posted October 24, 2004 02:29 PM            

Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004 12:05 a.m. EDT
Dems Register Al Qaida Terrorists in Ohio Vote Drive

Democratic Party activist groups in Ohio have registered at least two known terrorists involved in a plot to blow up a shopping center in a bid to get out the vote for John Kerry.

Nuradin Abdi - a Somali immigrant and admitted al-Qaida member who was indicted earlier this year as part of a conspiracy to blow up the Columbus Mall - was registered to vote by the civil rights group ACORN, according to the Columbus Dispatch.

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ACORN has spearheaded an aggressive Democratic Party vote drive in key battleground states.
Iyman Faris, another new Ohio voter added to the rolls by Democrats, is currently serving a 20-year jail sentence for his role in surveilling potential al Qaida targets - including the Brooklyn Bridge, the Dispatch said.

According to the Ohio News Now TV network, Abdi's name was added to the rolls by ACORN employee Kevin Eugene Dooley, as part of the group's Project Vote operation.

Dooley was indicted earlier this year on two felony election offenses -- false election registration, and submitting false election signatures to the Ohio Board of Elections.

"As far as board of elections is concerned, Abdi is a registered voter," Ohio board of elections director Matt Damschroeder told ONN.

Only after Abdi's case was exposed did Ohio officials strike his name from the voting rolls, due to his status as an illegal alien.

Faris became a naturalized citizen in 1999 but is not eligible to vote because he's an incarcerated felon.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/24/120810.shtml

posted October 24, 2004 07:36 PM              

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Why not? Dems are trading crack cocaine for registrations, registering the dead, felons, registering illegal aliens and registering the same persons multiple times..some up to 30 times...so why not Al-Qaida?

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Where did you get that info, JW?

Seems like I read somewhere that it was the Republicans who were doing that...

posted October 24, 2004 09:10 PM              

Big G.O.P. Bid to Challenge Voters at Polls in Key State
By MICHAEL MOSS

Published: October 23, 2004

Republican Party officials in Ohio took formal steps yesterday to place thousands of recruits inside polling places on Election Day to challenge the qualifications of voters they suspect are not eligible to cast ballots.

Party officials say their effort is necessary to guard against fraud arising from aggressive moves by the Democrats to register tens of thousands of new voters in Ohio, seen as one of the most pivotal battlegrounds in the Nov. 2 elections.

Election officials in other swing states, from Arizona to Wisconsin and Florida, say they are bracing for similar efforts by Republicans to challenge new voters at polling places, reflecting months of disputes over voting procedures and the anticipation of an election as close as the one in 2000.

Ohio election officials said they had never seen so large a drive to prepare for Election Day challenges. They said they were scrambling yesterday to be ready for disruptions in the voting process as well as alarm and complaints among voters. Some officials said they worried that the challenges could discourage or even frighten others waiting to vote.

Ohio Democrats were struggling to match the Republicans' move, which had been rumored for weeks. Both parties had until 4 p.m. to register people they had recruited to monitor the election. Republicans said they had enlisted 3,600 by the deadline, many in heavily Democratic urban neighborhoods of Cleveland, Dayton and other cities. Each recruit was to be paid $100.

The Democrats, who tend to benefit more than Republicans from large turnouts, said they had registered more than 2,000 recruits to try to protect legitimate voters rather than weed out ineligible ones.

Republican officials said they had no intention of disrupting voting but were concerned about the possibility of fraud involving thousands of newly registered Democrats.

"The organized left's efforts to, quote unquote, register voters - I call them ringers - have created these problems," said James P. Trakas, a Republican co-chairman in Cuyahoga County.

Both parties have waged huge campaigns in the battleground states to register millions of new voters, and the developments in Ohio provided an early glimpse of how those efforts may play out on Election Day.

Ohio election officials said that by state law, the parties' challengers would have to show "reasonable" justification for doubting the qualifications of a voter before asking a poll worker to question that person. And, the officials said, challenges could be made on four main grounds: whether the voter is a citizen, is at least 18, is a resident of the county and has lived in Ohio for the previous 30 days.

Elections officials in Ohio said they hoped the criteria would minimize the potential for disruption. But Democrats worry that the challenges will inevitably delay the process and frustrate the voters.

