This will undoubtedly be the downfall of the Democratic Party.
I say it couldn't happen to nicer buch of people. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Worker charged with falsifying voter forms
He is the third from Community Voters Project to face counts
By LARRY SANDLER
[email protected]
Posted: Oct. 14, 2008
State prosecutors charged a former voter registration worker Tuesday with falsifying 54 registration forms — including one for a dead voter, one for a prisoner and one for Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane.
Voter Fraud
Frank Walton, 29, of Oak Creek is the third voter registration worker in three weeks to face charges. Like the others, he was paid by the Community Voters Project, one of several politically liberal organizations that launched massive voter registration drives in Milwaukee in advance of the Nov. 4 election.
The complaints indicate that project workers were trying to meet registration quotas to keep their jobs.
Walton and the first worker charged, Endalyn Adams, were among 49 registration workers who were referred to prosecutors after the Milwaukee Election Commission staff and the groups that employed them found discrepancies in registration cards they submitted. A separate investigation resulted in charges against the other worker, Adam Mucklin, said Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, who filed the complaints against Mucklin and Adams.
In Walton's case, investigators found false information on 54 of the 70 forms he submitted, according to a complaint filed by Assistant Attorney General David Maas.
One of those forms was for a voter who had been dead since 1992. When the Election Commission sent the voter a postcard to confirm the registration, his widow sent it back with a note saying he couldn't have registered because he was dead. The Community Voters Project then fired Walton.
Walton filed another form for Kane (listed as "Eugene K." in the complaint), with the Journal Sentinel's address, 333 W. State St., instead of his home and with incorrect personal information. Kane and other voters told investigators they didn't register with Walton.
Yet another form was filed for a man in jail. That person's father told a detective that the signature on the voter card didn't look like that of his son.
For others, the voter cards showed driver's license numbers or partial Social Security numbers that didn't match the voters' names. In still other cases, no one with that name could be found at the address listed, or the addresses belonged to businesses, boarded-up buildings and the Milwaukee German Immersion School.
The complaint says Walton told an investigator that after he left the voters project, he went to work for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, another organization whose workers face investigation over voter registration discrepancies, but he was not registering voters for ACORN.
If convicted, Walton would face up to 3 1/2 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The cases have spurred political debate. Republicans say they show the need for tighter voting rules. Democrats say fraud is not widespread and tighter rules could discourage voting by such predominantly Democratic groups as minorities and the poor.
On Tuesday, U.S. Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Menomonee Falls), Tom Petri (R-Fond du Lac) and Paul Ryan (R-Janesville) sent letters to Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, and to Wisconsin's two U.S. attorneys, Steven Biskupic and Erik Peterson, calling for an investigation into ACORN.
I say it couldn't happen to nicer buch of people. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Worker charged with falsifying voter forms
He is the third from Community Voters Project to face counts
By LARRY SANDLER
[email protected]
Posted: Oct. 14, 2008
State prosecutors charged a former voter registration worker Tuesday with falsifying 54 registration forms — including one for a dead voter, one for a prisoner and one for Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane.
Voter Fraud
Frank Walton, 29, of Oak Creek is the third voter registration worker in three weeks to face charges. Like the others, he was paid by the Community Voters Project, one of several politically liberal organizations that launched massive voter registration drives in Milwaukee in advance of the Nov. 4 election.
The complaints indicate that project workers were trying to meet registration quotas to keep their jobs.
Walton and the first worker charged, Endalyn Adams, were among 49 registration workers who were referred to prosecutors after the Milwaukee Election Commission staff and the groups that employed them found discrepancies in registration cards they submitted. A separate investigation resulted in charges against the other worker, Adam Mucklin, said Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, who filed the complaints against Mucklin and Adams.
In Walton's case, investigators found false information on 54 of the 70 forms he submitted, according to a complaint filed by Assistant Attorney General David Maas.
One of those forms was for a voter who had been dead since 1992. When the Election Commission sent the voter a postcard to confirm the registration, his widow sent it back with a note saying he couldn't have registered because he was dead. The Community Voters Project then fired Walton.
Walton filed another form for Kane (listed as "Eugene K." in the complaint), with the Journal Sentinel's address, 333 W. State St., instead of his home and with incorrect personal information. Kane and other voters told investigators they didn't register with Walton.
Yet another form was filed for a man in jail. That person's father told a detective that the signature on the voter card didn't look like that of his son.
For others, the voter cards showed driver's license numbers or partial Social Security numbers that didn't match the voters' names. In still other cases, no one with that name could be found at the address listed, or the addresses belonged to businesses, boarded-up buildings and the Milwaukee German Immersion School.
The complaint says Walton told an investigator that after he left the voters project, he went to work for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, another organization whose workers face investigation over voter registration discrepancies, but he was not registering voters for ACORN.
If convicted, Walton would face up to 3 1/2 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The cases have spurred political debate. Republicans say they show the need for tighter voting rules. Democrats say fraud is not widespread and tighter rules could discourage voting by such predominantly Democratic groups as minorities and the poor.
On Tuesday, U.S. Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Menomonee Falls), Tom Petri (R-Fond du Lac) and Paul Ryan (R-Janesville) sent letters to Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, and to Wisconsin's two U.S. attorneys, Steven Biskupic and Erik Peterson, calling for an investigation into ACORN.