Missouri officials suspect fake voter registration

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Missouri officials suspect fake voter registration By BILL DRAPER, Associated Press Writer
Wed Oct 8, 9:45 PM ET


KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.

Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.

"I don't even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy," Davis said. "We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don't exist, people who have driver's license numbers that won't verify or Social Security numbers that won't verify.

Some have no address at all."

The nonpartisan group works to recruit low-income voters, who tend to lean Democratic. Most polls show Republican presidential candidate John McCain with an edge in bellwether Missouri, but Democrat Barack Obama continues to put up a strong fight.

Jess Ordower, Midwest director of ACORN, said his group hasn't done any registrations in Kansas City since late August. He said he was told three weeks ago by election officials that there were only about 135 questionable cards — 85 of them duplicates.

"They keep telling different people different things," he said. "They gave us a list of 130, then told someone else it was 1,000."

FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said the agency has been in contact with elections officials about potential voter fraud and plans to investigate.

"It's a matter we take very seriously," Patton said. "It is against the law to register someone to vote who does not fall within the parameters to vote, or to put someone on there falsely."

On Tuesday, authorities in Nevada seized records from ACORN after finding fraudulent registration forms that included the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys.

In April, eight ACORN workers in St. Louis city and county pleaded guilty to federal election fraud for submitting false registration cards for the 2006 election. U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway said they submitted cards with false addresses and names, and forged signatures.

Ordower said Wednesday that ACORN registered about 53,500 people in Missouri this year. He believes his group is being targeted because some politicians don't want that many low-income people having a voice. (Rasism charges again)

"It's par for the course," he said. "When you're doing more registrations than anyone else in the country, some don't want low-income people being empowered to vote. There are pretty targeted attacks on us, but we're proud to be out there doing the patriotic thing getting people registered to vote."

Republicans are among ACORN's loudest critics. At a campaign stop in Bethlehem, Pa., supporters of John McCain interrupted his remarks
Wednesday by shouting, "No more ACORN."

Debbie Mesloh, spokeswoman for the Obama campaign in Missouri, said in an e-mailed statement that the campaign supported any investigation of possible fraud.
According to its national Web site, the group has registered 1.3 million people nationwide for the Nov. 4 election. It also has encountered complaints of fraud stemming from registration efforts in Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada and battleground states like Michigan, Ohio and North Carolina, where new voter registrations have favored Democrats nearly 4 to 1 since the beginning of this year.
Missouri offers 11 electoral votes; the presidential candidates need at least 270 to win the election.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/...ge/voter_fraud

If this country is as racist as Obama supporters & ACORN insist that it is, Obama will lose no matter what.

Or if he loses it may be because people who are not racist are sick and tired of being told that they are.

The 3rd alternative is that people have more access to information and history of the candidates on the internet. This allows them to learn what the candidates have said and done in the past.

Joy

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1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS
'ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS'

By JEANE MacINTOSH Post Correspondent

PAWNS IN 'FRAUD': Freddie Johnson, yesterday in Cleveland, and Lateala Goins told of filling out voter registrations multiple times in the ACORN scandal revealed by The Post yesterday.

Last updated: 9:10 am
October 10, 2008
Posted: 4:00 am
October 10, 2008

CLEVELAND - A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.

"Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they'll give me a dollar to sign up," said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

"The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I am already registered. The girl said, 'You are?' I say, 'Yup,' and then they say, 'Can you just sign up again?' " he said.

Johnson used the same information on all of his registration cards, and officials say they usually catch and toss out duplicate registrations. But the practice sparks fear that some multiple registrants could provide different information and vote more than once by absentee ballot.

ACORN is under investigation in Ohio and at least eight other states - including Missouri, where the FBI said it's planning to look into potential voter fraud - for over-the-top efforts to get as many names as possible on the voter rolls regardless of whether a person is registered or eligible.
It's even under investigation in Bridgeport, Conn., for allegedly registering a 7-year-old girl to vote, according to the State Elections Enforcement Commission.

