Posted on 10/03/2008 2:39:10 AM PDT by southlake_hoosier
CROWN POINT | Lake County Republican Chairman John Curley wants a federal investigation into hundreds of voter registrations bearing fictitious signatures or the names of dead and underage people.
"Fraudulent applications are the workings of ACORN groups operating from Milwaukee and Chicago who are getting out the vote for Obama. I'm Republican, but I want everyone who should vote to vote. But I want a clean election," Curley said at a Wednesday news conference.
Lake County elections officials acknowledged they have found problems and had to reject a large portion of the 5,000 registration forms turned in recently by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, an activist group that conducted registration drives across the county this summer.
An ACORN spokesperson couldn't be reached Wednesday for comment. Telephones to ACORN offices in Gary, Indianapolis, Chicago and Milwaukee were reported to be disconnected.
Curley acknowledges the work of the county elections board to weed out obviously invalid applications, but said more may have slipped into the voter rolls so he wants U.S. Attorney David Capp to conduct a criminal investigation.
Elections Board Director Sally LaSota and Ruthann Hoagland, a county elections board technologist overseeing voter registration, said Wednesday it appears some ACORN vote canvassers pulled names and addresses from telephone books and forged their signatures.
Curley said one registration form was filled out in the name and address of Jimmy John's, a Crown Point fast-food outlet. Another registration, dated in August, is in the name of a Gary man who died Nov. 16, 2007, according to his death certificate.
Hoagland said large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the same apparent handwriting style.
LaSota and Hoagland said they instructed ACORN on how to legally register voters, but apparently the organization's canvassers broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid. They said ACORN organizers promised to fire workers who were cheating.
LaSota said hundreds of legitimate potential voters may be unable to cast a ballot in the Nov. 4 general election because ACORN delivered incomplete registrations just recently to the county. LaSota said her staff won't have enough time to research, complete and enter legitimate voter registrations before the mid-month deadline.
They have friends in high places.
They are going to try and take Indiana for Obama through fraud in Lake County. I would assume the same is going on in Marion County as well.
Somebody better damn well end up in jail over this. Voter fraud should be a top level felony and people should do a minimum of 10 years for falsifying voter registration papers. This is a direct infringement on the civil rights (true civil rights outlined in the Constitution) of every American.
I fear they have already stolen the election in Ohio.
This is disgusting. I have a feeling the fraud this time will be massive. I think the plan is just to overwhelm the counties ensuring that some will slip through.
“Hows does ACORN continue to operate?”
On taxpayer funds.
Wasn’t a large percentage of the recently rejected bailout bill earmarked for ACORN?
With the full blessing of the Democrat Party -- and fear of involvement of Republicans.
Thay must be stamped out. It won't be pretty, but it is necessary.
As much blatant election fraud as there has been over the last eight years, how many people have actually gone to jail? It's not really a law if we don't enforce it.
The only way to combat this is to make the new wannabe voters register in person at the Election Commission Office themselves...
It can hardly be called a hardship to do so...
Nobody hands out drivers licenses at the Mall...
We all have to apply or renew them in person...
The “poor” ???
They have to apply for welfare and food stamps in person...
and show photo ID and their SSN cards etc...
“Another registration, dated in August, is in the name of a Gary man who died Nov. 16, 2007, according to his death certificate.”
What is the big deal? BHO raised him from the dead. Some folks just don’t understand how a Messiah works.
My sister told me yesterday some Obama creeps tried to sign her up in front of a IGA store in Pontiac MI.
We are in deep sh!t, folks. Our country has been hi-jacked by Marxist thugs (and that is not just limited to ACORN and the media; the entire Democratic party and apparatus is included in that description).
And just think here in Ohio they are bussing them in registering them to vote and voting the same day thanks to early voting! Poll watchers not permitted too boot!
We were told the last time that they estimated 10,000 illegal votes and couldn’t pull them because it violated the privacy of the voting booth.
Yeah, we’re going to have a fair election.
Obama trained them well . So that is what Community Organizers do When they are not Brainwashing Children .
I wish our Republican leaders would grow a spine.
while recalling recent news that $450 million campaign contributions to Øbama is not only from overseas... but also from contributors that gave less than $200, which is below the limit above which a name must be provided. And that's not all: Of some names that CAN be discerned, there are some top contributors like a Mr. Good Will (I think his contribution was over $10,000; since the max is $2,300, the rest need not be returned till after Nov 4).
You mean the ones posted in my mechanic's waiting room, right, like, you know, no waiting more than an hour, or I have a right to a free estimate for all work performed, and a right to approve all work done?
I'm kind of surprised that they didn't post the rest of my rights up there, too. You know, the right to free unlimited health care, and for the government to bail me out of my mortgage if I spent too much on my plasma TV and can't make the mortgage on my 2,500 square foot home, and the right to 60 months interest free on my auto loan, and the right to free checking. I'm just surprised he didn't post those, too.
< /nauseated sarc>
An Obama administration would be a Chicago Thug administration.
Like the Bush administration DoJ.
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