Judge Rules Ohio Sec'y of State Violated Federal Election Laws!
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Cross posted from: MichelleMalkin.com
Judge rules Ohio Secretary of State violated federal election law; plus ACORN victim on tape
By Michelle Malkin - October 9, 2008 11:20 PM
Remember what I wrote last month? “Watch Ohio.”
Well, there’s news breaking tonight — and it’s good news for election integrity. A federal district court judge has found Democrat Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner guilty of violating federal election laws. The ruling goes to the heart of the ACORN-centered voter fraud epidemic spreading across the country. This is the second judgment against Brunner. Here’s the press release from the Ohio GOP:
// "Court Finds Brunner in Violation of Federal Law
Secretary of State appeals ruling, fights effort to validate registrations
(Columbus) - A federal court ruled tonight that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner violated federal election laws by not taking adequate steps to validate the identity of newly registered voters.
The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith called the identification breakdown “a serious problem” and ordered Brunner to immediately comply with federal requirements to match voter registration data with the information in the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Social Security Administration databases. The court accused Brunner of failing to provide county election administrators with “an effective way to access and review mismatches.” She immediately appealed the ruling.
“For some reason, Jennifer Brunner does not want these new registrations checked,” said Ohio Republican Party Deputy Chairman Kevin DeWine. “Her refusal to comply with federal law raises serious concerns about her ability to objectively oversee this election. It’s especially troubling in light of her connection to ACORN and that group’s stunning confession this week of fraudulent registration activity happening right here in Ohio.”
Brunner’s effort to fight the court order comes just two days after the Democrat activist group ACORN admitted to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections that the group engages in fraudulent voter registration activity.
Ohio ACORN officials “blamed the elections board for not scrutinizing ACORN’s suspicious cards,” claiming the group “can’t be expected to catch everything.”
ACORN is facing similar inquires in other Ohio counties as well as 10 other states. Members of the group’s “voter-mobilization arm,” Project Vote, regularly advise Brunner on election strategy, even recently issuing a news release that claims credit for Brunner’s directive restricting challenges to suspected fraudulent voter registrations. Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama also has strong ties to ACORN, working previously as an attorney and “leadership trainer” for the group." //
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FOR THE RECORD: ACORN’s Ohio Fraud File
The Columbus Dispatch, 5/9/07: In what might be a Franklin County first, a Reynoldsburg man was indicted yesterday for voting twice in the November election. … [An attorney] said Gilbert was registered in both counties by ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a nonprofit agency that has come under fire in 12 states for voter fraud.
Associated Press, 9/20/06: The mother of a 16-year-old has told the Summit County elections board that her daughter was registered to vote, just two months after a 10-year-old boy was summoned for jury duty because he was on the county’s voter rolls. …The board plans to issue subpoenas to the girl and the person who filed the voter registration application, Prentice McNary of Akron, a circulator paid by Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, [board director Bryan] Williams said.
The Columbus Dispatch, 9/1/06: Concerns about bogus names increased recently as Franklin County Elections Board staffers questioned the validity of hundreds of names on registration forms and petitions for a proposed constitutional amendment to boost Ohio’s minimum wage. Most of the disputed names came from lists provided by paid solicitors working for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The Columbus Dispatch, 8/30/06: Franklin County elections officials plan to issue subpoenas to paid solicitors suspected of forging hundreds of signatures on ballot-issue petitions and voter-registration forms. … Most have come from people paid by ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which was blamed for similar problems with voter-registration forms in 2004.
The Plain Dealer, 8/11/06: Potentially fraudulent voter registration cards have turned up in at least three Ohio counties, and 500 have been turned over to a prosecutor to determine if a crime has been committed. Matt Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, said the 500 cards his office referred to County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien Wednesday were collected between March and July by workers for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Cincinnati Enquirer, 10/23/04: Cuyahoga County election officials are investigating more than a thousand possible fraudulent voter registrations - including one for Jive Turkey Sr. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Friday that the name is one in a string of fake names on new voter rolls. Others include Dick Tracy, Mary Poppins and Michael Jordan in Defiance County.
The Columbus Dispatch, 9/8/04: A part-time worker signing up new voters for a local community group has been indicted by a Franklin County grand jury on charges he forged a registration form. … The charges stem from an investigation that began in May after the Franklin County Board of Elections discovered dozens of voter registration forms with fake names or false information. They were submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which paid workers bonuses based on the number of voters they registered.