Meanwhile, a federal judge yesterday ordered Ohio's Secretary of State to verify the identity of newly registered voters by matching them with other government documents. The order was in response to a Republican lawsuit unrelated to the ACORN probe in Cuyahoga County, in which at least three people, including Johnson, have been subpoenaed.

Bribing citizens with gifts, property or anything of value is a fourth-degree felony in Ohio, punishable by up to 18 months in prison. And it's a fifth-degree felony - punishable by 12 months in jail - for a person to pay "compensation on a fee-per-registration" system when signing up someone to vote.

Johnson, who works at a cellphone kiosk in downtown Cleveland, said he was a sitting duck for the signature hunters, but was always happy to help them out in exchange for a smoke or a little scratch. He'd collected 10 to 20 cigarettes and anywhere from $10 to $15, he said.

The Cleveland voting probe, first reported by The Post yesterday, also focused on Lateala Goins, who said she put her name on multiple voter registrations. She guessed ACORN canvassers then put fake addresses on them. "You can tell them you're registered as many times as you want - they do not care," she said.

ACORN spokesman Kris Harsh said the group does not tolerate its workers paying people to sign the voter-registration cards.

ACORN's political wing has endorsed Barack Obama for president, but Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign in Ohio, said ACORN has no role in its get-out-the-vote drive.

During the primary season, however, the Obama camp paid another group, Citizen Service Inc., $832,598 for various political services, according to Federal Elections Commission filings. That group and ACORN share the same board of directors.

In Wisconsin yesterday, John McCain blasted ACORN.

"No one should be corrupting the most precious right we have, that is the right to vote," he said.

It's a right Johnson will exercise. "Yeah, I've registered enough - I might as well vote."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10102008...ons_132965.htm

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Gov. Blunt Expresses Concern about Integrity of Upcoming Election




JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Matt Blunt, who served as secretary of state during the last presidential election, today issued the following statement expressing concern about the integrity of the upcoming election in light of the investigation into voter registration fraud committed by the liberal group ACORN:

“As governor and as a former secretary of state, I am very concerned about the integrity of the upcoming election. I became secretary of state following the voter fraud that occurred in 2000 and issued a comprehensive report entitled ‘Mandate for Reform: Election Turmoil in St. Louis November 7, 2000,’ http://governor.mo.gov/lawsuit_refor...ued7-24-01.pdf, which provided the framework for election reform in Missouri.

“Contrary to assertions that voter fraud has not occurred in Missouri, my report found that well over 1,000 improper ballots were cast in St. Louis City and St. Louis County. Further my report found that there was in St. Louis an organized and successful effort to generate improper votes in large numbers.

“In response to the lessons of 2000 we enacted significant reforms that make it easier to vote and harder to cheat. We enabled the real time voter registration database to catch voters who might try to register in multiple jurisdictions, increased the canvassing of the voter registration rolls to ensure they are up to date, required voter registrations to be turned in within five business days from the date a person registered, required voters who register by mail to show up in person at least once before voting absentee, added two questions to the voter registration form including ‘Are you an American citizen?’ and ‘Will you be 18 before the next election?’ and many other changes to ensure fair, open and honest elections in Missouri. As a result, the 2002 election and the next presidential election in 2004 ran smoothly.

“In the aftermath of the 2006 election, 12 workers for ACORN were convicted of voter fraud in St. Louis and Kansas City. Now the FBI is investigating attempts by ACORN to commit voter registration fraud in Missouri and other states in this election. This is deeply troubling to me because these efforts to game the system with fraudulent registrations undermine public confidence in our election process. At least one Missouri official has attempted to downplay ACORN’s attempts to commit fraud as insignificant. I strongly disagree. The only reason for someone to commit voter registration fraud is to attempt to commit voter fraud.

