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Will this moron join the "Hanging Chad" and "Pregnant Chad" in the annals of election year fiascos?
Chad Staton arrested for allegedly filing more than 100 false voter registration forms in exchange for crack cocaine from a Toledo woman working on behalf of the NAACP’s voter registration drive
As a follow up to this morning's post, in which alert election officials knew that somebody must have been smoking crack to try and turn in voter registration cards for the likes of Dick Tracy, Mary Poppins, Michael Jordan, Jeffrey Dahmer. Janet Jackson and George Foreman, NewsMax, predictably, has pronounced that incident reflects the "fact" that the Democrats and NAACP have reached a new low.
Remember years ago when National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was a civil rights organization, before it devolved into one of the more hate-mongering branches of the Democrat establishment? Now NAACP has a hit a revolting new low, according to one of its accomplices.
Perspective people, please. This was one guy and about 100 phoney registrations that nobody was going to use to vote with anyway. Seriously, does he look like a poster-child for the NAACP? There are literally thousands of earnest volunteers working slavishly to get people registered on both sides of the aisle. And there's going to be the occasional asshole among them.
In a statement issued late yesterday, Gregory Moore, the national executive director [of the NAAPC], said the group was "shocked" by the allegations, welcomed the investigation, and hoped it didn't hurt the reputation of other "volunteers and canvassers who have worked tirelessly to enfranchise the disenfranchised throughout the year."
Crackhead Chad did not shred and/or destroy valid registrations as has happened to would-be democratic voters by the tens of thousands. This was an isolated incident. There are far more oganized and offical voter suppression efforts against the democrats going on. Just a sample from Kos's Voter Registration Fraud Clearinghouse:
We are pronouncing the end of the republic because a crackhead scammed the system, badly at that? Puh-Leeze. The Squealer notes that there was one name missing from all the registrations Chad made up, his own. But contrary to general belief, once Crackhead Chad get's out of prison, he can legally register to vote. In Ohio, once someone has paid their debt to society, they can vote again.
Meanwhile, WTOL in Toledo reports that the Lucas County Board of elections have thousands of registrations left to process (10,000 just showed up there and they have 4,000 with bad addresses or other mistakes.) Fraud may or may not be involved and they are shooting to get the 10,000 in their computers by the end of the week. The 4,000 goof-ups are being investigated.