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Topic Started: Nov 4 2008, 10:59 AM (78 Views)
Dwayne
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Here's why ACORN doing these registration drives is so dangerous...
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Some Georgians Suspected Of Voting Twice

Monday, November 3, 2008 – updated: 5:37 am EST November 4, 2008

ATLANTA -- Georgia's Secretary of State has launched a full investigation and may seek criminal charges against three Georgia men who appear to have early-voted twice.

“This is extraordinarily disturbing," said Secretary of State Karen Handel.

A team of investigative journalists from WSB-TV in Atlanta, WFTV in Orlando and WFTS in Tampa and WCPO in Cincinnati compared Georgia's voter rolls with those in Florida and Ohio and found more than 100,000 people who appear to be registered to vote in more than one state, with no government oversight to catch it.

VIDEO: Some Georgians Suspected Of Voting Twice

WSB-TV Channel 2 tried to find Thomas Habel at the home where he's registered to vote in Hartwell, Georgia, but was unable to locate him.

That’s because he was spending time at his other home in Marco Island, Florida. Before he left for the Sunshine State, according Georgia's Secretary of State, Habel early-voted at the Hart County elections office.

Chief registrar Elizabeth Forbes says she knows Habel and saw him cast his ballot. She even gave him a sticker. State records confirm Habel voting on October 1, 2008, but Florida records show him voting there on October 25.

"Oh, then that's not good," said Forbes when she saw both voting records with Habel’s name on them.

Contacted at his Florida home Habel admitted voting in Florida at the Marco Island library, but says he doesn't recall voting in Georgia.

"Somebody would remember if they voted twice,” Habel insisted. “I went and got a ballot for my wife she called me and said she forgot to vote, she was down there and I went in there and I signed for it."

The registrar confirms Habel did that, too. His wife has already mailed in her Georgia absentee vote.

A check of Georgia's master voter rolls revealed more than 42,000 people who also appear to be registered in Florida. WSB-TV Channel 2 found three who appear to have double voted, which is a felony.

"Shocking, it's really shocking,” said voter Kelley Johnson. “I wouldn't think to do something like that."

But Johnson could vote in two states.

The college student has an absentee ballot from DeKalb County, even though she voted in Daytona Beach, Florida.

"Two days after I voted, my absentee ballot came in the mail,” explained Johnson. “I was just shocked, it had my little sticker, ‘I'm a Georgia voter’ on there."

WSB-TV Channel 2 found eight people who voted in Florida and received absentee ballots from Georgia. Another three voters who cast ballots in Ohio could have voted in Georgia.

"Because Ohio's a swing state, I'm not from here, I'm from Atlanta, so I re-registered in Ohio so we could possibly have a chance," admitted Lauren Arnone.

Arnone received her Cobb County ballot by mail, but vowed not to use it, even though she could.

"Something should be fixed about this because this can sway an election," said Arnone.

Georgia Secretary of State Handel agrees.

"Does our system just trust that people won't vote twice?” asked Handel. “From the federal level, yes pretty much."

There is no federal database to track voter registration and no laws obligating voters to notify their old state when they register in a new one.

“It's an extremely high potential for (voter fraud),” said Handel.

But she said right now the states have no capacity to compare their lists.

"You vote where you live,” said Handel. “You don't get to pick and choose based on what is a battleground state, so that's very disturbing and we will be looking at every single name on that list."

Her office will work together with Florida and Ohio to verify WSB-TV Channel 2’s data; a total of 112,000 people who might be double registered.

"It's very easy isn't it? You could potentially vote in, if we had worked it we could have voted in many places many times probably," said Aaron Bashore, who received two ballots.

People who simply got ballots in both places have not committed a crime, but Handel says voters like Tom Habel should beware.

"Anyone who votes twice is undermining the core of our democratic process that is serious and we will pursue this to the fullest extent," said Handel.

For the larger list of 112,000 voters, WSB-TV Channel 2 was only able to verify their first, middle and last name and dates of birth; some of them could turn out to be different people with the exact same information.

The Secretaries of State can match them by social security number and if they wait until after the election, they will have a complete list of how many of them voted and how many times.

http://www.wsbtv.com/politics/17876720/detail.html
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Dwayne
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The democrats have attempted to insure they will win regardless of the actual vote...
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Dems' firewall: Secretary of state offices
Avi Zenilman Avi Zenilman
Sun Nov 2, 6:57 pm ET

In anticipation of a photo-finish presidential election, Democrats have built an administrative firewall designed to protect their electoral interests in five of the most important battleground states.

The bulwark consists of control of secretary of state offices in five key states — Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico and Ohio — where the difference between victory and defeat in the 2004 presidential election was no more than 120,000 votes in any one of them.

With a Democrat now in charge of the offices, which oversee and administer their state’s elections, the party is better positioned than in the previous elections to advance traditional Democratic interests —such as increasing voter registration and boosting turnout — rather than Republican priorities such as stamping out voter fraud.

Perhaps more important, in those five states Democrats are now in a more advantageous position when it comes to the interpretation and administration of election law — a development that could benefit Barack Obama if any of those states are closely contested on Election Day.

The effort began in 2006 when a group of liberal California activists created an independent 527 group designed to elect secretaries of state.

The Secretary of State Project ran independent ads of its own and ensured that donors — many of whom were affiliated with Democracy Alliance, a network of wealthy fundraisers that channels money to liberal causes across the country — knew which candidates deserved donations.

They were frustrated by the ballot-counting actions of former Florida Republican Secretary of State Katherine Harris in 2000, and former Ohio Republican Secretary of State Ken Blackwell in 2004, both former campaign chairs for George W. Bush who became prominent electoral bogeymen to the left.

