Originally posted by Maverick
Link broken, should have pasted it. Article is no longer associated with the link.
"Voter fraud case traced to Defiance County registrations volunteer
124 registrations falsified, allegedly for crack cocaine
By JOE MAHR
BLADE STAFF WRITER
Defiance County elections officials were confident the first three hadn't moved to their small community. But the fourth one lived there, and -
in exchange for crack cocaine - tried to falsely submit the first three names and more than 100 others onto the county's voter registration rolls, police said.
Now Mr. Staton, 22, of Defiance, faces a felony charge of false registration in a case that has quickly gained national attention as part of a hotly contested presidential battle that's attracted a flurry of new voter registrations across the country - and a flurry of complaints of voter registration fraud.
Defiance County Sheriff David Westrick said that Mr. Staton was working on behalf of a Toledo woman, Georgianne Pitts, to register new voters. She, in turn, was working on behalf of the
NAACP National Voter Fund, which was formed by the NAACP in 2000 to register new voters."
(There was a picture in the first link, Mr. Staton is White)