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		<title>{LITERATURE &gt; CYBERPUNK} - Uke, washboard, and kazoo music from 1928</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:25:14 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>Amy Crehore found this video of Eddie Thomas and Carl Scott playing "My Ohio Home." Hokum Music on YouTube...

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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; NEWS AND MEDIA} - ABX Air Announces Another 359 Layoffs In Ohio, Kansas Because Of Loss Of DHL Domestic Contract (AHN)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:47:45 GMT</pubDate>
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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; NEWS AND MEDIA} - Surrogate Grandmother From Ohio Gives Birth To Daughter's Triplets (AHN)</title>
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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; NEWS AND MEDIA} - Ohio Reels From DHL Closure, Air Park To Go To State (AHN)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>(AHN) - Ohio, already struggling with one of the highest jobless rates in the U.S., is now scrambling for ways to absorb the shock of the decision by DHL to shut down its U.S. operations and cut down 9,500 jobs, over 3,000 of which are in the town of Wilmington, Ohio. - Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:11:54 GMT</description>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - O'Reilly falsely accused ACLU of remaining silent on government check of Wurzelbacher's records</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:12:48 GMT</pubDate>
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On the November 6 edition of Fox
News' The
O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly, Fox News America's Newsroom host Megyn Kelly, and legal analyst Lis Wiehl
falsely claimed that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hasn't criticized
the search by
Ohio government officials of "Joe the
Plumber" Wurzelbacher's records, with O'Reilly saying
the organization's response has been "nothing -- no ACLU. We haven't seen any of them."
In fact, as the News Hounds website noted
in response to O'Reilly's comments, Christine Link, executive director of the ACLU of Ohio, the state affiliate of the national
organization, posted an October 31 letter
in the Cleveland Plain Dealer's
online forum, stating that she "was deeply disturbed to hear that state
officials approved the use of government databases to obtain information about
Joseph Wurzelbacher. ...
It is appalling that government officials believe they may access a person's
private information simply for being in a newspaper headline." 

Discussing the accessing of Wurzelbacher's private
records, O'Reilly asked: "Now, where's the ACLU in this?
Aren't they the privacy people?" Wiehl replied: "They're
busy." Kelly stated:
"I'll tell you where they are. They are out in California on behalf of the gay marriage
advocates. They're busy." O'Reilly later added: "Can
you imagine if a Republican did this to a Democrat? It's unbelievable. But
nothing -- no ACLU. We haven't seen any of them." Wiehl responded: "No,
no, they're all in California
doing the whole gay marriage thing."

Additionally, during the October 31 edition of the Factor, O'Reilly read a viewer email
that said of the
Wurzelbacher matter: "Where is the ACLU on
this violation of privacy? Or is it just terrorist privacy they want to
protect?" Immediately after reading the email, O'Reilly stated: "Probably that." 

In her October 31 letter -- titled, "Government snoops
have no right to pry into newsmakers' personal information" -- Link
wrote:


I was deeply disturbed to hear that
state officials approved the use of government databases to obtain information
about Joseph Wurzelbacher, also known as "Joe the Plumber." Rather
than using state databases for their intended purpose, it seems some officials
believe they can breach private information simply to satisfy their curiosity
about someone in the public eye. 

The most chilling
aspect of this situation came from the explanation by Job &amp; Family Services
Director Helen Jones-Kelley stating that her office regularly conducts searches
on peoples' personal information if they appear in high-profile news stories.
Jones-Kelley had no evidence that Wurzelbacher owed any back child support, yet
she still initiated the search. This is not only unethical, but a dangerous
violation of our privacy. 

It is appalling that government
officials believe they may access a person's private information simply for
being in a newspaper headline. This unethical practice only confirms that our
state government does not have adequate checks in place to protect our privacy,
leaving our most personal information vulnerable to the whims of a person's
curiosity. Many people also could be frightened from speaking to members of the
media or expressing their views because they could come under scrutiny of our
state government. 

This problem is crying out for
immediate action by our top state leaders. All departments should have ethical
procedures for accessing Ohioans' personal information, safeguards against
people wrongfully accessing private data and clear consequences for violating
these rules. In an age where so much information is available electronically at
the touch of our fingertips, our leaders must create better safeguards against
unfair breaches of our privacy.


