[extropy-chat] now here is craftiness...

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 19 16:42:51 UTC 2004


http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041019/NEWS09/410190343

Voter fraud case traced to Defiance County registrations volunteer
124 registrations falsified, allegedly for crack cocaine

By JOE MAHR
BLADE STAFF WRITER

Mary Poppins. Jeffrey Dahmer. Janet Jackson. Chad Staton.

Defiance County elections officials were confident the first three
hadn't moved to their small community. But the fourth one lived there,
and - in exchange for crack cocaine - tried to falsely submit the first
three names and more than 100 others onto the county's voter
registration rolls, police said.

Now Mr. Staton, 22, of Defiance, faces a felony charge of false
registration in a case that has quickly gained national attention as
part of a hotly contested presidential battle that's attracted a flurry
of new voter registrations across the country - and a flurry of
complaints of voter registration fraud.

Defiance County Sheriff David Westrick said that Mr. Staton was working
on behalf of a Toledo woman, Georgianne Pitts, to register new voters.
She, in turn, was working on behalf of the NAACP National Voter Fund,
which was formed by the NAACP in 2000 to register new voters.

Sheriff Westrick said that Pitts, 41, of Toledo, admitted she gave Mr.
Staton crack cocaine in lieu of cash for supplying her with completed
voter registration forms. The sheriff declined to say how much crack
cocaine Pitts supplied Mr. Staton, or to say whether Pitts knew that
the forms Mr. Staton gave her were falsified.

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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