"Our concern is Republicans will be challenging in large numbers for the purpose of slowing down voting, because challenging takes a long time,'' said David Sullivan, the voter protection coordinator for the national Democratic Party in Ohio. "And creating long lines causes our people to leave without voting.''

The Republican challenges in Ohio have already begun. Yesterday, party officials submitted a list of about 35,000 registered voters whose mailing addresses, the Republicans said, were questionable. After registering, they said, each of the voters was mailed a notice, and in each case the notice was returned to election officials as undeliverable.

In Cuyahoga County alone, which includes the heavily Democratic neighborhoods of Cleveland, the Republican Party submitted more than 14,000 names of voters for county election officials to scrutinize for possible irregularities. The party said it had registered more than 1,400 people to challenge voters in that county.

Among the main swing states, only Ohio, Florida and Missouri require the parties to register poll watchers before Election Day; elsewhere, party observers can register on the day itself. In several states officials have alerted poll workers to expect a heightened interest by the parties in challenging voters. In some cases, poll workers, many of them elderly, have been given training to deal with any abusive challenging.

Mr. Trakas, the Republican co-chairman in Cuyahoga County, said the recruits would be equipped with lists of voters who the party suspects are not county residents or otherwise qualified to vote.

The operative word in what the Repbulicans say in this artice is "suspects." To do this amounts to harrassment of voters. It along with a lot of other Republican tactics is designed to intimidate newly registered voters to keep them from voting in key swing states where Bush HAS to win. They have done similar things to the blacks in Detroit.

To do this to newly registered voters unfamiliar with the voting process is an out and out attempt to use intimidation and fear to keep them away from the polls. The Republicans are no dummies. They know all those people registering to vote for the first time is not a good sign for Bush. Especially in Ohio where so many jobs have been lost to outsourcing and company closures. Ohio also has one of the highest percentage of foreclosures on homes in the country.

If anyone here experiences any kind of intimidation or questioning by Republicans at the polls contact the Democratic National Committee at their website. If you see anything suspicious at your voting precinct report it to the DNC. They have teams of lawyers standing by to check into all reports.

posted October 25, 2004 12:34 AM            

In some counties, there are more people registered to vote than there are people living in the county.

There is massive registration fraud ongoing within democrat support groups, including ACORN which has registered one person up to 30 times, registered phony names and phony addresses that do not exist.

Republicans intend to challenge any voter who is ineligible, any provisional ballot and any absentee ballot which is/are fraudulent.

Hopefully those voting illegally will be prosecuted and a uniform system of eligible voter identification will be established before the midterm elections in 2006.

posted October 25, 2004 02:57 PM            

In case you missed the wonderful news over the weekend, a federal appeals court has slapped down that Clintonista judge who ruled in favor of massive vote fraud in crucial Ohio.

U.S. District Judge James Carr had ruled in favor of his fellow Democrats, and against fair elections, by ignoring state law and decreeing that provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct(s) must be counted.

But the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Saturday noted that Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell was correct in noting that people must be responsible enough to vote in the right place and not commit fraud in as many precincts as they can visit on Nov. 2.

Ohio's foundering Democrat party and left-wing groups said they would not appeal the court's decision.

posted October 25, 2004 03:02 PM            

Who could believe there isn't at least one bright light in the Republican group who would check before letting the time run out for challenging fraudulant voter registrations? It's really outrageous.

Monday, Oct. 25, 2004
Bumbling Republicans Let Democrats Get Away With Massive Vote Fraud

Sigh. A federal appeals court on Saturday dealt a blow to Democrat election thieves in Ohio, but now the crooks have been handed a victory ... by Republicans.

"State Republicans withdrew thousands of more than 35,000 challenges to new voter registrations because of errors in their filings apparently caused by a computer glitch," the Associated Press reported today.

Heard about all that mail sent to thousands of non-existent new "voters" that had to be returned as undeliverable? Those scandals prompted the GOP to file challenges Friday in 65 of the 88 counties.

"Over the weekend, the party withdrew about 4,700 challenges in Hamilton County because the names and addresses on the GOP list didn't match voter rolls, and about two-thirds, or 2,800, of the 4,200 challenges in Franklin County, officials said," AP reported.

"It's too late to file a new challenge under the statute the party used, John Williams, election director in Hamilton County, said Monday. There appeared to be an error in the database program used to print the challenges, so that addresses weren't matched with the correct names, he said."