13 Obama Staffers Busted Illegally Registering And Voting In Ohio

NY Post

Thirteen campaign workers for Barack Obama yesterday yanked their voter registrations and ballots in Ohio after being warned by a prosecutor that temporary residents can’t vote in the battleground state.

A dozen staffers – including Obama Ohio spokeswoman Olivia Alair and James Cadogan, who recently joined Team Obama – signed a form letter asking the Franklin County elections board to pull their names from the rolls.

The letter – a copy of which was obtained by palestra.net, a Fox News affiliate – came a day after prosecutor Ron O’Brien publicly urged out-of-state campaign workers for both Obama and John McCain to “examine your conscience” before the elections board beings begins opening absentee ballots today.

Earlier in the week, O’Brien spoke with lawyers for both camps and urged them to make sure their staffs met permanent-residency rules, or face possible felony charges.

Also pulling his ballot yesterday was Hofstra University grad Jake Smith, an Obama volunteer who had voted in Knox County, Ohio.

On Thursday, O’Brien cut a deal with 13 out-of-staters, including four from New York, who tossed out their already-cast ballots and admitted they didn’t meet residency requirements.

Yeah, right, no fraud my ass.

Ohio: Bush Orders Justice Dept To Investigate Voter Fraud

From Public Record

In a déjà vu moment from Campaign 2006, President George W. Bush again is asking his Attorney General to launch an investigation into the registration of hundreds of thousands of new voters, many of whom are expected to vote Democratic.

Bush forwarded to Attorney General Michael Mukasey a Republican request that he intervene in the battleground state of Ohio to force 200,000 new voters to either verify the information on their registration forms or cast provisional ballots, which are often thrown out after the voter leaves the polling place….

House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, sent a letter to Bush asking for his extraordinary intervention after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to get involved in the Ohio dispute.

“Unless action is taken by the [Justice] Department immediately, thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of names whose information has not been verified through the [Help America Vote Act] procedures mandated by Congress will remain on the voter rolls during the Nov. 4 election. …

“There is a significant risk if not a certainty, that unlawful votes will be cast and counted. Given the Election Day is less than two weeks away, immediate action by the Department is not only warranted, but also crucial.”

On Friday, White House spokesman Carlton Carroll said Bush had referred Boehner’s letter “to the Department of Justice for their review.”

Ohio Shocker: Democracy Is Dead

I don’t even know what to say about this one…. I am completely shocked. I will do my best to explain what has happened, but I just cannot believe this is actually going on….

As a follow up to my piece showing how college kids from FL, CA and elsewhere, rented a house in OH and voted…  IN OHIO…  And are still registered in their home states, comes the next chapter…

It starts with Ohio Sec’y of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, and her decision to allow people to register to vote and participate in early voting on the same day. This is typically not allowed because the state is supposed to verify that a person is eligible to vote before allowing that person to vote…. Translation: It opens up the possibility of massive fraud.

And in a nutshell, it looks like this is what has happened.

When Brunner decided that same day registration and voting would be allowed, the RNC challenged the decision in court. The Ohio court decided with Brunner and allowed the same day registration and voting to take place. Approximately 600,000 people participated in this process.

There were reports of “non-partisan” groups picking up the homeless and people off of the streets and taking them to polling places. Annectdotal accounts say that these “non-partisan” groups provided transportation only to Obama supporters and went so far as to instruct voters to vote Obama.

The law provided a couple of weeks after the early voting process for the counties to verify that the people who voted were eligible to vote. The process, from what I understand, is laid out by state law that the Office of the Sec’y of State would allow access to DMV and Social Security databases to verify that the information on the voter registration cards were accurate.

Brunner not only decided to not release the information to the counties but shut down the computer links to both the DMV and Social Security databases. Basically, she eliminated any way for the counties to verify that the votes were valid!

The RNC immediately filed suit.

IIRC, the first court sided with the RNC and ordered Brunner to release the information to the counties. Brunner then appealed and the decision of the lower court was overturned. The RNC appealed this decision, and the Federal District Court then re-instated the decision of the lowest court and ordered Brunner to release the information to the counties so they could verify the votes were valid.

In her briefs to the court, Brunner admits that approximately 200,000 of the votes are “problematic.” Translation… 200,000 of the votes are FRAUDULENT!

Brunner then appealed to the US Supreme Court where Justice John Paul Stevens (a Democratic appointee) handed down the decision that Ohio did not have to verify those votes validity.
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You have got to be kidding me?
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To put this into perspective, in 2004, George Bush won the election because he won Ohio.
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He won Ohio by less than 200,000 votes.
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This election is being stolen right in front of our eyes! No wonder the American people are apathetic and don’t think their votes count!!!
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Democracy is dead. And so is the Democratic Party.

Ohio: House Full Of Out-Of-State Kids Register And Vote

Basically what happened is this…

A dozen or so college kids rented a house in Franklin County, Ohio.  Their purpose…  to help people register to vote and vote absentee in Ohio.

The group is called “Vote From Home ’08” and counts among it’s volunteers a variety of young people from all over the country.  None of the people staying at the rented house in Franklin county were from Ohio.

The target of the group is mostly aimed at the homeless and helping them vote.  These people can use the address of a shelter as a point of contact because registration does require a physical address.  There is nothing illegal or shady about this.

Where it does get super shady and possibly illegal is this…  It seems these “volunteers” registered to vote and voted in the election themselves…  even though they are still registered in their home states and are clearly not residents of Ohio.

