Remember the whining, screaming and tears about the vote fraud allegedly perpetrated by the GOP in Ohio back in 2004...actually Keith Obamaman on MSNBC, kept it going for at least 12 more months to pander to the KOS babies...well it turns out that the man who led much of the Dems indignation in Ohio, Jimmy Dimora seen at right may have been running his own Rezko/Obama style operation in Ohio.
Here's what happened in 2004 when the GOP tried to challenge Jimmy and the Dems astonishingly successful new voter drives (YES very definite echoes in Virginia 2008)
Believing that Democrats are poised to engage in massive vote fraud in key battleground states, the Republican Party is planning to deploy thousands of
monitors to challenge questionable voters.
In a Page One story in the New York Times Saturday, the paper said the Republican Party in Ohio alone has identified about 35,000 new voters who they believe to be fraudulent or questionable. The Republicans claimed that 35,000 new voters were mailed notices confirming their registrations and in every case the U.S. Post Office
returned the notice as "undeliverable."
In the Democratic bastion of Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) alone, Republicans discovered more than 14,000 questionable registrations. To combat the possibility of massive vote fraud the Republicans plan to deploy thousands of operatives to challenge questionable new voters on Election Day.The Times quoted Ohio officials as saying the Republican effort is one of the largest they have ever seen.
But the Republican Party's moves are defensive. The Times has reported that Ohio
Democrats have out-registered Republicans by a ratio of 5 to 1.
Democrat 527 groups have reportedly been spending $150 million to $300 million this year on voter registration and turn-out efforts. Apparently those monies have helped create a wave of fraudulent registration programs.
For example, in Ohio election officials are reviewing the voter registration of Jive Turkey Sr., who was among 1,284 suspicious applications that Cuyahoga County, Ohio, election officials will turn over to prosecutors to investigate for potential fraud.
Last week, officials in Defiance County, Ohio, questioned the voter
registration applications of Dick Tracy, Mary Poppins and Michael Jordan.
The police said the man who created these registrations claimed he was paid
in crack cocaine for his registration efforts by a representative of the NAACP.
The GOP's watchdog plan has local voting officials in Ohio ramping up for
unprecedented disruptions in the voting process and others crying racial foul
because the Republicans have targeted areas with high numbers of minority
voters.
But Robert Bennett, the state GOP chairman, says the demographic
issues are moot. "I'm not going to play this game of suppression and
intimidation," he said. "Voter fraud is voter fraud, no matter where it occurs."
Democratic Party operatives insist, however, that the GOP effort is nothing short of class warfare. "Their whole goal is to try to lessen the voter rank and file," Jimmy Dimora, head of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, told thePlain Dealer.
Widespread Fraud
The Republicans are facing an increasingly ominous situation. They could actually win the election but end uphaving it stolen during the ballot process. Anecdotal and empirical evidence suggests that vote fraud is teetering on massive proportions, including these reports:
In Florida, election officials found 46,000 state residents also registered to vote in New York. The overwhelming number of double registrations were Democratic.
The Orlando Sentinel examined voting records from Florida,Georgia and North Carolina. They found that in more than 68,000 cases voters
with the same names and dates of birth were registered in two states.
But Ohio may be the most critical swing state. President Bush won the state by just
30,000 votes in 2000, and both candidates believe they must win there to take
the White House.Republicans and Democrats have formally filed lists of
challengers across the state who will patrol the polls on Election Day. These
designated representatives may challenge individual voters – as well as watch
each other.
What they will be canvassing for: a voter who is not a resident
of the precinct or who is not a citizen or 18 years old.
Adding to the mix are so-called "provisional ballots" given to voters who show up at the wrong polling place. Even at this late hour, how these ballots will be issued and
counted remains an undecided issue. A legal wrangle between Ohio Democrats and
Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a Republican, is now before a federal appeals
court
Fast forward to this week: July 28 2008 per Cleveland Dealer
Jimmy Dimora, Frank Russo and local businesses are under federal
investigationFBI and IRS agents carried personal items out of Cleveland councilman Jimmy Dimora's Independence home and into a UHaul on Monday afternoon
They put approximately 26 boxes into the truck, along with this
computer hard drive, refrigerator and a framed jersey.
The public-corruption investigation that paralyzed Cuyahoga County
government Monday unraveled the political and business ties of the county's most
powerful and colorful players: Commissioner Jimmy Dimora and Auditor Frank
Russo.
The federal investigation centers on allegations that they traded jobs
and contracts for thousands of dollars of free improvements to their homes and
properties.
The investigation went public when nearly 200 agents from the FBI
and IRS simultaneously raided county offices, businesses and homes at 9 a.m.
The operation was so broad that the FBI brought in agents from Pittsburgh and used three U-Haul trucks to take away cartons of documents and other items. Dimora and Russo, who have spent their political careers in the limelight, stayed out of sight all day and were not available for comment.
The nearly inseparable duo built a Democratic machine by hiring friends and allies, which is the subject of a continuing Plain Dealer investigative series. And the two have helped the party control every elected office in the county for decades, partly through Dimora's role as county Democratic Party chairman.
Oxy Moran's sources in Ohio tell me not to underestimate the negative impact this oculd have on Obama's campaign in must-win Ohio. Why? This investigation will likely freeze/distract Jimmy's activities in areas of massive potential support for Obama such as Cleveland. Such is the strong grip that Jimmy maintained on his Dem Party Group that there are strong leaders following in his footsteps to take over
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