Two brave and intrepid (and cute, by the way) student journalists at palestra.net, Tiffany Wilson and Shelby Holliday, have broken a huge voter fraud story in Ohio. The fraud was allegedly committed by transient Obama campaign workers who are registering and voting there in violation of Ohio law, which requires the voter to "intend to remain" in the state following the election, something that none of the workers will do, obviously.
Their reporting has forced 13 supposedly smart and educated Obama operatives to formally withdraw their voter registrations and ballots to date. Greta Van Susteren of Fox News had a grand old time on her show blasting the spokesman for the Vote From Home group, a Stanford law student named Greg Nolan, for not understanding the "technical definition" of Ohio residency. Uh-huh. Mr. Nolan had better hustle back to class to learn how to read, instead of having to get on camera and cover for his fellow vote hustlers. (To be fair, Nolan is not one of the vote-withdrawers, and is not suspected of fraudulently registering in Ohio.)
This story may not sound like such a big deal, but considering that the reporters estimate that Obama has upwards of 700 possibly equally stupid campaign workers in Ohio, and that Bush won Florida in 2000 by around the same margin of votes, one can quickly see the consequences of letting this sort of election fraud go undiscovered and uncorrected.
Greta has a point, really. How are these doofuses supposed to register people to vote when they can't figure out whether or not they can legally do so? Unless, of course, they intended to commit voter fraud in the first place, in which case they should be prosecuted and jailed.
Oh, and to those getting ready to scream "bias", they investigated the McCain campaign in Ohio as well. Total number of their registration withdrawals? Zero.
How do we know the reporters struck a nerve? One of Obama's lawyers in Ohio, a bully named Tom Rosenberg, sent them the following email, which Greta has helpfully posted on her website:
From: Rosenberg, Thomas
Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:32 PM
Subject: At least in today’s blog you spelled my last name right
To: tiffany
In other words, I am going to read what you write and watch what you say. Hopefully you will be fair and impartial as you told me you would be.
Thomas L. Rosenberg
Roetzel & Andress, LPA
Columbus, OH 43215
trosenberg@ralaw.com
Nice, huh? Nothing like a little strong-arming designed to stifle the truth getting out. Greta now reports that Rosenberg has apologized to the journalists (after his little epistle was outed, natch), saying that "he did not mean it to be an intimidation".
Sure you didn't, Tom. Did you go to Stanford Law as well?
Outstanding work, ladies. Keep up the stellar reporting, and please continue to show the mainstream media how real reporting is done.
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