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SCROLL FOR UPDATES: Sixth Circuit Orders Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner To Follow Law And Verify New Voter Registrations…Houseful of out-of-state Obama activists registered as Ohio voters, received absentee ballots

By: Pam On: Oct/14/08 - 5 Comments

Via Election Law Blog, is the background on Ohio Republican Party v. Brunner

Ohio Republicans had this to say:

“Her delay in providing this matching system leaves little time for election officials to act on questionable registrations,” Ohio GOP Chairman Bob Bennett said Tuesday night. “Once again, [SoS] Jennifer Brunner has wasted valuable taxpayer dollars only to have her partisan agenda rejected by a court of law. Her shameful actions to disenfranchise Republican absentee voters, block the transparency of early voting and refuse the proper verification of newly registered voters have rightfully damaged her credibility as a nonpartisan election administrator. She is destroying the public trust in Ohio’s elections system.”

Allahpundit provides these videos, and adds:

Meanwhile, the ACORN story’s finally broken all the way through on cable news; here’s a double feature for you from tonight’s CNN and MSNBC, respectively. Note the point made by the correspondent in the latter clip (or by the Republican lawyer quoted here): It’s not really voter impersonation that’s the big worry, it’s the logistical nightmare of poll workers having to sift so many bogus registration forms that bona fide registrations can’t be processed in a timely manner. Which is a problem, but given the trend in party identification, especially among new voters, would seem to be more of a problem for Democrats than Republicans.

Thug thizzlin’ just got a wee bit harder.

Laura reminds us of this:

“Perhaps it was after Barack Obama’s vote of confidence – or maybe it’s how she earned that appreciation“:

“Well, I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we’ve got Democrats in charge of the machines,” Barack Obama said on Sept. 3.

MAJOR UPDATE:Voter fraud alert: Houseful of out-of-state Obama activists registered as Ohio voters, received absentee ballots

I strongly recommend that the Ohio Republican Party get on the case before it’s too late. Today’s the last day to challenge voters who registered early in Ohio before the run up to Election Day.

Here’s the stench: An entire houseful of young, non-Ohioan Democrat activists have used the Brownlee Avenue address to register themselves to vote in the Buckeye State and secure absentee ballots under extremely shady circumstances ” all while mobilizing a large effort to register thousands of others for absentee and early voting. The activists are leaders of a group called “Vote From Home ‘08.” The group is self-identified as having “extensive experience with political organizing, election administration, and Democratic politics.” They were hailed as the “Justice League” by a Daily Kos blogger. Their Facebook page brags: “Want to turn the Presidential election blue in a key swing state? Vote from Home is a political organization that was founded by a team of young people for the purpose of assisting, aiding, and tracking voters to elect progressive candidates to the White House. Encouraged by the excitement of the 2008 elections and the movement around the Democratic candidates, Vote From Home will be in Ohio seeking to deliver 10,000 votes to Democratic candidates statewide.”

My friends at Palestra.net, a network of young reporters who have been doing the voter and registration fraud reporting that the MSM has been slow to do, have a breaking investigative report on how several members of the Democrat Vote From Home team ” all Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, and Truman Scholars studying abroad ” are turning up on Franklin County voter rolls despite having no bona fide residence in Ohio and admittedly having little to no knowledge about the state before descending on it in August to sign up other new voters in a rush to put 10,000 Obama supporters on the rolls.

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CNN: Thousands of fraudulent ACORN registrations in Philly

KIRAN CHETRY: A group that claims it signed up more than a million new voters is now facing allegations that many forms may be fake. Drew Griffin from the Special Investigations Unit is in Philadelphia. He’s looking at the facts for us this morning. Hi, Drew.

DREW GRIFFIN: Good morning, Kiran. You know, ever since the voter registration deadline ended for this November 4th election, I feel like I’ve been on a national tour looking at voter registration fraud across the country. In Philly, it’s no different. And here in Philadelphia, they say it’s the same group as everywhere else. The good news, there have been hundreds of thousands of new voter registrations processed in Philadelphia, including a vast majority of good, clean registrations from ACORN. The bad news, Philadelphia has already sent 1,500 obvious fraudulent registrations to the U.S. Attorney to be investigated. Every one of them from the same group, ACORN.

GRIFFIN: Is ACORN a group that has been problematic in its organizing of these voter registration drives?

FRED VOIGT: Sure.

GRIFFIN: Have you tried to work with them to explain to them?

VOIGT: Absolutely.

GRIFFIN: Why is –

VOIGT: I don’t have an answer for you, okay?

GRIFFIN: All right.

VOIGT: We originally ” this has been going on for a number of years. We have met with them. We’ve talked to them.

