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Why?

Hmmmmm according to the Cincinnati.com the Enquirer, Thousands of New Voter Registration Cards have been returned. Seems they can't be delivered. The registered parties can't. be. found. That's kinda interesting, don'tcha think.

Here's the scoop: (emp. mine)

He (Ohio Republican Party Chairman Robert Bennett)said many were submitted by groups he terms "auxiliaries of the Democratic Party": the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and America Coming Together.

The groups paid people to register voters. Some registrations were filled out for dead people, some contained fake addresses, and others named fiction characters such as Dick Tracy and Mary Poppins.

Oh wait - then there's this: (emp. mine)

Tim Burke, chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party and the county elections board, said an updated number of cards returned is 5,808 out of 150,000 mailed not only to new voters, but also to those changing addresses, for a return rate of less than 4 percent.

Burke said fraud makes up a small percentage of the hundreds of thousands of newly registered voters in Ohio.

Honestly - 4% is not acceptable. If I had a return rate of 4% I'd be out of business. 4% when the election is this close.....not so good. That's 4% of the new voters or voters that requested a change of address are fraudulent. Fake. ILLEGAL.

4% no big deal to you? Think this is just making a mountain out of a mole hill? Then read this: (emp. mine)

As further evidence of registration fraud, Bennett said the Ohio Republican Party sent out its own letters to newly registered Ohio voters, encouraging them to vote Republican.

In the counties where new registration was highest, 3 percent to 9 percent of the letters were returned because the people were not located.

Really, just go read it yourself, I could just keep bringing it over here, but I want you to read the whole thing. It's important. It's bull shit. But it's important.

UPDATED:

Just to show you that I hate cheats and liars no matter what their political leanings here's a story from the Pittsburg Post-Gazette.com. Now you could say they didn't really cheat, per say. You could also say they didn't lie - technically. Still..........(again, emp. mine)

An ostensibly nonpartisan voter registration drive in Western Pennsylvania has triggered accusations that workers were cheated out of wages and given instructions to avoid adding anyone to the voter rolls who might support the Democratic presidential nominee.

"We were told that if they wanted to register Democrat, there was no way we were to register them to vote," said Michele Tharp, of Meadville, who said she was sent out to canvass door-to-door and outside businesses in Meadville, Crawford County. "We were only to register Republicans."

And they provided a copy of the instructions and script they were told to follow.

Oh, and catch this: (emp. mine)

The firm attracted attention in Pittsburgh last month when Sproul employees called a Carnegie Library official to request space outside the buildings to register voters.

Holly McCullough, special assistant to the library director, said a woman from the firm said they were working for America Votes, the nonpartisan but liberal leaning organization. (*misrepresentation*)

McCullough said she agreed to allow the group to set up at the libraries.

"I said there has to be no issue advocacy. It has to do nonpartisan voter registration and they said that was right," McCullough said. Instead, several days later, McCullough received a call from Ryan Hughes, director of the Woods Run library branch, saying patrons had complained about the behavior of the canvassers.

Hughes said a patron came in the library Sept. 7 "and said 'There's this person out there asking me who I was voting for.' "But McCullough said she also became concerned because she discovered that Sproul was not working for America Votes, and that the registration drive was being organized by the Republican Party.

Not right. Nope. Not right at all.

DAMNIT! Will SOMEONE PLEASE take the high road?!?! PLEASE!!!

Posted by Tammi at October 20, 2004 07:26 PM