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| County rejects large number of invalid voter registrations |
| 2008-10-04 |
| Read on for the familiar names... 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. C'mon, ya mean spirited bastid! They just want...Change! And...Hope! 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. Our work is done here, Tonto... 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. You have our word on it... 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. ...and that's what they're counting on. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #8 That may be why they Think I Am Democrat. Because once you are dead, you can vote many times in many elections. |
| Posted by: newc 2008-10-04 21:04 |
| #7 Just amazing. It's time for some tar and feathers. |
| Posted by: Betty 2008-10-04 19:59 |
| #6 [anonymous has been pooplisted.] |
| Posted by: anonymous 2008-10-04 18:08 |
| #5 Just because they don't exist, is that any reason to deny people of color and other poor oppressed minorities the right to vote? Damn this Bushitler regime! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-10-04 16:08 |
| #4 Remind me why ACORN hasn't been convicted of various RICO statutes. Oh yeah, the Federal DAs didn't see it as a high priority, and Bush and Ashcroft and Gonzales caught heat when they tried to push the issue. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Gravirong9021 2008-10-04 15:28 |
| #3 It's happening across Ohio, too. If I recall the numbers correctly, several hundred thousand registered voters have until Monday to prove they exist, after the post office returned polling place information as undeliverable... either name or address non-existent. The Alinsky plan to swarm the system doesn't work nearly as well with modern computer programs that cross-check entries, and the post-9/11 practice of consultation between government agencies at all levels. Mr. Barack H. Obama, esq. may have to resume practicing law after the election to keep his ACORN friends from really long jail sentences. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-10-04 15:25 |
| #2 ...but said more may have slipped into the voter rolls so he wants U.S. Attorney David Capp to conduct a criminal investigation. That's why George sack the lot of AGs a while back because they didn't act on this crime. It also explains the Donks screaming and whining about the firing of people who the President hired in the first place. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-10-04 14:39 |
| #1 I guess the BO and ACORN believe in voting often and counting the votes even more often. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-10-04 14:35 |