Did Obama Submit Phony Ballot Petitions in 2008?

[Jake Martinez]

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Posted on Floyd Reports-By Ben Johnson-On October 13, 2011:

“A former Democratic governor of Indiana says a petition to place Barack Obama on the state ballot during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary is not his, raising the question of voter fraud. Former Governor Joe Kernan, a Democrat, replied, “No, not at all,” when the South Bend (Indiana) Tribune asked if the signature, which helped qualify Obama for the ballot, belonged to him.

The newspaper reports it has spoken to at least 40 other people in St. Joseph County, Indiana, whose names erroneously appear on petitions for either Obama or his primary opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Indiana requires those running for statewide office to collect 4,500 signatures from registered voters, 500 from each congressional district, before their names may appear on the ballot for voters’ consideration.

Local newspapers have reported the names appear to be copied from signatures submitted for another statewide candidate that year.

Eric Holcomb, the Republican Party chairman for the state of Indiana, has demanded a federal investigation, asking, “How deep does this problem go?” Indiana Democratic Party Chairman Dan Parker said he wholeheartedly concurs. “Even an isolated instance of misconduct, by one individual among the hundreds of volunteers working to collect signatures for the candidates, should be thoroughly investigated, and we support such an inquiry,” he insisted.

Allegations of voter fraud continue to dog Democrats in general and Barack Obama, in particular. Catherine Engelbrecht, a founder of the Texas-based “True the Vote,” investigated the Texas Democratic presidential primaries in 2008 and announced:

There was no one checking IDs, judges would vote for people that asked for help. It was fraud, and we watched like deer in the headlights…

The first thing we started to do was look at houses with more than six voters in them [a common red flag for voter fraud]…Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address.

Andrea “Andi” Pringle, a former aide to D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, resigned from her post after admitting she fraudulently voted in the Washington, D.C., primary, although she is registered to vote in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Lessadolla Sowers, a member of the executive board of the Tunica County, Mississippi, NAACP, received five years in prison for voting 10 times in other people’s names.

But these cases are the exception. The vast majority of fraud goes unchecked.

Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler revealed in March that 12,000 non-citizens were registered to vote in the state, and 5,000 had non-citizens voted in the 2010 election.

Election fraud has consequences. The conservative group Minnesota Majority discovered last summer that 341 convicted felons, who had been disenfranchised under state law, illegally cast ballots that probably put Al Franken ahead of Norm Coleman in the state’s hotly disputed U.S. Senate race. (Franken won by a mere 312 votes following multiple recounts showing him behind.)

Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez of California likely won her California seat from Bob Dornan thanks to massive voting by illegal immigrants.

It appears the Obama administration is gearing up for the next round of fraud. This author reported last year that Project Vote, an ACORN-affiliated organization that once employed the president as a community organizer, intended to “help” more than 50,000 people vote in seven key swing states.

Meanwhile, Deputy Attorney General Julie Fernandes has openly declared, “We have no interest in enforcing this provision of the law,” which requires states to purge dead voters from the rolls. “It has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it.”

Although states have begun to look into the pandemic of voter fraud on their own, the only sure remedy is a landslide election in 2012. As Hugh Hewitt wrote, If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat.”

Source:

http://floydreports.com/election-fraud-watch-did-obama-submit-phony...

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I. Suspicious petitions got a stamped signature: ‘Former Gov. Kernan, 12 others come forward to say they didn't sign!’

Posted on South Bend Tribune-By ERIN BLASKO, South Bend Tribune Staff Writer-On October 12, 2011:

“SOUTH BEND - Suspected fake petition pages to place Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the ballot during the 2008 Indiana primary passed through the county voter registration office on days when the Republican head of the office was absent, The Tribune has learned.

The pages in question bear the stamped signature of Republican Linda Silcott, indicating Silcott was not in the office at the time to sign the documents by hand. By comparison, most of the other, non-suspicious pages examined by The Tribune contain Silcott’s written signature.

Meanwhile, 13 more St. Joseph County residents whose signatures appear on the petitions, including former South Bend mayor and Indiana governor Joe Kernan, have come forward to say they did not sign the documents, and the Indiana Republican Party has called for a federal investigation into the matter.

“How deep does this problem go?” state GOP Chair Eric Holcomb asked. “Is it isolated to St. Joseph County or was it a broader, coordinated effort across the state? ... Who forged the signatures and why?”

Typically, petition pages in St. Joseph County are signed by hand by both the Republican and Democratic members of the Board of Voter Registration.

In early 2008, however, Silcott missed a number of days of work because of the death of her husband. Consequently, her first deputy, Mary Carrol Ringler, often stamped Silcott’s signature on the pages.

Each of the suspected fake petition pages bears Silcott’s stamped signature, indicating the documents passed through the office on days when she was off.

