contending that the e-mail is copyrighted.

A recent report for the state of Maryland by SAIC, an engineering and research firm, has added to concerns about the security of Diebold's systems. It recommended 17 steps that Maryland election officials could take to ensure better security when using Diebold's machines."

Anonymous said...

Red Herring Alert:
If you believe that an election can be stolen by someone writing Mickey Mouse on a voter registration form, maybe you think that you can buy a restaurant buy filling out comment cards. If Mickey shows up and votes, let me know.

On a real voter fraud problem, YPM is worth looking into.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fraud18-2008oct18,0,1216330.story

Voters were duped into joining the Republican party by a GOP contractor with a trail of fraud complaints stretching across the country.

Voters were tricked into switching parties while signing what they believed were petitions for tougher penalties against child molesters.


Republican's are not only trying to steal the current election through the courts and election officials like they did four years ago, they are planning for the future.

I have often disagreed with the Republican party, but now I can't stand the Republican party. I will not only take action to support democratic and Democratic policies, but I will actively fight the right wing rhetoric whenever I get the chance.

Now I know why you righties handle politics the way you do! Being a positive promoter of change is hard. Ahhh, feels good to have something to rally against!

I guess Bush/McCain/Palin is a unifying force in a way, It's unifying all non-republicans.

Anonymous said...

About the real Manchurian candidate, McCain is the only major party presidential nominee in U.S. history to have been rebuked, censured or otherwise admonished after a Congressional ethics investigation.

I wonder if Palin is the only vice presidential candidate to be admonished after a state legislative ethics investigation? Since Vicki Iseman was apparently not available, Palin was a logical pic, huh?

Remember in 1998, after Clinton shot missiles at Osama, when McCain said, "Look, is this guy, Bin Laden, really the bad guy that's depicted? Most of us have never heard of him before." Just McShameful, or actually McDangerous?

I just read the NY Times article on Cindy McCain. I don't think it was really fair to her. It did remind me of how McCain treated Carol McCain after she stood by and waited for him so faithfully, McDisgusting.

Anonymous said...

Looks like Colin Powell agrees with me.

Mr Powell suggested SARAH PALIN's inclusion on the ticket and the NEGATIVE TONE of the campaign were major factors in his decision.

I hope Republicans can learn from this year's failure and learn to abandon Rush and his ilk and run candidates and a campaign based on personality and substance instead of lies and hate.