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"nan" |
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18 Oct 2004 06:06:27 PM |
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OHIO:Voter Fraud For "Crack" & TaxExempt Org |
From the Drudge Report:
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October 18, 2004
The Defiance County Sheriff's Office arrested Chad Staton, age 22, of
Stratton Ave., Defiance, on a charge of False Registration, in
Violation of Section 3599.11 of the Ohio Revised Code, a felony of the
fifth degree.
The Sheriff's Office alleges that Staton filled out over 100 voter
registration forms that were fictitious. Staton was to be paid for
each registration form that he could get citizens to fill out.
However, Staton himself filled out the registrations and returned them
to the woman who hired him from Toledo, Ohio. Deputies allege that
Staton was paid crack cocaine for the falsified registrations.
Defiance Deputies along with Toledo Police Department detectives
conducted a search warrant of a residence on Woodland in Toledo,
believed to be the home of the woman who hired Staton to solicit voter
registration. Officers confiscated drug paraphernalia along with voter
registration forms from the home. The occupant of the home, Georgianne
Pitts, age 41, advised law enforcement, along with Ohio B.C.I.&I.,
that she had been recruited by Thaddeus J. Jackson, II, of Cleveland,
to obtain voter registrations. Pitts admitted to paying Staton crack
cocaine for the registrations in lieu of money.
A business card provided by Pitts indicated that Jackson is the
Assistant NVF Ohio Director of the NAACP National Voter Fund.
The initial complaint received by the Sheriff's Office came from the
Defiance County Board of Elections. The Board had received the 100
plus registration forms from the Cuyahoga Board of Elections that had
been submitted to the Cuyahoga Board by the NAACP National Voter Fund.
Developing...
What is the NAACP National Voter Fund (NVF)?
THE NAACP NATIONAL VOTER FUND (NVF) is a separate organization created
by the NAACP to advance the cause of civil rights. NVF primarily
engages in nonpartisan advocacy activities, such as voter registration
and get out the vote efforts, issue advocacy, and lobbying. NVF has
been recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt
organization under Section 501 (c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.
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| User: "GW *AWOL* Chimpzilla" |
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| Title: Re: OHIO:Voter Fraud For "Crack" & TaxExempt Org |
18 Oct 2004 07:34:07 PM |
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nan wrote:
From the Drudge Report:
[snip]
10/15/04 [Permalink] UPDATED 10/17/04
GOP operatives who resigned over vote fraud scandal in South Dakota recruited
by GOP to run operations in Ohio
Via Buzzflash, here is a report from the Argus Leader:
South Dakota campaign official who resigned after questions arose over
absentee-ballot applications will work in Ohio for the Bush-Cheney campaign, an
internal Republican Party memo indicates.
Larry Russell, who was chairman of the South Dakota Republican Party's
get-out-the-vote operation, resigned this week after questions were raised
about the validity of some of the 1,400 absentee-ballot applications gathered,
largely on college campuses, by the program Russell led.
Students on campuses in Brookings, Vermillion, Yankton and Spearfish have
questioned the absentee-ballot application process, saying young men obtained
their applications, but the notarization of the documents carried the signature
of a woman.
The South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation has been interviewing
several people about the matter.
No charges have been filed as a result of the probe, which Attorney General
Larry Long on Thursday would only say "is continuing."
When South Dakota Republican Party Chairman Randy Frederick announced the
resignations of Russell and five others Monday evening, he said the state party
has a "zero-tolerance policy."
But an internal Republican Party memo obtained by the Argus Leader said Russell
would be going to Cleveland "to lead the ground operations" for President Bush
and Vice President Cheney there.
Ohio is a swing state considered vital to a successful presidential victory.
Attempts to contact Bush-Cheney campaign officials in Cleveland were
unsuccessful.
The memo was e-mailed to Republican staffers and officials Sunday evening by
the state
party's Executive Director Jason Glodt. Three other GOP workers who resigned
over the application fracas also will be involved in the Ohio campaign,
according to the memo.
"Todd Schleckeway, Nathan Mertz and Eric Fahrendorf have also been recruited to
Ohio to work with Larry on the President's campaign," the e-mail stated.
UPDATE 10/17/04:
Via annac1aire at Dailykos, here's an update on this from the Argus Leader:
• Three of the six state Republican Party workers who resigned late last week
are now working as field coordinators for the Republican Party in Ohio, not for
the Bush-Cheney campaign, according to Ohio officials.
...
Six people involved with the Victory operation lost their jobs late last week
because of the questions about irregularities, including Hoff and Larry
Russell, Victory's executive director.
