Do we have to stoop this low to get votes??

[Nile]

A Defiance County man has been arrested for allegedly filing more than 100 false voter registration forms in exchange for crack cocaine from a Toledo woman working on behalf of the NAACP’s voter registration drive.

Chad Staton, 22, of Stratton Ave., faces a fifth-degree felony charge of false registration after sheriff’s deputies said he filled out the registration forms by himself — using either fictitious names or addresses — and gave them to Georgianne Pitts, 41.

Toledo police searched Ms. Pitts’ home and discovered drug paraphernalia along with more voter registration forms. Police said that Ms. Pitts admitted to paying Mr. Staton in crack cocaine, in lieu of cash.

Ms. Pitts, working on behalf of the NAACP National Voter Fund, submitted the forms to the voter fund, which in turn submitted them to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041018/BREAKINGNEWS/%20%2041018011

For Christ's sake, this is not going to help us.

[Bridget Burke]

1. "We"?

I see one suspicious event.

[UdoKier]

6. No Shit.

One nutty lady does a drug deal and we're all drug dealers? C'Mon!

The Jeb and Kathy DELIBERATELY disenfranchised THOUSANDS of eligible voters in the last election and I wouldn't say that ALL republicans are sleazy cheating racist pigs.


Only the overwhelming majority are. You can't stereotype you know...

But seriously, this is such a minor thing, however unsavory, compared to depriving people the right to vote because of their race.

You ARE aware that Jeb has yet another racist "felons" list cooked up this year, aren't you?

[ogradda]

2. ok i'll bite

one addict makes up names on voter registrations hurts * how?

[charlie]

3. No, we don't

Wait until we know more about it before you don the hairshirt.

I'm not one to see Rove behind every bush (haha), but there's been at least three races that Rove has managed to frame as "Democrats trying to steal the election."

Citing the case, Ohio Republican Party spokesman Jason Mauk said in a statement this afternoon that there is “an effort to steal Ohio’s election” that is “being driven exclusively by interest groups working to register Democratic voters.”

Smell familiar?

And this is in Ohio, where the Repub Sec of State first tried to disbar provisional ballots for people who show up at the wrong precincts, then floated the notion that registrations printed on the wrong paper stock should be shitcanned -- two days before deadline. Ohio, where Democratic registration drives have been phenomenal and Republican drives anemic, by some accounts newly minted Dems are up 250% over last election.

Pitts's boss said she was a volunteer. Let's wait until we know more about her, alright?

[kayell]

4. And still, this late in the game, you believe everything you read in the

news? Wake up and smell the propaganda.

Or at least exhibit some healthy skeptiscm before you swill their brew.

[kayell]

5. Never mind, I see you have already swilled down the Kool-aid and asked

for more. Now you try to get the rest of us to swallow and thank the Jim Jones repukes.

Nile has an interesting history of posts, worth the few minutes of search.

[charlie]

7. Aw, swell

You're right. Nile's yanking our chains.

[ogradda]

9. by george you're right

it was worth the search :)

[Vickers]

8. That's it! I'm not giving crack to any more people I register to vote!

Edit: deleted...too mean, even for me. :P

[sandnsea]

19. I'm with you, me either!!!

And by golly, I mean it this time!

[tkmorris]

10. If you have the star

You can do research that really puts some of the threads here in better perspective.

So donate people! Really, it helps DU and it helps you.

[kayell]

11. Truly worth it

Even if all you can afford is a minimal $5 a month auto-deducted, it is well worth it.

[cmd]

12. That, Nile, is why we have boards of elections

It is their job to validate registrations. They did their job. The culprits were caught. The system worked. A bad apple does not spoil the barrel if it is removed. End of story.

[seabeyond]

13. jeb bush steals the same votes of 2000

faces a fifth-degree felony charge of false registration

how come he isnt facing fifth degree charges with the thusands of votes he has and is stealing

[OutsourceBush]

14. Registering fake names for money or crack is one thing

trying to vote with those fake names is entirely another matter.

[Vickers]

15. Exactly! Every time I have voted, they ask for valid govt.-issued

photo ID.

[sisenor]

16. Typical, Black folks get caught,

while white people who are probably doing much worse in terms of rigging the vote in Bush's favor, will get away with it.

If this gets elevated to national attention I will not be surprised. Taking a small incident and making a tidal wave out of it (making dems look bad), what else have we come to expect from the media?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

17. Sounds like a planted story to me...keep trying Nile,...

...and we'll keep hitting them out of the park.

[emulatorloo]

18. 1. Sounds like Rove planted story 2. DU (We) had nothing to do with it

EOM