Corruption Gets Body Slammed, Not Once, Not Twice, But Three Times…Take A Look
By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on October 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM in ACORN, Barack Obama, John McCain, Missouri, Ohio, Voter Fraud
AP’s Philip Elliott’s story Federal court: Ohio must check voter registrations tell us to breathe one sigh of relief at least…our court system occasionally still works. Yesterday, a federal appeals court ordered Ohio’s top elections official, otherwise known as that naughty Democratic Sec’y of State, Jennifer Brunner, to set up a system by the end of the week to verify new voters’ eligibility and make it available to Ohio’s 88 county election boards.
The full 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upheld a lower court’s ruling that Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must use other government records to check the thousands of new voters for registration fraud. A three-judge panel of the 6th Circuit had disagreed last week, but the full court’s ruling trumped the panel’s decision. …Ohio Republicans sued Brunner, a Democrat.
“Her delay in providing this matching system leaves little time for election officials to act on questionable registrations,” Ohio GOP Chairman Bob Bennett said Tuesday night.
“Once again, Jennifer Brunner has wasted valuable taxpayer dollars only to have her partisan agenda rejected by a court of law. Her shameful actions to disenfranchise Republican absentee voters, block the transparency of early voting and refuse the proper verification of newly registered voters have rightfully damaged her credibility as a nonpartisan election administrator. She is destroying the public trust in Ohio’s elections system.”
A spokesman for Brunner did not immediately have a comment.
Naughty, naughty, Jennifer. I’ll bet she didn’t immediately have a comment. Quick – contact the Obama/Axelrod spin zone – they’re great at coming up with excuses on the fly.
Brunner previously said there was no way to set up the system with such speed.
Last week, a three-judge federal panel sided with her. But when the entire set of judges heard the appeal, they sided with the Ohio GOP and U.S. District Court Judge George C. Smith in Columbus, who ordered Brunner to develop a way to verify voter registration information and make it available to local elections boards.
Tuesday’s order directs Brunner to verify new registrations by comparing information on them with the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration.
Considering someone was registered to vote by ACORN 73 times, maybe somebody’s got a right to be a little concerned. Just because the former Sec’y of State, Republican Kenneth Blackwell, did these kinds of shenanigans in 2004, doesn’t make it okay for Brunner to keep the tradition going. Ohioans elected Democrats to high offices to clean up this kind of fraud – they just might get rid of Brunner too, however, if there is the stink of corruption.
And the Second smackdown really was a smackdown you have got to read to believe.
File this under “tempers seem to be running a little high” Also in Ohio, a veritable hotbed of corruption apparently, The Akron Beacon Journal reports that police and elections board investigate alleged assault over marked ballot:
Poll workers from opposing sides in the presidential race apparently clashed in a physical altercation Friday at a Cuyahoga Falls nursing home when one accused the other of improperly marking a ballot.
George Manos, the 75-year-old Republican, told police that Edith Walker, the 73-year-old Democrat, jumped on his back and struck him in the head three to four times with her fists. Manos said two other elections workers had to pull Walker off his back, according to a report filed with Cuyahoga Falls police.
Manos said it happened after he accused Walker of ballot tampering, and he wants to prosecute. …The board probe could lead to a closer examination of the other votes with which Walker was involved.
The alleged assault piqued the interest of Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign — as the voter in question reportedly wanted to vote for McCain but her ballot was initially marked for Sen. Barack Obama.
Stop the torturing. You have to be kidding me. They’re visiting a nursing home for crying out loud!! Okay. I’ve stopped laughing. Let’s read on…
”This is a troubling report that emphasizes the importance of having a transparent and open process in every voting place in Ohio,” said Paul Lindsay, a spokesman for McCain’s campaign.
The elections board sent two teams of poll workers, each with one Democrat and one Republican, to the nursing home to assist residents who otherwise would be unable to go to the polls. Such early voting is a routine service offered by elections boards to nursing homes.
As close as I can figure it, an elderly lady wanted to mark her ballot for John McCain and Ms. Walker was electioneering and trying to coerse the elderly lady voter into voting for Obama. It was at this point that Mr. Manos took the ballot away from Ms. Walker for improperly marking it.
Manos’ written statement is similar to what he told police. He also said Walker initially refused to show him the ballot, then [she] marked it a second time.
Richard Bader, a Republican poll worker at the nursing home, wrote that he forced his way between Walker and Manos and ”she tried to strong-arm me out of the way, but I held my ground.” Bader said the incident drew a crowd of six to 10 people.
She ‘strong-armed him out of the way?’ Hey. I guess ‘bitches get it done.’
Robert Dengle, a Democratic poll worker who witnessed the incident, wrote that Manos grabbed the ballot out of Walker’s hand and she went after him to get it back. When they ultimately reviewed the ballot, he said, it was marked both for Obama and McCain.
Then things got ugly and the 73 year old Democrat Ms. Walker started to put a beat-down on the 75 year old Republican Mr. Manos.
Wow. Who says septuagenarians aren’t in tip-top shape?
The voter was able to cast a new, correct ballot with her desired choices, according to elections board officials.
Hey. Let the lady vote for McCain if she wants to, Edith. After all, Barack’s got the youth vote sewn up, hasn’t he?
Okay. It gets better.
First we get Obama’s Truth Squads in Missouri and ACORN voter fraud being investigated in 12 states and now this, from Megan Cloherty, FOX 4 News: Northland Couple Warns of Political Credit Card Fraud:
A North Kansas City couple has been left scratching their heads after they became the victims of a political scam.
Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month — a $2300 donation to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The Larman’s say they don’t want this to be about their political affiliation, but they say they’re not about to give the Obama campaign any help from their pocketbook.
They said they notified Chase, their credit card bank, to report the fraud.
“(They) said that they had seen-they were familiar with this,” said Steve Larman. “It was fraud, they believe through telemarketing but they were going to be doing some more investigations.”
The Larman’s don’t want their politics to enter into what is essentially just a fraudulent charge. But they say that the charge involves the Obama campaign adds insult to injury for the registered Republicans.
“They (Chase) kept on asking me ‘are you sure you wouldn’t have gone to a site in support of Obama’,” said Rachel Larman. “And I repeatedly said I’m voting for McCain – I would not be going to an Obama site’.”
Gee. I thought Senator Obama’s campaign was rolling in dough?
Chase dropped the charge from the Larman’s card. The couple is thankful that they caught the charge on the card, but worried that others may not see that type of fraud on their own credit cards before it’s too late.
“You always get emails saying be on the lookout,” said Rachel. “So I just wanted to get the word out, that there’s someone out there perpetrating this against people, and to pay attention.”
The Obama campaign said they were aware of the Larman’s story, but did not have any comment.
No comment. Oh, yeah. Jennifer Brunner didn’t have any comment either. Must be going around.
I mean, I know there are a lot of enthusiastic supporters for Senator Obama, but being that everyone is so sure that he is well funded, well organized with a terrific ground operation and ginormous amounts of people who can’t wait to vote for him, can we just ask Obama supporters to follow a couple of ground rules:
• Try not to get in anybody’s face and make someone vote for your guy if they really don’t want to. Hey, Edith, you feisty thang, no more beat-downs please.
• Only take the money that was honestly contributed to your guy.
• Let’s go back to one person, one vote. Fair reflection, remember?
Oh, and Mickey Mouse doesn’t get to vote in this election.
Fair enough?
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