It's about time SOMEONE was prosecuted...
Published Tue, Jun 26 2007 4:39 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, Elections, Corruption
All I can say is it's about time the prosecutor's office did something about this...
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Prosecutors in King County are looking at possible criminal charges related to a voter-registration drive held in 2006, echoing the suspicions of impropriety raised during the razor-close gubernatorial election of 2004.
King County's acting prosecutor, Dan Satterberg, is reviewing 1,829 questioned voter-registration forms turned in last year by people working for the national activist group ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. A decision on whether to file criminal charges is expected in late July, Satterberg's spokesman, Dan Donohoe, said Friday.
"We're dealing with possible criminal charges with regard to fraudulent registrations. No one voted from those registrations," Donohoe said. "The investigation is focusing on fewer than 10 individuals hired by ACORN."
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King County elections workers who handled 1,829 registrations submitted too late to qualify for the 2006 election found them suspicious. It became clear that a handful of people filled out many forms in similar handwriting, elections spokeswoman Bobbie Egan said.
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The BIAW has criticized the work of elections officials in King County, where most of the questioned voting took place in the 2004 gubernatorial race. Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire eventually edged out Republican Dino Rossi by 133 votes after two recounts and Rossi's court challenge, which detailed allegations of vote fraud and improper voting by felons.
Association vice president Tom McCabe said Friday he urged Reed to go public and make a forceful call for a federal investigation and prosecution in the ACORN case, but Reed has not done so.
McCabe also urged federal prosecution related to voting fraud in the 2004 election, and he separately sent a letter to U.S. Attorney Jeff Sullivan in March, urging him to act on the suspected fraudulent vote registrations.
McCabe said he thinks Sullivan is taking voter fraud more seriously than his predecessor and that some kind of prosecution will occur because the fraud appears "so egregious." After suspicions were raised about the 1,829 registrations from ACORN, King County elections workers sampled 400 registrations. Only two had valid phone numbers, and in both cases the people reached by phone had not done the registrations, elections staffers said.
I've been asked by fellow bloggers to "get off the soapbox" regarding election fraud. Apparently the attitude is "if it's broken -- don't fix it."
I'm tired of having my vote diluted by fraud. I'm tired of watching fraud and corruption make my vote meaningless here on the left coast.
I've waited to see real action by our prosecutors in this area for almost four years. In 2004 our "accuracy rate any bank would be proud of" made King County the laughing stock of the nation when it came to the integrity of our elections.
Who knows... maybe if we can start enforcing election laws we might also figure out how to enforce a few others... like immigration law. That is, if we can ever hold the politicians to account.
Cross posted at NW Bloggers.
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Bullwinkle responded with:
 | The involvement of Acorn is even scarier than old-fashioned Dem and Rep voter fraud. Acorn is a Communism-based group. So are the Democrats but at least they pretend not to be. Hah. |
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