Please save the rightous indignation, UTD! The Demoncrats have been doing it for weeks.
Democratic Groups Engaged in Massive Voter Fraud Effort
Posted on September 29, 2004 at 11:32AM by Jeffrey Skelly in Politics, Election 2004
The party of voter fraud is at it again, only this time their efforts have attracted the attention of everyone from Attorney General John Ashcroft to part-time election workers in county offices coast-to-coast.
It appears that Democratic groups from Ohio to New Mexico are engaged in a massive voter ‘registration’ effort in order to help ‘re-defeat’ President Bush in November. Flush with cash from ‘527’ organizations, groups such as PIRGIM (Public Interest Research Group In Michigan), ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), the NAACP and others are flooding county election offices with thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms.
Here’s a sampling of voter fraud news from around the country…
In Ohio…
More than 1,000 voter registration forms and absentee ballot requests may be fraudulent in Lake and Summit counties, where investigations of irregularities are broadening. Lake County Sheriff Daniel Dunlap said Thursday that he will investigate an attempt to register a dead person and other possibly fraudulent documents that were submitted to the Lake County Board of Elections…
“We’ve seen voter fraud before, but never on this level,” Coulson said Thursday. “I grew up in Chicago and this looks like the politics of Mayor Daley in the '50s and '60s.”
Lake election and law enforcement officials said their investigation is centered on absentee registration attempts by the nonpartisan NAACP’s National Voter Fund and an anti-Bush, nonprofit group called Americans Coming Together, or ACT Ohio…
In Michigan…
The Lansing city clerk’s office is sorting through thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms that have been turned in recently. The city is using $2,000 from its general fund budget to pay for two temporary workers to sort through 5,000 to 8,000 bad forms.
Officials believe the forms were turned in by the state advocacy group Public Interest Research Group In Michigan, Ingham County Clerk Mike Bryanton said.
Calls to PIRGIM’s Ann Arbor office were not returned Friday or Tuesday. Bryanton said the investigation shows that some people took names out of a phone book and forged signatures.
Last month, Helmbrecht’s office notified Bryanton about registration form irregularities such as addresses that didn’t exist or several people listed for the same apartment.
The sheriff’s investigation shows that members of PIRGIM, a statewide advocacy group that encourages voter registration, were paid $50 a day to collect registrations and were given bonuses for collecting extra forms, Bryanton said.
In Wisconsin…
A group that says it has registered 30,000 voters in southeastern Wisconsin could face a criminal investigation because of voter registration applications that may have been filed fraudulently. Acting Racine City Clerk Carolyn Moskonas said Tuesday she will ask the district attorney’s office to investigate at least six voter registration applications filed by Project Vote.
That non-profit organization, which also has filed scores of Racine applications that contain bogus addresses, has fired its Racine-area coordinator because of problems with the filings.
Moskonas said that in each of the six potential fraud cases, the people named on the Project Vote applications told her office they had not signed the forms and had not been contacted by any voter registration drives.
In Nevada…
Clark County Registrar Larry Lomax first warned the public in July that his office was receiving a large number of suspect forms distributed by groups looking to register new voters in this tight election season. Lomax originally turned over the matter to the FBI, which he said had declined to investigate. The issue later went to the Nevada Division of Investigations, which continues to look into the matter, Heller said.
In New Mexico…
Earlier this year, Democratic Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron issued guidelines saying that a new state law – which mandates that voters who register without an election official present must show a photo ID at the polls – doesn’t apply to registrations collected by groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), but only to those people who sign up to vote by mail. So far, such groups have helped collect 112,000 new registrations, or one out of nine of the state’s voters.
Mary Herrera, the clerk in Bernalillo County, which includes Albuquerque, says her office has received over 3,000 suspicious registration forms. A 13-year-old boy received a voter card in the mail. Acorn organizers admitted that registration was submitted by one of their employees, who has since been fired. But in a court case this month, Acorn director Matt Henderson invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer whether his group illegally copies voter registration cards before turning them in to election officials. Previously, he had admitted to the Albuquerque Tribune that it did so.
In New York and Florida…
Some 46,000 New Yorkers are registered to vote in both the city and Florida, a shocking finding that exposes both states to potential abuses that could alter the outcome of elections, a Daily News investigation shows. Registering in two places is illegal in both states, but the massive snowbird scandal goes undetected because election officials don’t check rolls across state lines. Of the 46,000 registered in both states, 68% are Democrats, 12% are Republicans and 16% didn’t claim a party. Nearly 1,700 of those registered in both states requested that absentee ballots be mailed to their home in the other state, where they are also registered. But that doesn’t raise red flags with officials in either place.
John Fund, author of Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens our Democracy, says that Americans overwhelmingly support laws that require voters to show their ID, but liberal groups oppose such measures, calling them racist.
The issue of photo ID has become symbolic of the clash of values on election standards between the two parties. Supporters say it is bizarre that 33 states don’t require a photo ID to vote, at a time when one is needed to buy an airline ticket, rent a video or cash a check. A Rasmussen Research poll in June found 82% of Americans believed voters should show photo ID, including 75% of Kerry voters. But liberal groups insist that even laws that allow voters to use a paycheck or utility bill as ID discriminate against minority voters and could lead to “profiling.”
When San Diego County Supervisor Bill Horn announced last week that he would petition Congress for a bill requiring photo ID, he was denounced by the local League of Women Voters. Jesse Durfee, chairman of the San Diego Democratic Party, says photo ID requirements “target specific communities and are discriminatory.” He calls them “a racist mechanism.” Similar charges are being hurled at supporters of a November ballot initiative in Arizona that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and apply for welfare.
But the reason photo ID and similar laws command such broad support is that citizens instinctively realize that in a highly charged election, some people will be tempted to violate the honor system on which our election rules are based. Should “anything goes” continue to be our ballot catch phrase, the nation may wake up to a crisis even bigger than the 2000 Florida folly. Perhaps then it will demand to know why more wasn’t done to fix the system before it failed again. That’s why officials need to enforce whatever safeguards we have this year–and then lobby hard for better voter education and protections against fraud in the future.
As Fund says, “When voters are disfranchised by the counting of improperly cast ballots or outright fraud, their civil rights are violated just as surely as if they were prevented from voting. The integrity of the ballot box is just as important to the credibility of elections as access to it.”
SOURCES:
The Plain Dealer (Ohio): 1,000 cases of suspicious voter registrations
Lansing State Journal (Michigan): Lansing clerk wading through bogus voter forms
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Wisconsin): Voter registration drive comes under scrutiny
San Francisco Chronicle: President Bush concerned about possible Nevada voter fraud
John Fund (OpinionJournal): Ballots or Briefs?
New York Daily News: Exposed: Scandal of double voters
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Not that its permissable for either party, of course! But, the Democrats do seem a little desperate!
Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! Four more years! :Salute:
