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.
Ficticious and even dead people voting is prevalent in Alabama, also. The state does not do anything because they are afraid of the race riots these people promise to unleash if arrests are made.
These, of course, are the legitimate Republicans that they signed up.
They never do, thats why they keep doing it.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm....so, this is how O intends to change our Hoosier state from red to blue.
Agreed southlake; I hope folks in Lake and Marion county keep on this. Those are the two areas where ACORN can get away with it.
RICO- shut em down
Voter Fraud should be a capital offense.
Americans have given their lives to protect our democratic republic and that right. Anyone fraudulently affecting the elections in this manner is stealing a priceless freedom from every other citizen, and attacking the very foundation of our nation.
I don’t think that we should pussyfoot around with this. If taking a life is serious, why should not taking something that Americans have put above their own lives?
Through fraud in every county/parish in the nation.
I think capital offense might be a bit strong, but I understand why you would say that.
When election fraud occurs, it violates the civil rights of every other American. I think it should be prosecuted just as if it were any other violation of civil rights.
If a person votes twice, registers under a false name, uses the voter ID of someone other than themselves, or falsifies an absentee ballot, we should prosecute them as if they had falsely applied for social security, failed to pay taxes, lied to a grand jury, or forcibly restrained someone from voting. There is no difference. The victim of such a crime is the entire population who follows the rules, yet gets their votes cancelled out by these criminal acts.
Do these folks have to show an I.D. at least? (Ohio/same day register and vote.)
Anxiety has risen to higher levels than my meds can handle. I may have to declare a timeout on myself.
It appears to be a mere misunderstanding.
: )
I have been exercising, cutting back on coffee and listening to the music that always puts me in a happy mood but that doesn't seem to be working like it has in the past.
When I called Republican headquarters yesterday about becoming an observer on election day I told the woman that answered the phone that I was worried about the election being stolen. She said they were also.
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...
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The only sticking point I see is that driver’s licenses and welfare payments are not a “right.” I believe voting is a “right.” I could be wrong. I consider it a privilege.
Voter fraud is the source of my anxiety. And, even if McCain/Palin win, the election will be contested for days/weeks/months. Be sure to get a refillable script.
Way to go Indiana!!!!
I wonder if that is also going on in Jasper County? Probably less so, because it is rural. But ACORN must be exposed to the general public(sorry, I had a flight of fantasy there).
ACORN really should be forbidden from any more activities having to do with elections or ANYTHING, whatsoever. They’ve wrecked the mortgage industry and they’ve been flagrantly violating our sacrosanct voting rules, etc., for quite some time now...not to mention their dirty tricks in blocking Ward Connerly’s ballot initiatives in several states.
ACORN must be shut down completely until full investigations and judgments can be made.
It is no accident that Obama is the “Senator from ACORN.” Obama is a corrupt crook, through and through.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=&w=Mw==
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