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 <http://www.theamericanprowler.com/index.asp> The American Spectator
 
Special Report
Stealing Pennsylvania: "Massive Fraud"
By Jeffrey Lord 
Published 10/10/2008 4:09:45 PM
 
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A retired Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice says that she is "not confident we 
can get a fair election" in the state come November.

Justice Sandra Newman, accompanied by Dauphin County District Attorney Edward 
Marsico and Pennsylvania Republican State Chairman Robert Gleason, expressed 
her concerns at a Harrisburg press conference this morning. A thick document 
replete with photo copies of phony registrations and aerial shots of vacant 
lots used as "addresses" for "voters" was handed out to journalists.

Gleason was even more explicit.

"Between March 23rd and October 1st, various groups, including ACORN, submitted 
over 252,595 registrations to the Philadelphia County Election Board" with 57, 
435 rejected for faulty information. "Most of these registrations were 
submitted by ACORN, and rejected due to fake social security numbers, incorrect 
dates of birth, clearly fraudulent signatures, addresses that do not exist, and 
duplicate registrations. In one case, a man was registered to vote more than 15 
times since the Primary election."

"Voter fraud is no longer just a Philadelphia problem," Gleason said, with 
ACORN targeting key counties across the state. Counties specifically cited 
included:


* Delaware County: One of four key suburban counties that surround Philadelphia 
and are at the heart of the campaign by the forces of Senator Barack Obama to 
carry the state. In one instance, an ACORN employee circulating voter 
registration forms in Delaware County was featured on the Pennsylvania "Megan's 
Law" website, described as having been arrested for "aggravated indecent 
assault" of a child. Other ACORN circulators had prior criminal records for 
forgery and giving false information to a police officer, among other charges. 
Gleason has provided copies of complaints from actual Delaware County voters 
who were notified by the local election board of their "new" registration to 
vote. One voter wrote that he "did not complete this form because this 
information does not match my info at all. I have been a voter for many years. 
Did not recently register to vote." Said another: "I did not submit any 
application for voter registration…While the spelling of my name and address 
is correct, the birth date and Drivers License (sic) number are incorrect." And 
another angrily wrote that the "personal information" on a form submitted in 
her name "IS NOT ME." She added: Please have the county investigate this. I 
feel my identity is being compromised."

* Philadelphia County: The situation in the state's largest city is so bad the 
Philadelphia City Commission, which supervises the registration of Philadelphia 
voters, voted unanimously to "voluntarily" turn over its extensive records to 
the United States Attorney's office for prosecution. 

* Dauphin County: Dauphin County (the location of the state capital) District 
Attorney Marsico said the situation was so bad in Harrisburg that one ACORN 
worker is now being sought by authorities for submitting more than 100 
fraudulent voter registration forms. The charge is 19 counts of perjury. One 
Harrisburg lobbyist, a voter for 30 years, had received notification she had 
recently filled out a registration form. The lobbyist went straight to the DA 
with her complaint. Marsico said that what was happening with ACORN "affects 
the integrity of the process" and that the volume of phony registrations made 
him "sure that others are going on" that have been undetected.

* Allegheny County: Pittsburgh. Here District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. 
and county police Superintendent Charles Moffatt have just announced, according 
to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, that "they are investigating and considering 
charges against ACORN staffers and other voter registration groups."

* Centre County: The home of Penn State, which enrolls more than 40,000 
students at its home campus. Justice Newman said there was a "massive effort" 
to fraudulently register students, with efforts aimed at "multiple 
registrations."

* Erie County: The county at the northwestern tip of the state with its largest 
namesake city, here too students at local colleges are being targeted in 
"student registration drives" designed to register voters 18 and over 
"multiples of times." Student registrants, registered to vote in their home 
states, had "pending absentee ballot applications" submitted so they could vote 
for president both in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. The Director of Elections in 
Erie has reported the telltale "same handwriting" on applications, according to 
Newman.

Marsico added that he believed the attempted fraud was being perpetrated in 
smaller Pennsylvania counties as well, counties where the resources to 
investigate simply don't exist.

Perhaps most humorously was the role of 21st century technology in tracking 
down several attempted frauds. Through the wonder of Google, aerial shots 
displayed the following:

* 2418 Curtin Terrace in Philadelphia is -- an empty field.
* 3103 S. 24th Street in Philadelphia -- ditto.
* 4543 N. 11th Street in Philadelphia -- ditto.


And so on. And on again.

Asked whether the Pennsylvania State Democratic Party had come forward to work 
with the GOP on the ACORN voter fraud issue, Gleason tersely shook his head. 
One source did say that much of the impetus for the fraud was "an Obama 
effort," as opposed to the Democratic Party as an institution.

All of this brings Pennsylvania into focus as yet another key battleground 
state where a serious effort is being made to, bluntly put, steal the 
presidency in a move reminiscent of the attempts made by the 2000 Gore campaign 
in Florida. Just as ACORN's efforts have been directed at key electoral states 
such as Florida, Colorado, Missouri, New Mexico Ohio, and Wisconsin, so within 
Pennsylvania have its efforts been targeted at key Pennsylvania counties. For 
decades the internal electoral math of the state for Republicans has been to 
overwhelm the heavy Democratic vote in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with strong 
showings in the Philadelphia suburbs, Central Pennsylvania, and western 
counties outside Pittsburgh.

Thus have ACORN's fraud efforts -- those at least that have been detected -- 
been directed at Philadelphia (where increasing the Obama total to counter less 
enthusiastic support from white ethnics becomes critical), Delaware County in 
the pro-GOP Philadelphia suburbs, Dauphin County (in the heart of Central 
Pennsylvania) and Erie in the Northwest. 

Is it really possible that the presidency could be stolen for Obama by virtue 
of a massive voter fraud here in Pennsylvania? And elsewhere? ACORN seems to 
think so. One so-called "non-partisan" ACORN member, Gleason pointed out, has 
been captured on video tape saying the group's objective was to "beat McCain 
down." Not exactly "non-partisan" sounding, is it?

Newman, the retired Supreme Court Justice, was blunt on the evidence: "I don't 
want a president who does this."

ACORN clearly does. Makes you wonder: why?



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