GRIFFIN: According to city officials, close to 8,000 applications turned in by ACORN are problematic, including the 1,500 already sent to the U.S. Attorney, and officials expect the number to climb. Greg Voigt says so far his office is catching them, making sure no bad registrations lead to bad votes, but admits he has limited staff.

VOIGT: Are there going to be bad votes? Sure, there are going to be bad votes. There are always bad votes. Am I concerned this is a close election? Of course, I’m concerned it’s a close election. But, you have to weigh everything in terms of your capacity to find things out.

GRIFFIN: Voigt says the problem is ACORN hires people desperate for money, including drug addicts, homeless, recovering alcoholics, even recent parolees who only get paid if they get signatures.

VOIGT: You just look at them and it was all in the same hand. You know, if you see some where they used a phone book, including the apostrophe. You know, some of the –

GRIFFIN: Went down in the phone book and just copied it verbatim right now.

VOIGT: Kitchen petition.

GRIFFIN: Kitchen petition? Sitting around the kitchen, fill out the petition.

VOIGT: Fill out the petition. This happens.

GRIFFIN: We went to ACORN’s Philadelphia headquarters where a rally was taking place, telling volunteers the recent news about voter fraud was just another attack by the right wing and the media on the poor.

ACORN SPEAKER: That is fraud! That is voter suppression. That is not news.

GRIFFIN: Jeanette Marcano is the local ACORN chairperson who acknowledges ACORN hires the less fortunate, but says there is nothing wrong with that. Why is the Deputy City Commissioner of Philadelphia telling me that ACORN is hiring recovering alcoholics, drug addicts, homeless people, who are so desperate to get money that they know that they don’t make their quota, they just fill in any old name, that’s what he’s telling me?

JEANETTE MARCANO: That is not the point.

GRIFFIN: That’s not the point?

MARCANO: No, that is not the point.

GRIFFIN: What is the point?

MARCANO: They are not deliberately go out there and say ” you are homeless, you are a recovering alcoholic. You are –

GRIFFIN: But has it presented itself as a problem to ACORN? Wouldn’t ACORN like to run a nice, clean, smooth voter registration drive?

MARCANO: We have ” we have done that. Because if we had been able to register 85,000, above 85,000, good registrants compared to 5,000 suspect cards, we have done a good job.

GRIFFIN: Kiran, last week I was in Indianapolis, or actually, Gary, Indiana, where they had dead people being registered to vote. ACORN insists it trains its workers and doesn’t have a big problem, but city officials here in Philadelphia beg to differ with that. Kiran?

CHETRY: Yeah, and in its defense, ACORN has said it is actually identifying these problematic registrations in advance and trying to notify authorities. In Philadelphia, ACORN said it flagged, I guess, 5,000 applications before the officials found them. Is that true?

GRIFFIN: Not according to the city officials, not true. They say that ACORN came in with a bundle of 1,100 that they thought were suspect. Actually, it turned out a couple of hundred of them were actually good voter registration cards that they processed and sent voter cards out to. So, there are a lot of disparities between the number that ACORN is getting and what city officials checking the actual records are getting, and that number, Kiran, is only going to grow as they continue to process more of these for this election.

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    5 Responses to “SCROLL FOR UPDATES: Sixth Circuit Orders Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner To Follow Law And Verify New Voter Registrations…Houseful of out-of-state Obama activists registered as Ohio voters, received absentee ballots”

    1. BonBon
      October 15, 2008 - 05:50 AM on October 15th, 2008

      Ohio is not the only state this ACORN organization is operating in. The massive amounts of registrations are going to make it impossible to verify votes. Couple that with idiots like this partisan who has authority and NObama is most likely going to win. I shudder. >:p

    2. Once again, [SoS] Jennifer Brunner has wasted valuable taxpayer dollars only to have her partisan agenda rejected by a court of law. Her shameful actions to disenfranchise Republican absentee voters, block the transparency of early voting and refuse the p
      October 15, 2008 - 06:12 AM on October 15th, 2008

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    3. Once again, [SoS] Jennifer Brunner has wasted valuable taxpayer dollars only to have her partisan agenda rejected by a court of law. Her shameful actions to disenfranchise Republican absentee voters, block the transparency of early voting and refuse the p
      October 15, 2008 - 06:20 AM on October 15th, 2008

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    4. Voter fraud alert: Houseful of out-of-state Obama activists registered as Ohio voters, received absentee ballots | OBAMA ACORN
      October 15, 2008 - 09:46 AM on October 15th, 2008

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    5. snowy egret
      October 15, 2008 - 11:32 PM on October 15th, 2008

      We have unelected imperial judges making laws when did these abusive judge get such power to make unconsitutional rulings and overturn the will of the people :-w>:)

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