Three plead guilty in fake voter scheme

[seriousstan]

Source: seattletimes

Three of seven defendants in the biggest voter-registration fraud scheme in Washington history have pleaded guilty and one has been sentenced, prosecutors said Monday.

The defendants were all temporary employees of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, when they allegedly filled out and submitted more than 1,800 fictitious voter-registration cards during a 2006 registration drive in King and Pierce counties.

No votes were cast in the names of the phony voters. Prosecutors said the defendants committed fraud in order to keep their jobs without actually registering voters.

King County election workers brought the fraud to the attention of prosecutors last October, after noticing that signatures on many registration forms looked like they had been written by the same person.



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names: Ryan Olson, 28, of Needles, Calif
Tina Johnson, 24, of Tacoma, and Jayson Woods, 20, of Elkridge, Md
Brianna Debwa, 35, of Tacoma; Robert Greene, 56, of Tacoma; and Clifton Mitchell, 45, of Lakewood, Pierce County

[CitizenLeft]

1. I hate this

It gives Republicans the phoney excuse to shriek "SEE SEE!!! WE TOLD YOU! VOTER FRAUD!" when it has absolutely nothing to do with anything, diverting atttention from where it should really be - deliberate and systematic voter suppression by the RNC.

[truthisfreedom]

2. No fake votes would have been possible.

[librechik]

3. Yes, I'm sure those 24 stolen (not counted) votes made a bigger difference

Than the 90,000 the Republicans steal "legally" in Florida (only one example) every election year.