Further, ACLU of Ohio legal director Jeff Gamso told Media Matters for America, regarding Wurzelbacher:
"We would be very happy to talk to him and see if there's something
we could do to pursue redress for this violation of his privacy rights. We are deeply angered at the
abuse of government databases, whether for political purposes, or for morbid
curiosity or gossip. It's
an altogether unacceptable use of private information."

Additionally, Sandusky
(Ohio) Register reporter Tom
Jackson wrote in an October 30 blog post
that he contacted the ACLU of Ohio about civil liberties questions regarding
the Wurzelbacher case, and the organization expressed concerns about the state
agency's privacy policy for public figures' information. From Jackson's post:


I wondered if the incidents raised
civil liberties questions about whether Joe had been treated fairly. (I'm not a
fan of Joe's insights, but it rather looks as if Democratic officials were
trying to dig up dirt to make him look bad, as this PD editorial notes.) So I
called the state American Civil Liberties Union, and the group's executive
director, Christine Link, kindly called me back.

I asked her about news accounts
about how the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' director, Helen
Jones-Kelley, had authorized a database search to see if Joe owed child
support.

Link said the ACLU generally favors
releasing as much government information, but said the Ohio Department of Job
and Family Services needs to follow a written policy to make sure everyone is
treated the same.

She noted a key sentence in this
news story: "Dennis Evans, a spokesman for the family services agency, acknowledged
there is no written policy on checking people thrown into the public
spotlight."

"This is not good," Link
said. "Now it does raise these issues, why are they picking on this
fellow?"


As News Hounds noted, the ACLU of Ohio's website has also
posted links to several articles expressing privacy concerns regarding state officials'
accessing of Wurzelbacher's records.

As Media Matters has
documented, O'Reilly has previously branded the ACLU a "terrorist
group" and "a fascist
organization," and claimed that
"the ACLU and the judges who side with them are terror allies." He
has also said
that "Hitler would be a card-carrying ACLU member. So would Stalin." 

From the November 6 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor: 


KELLY: But listen, everyone in the
left was -- wanted dirt
on Joe the Plumber when
he first came out on the national scene.

O'REILLY: Right.

KELLY: All the left blogs were
trying to find out about his tax liens and so on.

O'REILLY: I don't
think a bureaucrat like that would do it.

KELLY: I think she [Ohio Department of Job and Family Services director Helen E.
Jones-Kelley] may have just been a lefty. 

O'REILLY: But anyway, look, Wiehl, if I'm living in the
state of New York and somebody doesn't like me
in Albany --

WIEHL: Really? Shocked -- I'm shocked.

O'REILLY: Probably
--

WIEHL: Somebody not
like you?

O'REILLY: -- it
might be happening. Do they have a right -- they don't? You're
shaking your head.

WIEHL: Absolutely not. And I
disagree with Megyn in the sense I do think there is potentially something
illegal here. I looked at the Ohio
legislative statutes. And employees are strictly liable for misuse of political
funds. And I would say, look, her taking the time
or ordering somebody else to take the time to look into this, that's misuse of public funds. It
takes time and money to do that.

O'REILLY: Because her agency is paid for by the taxpayers.

WIEHL: Absolutely. Absolutely.

O'REILLY: See,
she'd have to justify the expense?

WIEHL: The reason she justified it,
she said, "Well, you know, when
people come into the political eye, like a lottery winner, then we're going to
look at them." Well, a lottery winner is a lot different from somebody who barely is --

O'REILLY: So,
you would launch an investigation if
you were her?

WIEHL: They have -- they have launched an investigation on
her.

O'REILLY: There is one?

WIEHL: On her -- not of -- on her of the investigation --

O'REILLY: The attorney general of Ohio?

WIEHL: Exactly. An investigation -- that all they've said today is it's ongoing.

O'REILLY: But they're all -- they're all Democrats, so, you know --

WIEHL: Well, but they have to do it.

KELLY: It's not a mystery.

O'REILLY: And I'm not saying that
Democrats are corrupt. I'm just saying that, you know, in a state like Ohio -- or in any state -- there's a lot of cronyism. Now, where's the ACLU in this? Aren't they the privacy people?

WIEHL: They're busy. 