Russell and two of the others who resigned - Nathan Mertz and Todd Schlekeway -
are now working for the state Republican Party in Ohio, said Jason Mauk, Ohio
Republican Party spokesman.
"They are not with Bush-Cheney. They are working for the party," Mauk said
Friday. "Larry and the others are field coordinators for our voter turnout in
Cuyahoga County (Cleveland). They work the phone banks, recruit and organize
volunteer activities, but they are not working in a supervisory capacity."
Brendon Cull, communications director for the Ohio Democratic Party campaign,
said he was surprised that the former campaign workers were coming to Ohio.
"Clearly, these guys are bad enough actors that the GOP in South Dakota didn't
want them, and I don't really think they belong in Ohio," Cull said.
"Certainly, we hope they aren't up to anything nefarious."
http://vote2004.eriposte.com/swingstates/ohio.htm#20041015
--
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas -- that says, fool
me once, shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."
http://www.diymedia.net/audio/mp3/tdntb-bushwack2.mp3
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| User: "Robert" |
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| Title: Re: OHIO:Voter Fraud For "Crack" & TaxExempt Org |
18 Oct 2004 09:10:34 PM |
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I am glad they caught this guy and arrested him.
I do not want anyone cheating on our side.
But this wasn't about Democrats cheating; it was about one person trying
to be greedy.
And where is Drudge on Republican voter intimidation
GW *AWOL* Chimpzilla wrote:
nan wrote:
From the Drudge Report:
[snip]
10/15/04 [Permalink] UPDATED 10/17/04
GOP operatives who resigned over vote fraud scandal in South Dakota recruited
by GOP to run operations in Ohio
Via Buzzflash, here is a report from the Argus Leader:
South Dakota campaign official who resigned after questions arose over
absentee-ballot applications will work in Ohio for the Bush-Cheney campaign, an
internal Republican Party memo indicates.
Larry Russell, who was chairman of the South Dakota Republican Party's
get-out-the-vote operation, resigned this week after questions were raised
about the validity of some of the 1,400 absentee-ballot applications gathered,
largely on college campuses, by the program Russell led.
Students on campuses in Brookings, Vermillion, Yankton and Spearfish have
questioned the absentee-ballot application process, saying young men obtained
their applications, but the notarization of the documents carried the signature
of a woman.
The South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation has been interviewing
several people about the matter.
No charges have been filed as a result of the probe, which Attorney General
Larry Long on Thursday would only say "is continuing."
When South Dakota Republican Party Chairman Randy Frederick announced the
resignations of Russell and five others Monday evening, he said the state party
has a "zero-tolerance policy."
But an internal Republican Party memo obtained by the Argus Leader said Russell
would be going to Cleveland "to lead the ground operations" for President Bush
and Vice President Cheney there.
Ohio is a swing state considered vital to a successful presidential victory.
Attempts to contact Bush-Cheney campaign officials in Cleveland were
unsuccessful.
The memo was e-mailed to Republican staffers and officials Sunday evening by
the state
party's Executive Director Jason Glodt. Three other GOP workers who resigned
over the application fracas also will be involved in the Ohio campaign,
according to the memo.
"Todd Schleckeway, Nathan Mertz and Eric Fahrendorf have also been recruited to
Ohio to work with Larry on the President's campaign," the e-mail stated.
UPDATE 10/17/04:
Via annac1aire at Dailykos, here's an update on this from the Argus Leader:
• Three of the six state Republican Party workers who resigned late last week
are now working as field coordinators for the Republican Party in Ohio, not for
the Bush-Cheney campaign, according to Ohio officials.
...
Six people involved with the Victory operation lost their jobs late last week
because of the questions about irregularities, including Hoff and Larry
Russell, Victory's executive director.
Russell and two of the others who resigned - Nathan Mertz and Todd Schlekeway -
are now working for the state Republican Party in Ohio, said Jason Mauk, Ohio
Republican Party spokesman.
"They are not with Bush-Cheney. They are working for the party," Mauk said
Friday. "Larry and the others are field coordinators for our voter turnout in
Cuyahoga County (Cleveland). They work the phone banks, recruit and organize
volunteer activities, but they are not working in a supervisory capacity."
Brendon Cull, communications director for the Ohio Democratic Party campaign,
said he was surprised that the former campaign workers were coming to Ohio.
"Clearly, these guys are bad enough actors that the GOP in South Dakota didn't
want them, and I don't really think they belong in Ohio," Cull said.
"Certainly, we hope they aren't up to anything nefarious."
http://vote2004.eriposte.com/swingstates/ohio.htm#20041015
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