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'Stealing Ohio's Election', Nonpartisan registers encourage Obama Votes
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by politisite | October 6, 2008 at 07:21 am
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To the people of the great state of Ohio, welcome to day five of "they're stealing your election."
As you might have heard, the Ohio Democrat secretary of state decided to bend the law and allow a special week of absentee voting jammed together with a special week of instant voter registration.
So in Ohio, hundreds of outside special volunteers have arrived with buses and they're swooping down on college campuses and homeless shelters and picking people up to go register and vote all in the same day.
Now these are supposed to be special nonpartisan volunteers who drive these new voters to the polls. But look what our friends at Palestra, The College Network, found when they interviewed these special nonpartisan election volunteers.
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TIFFANY WILSON, PALESTRA.NET: Are you encouraging them to vote for Obama?
UNIDENTIFIED VOLUNTEER: Oh yes, really, I am. He's like a brother right there.
(LAUGHTER)
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TIFFANY WILSON, PALESTRA.NET: You tell them to vote for –-
UNIDENTIFIED VOLUNTEER: Yes, uh-huh, yes, for Obama, yes.
TIFFANY WILSON, PALESTRA.NET: You do tell them?
UNIDENTIFIED VOLUNTEER: Yes, I do.
TIFFANY WILSON, PALESTRA.NET: And what do they say when you say "vote Obama"?
UNIDENTIFIED VOLUNTEER: They say "yes... yes, OK."
TIFFANY WILSON, PALESTRA.NET: So you're going out here to get votes for Obama, not just to get people to vote, but to actually get them to vote for Obama?
UNIDENTIFIED VOLUNTEER: No, no, no. Just to get them to vote.
(LAUGHTER)
OK, alright, I've got to go.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Whoa! Here's a news flash Ohio: this is going on all over your state. And who discovered it? Palestra.net, The College Network, not the big networks.
And why not? Same reason I'm telling you this story now, because the big nets don't want you to know that this is a special week in Ohio, called "stealing an election."
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at 08:15 on October 6th, 2008
A companion article:
Ten Ways the McCain/Palin GOP is Now Stealing the Ohio Vote
at 13:23 on October 6th, 2008
Thanks Karen.. but is it ok for non partisan registrars to encourage voters to vote Obama. That is illegal from any side of the issue. So your article is nice to see as a contrast.. but when folks are willing to say they are Obama supporters and busing in folks and telling them who to vote for they is no contrasting article that can argue that the law has been violated. The article was written in 2004. Last time I checked Palin was not a candidate. I read the same articles every 4 years. Share with me ONE republican lead, get out the vote group that has been proecuted for voter fraud.
In ACORNs teleconference held today they confirmed that they are not interested in getting out the vote for people of color. The are interested in getting out the vote in swing states. They further admitted that it has cost 18 million dollars to get just over a million voters registered. Quite a bit of money per registration.
The ACORN person in Charge of ARIZONA where most of the fraud has been perpurtrated used I, me,and we statements when speaking of those focusing on registering folks for Obama. She dd say she had a few registered republicans working for ACORN.
I did not know that only Black/Hispanic people were the only ones disenfranchised in poor communities. So the 70 percent of people of color are an attempt to sway an election to increase the People of color demographic. Statistics show that there are more poor whites in America. Seems like ACORN is ignoring those folks.
ACORN did relate that some of the prosecutions were turned into law enforcement by them. They further stressed that their employees are not paid by the registration, but by the hour, so there is no incentive for registrars to falsify documents. I will be writing a full story regarding the teleconference with in 24 hours
at 13:39 on October 6th, 2008
Al, the linked article I provided was updated September 10, 2008, as illustrated by this excerpt:
The Advancement Project has notified Brunner that it will challenge any mass purges in Ohio 2008. For her part, Brunner has ruled that returned notices cannot be used as a basis for eliminating voters from the registration rolls. She has further attempted to counter-act the purges by requiring that any registered voter fingered for removal be issued notice and given a pubic hearing by the purging BOE. But the process remains intimidating for prospective voters -- especially the heavily-targeted list of those voting for the first time. With sixty days left to election day, the on-going impact remains unclear.at 20:23 on October 8th, 2008
Thanks Karen for your clarification
at 08:40 on October 6th, 2008
See the actual videos and stories on the Palestra College news website. There's several stories and videos about electioneering, and register and vote right away, and the ACORN controversy, the new early vote in Ohio.
at 12:54 on October 6th, 2008
Thank Rene,
I used the video and gave media credit to Palestra. Much better for readers to see all of the work they have been doing on this issue. Even though Fox carries Palestra, they are a non partisan news service
at 13:42 on October 6th, 2008
politisite, I like this story. It's good stuff.