KELLY: This is a shocker, isn't it?

O'REILLY: They didn't show up. Where is the ACLU? No, they didn't know about it.

KELLY: I'll tell you where
they are. They are out
in California
on behalf of the gay marriage advocates.

O'REILLY: Oh, so, they're all the way in that --

KELLY: They're
busy.

O'REILLY: -- they couldn't help Joe
the Plumber.

KELLY: Yeah.

O'REILLY: Don't they have bathrooms, the ACLU?


KELLY: It's so ridiculous. 

O'REILLY: Don't they have restrooms there on the
premises? Don't they like plumbers?

KELLY: The ACLU would absolutely be involved in this. 

WIEHL: But they're too busy.

KELLY: This is tailor-made for the ACLU.

O'REILLY: Can you imagine if a Republican
did this to a Democrat? It's unbelievable.

KELLY: The outrage would be --

O'REILLY: But nothing -- no ACLU. We haven't seen any of them.

WIEHL: No, no, they're all in California doing the whole gay marriage
thing.

O'REILLY: They're all in California.

WIEHL: You know, it takes a lot to file all these lawsuits in California.

O'REILLY: All right. Let's get -- let's get to this. So, we just
want to establish: no ACLU
in Ohio --

WIEHL: No.

O'REILLY: -- helping Joe the Plumber.

WIEHL: No, even though there is a huge privacy
issue. 

KELLY: I'm sure they'll step in and help [O'Reilly Factor producer] Jesse
[Watters] if he gets sued, too.



From the October 31 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:



O'REILLY: Lots of reaction to Ohio authorities
investigating Joe the Plumber.

Matt Buckner, Lyndora, Pennsylvania:
"O'Reilly, you are right. Governor Strickland wants to attack Joe. I want
to join you in protecting our citizens."

If anything happens to Joe the Plumber, you will know
immediately, sir.

Sara Wagner, Columbus, Ohio:
"I am appalled by Democrats investigating Joe. Running a background check
on him is ridiculous."

David Jozsef, Toronto, Canada:
"Where is the ACLU on this violation of privacy? Or is it just terrorist
privacy they want to protect?"


Probably that. 
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On the November 6 edition of Fox
News' The
O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly, Fox News America's Newsroom host Megyn Kelly, and legal analyst Lis Wiehl
falsely claimed that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hasn't criticized
the search by
Ohio government officials of "Joe the
Plumber" Wurzelbacher's records, with O'Reilly saying
the organization's response has been "nothing -- no ACLU. We haven't seen any of them."
In fact, as the News Hounds website noted
in response to O'Reilly's comments, Christine Link, executive director of the ACLU of Ohio, the state affiliate of the national
organization, posted an October 31 letter
in the Cleveland Plain Dealer's
online forum, stating that she "was deeply disturbed to hear that state
officials approved the use of government databases to obtain information about
Joseph Wurzelbacher. ...
It is appalling that government officials believe they may access a person's
private information simply for being in a newspaper headline." 

Discussing the accessing of Wurzelbacher's private
records, O'Reilly asked: "Now, where's the ACLU in this?
Aren't they the privacy people?" Wiehl replied: "They're
busy." Kelly stated:
"I'll tell you where they are. They are out in California on behalf of the gay marriage
advocates. They're busy." O'Reilly later added: "Can
you imagine if a Republican did this to a Democrat? It's unbelievable. But
nothing -- no ACLU. We haven't seen any of them." Wiehl responded: "No,
no, they're all in California
doing the whole gay marriage thing."

Additionally, during the October 31 edition of the Factor, O'Reilly read a viewer email
that said of the
Wurzelbacher matter: "Where is the ACLU on
this violation of privacy? Or is it just terrorist privacy they want to
protect?" Immediately after reading the email, O'Reilly stated: "Probably that." 

In her October 31 letter -- titled, "Government snoops
have no right to pry into newsmakers' personal information" -- Link
wrote:


I was deeply disturbed to hear that
state officials approved the use of government databases to obtain information
about Joseph Wurzelbacher, also known as "Joe the Plumber." Rather
than using state databases for their intended purpose, it seems some officials
believe they can breach private information simply to satisfy their curiosity
about someone in the public eye. 