This brings into sharp focus the HIGH probability of massive voter fraud, and with the Ohio Sec’y of State fighting in court so that she doesn’t have to verify that voters in OH are even eligible…  it looks like these votes will count.

CLICK HERE for in depth analysis and video.

 

UPDATE:  looks like the votes are gonna count…  SCOTUS sides with Brunner…  doesnt have to check to see if votes are valid.

RICO Case Filed Against ACORN In Ohio

I am wholly disappointed in the Department of Justice for sure! It turns out it isn’t our ahem! esteemed DOJ filing charges. These charges are coming from a think tank…I never even considered it would be The Buckeye Institutefor Public Policy Solutions of Columbus, OH. This information has just been released today by the institute. Here is more on those charges:

The Buckeye Institute, a Columbus-based think tank, today filed a state RICO action against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) on behalf of two Warren County voters. The action filed in Warren County Court of Common Pleas alleges ACORN has engaged in a pattern of corrupt activity that amounts to organized crime. It seeks ACORN’s dissolution as a legal entity, the revocation of any licenses in Ohio, and an injunction against fraudulent voter registration and other illegal activities.

It still distresses me that it is a state action not a federal action. Where is the US Department of Justice on ACORN? As far as I can tell missing-in-action.

More from the Institute:

Plaintiffs Jennifer Miller of Mason, Ohio and Kimberly Grant of Loveland, allege that ACORN’s actions deprive them of the right to participate in an honest and effective elections process. They allege fraudulent voter registrations submitted by ACORN dilute the votes of legally registered voters.

“The right to cast a vote that is not diluted by fraudulent votes is a fundamental individual right,” Buckeye Institute President David Hansen said.

“ACORN appears to be recklessly disregarding Ohio laws and adding thousands of fraudulent voters to the state’s roles in the process,” Maurice Thompson, Director of the Buckeye Institute’s 1851 Center for Constitutional Law said. “Such voter fraud erodes the value of legally cast votes,” he added.

In the complaint, Thompson cites an accumulation of evidence showing numerous instances of admitted fraud by ACORN employees, as well as individuals solicited by ACORN.

“In light of its hiring, training and compensation practices, ACORN should have known its conduct would cause fraud,” Thompson said. “It also should know that its conduct will cause fraud in the future.”

In addition, the complaint cites conduct by ACORN in Colorado, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

A full copy of the complaint is available online at Buckeye Institute here

Buckeye does have a mission and is completeing it in Ohio.

The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, together with its 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, is a nonpartisan research and educational institute devoted to individual liberty, economic freedom, personal responsibility and limited government in Ohio.

All I can say is I am glad someone is doing something to knee-cap ACORN. Good one for The Buckeye Institute. Where is the Department of Justice? Are you out there somewhere? Are you doing your job? Where are the federal RICO charges?

OHIO – Judge Rules New Voting Procedure Illegal

The Ohio Secretary of State has set up a situation in which a person can register to vote and vote via an absentee ballot at the same time.

Talk about a recipe for fraud!!!

Well the GOP challenged it in court, but the court said that it was legal…  then the voting began, and the only office verifying that the people that were voting were eligible was Brunner’s and they were refusing to release the eligible voter lists to anyone else, including the county elections boards!!!

So the GOP freaked (DUH!) and went to court again…

And so now from The Columbus Dispatch

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is breaking federal law by not giving county elections boards the chance to determine whether new voter registrations are fraudulent, a federal judge ruled tonight.

It is hard to imagine a public interest more compelling than safeguarding the legitimacy of the election of the president of the United States,” said Judge George C. Smith of U.S. District Court in Columbus, in upholding the Ohio Republican Party’s request for a court order.

Smith, appointed by President Reagan, said the Help America Vote Act requires states not only to verify the identity of newly registered voters with the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the federal Social Security Administration, but to provide counties with the names of new voters whose records did not match.

Brunner’s office had been doing the verification but had not made the names available to county elections boards. The judge gave her a week to comply….

Brunner’s office said she is filing an immediate appeal with the 6th U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Smith said speed is necessary because next Thursday is the deadline to challenge absentee voters; on Oct. 25 elections workers can remove ballots from envelopes that contain the only identifying information about who cast them.

He specifically cited questionable activity of one group that registered thousands of new Ohio voters: the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.
Ohio Republican Party Deputy Chairman Kevin DeWine said the ruling spoke volumes about Brunner, a Democrat.

“Her refusal to comply with federal law raises serious concerns about her ability to objectively oversee this election. It’s especially troubling in light of her connection to ACORN and that group’s stunning confession this week of fraudulent registration activity happening right here in Ohio,” he said.

Republicans say Democrat Barack Obama has “strong ties” to ACORN, serving in the past as an attorney and “leadership trainer” for the group.

Ohio: Obama Is Stealing Your Election

Ohio: Obama Drops 8pts And Is Now Tied With McCain

In the lastest PPP poll, it shows that Obama has rapidly dropped 8pts in Ohio and is now tied with McCain.

The reason?  Clintonistas…

One factor causing Obama problems is that he’s not doing as good a job as McCain of getting folks in his party to vote for him. While McCain leads 89-7 among Republicans, Obama’s lead is a narrower 75-17 among Democrats. Obama has the 45-28 edge with independent voters.

The Democrats neglecting to choose Obama are disproportionately white, female, and middle aged, an indication that it could be former supporters of Hillary Clinton who are holding out.

And Ohio is one of the most important swing states there is…  this is really not good news for the Dems…

I hate to say “We told you so,” but…  yeah, we told you so.