In a speech to the Washington County Democratic Party on Saturday, April 24, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must have doing her best impression of Pinocchio. The Marietta Times reported Brunner saying there was, “no voter fraud” in the 2008 general election.
“As the 2008 general election approached, Brunner said Republicans began pushing accusations of voter fraud as groups like ACORN sought to register voters. … ‘There was no voter fraud, although everyone seemed to be saying there was,’ Brunner said.”
Among
the myriad of high profile cases of voter fraud in 2008, three people in
Franklin County pled guilty to voter fraud on April 28 – a mere three days after
Brunner’s commentary. The Columbus
Dispatch reports:
“Three
staff members for Vote Today Ohio, an independent get-out-the-vote organization
supporting Barack Obama, pleaded guilty in Franklin County this afternoon to
voter fraud. The three came to Ohio from states where Obama was likely to win
in an effort to swing Ohio's electoral college vote toward their candidate,
Judge Charles A. Schneider said. The judge gave all three 60 days in jail but
suspended it if they paid a $1,000 fine. He also ordered a year's probation.”