“I am asking Secretary of State Robin Carnahan to do everything she can to ensure we have a fair election and an outcome that the voters can trust. Under the Help America Vote Act and Missouri law, Secretary of State Carnahan now maintains Missouri’s single statewide voter roll. We want to ensure that this voter roll is current and accurate and that every eligible voter is properly registered and that fraudulent registrations do not end up on this voter roll. I have asked Secretary Carnahan if there is any assistance or resources my administration can provide her office to help accomplish this goal.

“Ensuring that we have a fair election should never, under any circumstance, result in the intimidation of any Missouri voter, period. As governor, I signed the Missouri Voter Protection Act to protect the right of all Missourians to vote and to increase confidence that our elections are fair, open and honest. The law guarantees voters the right of access to their poll without intimidation or harassment, creates a felony offense for using violence or knowingly providing false information to keep a person from voting and guarantees a full provisional ballot.

“Missouri is once again a battleground state and now is the time to be vigilant. Let’s have an election result we can trust.”

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President Bush sends request to check against ballot fraud to Justice Department

Posted by Stephen Koff/Washington Bureau Chief October 24, 2008 22:09PM

WASHINGTON -- The flap over Ohio voter registrations stepped up a notch Friday, with President Bush forwarding a GOP leader's requst for help to the Justice Department.

U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner, of West Chester, asked the White House to direct Attorney General Michael Mukasey to get involved after Boehner got no response from an earlier request he and other Ohio members of Congress sent to Mukasey. With less than two weeks until Election Day, Boehner said he felt he needed to go directly to the president.

So he sent Bush a letter Friday saying that unless the Justice Department takes action immediately, "thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands, of names whose information has not been verified . . . will remain on voter rolls during the Nov. 4, 2008, election." Bush in turn sent the letter to Mukasey.

The White House characterized Bush's action as routine, and it is not clear whether Justice will get involved. But U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D Joy) was among those saying they were "disappointed that the president chose to interject partisan politics into the election."

Boehner's complaint refers to the roughly 200,000 Ohio voter registrations that do not match other records containing residents' identities, such as drivers' licenses. Democrats and voting rights groups say that all but a tiny fraction of the mismatches are typos or similar errors. And Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner says that an excessive focus on voters whose mismatches can be easily explained is unnecessary and could even disenfranchise some legitimate voters.

But the Ohio Republican Party and Boehner say they worry about potential fraud, especially in light of false voter registrations turned in by some workers for ACORN. They want Brunner's office to direct checks of the 200,000 registrations against a database with driver's license and other information.

Brunner and the Ohio Republican Party disagree as to whether the Help America Vote Act of 2002 requires her office to conduct such checks. The U.S. Supreme Court last week dismissed a suit that sought to force Brunner to conduct the checks.

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/20...request_t.html

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It's currently a truly sad state of affairs.
That So Much Voter Fraud exposed being perpetrated no doubt only reflects the tip of
the iceberg and only looked into in depth by FNC (Fox News Channel) & sites like Patfiles,
doesn't paint a very pretty picture to The World about America's obviously Nationwide &
One Supremacist Party Corrupted Voting System.

Since also obvious that Mainstream Press/Media are largely: "In-the-tank" for their
Democrat; "Darlings" & greatly supportive of "Their" quite obvious choice for President
Barack Hussein Obama II or Jr.,...most abroad (FNC watchers also) must also have noticed
how herdlike or politically similar to Tass, Pravda & Izvestia of the old Soviet Union, The
American Press in general have become.

Still, and not matter whom win or best buy or steal themselves The Presidency,.........
all Politicians & Ruling Elite will always fair well. Naturally Dem Hacks fair better than most.

"For The People" and/or Middle Class Workers & Retirees,...eh? Tough luck: "Pilgrims"
Just plan on paying more & more for the luxury of staying here &: "Spreading The Wealth".
Just as was once so decreed by Karl Marx,...so it is here.

Neil