“We were tired of Republican manipulation of elections,” said Michael Kieschnick, a founder of the group, who is also the president of Working Assets, a company that provides credit cards and mobile phone services to progressive organizations.

“It seemed like lots of decisions were made by people who were pretty clearly political operatives.”

According to the group, it raised and bundled $500,000 for the 2006 races.

The group says it spent $30,000 on ads in Ohio, went on the radio in New Mexico, and ran cable ads in Minnesota. In all seven target states — which also included unsuccessful campaigns in Colorado and Michigan — the Democratic candidate received a larger proportion of their money from out-of-state donors than the Republican, according to a Politico analysis.

This year, the project is supporting Democratic candidates in four more states: Missouri, Montana, Oregon and West Virginia.

Secretary of state races still come with a much lower price tag than higher profile state races, but in recent years the increased scrutiny has upped the cost.

In Colorado, the 2002 candidates for secretary of state raised less than $120,000 combined. Four years later, Republican Michael Coffman raised about $450,000 while Democrat Ken Gordon raised almost $600,000.

In Michigan, the heavily self-funded Republican incumbent Terri Lynn Land outraised Democratic long shot Carmella Sabaugh by a 4-1 margin, but the margin would have been greater if not for the almost $30,000 Sabaugh received from out-of-state donors.

“It was very uplifting to know that a progressive group is really interested in getting secretary of states. It was very rewarding to see that,” she said of the Project. “I think they actually contacted me.”

Along with Kieschnick, who gave the maximum $3,400 to Sabaugh’s underdog campaign, the list of donors included California venture capitalists (and Democracy Alliance stalwarts) Debra and Andrew Rappaport and a Utah investor named Arthur Lipson.

An alumnus of Wall Street, Lipson gave more than $25,000 to the 527 directly, and also donated to the individual secretary of state candidates in Colorado, Minnesota and Ohio.

“I would’ve given zero dollars to secretary of state races without the Secretary of State Project,” he told Politico.

Potential contributors who visit the site can either give directly to the group or send money to candidates through ActBlue, an online tool for liberal candidates. In 2006, ActBlue delivered more than $24,000 in small donations to New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera’s campaign, about 7 percent of her overall budget.

Republicans have recently criticized Herrera first for hiring the son-in-law of Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Tom Udall as director of the state Bureau of Elections, and then replacing him with a former Udall chief of staff.

But the biggest lightning rod, for both cash and controversy, has been Ohio.

In 2002, Kenneth Blackwell raised almost $1.6 million for his race while his Democratic challenger raised about $400,000. Four years later, Democrat Jennifer Brunner — who won the race — and her opponent each raised more than $2 million.

The Brunner candidacy emerged as a small cause célèbre on the left: While only 20 percent of her funding came from out of state, 12 out of the 18 individuals who gave the maximum $10,000 — a list that included Teresa Heinz Kerry — hailed from outside Ohio.

“It was extremely helpful in raising people’s awareness on the importance of having good people occupy the office of secretary of state,” Brunner said. “I received significant support from the SOS Project, which helped me toward the election.”

Democrats keyed in on Ohio after Blackwell purged the rolls of longtime nonvoters, issued decisions that limited which provisional ballots would be counted, and allowed what some saw as suspiciously long lines in Democratic areas on Election Day. Bush won the state that year by just over 100,000 votes out of more than 5.5 million that were cast.

Blackwell disputes the claims that his actions were politically motivated and said the elements of the left that accused him of election theft were attempting “to exploit a situation where most people have superficial knowledge of how elections are managed.”

Likewise, Brunner has spent the past several months embroiled in a series of legal battles with Republicans.

On Sept. 29, the day before early voting began, the Ohio Supreme Court affirmed her decision to allow residents to register and vote on the same day, during the week-long window after early voting in the state begins, and before the voter registration period ends.

Republicans had objected to the window, which they said would open up the floodgates for one-stop voter fraud.

On Oct. 2, the Ohio Supreme Court struck down her directive regarding 1 million absentee ballot applications that the McCain campaign had issued: The campaign had included an extra, unnecessary checkbox on the form, and Brunner had ruled that a failure to check the box — even if the registrant signed the form — meant the application could be rejected.

The court said Brunner’s interpretation, ostensibly to prevent voter fraud, served "no vital purpose or public interest."

The next day, a local Republican official filed a lawsuit to allow outside observers at early voting sites — Brunner had insisted that the election workers already in place would provide enough of a check.

“Secretary Brunner ran on a platform that called for absolute independence come election time,” former Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro said on a conference call organized by the McCain campaign. Petro also criticized Blackwell for excessive partisanship in 2004. “She’s issuing directives that demonstrate a partisan tilt.”

Earlier this week, Brunner called on the Ohio attorney general to investigate get-out-the-vote calls made by Republicans in 19 Ohio counties, which some voters had confused as calls from their local election board.

When asked about Brunner, Kieschnick was careful to qualify his praise. “Our view would be that Jennifer Brunner made decisions that opened up elections to more people,” he said. “It’s never quite what you want, but by and large she’s so much better than Ken Blackwell.”

“I think you can’t separate partisan attacks from elections,” said Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller. “I view it as one of my primary responsibilities to be as objective as I can. … My goal is to assure the public that we have integrity in the system.”

Miller’s office recently made headlines when it raided a local ACORN office to investigate allegations of voter registration fraud. “I’d like to emphasize that I think the system in Nevada works,” he said. “Although there are claims of registration fraud that we’re hoping to substantiate … I don’t think we’ve seen any evidence that this is going to translate into voter fraud at the polls.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081102/pl_politico/15105_1


This is real FRAUD... Thank you democrats.
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If McCain is smart he'd contest the electoral outcomes in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania... all hotbeds of ACORN fraud.
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^^^ I agree.
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