WTF?!? Ohio Homeless Driven to Polls to Vote Obama

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433681,00.html

Ohio Homeless Driven to Polls to Vote Obama
Tuesday, October 07, 2008


CLEVELAND — Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked.

The huge effort by a pro-Obama group, Vote Today Ohio, takes advantage of a quirk in the state's elections laws that allows people to register and cast ballots at the same time without having to prove residency.

Republicans have argued that the window could lead to widespread voter fraud because officials wouldn't have an opportunity to verify registration information before ballots were cast.

Among the volunteers were Yori Stadlin and Vivian Lehrer of the Upper West Side, who got married last week and decided to spend their honeymoon shepherding voters to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.

Early today, Stadlin's van picked up William Woods, 59, at the soup kitchen of the Bishop Cosgrove Center.

"I never voted before," Woods said, because of a felony conviction that previously barred him from the polls. "Without this service, I would have had no way to get here."

How do you know they voted FOR Obama?

I wonder if this election will end up in the courts just like another one a few years back?
I predict it will.
(Which could lend credibility to the riot rumours.)

I sat up late on a week night just to see who won in the Gore/ Bush/Chad Election....

Ha! I was sleep and grouchy all the next day for nothing because we did not know who the president was for who long?
I cannot even remember how long it took.

I plan to sit up late this go round too but will probably be grouchy and sleepy once again the following day with no answer.

fruit loop said:

How do you know they voted FOR Obama?

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They covered it here on the local news. The workers were actually wearing obama shirts! The workers got nervous when they saw the cameras. The few homeless they showed interviewed said of course I voted for obama.

pugdog said:

They covered it here on the local news. The workers were actaully wearing obama shirts! The workers got nervous when they saw the cameras. The few homeless they showed interviewed said of course I voted for obama.

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"I'm a homeless dope-head who just got released from the pen. Who else would I vote for?"

Democrat motto: Vote early, vote often.

BigBadBossyDog said:

This is ACORN at work. They've been doing it for years.

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Speaking of ACORN, I just saw the scrolling bottom news on CNN that Nevada officials have raided their offices out there for some reason.

Sorry for getting momentarily off topic.

Felons, drug addicts and the homeless. I don't "know" who they voted for but I would be willing to bet who they voted for and I would give odds.

Dennis Olson said:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,433681,00.html

Ohio Homeless Driven to Polls to Vote Obama
Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Early today, Stadlin's van picked up William Woods, 59, at the soup kitchen of the Bishop Cosgrove Center.

"I never voted before," Woods said, because of a felony conviction that previously barred him from the polls. "Without this service, I would have had no way to get here."

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Was it cleared!!! Did they even ask or verify!

I'm sure it works the other way too, there are probably cheuffered limosines with "Vote McCain/Palin" engraved plaques, sent to drive Chicago millionaires and corporate executives to the polls.

But they'd be more discreet about it than the Obama folks.

This doesn't suprise me in the least. This kind of cr@p has been going on for quite some time.

In 2000: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=18006

ELECTION 2000
Something smells in St. Louis
More reports of voting 'irregularities' in Missouri

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Posted: November 11, 2000
1:00 am Eastern


By Julie Foster
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com




Combine abandoned voting machines, unguarded ballot boxes, confusion over poll closing times, accusations of criminal collusion and throw in a misleading phone-banking message by Jesse Jackson and you end up with election practices that have thrown St. Louis, Mo., into chaos during what is proving to be the most hotly contested election in American history.
It all started the day before the Nov. 7 election when now-congressman-elect William Lacy Clay, son of the incumbent Democrat William Clay, announced polls would be open late on election day. Then, Tuesday evening, Democrats went to St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Evelyn Baker, alleging that up to 33,000 registered voters had been improperly removed from voter registration rolls. As a result, voters faced significant delays attempting to prove they were eligible to vote. In St. Louis, registered voters who do not participate in the previous year's election are automatically removed from rolls if they do not respond to notices sent by the election board.

Baker ordered the polls to remain open in St. Louis until 10 p.m. to ensure the delays did not prevent voters from casting their ballots due to time constraints. Polls across the state are legally supposed to close at 7 p.m.

Just minutes after Baker issued the order, a phone-banking effort by Jesse Jackson commenced, indicating the Democrat activist had pre-arranged the activity. Jackson had recorded an automated message explaining that polls would remain open until 10 p.m. and that votes could be cast even later at the Board of Election Commission -- until midnight. But this latter part of Jackson's message was not included in Baker's order.

Attorney Thor Hearne represented Republicans in the appeal of Baker's decision, which was granted by a three-judge panel at 7:45 p.m. the same day. The new order required that polls be closed at 8:15. However, locals report voting continued until after 10 p.m. and Jackson's automated phone message continued to be sent to residents after the 8:15 deadline, Hearne said.