The Columbus Dispatch, 6/3/04: A nonprofit group registering low-income and minority voters in Franklin County has fired two temporary workers thought to be the source of fake names and forged signatures on official registration forms. ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also has agreed to perform extra checks on forms turned in by its voter-registration workers before submitting them to the Franklin County Board of Elections, the group’s head organizer said yesterday.
“Well, I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we’ve got Democrats in charge of the machines.”
- Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama (Columbus Dispatch)" //
Maggie Thurber has more (hat tip - Patrick Poole):
// "For about two weeks, I’d been trying to verify that Brunner’s office was actually comparing the new voter registrations to an outside source, either the BMV or the SS databases. My phone calls to the Secretary of State’s office this week have not been returned.
Both Ohio law and the Help America Vote Act require that new voter registrations be compared to an outside, independent database in order to verify the identity of the voter. I’d been told that the connection between the Secretary of State’s database and those outside agencies was either not operation or had been removed.
In light of ACORN’s admission to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections that the group engages in fraudulent voter registration activity, the independent verification of identities by the SOS office is critical to ensuring a fair and honest election in Ohio.
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Now, watch this. Shelby Holliday continues to do terrific work from Ohio for Palestra.net. She’s got a new interview with a girl who fell victim to Acorn’s aggressive registration drive campaign.
Takeaway quote: “I can’t even count how many registrations I filled out!”
She also e-mails:
“We also stopped by the Acorn office in Columbus to see if we could get a comment. After circling the block numerous times and searching for the address, we were finally pointed to the office by a post office employee. (It was down a staircase in a hidden location with very little signage.) None of the volunteers were able to speak with us, but they put us on the phone with Charles Dickens (a national organizer?) and he told us that no local volunteers or employees could speak with the media.”
Stay on the trail! She and her colleagues are doing the job the Obamedia doesn’t want to do.
Accusations of RAAAACISM in 3, 2, 1…
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/09/judge-rules-ohio-secreta...
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Cross posted from: MichelleMalkin.com
Judge rules Ohio Secretary of State violated federal election law; plus ACORN victim on tape
By Michelle Malkin - October 9, 2008 11:20 PM
Remember what I wrote last month? “Watch Ohio.”
Well, there’s news breaking tonight — and it’s good news for election integrity. A federal district court judge has found Democrat Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner guilty of violating federal election laws. The ruling goes to the heart of the ACORN-centered voter fraud epidemic spreading across the country. This is the second judgment against Brunner. Here’s the press release from the Ohio GOP:
// "Court Finds Brunner in Violation of Federal Law
Secretary of State appeals ruling, fights effort to validate registrations
(Columbus) - A federal court ruled tonight that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner violated federal election laws by not taking adequate steps to validate the identity of newly registered voters.
The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith called the identification breakdown “a serious problem” and ordered Brunner to immediately comply with federal requirements to match voter registration data with the information in the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and Social Security Administration databases. The court accused Brunner of failing to provide county election administrators with “an effective way to access and review mismatches.” She immediately appealed the ruling.
“For some reason, Jennifer Brunner does not want these new registrations checked,” said Ohio Republican Party Deputy Chairman Kevin DeWine. “Her refusal to comply with federal law raises serious concerns about her ability to objectively oversee this election. It’s especially troubling in light of her connection to ACORN and that group’s stunning confession this week of fraudulent registration activity happening right here in Ohio.”
Brunner’s effort to fight the court order comes just two days after the Democrat activist group ACORN admitted to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections that the group engages in fraudulent voter registration activity.
Ohio ACORN officials “blamed the elections board for not scrutinizing ACORN’s suspicious cards,” claiming the group “can’t be expected to catch everything.”
ACORN is facing similar inquires in other Ohio counties as well as 10 other states. Members of the group’s “voter-mobilization arm,” Project Vote, regularly advise Brunner on election strategy, even recently issuing a news release that claims credit for Brunner’s directive restricting challenges to suspected fraudulent voter registrations. Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama also has strong ties to ACORN, working previously as an attorney and “leadership trainer” for the group." //
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FOR THE RECORD: ACORN’s Ohio Fraud File
The Columbus Dispatch, 5/9/07: In what might be a Franklin County first, a Reynoldsburg man was indicted yesterday for voting twice in the November election. … [An attorney] said Gilbert was registered in both counties by ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a nonprofit agency that has come under fire in 12 states for voter fraud.
Associated Press, 9/20/06: The mother of a 16-year-old has told the Summit County elections board that her daughter was registered to vote, just two months after a 10-year-old boy was summoned for jury duty because he was on the county’s voter rolls. …The board plans to issue subpoenas to the girl and the person who filed the voter registration application, Prentice McNary of Akron, a circulator paid by Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, [board director Bryan] Williams said.
