Posted on 10/24/2006 9:50:14 AM PDT by SmithL
Oh, they'll still cheat. It'll just make it harder, and cut down on the fraudulent votes.
(CNN) -- Ohio authorities say a man was charged Monday with filling out more than 100 fictitious voter registration forms, some in names such as Disney character Mary Poppins and pop singer Michael Jackson.
Chad Staton, 22, of Defiance County in northwestern Ohio, was to receive money for each registration form he could persuade potential voters to fill out, said Sheriff David Westrick.
Instead, Staton, himself, filled out the forms and returned them to the Toledo woman who hired him. Sheriff's deputies allege he was paid in crack cocaine instead of money.
Staton had his first court appearance Monday on a felony charge of false registration, and was released on his own recognizance. He has another court appearance scheduled for Friday.
Westrick said the Toledo woman, Georgianne Pitts, 41, told officers she was recruited by Thaddeus Jackson II of Cleveland to obtain voter registrations. He said a business card provided by Pitts indicated that Jackson is the assistant Ohio director of the NAACP National Voter Fund.
Westrick said he didn't know the legal status of Pitts and Jackson, who live outside his jurisdiction.
Greg Moore, the executive director of the NAACP National Voter Fund, said: "We believe anyone violating the law hurts the credibility of NVF and more importantly the thousands of hard-working men and women who are legally registering people to vote."
According to its Web site, the National Voter Fund advances the cause of civil rights through advocacy, educating voters on candidates' stands on civil rights and increasing voter turnout in the African-American community.
The sheriff added that deputies and Toledo police had obtained a search warrant for the house where Pitts lives. He said officers confiscated drug paraphernalia and voter registration forms from the home.
Westrick said Pitts admitted paying Staton crack cocaine for the registrations in lieu of money. Westrick said he didn't know the legal status of Pitts and Jackson, who live outside his jurisdiction.
Westrick said his office began an investigation after a complaint was made by the Defiance County Board of Elections. The board received the forms from the Cuyahoga Board of Elections. Cuyahoga County includes Cleveland.
Westrick said officials became suspicious because the handwriting on the forms was similar. In some cases, there were dozens of addresses for a single block in Defiance, where there are only a couple of homes, he said.
But the biggest giveaway may have been the names themselves.
"Mary Poppins hasn't voted here in a long time. Michael Jackson hasn't. Those were some of the fictitious names," Westrick said.
I just voted early in Texas. You need either you drivers license or Voter registration to get the access code to vote.
Now get this outrage: These same oppressed voters might even be required to show ID and cast their one measly ballot in the precinct in which they are legally registered! For shame!
What next, dastardly Republican racist homophobe misogynist ... a requirement that voters be alive?
His driver's license was accepted but for the 2nd piece of ID he could NOT USE:
U.S. passport
expired library card
voter registration card
Mastercard credit card
Social security card
phone bill
Where can we sign up to SUE SUE SUE the government's pants off?
I would submit this organizations are subject to the doctrin of Latches and not entitled to a restraining order.
They have known about this law for an extended period of time and are now timing this because they KNOW they will lose on the upper appelate levels.
They want the lower state courts to go with them and allow for the appelate delay to let the election pass.
The bottom line is justice belongs to the vigilant. They are not vigilant by waiting until the 11th hour.
Of course, there's the danger of letting illegal aliens have driver's licenses, which will be used to vote.
No, the USSC decision on the Arizona law was not on the merits. The Court held there was an insufficient record to support a preliminary injunction. In order to obtain a preliminary injunction the petitioner must show a sustantial probability they will prevail on the merits. The trial court held the petitioner had failed to make such a showing. The 9th Circus reversed that finding. The Supreme court reversed the 9th on this issue and sent the case back down to the trial court to be litigated with no injunction in the mean time.
Well, it's my observation that the entitlement programs are somehow ALWAYS administered by like-minded individuals, who empathize with the handout crowd, and are very lax on qualifications. This may not be true in all areas, but in Northeast Ohio, it sure is.
All of my grandchildren have IDs. You need an ID to buy alcohol, get food stamps, cash a check, employment, unemployment, for loans, to rent or buy a home, car, get insurance, board a plane, and on and on. Only the illegals don't have IDs and that is just fine with the democrats.
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