Democrats Angry Over Judge’s Order To Have Ohio’s Voter Rolls Purged of Potentially Fraudulent Voters

Bill Sammon has written an interesting article regarding how “Ohio’s top election official accused a federal judge Friday of injecting ‘disorder’ into the presidential race by ordering her to purge the state’s voter rolls of potentially fraudulent voters.”

The article says,

On Thursday, (U.S. District Judge George C. ) Smith issued a court order compelling Brunner to purge Ohio’s voter rolls of fraudulent registrants or at least allow the state’s 88 counties to individually purge their portions of the state’s centralized voter registration database. Although Brunner has cross-checked the database against records from both the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles and the Social Security Administration, Smith ruled that she stopped short of weeding out the mismatched names.

“Defendant admitted that the county boards of election had no way to search or identify the mismatches,” Smith wrote in his order. “Defendant further indicated that the State, like the county boards of elections, at this time, also does not have the technological capabilities to run a search to identify or isolate mismatches.”

This leaves a nice little loophole the Democrats can exploit, in their highly-publicized scandal to contribute to voter fraud by steering money to groups like ACORN. No wonder Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is upset! The judge is taking away a technological gap in the voting procedure that would probably have led to hundreds, if not thousands, of potentially fraudulent votes for her candidate in that sate.

As Michelle Malkin said on her website, “NYPost’s Jeane MacIntosh is doing great work exposing ACORN’s standard operating procedures in Ohio”:

A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.

“Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they’ll give me a dollar to sign up,” said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

“The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I am already registered. The girl said, ‘You are?’ I say, ‘Yup,’ and then they say, ‘Can you just sign up again?’ ” he said.

You know what this really sounds like? Chicago machine politics:

Now, which one of the two Presidential contenders, this year, came out of that background? If you haven’t yet read The Case Against Barack Obama by David Freddoso, you should at least go to Barnes & Noble (or whatever bookstore you prefer) and just read the section on his political history in Chicago.

Self-Contradictory Report Vindicates Palin While Condemning Her… Huh?!

According to a FoxNews article published yesterday,

Sarah Palin “abused her power” as governor in the disciplinary case against a state trooper, according to a legislative panel’s report released Friday, though it also found that her firing of a state commissioner was “proper and lawful.”

Now, I would consider an “abuse of power” to be neither “proper” nor “lawful.” So, either her actions were “proper and lawful” or she “abused her power.” PICK ONE! The contradictory content of this report shows that its findings are politically motivated, as does the vote to release the findings prior to the election – despite dissenting opinions from some committee members (likely Republicans who are in the minority on the committee).

The FoxNews report on the investigation also said:

Investigator Stephen Branchflower, who drafted the bipartisan panel’s report, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that prohibits public officials from using their office for personal gain.

“Today’s report showed that the governor acted within her proper and lawful authority in the reassignment of Walt Monegan,” Meg Stapleton, a spokeswoman for the McCain-Palin campaign, said in a written statement.

Stapleton added that the panel’s report shows that the inquiry was partisan and that Palin and her husband, Todd Palin, were “completely justified in their concern regarding Trooper Wooten, given his violent  and rogue behavior.”

Of course, anyone’s campaign spokesperson – Republican or Democrat – would spin the issue to their advantage. So, Stapleton’s comments offer a point of view, but not necessarily the correct one. If one looks at the facts, however, and if one reads the report (or at least its findings), one is given to question the motivations and contradictory language of the report.

The facts lead to the inexorable conclusion of innocence regarding the governor’s actions, yet the report condemns her inability to prevent her husband from trying to exert influence on government officials to have Monegan fired as an “abuse of power.”

This report is absurd, and its findings are equally absurd. This is nothing but dirty politics as usual. The really damaging material is not the report, which any fair-minded person can see absolves Palin of wrongdoing. The damaging thing is all the unfair headlines: “Panel: Palin Abused Her Power in Firing of Commissioner” for example… and that’s a FoxNews headline. It’s certainly not the headline that Meg Stapleton would want to see. So much for FoxNews being a “hard-right, conservative news outlet!”