At 7 p.m. Tuesday, judges at 29 of the city's nearly 400 precincts walked away from their posts, leaving ballot boxes unattended, Hearne added. The next day, St. Louis police located an abandoned voting machine in a vacant lot in the 3900 block of Olive Boulevard. The attorney's investigation into the chaos also revealed that 300 or more unregistered people voted after they were given court orders allowing them to do so. Hearne does not know how the individuals received the court orders.

Democrats insist the voters had been mistakenly removed from registration lists and, therefore, were rightly given the court orders allowing them to vote. Yet, Election Board Chairman Floyd Kimbrough defended the accuracy of the rolls.

Yesterday, Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond, R-Mo., called on the FBI and the U.S. Attorney to investigate the situation in St. Louis.

"What I saw and heard on Tuesday night is an outrage," Bond said at a news conference at his office in Clayton. "This is the future of our system. This is the integrity of the ballot box." He added that anyone participating in what he calls the attempt to "defraud" the voters should be charged with criminal voter fraud.

Hearne also fears criminal collusion accounts for the election-day chaos.

"Our concern is that everyone deserves a fair election," he said, "and the concern that this raises is really that this was a systematic effort to try to tamper with the conduct of this election as a way to influence the results for the Democratic Party and create opportunity for vote fraud."

Clay says the accusations are baseless.


BTW, I am also suspecting that this election will once again land in the courts.

Hermit said:

I'm sure it works the other way too, there are probably cheuffered limosines with "Vote McCain/Palin" engraved plaques, sent to drive Chicago millionaires and corporate executives to the polls.

But they'd be more discreet about it than the Obama folks.

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I hate to break the news to you, but Republicans/conservatives siimply don't act that way. We're too busy earning a living and paying bills/taxes.

....and having big posh parties with the bailout money your Republican president got for you, while your employees are being laid off.

fruit loop said:

....and having big posh parties with the bailout money your Republican president got for you, while your employees are being laid off.

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I'll fess up. You caught me.

fruit loop said:

How do you know they voted FOR Obama?

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Apparently the A-corns think the typical Obama supporter is the ex-con, welfare queen, homeless loser and the drug abuser. They can see it like it is, especially since every ragged out pimp and street thug RAP recorder wants you to vote Obama, he's da brother.

They are taking pretty good odds of who the vote will go out for. I'd bet money on it.

Amaryllis said:

I'll fess up. You caught me.

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Which massuse did you use Amaryllis, I had Maurice, he was simply amazing. Did you get the Penthouse or Seaside suite? I had the Seaside and the room service was to die for!!

dimensiondancer said:

Which massuse did you use Amaryllis, I had Maurice, he was simply amazing. Did you get the Penthouse or Seaside suite? I had the Seaside and the room service was to die for!!

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I can't remember all the details. I keep such a packed social schedule. I'll have to get my secretary to look that up. Oh wait, I laid my secretary off.....

Hey! The law's the law! We gotta follow the law. And if it says we can register and vote on the same day without verification of residence then that's what we have to do.

Gotta follow the law you know (or change it).



warren.

It should be the law that you have to have job or be the spouse of a person with a job to vote.

That would cripple the liberal/socialist/marxist movement in this country.

Fisher said:

It should be the law that you have to have job or be the spouse of a person with a job to vote.

That would cripple the liberal/socialist/marxist movement in this country.

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Well, what if one day you found yourself without a job and no hope in sight. Maybe you'd feel like you should be able to vote some jerk out of office and get your favorite person in.

But of course if the law says you can't vote unless you have a job then you'll just have to sit on the sidelines.

warren.

Fisher said:

It should be the law that you have to have job or be the spouse of a person with a job to vote.

That would cripple the liberal/socialist/marxist movement in this country.

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No it wouldn't. Marxists have jobs. They are called community organizers.

Warren Bone said:

But of course if the law says you can't vote unless you have a job then you'll just have to sit on the sidelines.

warren.

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Thats right.

Gotta follow the law you know.

Fisher

BigBadBossyDog said:

I hate to break the news to you, but Republicans/conservatives siimply don't act that way. We're too busy earning a living and paying bills/taxes.

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At state election time here in Arizona you couldn't shake a stick without hitting someone with a booth or a table where they were registering people to vote and ALL the tables and booths had VOTE FOR McCain signs on them. I'd wager a bet that since McCain is suppose to be a conservative republican that they people that were chasing people down at Safeway and every fair and gathering were conservative republicans trying to get their man elected.

They were also handing out cards saying if you need a ride call,, we'll come pick you up. These were not limos but vans and they targeted older white people.

McCain is not above this kind of thing.