Karyn Gillette, Jennifer Brunner, and ACORN

We were naive, I suppose, to hope our Democratic Secretary of State was a solo performer in this Ohio voter fraud. I was on one of her juries a few years back, and found her quite charming and knowledgeable, although I lost some faith in the jury of peers idea. Now it seems the noise is from a trio composed of her, ACORN, and her campaign consultant, Karyn Gillette. John Fund, writer for the Wall St. Journal, writes about this on October 30 link

"But Ms. Gillette certainly deserves more scrutiny. In 2006, she was a campaign consultant for Jennifer Brunner, the Acorn-backed Democratic candidate for Ohio secretary of state. Since her election, Ms. Brunner has outraged Republicans and left many objective observers puzzled by her judgment calls.

Some 660,000 new voter registrations have been filed in Ohio this year by groups including Acorn, and more than 200,000 failed a "match up" test in which voter information was compared with driver's license and Social Security databases. Despite these warning signs, Ms. Brunner refused to allow county officials access to information they needed to verify the newly registered voters. Many of the new registrants cast ballots earlier this month in Ohio's "Golden Week," a seven-day period when state residents can register and immediately cast an absentee ballot. At least half a dozen cases have been documented of people illegally registering and casting ballots during "Golden Week."

Republicans seeking to force Secretary Brunner to surrender the data have been stymied in court, but their hand may be strengthened by the latest revelation that Ms. Brunner's campaign consultant has close ties with Acorn's Project Vote and has been accused under oath of obtaining donor lists from the Obama campaign to drum up dollars for Acorn's voter registration effort -- including its large Ohio operation."

In yesterday's Wall Street Journal John Fund tracks Obama's ties (chains and bondage) to ACORN

The FBI is investigating its voter registration efforts in several states, amid allegations that almost a third of the 1.3 million cards it turned in are invalid. And yesterday, a former employee of Acorn testified in a Pennsylvania state court that the group's quality-control efforts were "minimal or nonexistent" and largely window dressing. Anita MonCrief also says that Acorn was given lists of potential donors by several Democratic presidential campaigns, including that of Barack Obama, to troll for contributions.

The Obama campaign denies it "has any ties" to Acorn, but Mr. Obama's ties are extensive. In 1992 he headed a registration effort for Project Vote, an Acorn partner at the time. He did so well that he was made a top trainer for Acorn's Chicago conferences. In 1995, he represented Acorn in a key case upholding the constitutionality of the new Motor Voter Act -- the first law passed by the Clinton administration -- which created the mandated, nationwide postcard voter registration system that Acorn workers are using to flood election offices with bogus registrations. Link

It's probably too late in the campaign to do much--God knows if Obama wins, all investigations of the illegal and immoral "community organizer" leftists will stop. ACORN created him; he won't toss them under the bus like Grandma.

HT Maggie Thurber

Following the Jennifer Brunner story

Maggie is on top of this. Check out her story If you Democrats think your guy is so great, there's no need for him to steal the election. And you Republicans keep in mind the local elections matter too.

"Acorn -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- has been around since 1970 and boasts 350,000 members. Acorn is now getting more attention as John McCain's campaign makes an issue of the fraud reports and Acorn's ties to Barack Obama. It's about time someone exposed this shady outfit that uses government dollars to lobby for larger government, says the Wall Street Journal." Read more.

Getting a head start on stealing the election

American Thinker poses a scenario where Obama and McCain are neck and neck after a last minute rally by McCain in the final weeks of the campaign. The polls are closed and McCain is leading by only 50,000 votes and then. . . our Secretary of State (register-and-vote-on-the-same-day Jenny) "discovers" some uncounted votes in Cuyahoga County.

"Meet Jennifer Brunner, Ohio's real life Secretary of State, whose actions in the lead up to this election have been so shamefully partisan -- violating both federal and state law in the process -- that it is doubtful any result on Election Day from Ohio is going to be accepted as credible.

Coupled with the outrageously illegal registration activity of ACORN and the shockingly illegal actions of the Obama campaign itself and what you have is an effort to not only "count every vote" but also steal as many votes as will be necessary for Obama to win the state on Election Day." American Thinker

Everyone in Ohio knows we have these thousands of phony registrations--people were bussed in to vote during that one week of same day vote registration. Legitimate, legal early voters saw them, saw the vans, busses and out of state license plates, the "community organizers" herding their flocks, some drunk and disorderly. Now Brunner's excuse, even as ACORN admits the problem that they've signed up all these non-eligible voters (more than we have voting age citizens), her excuse is there isn't time or resources to check all these registrations before Nov. 4. The Obama campaign has hired ACORN to do its dirty deed--to steal Ohio.

Our last Governor's term ended in disgrace because of some unreported golf games with cronies and an obscure fund raiser's misdeeds. This Governor, Strickland, a former Methodist pastor, needs to get down on his knees, do some soul searching and clean house or he won't even get as high a rank (50th) as Gov. Taft.

How ACORN and Brunner will steal Ohio for Obama

Our Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, put in place a week of same day registration and voting, then claims she can't be expected to check all those phony addresses and names before the election. Brunner says she wanted to avoid the questions of 2004 when some doubted the results. Who? The Democrats who believed the polls and MSM talking heads instead of the results.

People in Ohio this week may register to vote and cast an absentee ballot on the same day. Critics, including state Republicans, say this may open the door to voter fraud. Election officials are hoping to avoid a replay of 2004 when some people had to wait hours to vote. NPR

Is this how Brunner thinks confidence will be restored? Homeless people from God knows where were being bussed in to vote last week. A friend of ours went down to Vet's Memorial to vote because they'll be out of town on election day, and said the sight was stunning. Story Why wait for hanging chads?

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a federal judge's order a day earlier that Democratic Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner institute the means to verify voter registration information and make it available to Ohio's 88 county election boards.

Brunner argued that it would take two to three days to create the necessary computer programs, and that nothing in the Help America Vote Act required her to do what the lower court ordered. A three-judge panel of the appeals court agreed in a split decision.

Why didn't she have such a program already in place. I thought this was to instill confidence in the process.