The Columbus Dispatch, 9/1/06: Concerns about bogus names increased recently as Franklin County Elections Board staffers questioned the validity of hundreds of names on registration forms and petitions for a proposed constitutional amendment to boost Ohio’s minimum wage. Most of the disputed names came from lists provided by paid solicitors working for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The Columbus Dispatch, 8/30/06: Franklin County elections officials plan to issue subpoenas to paid solicitors suspected of forging hundreds of signatures on ballot-issue petitions and voter-registration forms. … Most have come from people paid by ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which was blamed for similar problems with voter-registration forms in 2004.
The Plain Dealer, 8/11/06: Potentially fraudulent voter registration cards have turned up in at least three Ohio counties, and 500 have been turned over to a prosecutor to determine if a crime has been committed. Matt Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, said the 500 cards his office referred to County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien Wednesday were collected between March and July by workers for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Cincinnati Enquirer, 10/23/04: Cuyahoga County election officials are investigating more than a thousand possible fraudulent voter registrations - including one for Jive Turkey Sr. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported Friday that the name is one in a string of fake names on new voter rolls. Others include Dick Tracy, Mary Poppins and Michael Jordan in Defiance County.
The Columbus Dispatch, 9/8/04: A part-time worker signing up new voters for a local community group has been indicted by a Franklin County grand jury on charges he forged a registration form. … The charges stem from an investigation that began in May after the Franklin County Board of Elections discovered dozens of voter registration forms with fake names or false information. They were submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which paid workers bonuses based on the number of voters they registered.
The Columbus Dispatch, 6/3/04: A nonprofit group registering low-income and minority voters in Franklin County has fired two temporary workers thought to be the source of fake names and forged signatures on official registration forms. ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also has agreed to perform extra checks on forms turned in by its voter-registration workers before submitting them to the Franklin County Board of Elections, the group’s head organizer said yesterday.
“Well, I tell you what, it helps in Ohio that we’ve got Democrats in charge of the machines.”
- Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama (Columbus Dispatch)" //
Maggie Thurber has more (hat tip - Patrick Poole):
// "For about two weeks, I’d been trying to verify that Brunner’s office was actually comparing the new voter registrations to an outside source, either the BMV or the SS databases. My phone calls to the Secretary of State’s office this week have not been returned.
Both Ohio law and the Help America Vote Act require that new voter registrations be compared to an outside, independent database in order to verify the identity of the voter. I’d been told that the connection between the Secretary of State’s database and those outside agencies was either not operation or had been removed.
In light of ACORN’s admission to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections that the group engages in fraudulent voter registration activity, the independent verification of identities by the SOS office is critical to ensuring a fair and honest election in Ohio.
***
Now, watch this. Shelby Holliday continues to do terrific work from Ohio for Palestra.net. She’s got a new interview with a girl who fell victim to Acorn’s aggressive registration drive campaign.
Takeaway quote: “I can’t even count how many registrations I filled out!”
She also e-mails:
“We also stopped by the Acorn office in Columbus to see if we could get a comment. After circling the block numerous times and searching for the address, we were finally pointed to the office by a post office employee. (It was down a staircase in a hidden location with very little signage.) None of the volunteers were able to speak with us, but they put us on the phone with Charles Dickens (a national organizer?) and he told us that no local volunteers or employees could speak with the media.”
Stay on the trail! She and her colleagues are doing the job the Obamedia doesn’t want to do.
Accusations of RAAAACISM in 3, 2, 1…
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/09/judge-rules-ohio-secreta...
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raves +1 posted Oct 27, 2008 08:00PM GMT
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Lol.......So? Ya gotta ask yourself a VERY simple question! Why is it NOT a Federal Crime the Minute You sign a second Voter Registration Card? Ummmmm.........Duh! -
raves +1 posted Oct 27, 2008 05:53PM GMTMy last comment isn't showing up sorry if duplicate. Excellent post! It is a good sign I will pass this on.
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raves +1 posted Oct 27, 2008 05:27PM GMTObama and ACORN, Hitler and the SS
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raves +3 posted Oct 27, 2008 01:18PM GMTAnother great post!! Just heard about more problems with ACORN in Pennsylvania...no surprise. Last night ACORN had 7500 registered voters in a county in rural Alabama, that only has a population of 6423 eligible voters living in it.
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raves +3 posted Oct 12, 2008 05:59PM GMTGreat post Heart!
