But with all of the focus on ACORN related voter registration fraud, I was wondering when Illinois would get its turn to show its vote fraud prowess during Election 2008.
ACORN, as far as I can tell, is not involved, but the Illinois Republican Party smells a rat just north of me in Lake County.
A lawsuit seeking additional protections against voter fraud in Tuesday’s general election is being filed today in Lake County Circuit Court, according to the Republican Party of Illinois.
The move comes in response to a large number of voter registration irregularities discovered in Eastern Lake County that are being investigated as potential fraud.
Republican Party Spokesman Lance Trover said the lawsuit will seek to have suspect registrations specially coded, and will ask for a judge’s order that first-time registered voters be required to show a photo identification at polling places or vote provisionally if no such identification is available.
The move comes in response to an announcement by County Clerk Willard Helander earlier this month that her office had received more than 1,000 "compromised" voter registration forms, including some listing non-existent addresses, dead people and even pets.
The Lake County State's Attorney's Office and the Lake County Sheriff's Office have confirmed the initiation of a joint investigation into the issue. Officials indicated that more than 800 of the forms were turned into the clerk's office by a Chicago resident claiming to represent several local community organizations, including Citizens Action/Illinois, which partnered with the YWCA of Lake County for a voter registration drive.
Citizens Action/Illinois calls itself a progressive, grass-roots group. Just like, you know, that other group. Barack Obama is, to say the least, a heavy favorite to win his home state. However, there is a competitive Congressional race between Republican incumbent Mark Kirk and Democrat Dan Seals, and these possibly fictitious registrants, including a goldfish from Buffalo Grove.
Forget the "possibly" on that last one.
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Willy Helander is trying to make some hay to help her bud Mark Kirk as his campaign fizzles.
ReplyDeleteThe "pets" referenced in the article comes from the story of a Buffalo Grove family which had listed their goldfish "Princess" on some forms for the phone company when they had a new line installed. They were trying to avoid junk mail, or at least keep their own names off junk mail lists.
Turns out the phone co. of course sold "Princess the Goldfish's" name on a list (like a magazine subscription list) and a non-profit citizens group trying to help register new voters bought that list and mailed out a pre-printed voter registration form to the family asking them to, if this was a real person eligible to vote, complete the form and mail it into the County Clerk.
When the family got it, they did send the form (not filled out) to Clerk Helander with a note indicating Princess was a goldfish who has been dead for a year and that the County Clerk might want to clean their own rolls and lists.
In other words, Helander isn't doing her job (tossing out those bad reg. forms) but is instead trying to grab the limelight.
The best part? The family was asked who the fish would vote for... Their answer:
"She expected to be fed everyday and she expected others to clean up her messes, even though she created them. That sounds a lot like the banking industry, which could mean she's a Republican."
PS: dead goldfish can't vote, so there's no "vote fraud" involved despite your deepest fantasies of same. ;)