Frank Santapoalo, a Doyle campaign volunteer who organized the event, and two Dayton employees said they were not aware of anyone filling out an absentee ballot at the facility after the bingo games.I'll first address the inconsistencies here. Who is lying about when the ballots were cast; Santapoalo and Nerling, who say that no votes were cast after the bingo session (indeed, Nerling recalls the beginning of the day clearly enough to say that votes were cast prior to the bingo session) or Andersen, who said he voted AFTER getting his danish, soda and $0.75? Who's lying; Kenosha City Clerk Jean Morgan who told the Jourtinel that none of the 33 absentee ballots were returned, or her office, who told the News that 8 of those 33 were returned?Tammy Nerling, the facility's activity director, said she doesn't recall any of the facility's residents voting after the bingo game. Some were spooked by the presence of television cameras, she said. A handful had filled out absentee ballots before the Columbus Day event, Nerling said.
She is seen in the TV report telling residents during the bingo game that absentee ballots were available "upstairs."
Also, the soft drinks were provided by the care center, not the Doyle campaign or the Democratic Party, Nerling said.
She said the care center orders absentee ballots on behalf of residents for every election. This time, they ordered a set of 33, which arrived a week earlier. So far, three-fourths have gone unused, Nerling said.
What's VERY telling is that it is now in print that Santapoalo admitted that all the residents could expect for their votes for their benefactor, Jim Doyle, is 75 cents. What's also telling is that while voting deputies go to "most" nursing homes (I'll believe that when pigs fly), they weren't at Dayton because the administrators didn't request them.
The stench just keeps on getting worse.
From another thread on this:
Why does anybody think anything will come of this? Remember the rich Dim woman from NYC who was going around in Wisconsin during the 2000 elections,and paying homeless people,drunks,addicts,and others a carton of cigarettes or a bottle of whiskey to vote Dim? She even rented vans to take them around to vote. She was actually arrested for this,but does ANYBODY remember any reports of any actual punishment being handed out to her? Wanna bet that at MOST she paid a small fine and went back to her penthouse?You nailed it. It was a small fine (IIRC, it was under $500) and a bit of probation. What's worse this time is that the Kenosha County DA (the guy charged with the Elections Board with doing the digging and prosecuting) not only endorsed Doyle, but sits on the Doyle-for-governor campaign's steering committee (both of these come from Doyle's campaign himself, links elsewhere on this thread). Also, WTMJ-AM host Charlie Sykes reported that not only are both of the campaign workers mentioned friends of DA Jambois, but one of them (I can't recall which one) actually worked for Jambois for a while.