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raves +3 posted Oct 11, 2008 02:56AM GMT (edited)ACORN is so crooked, didn't you notice in the first bailout that failed they were giving big bucks to ACORN too........but someone demanded it be removed and the second time around it wasn't there. I live in Lake Co., IN and there always has and always will be the same dead people and non existant people voting! Had a purge a couple years ago but they never sent it out to every one.........if you can't deliver the mail..........then that person doesn't exist at that address........our mail carriers usually are pretty sharp people and know their customers when they are at their door 6 days a week delivering mail! Acorn has registered so many people that it is unbelievable......Jimmy Johns (a sandwich shop) and many other false names. In IN you now have to produce a photo ID with your name and it should have your address too, in order to vote. Not a bad idea! They say around Lake County: "Vote early, Vote often!", same as in Chicago, right next door.
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raves +3 posted Oct 11, 2008 12:19AM GMTObama's precious ACORN...caught cheating again...big surprise there.
He's also using police to his advantage. -
raves +5 posted Oct 10, 2008 10:16PM GMTAs I have said before Obama will condone breaking the law to win the election.
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raves +4 posted Oct 10, 2008 06:32PM GMTWhat is going on in Ohio. Is the Secretary of State smoking wacky weed or is he just plain ignorant to let all of these people register and vote without proof of who they are or where they live. This guy should be investigated as ACORN may have paid him off so that Obama could carry the State. This is totally goofy.
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raves +3 posted Oct 10, 2008 09:43AM GMTFinally, people are starting to pay attention. I just hope (There's that word again.) it is not to late. There was a stench before a few of the MSM started digging in the pile, but that stench is getting stronger now. Every citizen should have the right and duty to vote, but only once per election and free from untoward influence.
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raves +2 posted Oct 10, 2008 08:59AM GMT (edited)Yes, I saw this report on Fox News "On The Record" Fantastic news!!!! Obaba is the
is angelic clothing.
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raves +5 posted Oct 10, 2008 06:18AM GMTI saw this on the news tonight.... I am so excited that so much of the ignorance coming from the Obama party is finally being sought out and something is being done... a few months late but better late than never.
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raves Oct 27, 2008 07:55PM GMT"Better late than Never"........Will we say that when he gets elected in a week?
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raves +7 posted Oct 10, 2008 06:06AM GMT (edited)I say its about time something went our way aginst these liberal demo. states I hope it make the MSM take a look at what is going on around this country with bogus registrations.
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raves +6 Oct 10, 2008 06:21AM GMTI think when this election is over we need to start some groups banning the papers, radio stations and tv stations that have been so biased and not done the job that is theirs to do.. they failed to vet Obama and in fact, have made excuse after excuse for him.. and used their powerful words tho to tear apart someone with an almost impeccable background like Sarah Palin.. while their "baby boy" Obama remains attached for years to racists, criminals, terrorists, bigots, communists, marxists, islamic extremists and more.. and they just turn their heads away.. they will deserve what they get.. we need to start a movement.. what say you all??
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raves +1 Oct 27, 2008 01:36PM GMTNaw...cuz then we would be just like Obama...with rumors of him wanting to ban fox news and o'reilly and stuff...
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raves +1 Oct 27, 2008 07:01PM GMTI am not taling about being like Obama.. he uses people and organizations.. I am talking about taking a stance .. having the guts to effect a change.. that these liberal media are not going to escape with no consequences.. if we ban them from our advertising, dont renew subscriptions, don't buy them at the news stands etc.. it will make a difference..maybe they will get the message.. the bottom line is always $$$.. so please don't misconstrue what I was saying.. thanks..
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raves +7 posted Oct 10, 2008 05:57AM GMTawesome post Heart.. just saw this and was about to do it..but thanks.. great info..I hope that Jennifer Brunner gets nailed.. this is fraud plain and simple.. and the fact that Obama has given them $800,000 from his campaign speaks loudly for who is in control.. not to mention that the government has been funding them WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS>. The things that are going on are unbelievable.. cats and dogs and horses getting registered.. DONT YOU THINK IT IS ABOUT TIME THAT ACORN WAS DISBANDED.. ??? DON'T YOU THINK WE SHOULD START A MOVEMENT TO DISBAND THEM SO THEY DON'T PUT US THROUGH THIS IN ANOTHER 4 YEARS???
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raves +5 Oct 10, 2008 06:14AM GMT (edited)I just hope it is not too late. Any investigations could be dragged out until next year. There is the hope that Ohio could go so far as to simply throw out the regs and votes and give people time to re-register *on their own* but they will have to act fast!!!
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raves +3 Oct 10, 2008 06:22AM GMTbut these are all Acorn registrations.. they said earlier tonite.. they DO NOT REGISTER REPUBLICANS.. ??
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