Though Ringler was the only person permitted to use the stamp, she kept it in an unlocked desk drawer, Silcott said.

In addition, Ringler only began working in voter registration on Jan. 22, 2008. The suspicious petition pages are dated Jan. 28 and 29 and Feb. 4 and 5, within the first two weeks of her arrival.

Ringler told The Tribune Tuesday she could not recall how often she used the stamp during the 2008 primary. “Honestly, I don’t know,” she said. “I know I didn’t do a lot petitions that year because I was brand new.” She said she mainly uses it on purchase orders now.

Pam Brunette’s written signature also appears on the backs of the suspicious petition pages. She is the Democratic member of the Board of Voter Registration.

Brunette did not respond Tuesday to a call seeking comment about the stamped pages. She said last week that voter registration workers “are not handwriting experts, so our job is basically making sure the papers are complete.”

Parties respond:

As part of a joint investigation, The Tribune and Howey Politics Indiana reported Sunday that dozens, if not hundreds, of signatures on petitions to place Obama and Clinton on the Indiana primary ballot in 2008 were faked in St. Joseph County.

Before that story was published, The Tribune spoke with more than 30 people whose names appeared on the petitions. All but one confirmed not signing the documents. In addition, a forensic document analyst identified a number of suspicious pages that appeared to have been filled out by a single person.

Since then, Kernan, now owner of the Silver Hawks, and 12 others have also told The Tribune they did not sign the documents.

“No, not at all,” Kernan said when asked if the signature next to his name on the Obama petition looked like his own. “Nor does the printing look like mine.”

In addition, Holcomb, the state Republican Party chair, has called on the Department of Justice to investigate the matter.

“The integrity of every election is of the utmost importance,” Holcomb said in a news release. “This weekend’s disturbing news that perhaps hundreds of ballot access petition signatures submitted by the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are fraudulent raises real questions about the integrity of our process and whether or not those individuals should have been on the primary ballot in the first place.”

In response to the ongoing joint investigation by The Tribune and Howey Politics, county Prosecutor Michael Dvorak has launched his own investigation into the faked signatures.

That said, identifying the person or persons responsible for the fakery is a difficult task. Dozens, if not hundreds, of volunteers carried petitions on behalf of now Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama in the county in 2008, both independently and as part of each candidate’s official campaign.

In addition, receipts that would have identified the people involved in gathering signatures on behalf of the two candidates no longer exist. Voter Registration is required to keep records for only 24 months.

The Office of the Secretary of State did not respond Tuesday to a request for comment on this story. Earlier requests by phone and e-mail also went unanswered.

The Obama campaign, meanwhile, referred the matter to the Indiana Democratic Party, which issued this statement Tuesday:

“The 2008 presidential petitions ... were approved and certified as valid by the Democratic and Republican members of the local ... Office of Voter Registration. But even an isolated instance of misconduct ... should be thoroughly investigated, and we support such an inquiry.”

• Staff writer Erin Blasko: [e-mail] 574-235-6187

Source:

http://www.southbendtribune.com/sbt-suspicious-petitions-got-a-stam...

II. Sharpton’s Atlanta HQ admits handing out possibly bogus stimulus check forms!-Posted on 11alive.com-By Paul Crawley-On September 30, 2011:

http://www.11alive.com/news/article/207668/40/Sharptons-Atlanta-HQ-...

III. Obama’s 2012 Strategy: Fear, Fraud, and a Cowardly Republican!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Doug Book, CoachIsRight.com-On September 23, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/obamas-2012-strategy-fear-fraud-and-a-cowar...

IV. GOP Controlled States Look to Change Voting Rules Ahead of 2012!-Posted on FoxNews.com- Associated Press-On September 19, 2011:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/19/gop-controlled-states-lo...

V. Are the Democrats Supporting Voter Fraud?-Posted on Godfather Politics-By GIACOMO-On August 1, 2011:

http://godfatherpolitics.com/327/are-the-democrats-supporting-voter...

VI. Obama’s HUD execs deliver $730,000 to ACORN spinoffs!-Posted on WND.com-On September 24, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=347313

VII. Obama’s ‘Jobs Bill’ Makes ACORN Eligible for $15 Billion in Taxpayer Money!-Posted on Pjamas Media-By Matthew Vadum-On September 15, 2011:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama’s-jobs-bill-makes-acorn-eligible...

VIII. ACORN operative admits ‘voter fraud’: ‘Americans are sick and tired of having the votes of law-abiding citizens canceled out’!-Posted on WND.com-On September 13, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=344577

IX. Time to Launch Operation Chaos!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Michael Oberndorf-On June 16, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/time-to-launch-operation-chaos-2-0-12/

X. 64,000 Cases of Possible Voter Fraud Being Investigated in New Mexico!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On June 15, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/64000-cases-possible-voter-frau...

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