The most chilling
aspect of this situation came from the explanation by Job & Family Services
Director Helen Jones-Kelley stating that her office regularly conducts searches
on peoples' personal information if they appear in high-profile news stories.
Jones-Kelley had no evidence that Wurzelbacher owed any back child support, yet
she still initiated the search. This is not only unethical, but a dangerous
violation of our privacy. 

It is appalling that government
officials believe they may access a person's private information simply for
being in a newspaper headline. This unethical practice only confirms that our
state government does not have adequate checks in place to protect our privacy,
leaving our most personal information vulnerable to the whims of a person's
curiosity. Many people also could be frightened from speaking to members of the
media or expressing their views because they could come under scrutiny of our
state government. 

This problem is crying out for
immediate action by our top state leaders. All departments should have ethical
procedures for accessing Ohioans' personal information, safeguards against
people wrongfully accessing private data and clear consequences for violating
these rules. In an age where so much information is available electronically at
the touch of our fingertips, our leaders must create better safeguards against
unfair breaches of our privacy.


Further, ACLU of Ohio legal director Jeff Gamso told Media Matters for America, regarding Wurzelbacher:
"We would be very happy to talk to him and see if there's something
we could do to pursue redress for this violation of his privacy rights. We are deeply angered at the
abuse of government databases, whether for political purposes, or for morbid
curiosity or gossip. It's
an altogether unacceptable use of private information."

Additionally, Sandusky
(Ohio) Register reporter Tom
Jackson wrote in an October 30 blog post
that he contacted the ACLU of Ohio about civil liberties questions regarding
the Wurzelbacher case, and the organization expressed concerns about the state
agency's privacy policy for public figures' information. From Jackson's post:


I wondered if the incidents raised
civil liberties questions about whether Joe had been treated fairly. (I'm not a
fan of Joe's insights, but it rather looks as if Democratic officials were
trying to dig up dirt to make him look bad, as this PD editorial notes.) So I
called the state American Civil Liberties Union, and the group's executive
director, Christine Link, kindly called me back.

I asked her about news accounts
about how the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' director, Helen
Jones-Kelley, had authorized a database search to see if Joe owed child
support.

Link said the ACLU generally favors
releasing as much government information, but said the Ohio Department of Job
and Family Services needs to follow a written policy to make sure everyone is
treated the same.

She noted a key sentence in this
news story: "Dennis Evans, a spokesman for the family services agency, acknowledged
there is no written policy on checking people thrown into the public
spotlight."

"This is not good," Link
said. "Now it does raise these issues, why are they picking on this
fellow?"


As News Hounds noted, the ACLU of Ohio's website has also
posted links to several articles expressing privacy concerns regarding state officials'
accessing of Wurzelbacher's records.

As Media Matters has
documented, O'Reilly has previously branded the ACLU a "terrorist
group" and "a fascist
organization," and claimed that
"the ACLU and the judges who side with them are terror allies." He
has also said
that "Hitler would be a card-carrying ACLU member. So would Stalin." 

From the November 6 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor: 


KELLY: But listen, everyone in the
left was -- wanted dirt
on Joe the Plumber when
he first came out on the national scene.

O'REILLY: Right.

KELLY: All the left blogs were
trying to find out about his tax liens and so on.

O'REILLY: I don't
think a bureaucrat like that would do it.

KELLY: I think she [Ohio Department of Job and Family Services director Helen E.
Jones-Kelley] may have just been a lefty. 

O'REILLY: But anyway, look, Wiehl, if I'm living in the
state of New York and somebody doesn't like me
in Albany --

WIEHL: Really? Shocked -- I'm shocked.

O'REILLY: Probably
--

WIEHL: Somebody not
like you?

O'REILLY: -- it
might be happening. Do they have a right -- they don't? You're
shaking your head.

WIEHL: Absolutely not. And I
disagree with Megyn in the sense I do think there is potentially something
illegal here. I looked at the Ohio
legislative statutes. And employees are strictly liable for misuse of political
funds. And I would say, look, her taking the time
or ordering somebody else to take the time to look into this, that's misuse of public funds. It
takes time and money to do that.

O'REILLY: Because her agency is paid for by the taxpayers.

WIEHL: Absolutely. Absolutely.

O'REILLY: See,
she'd have to justify the expense?

WIEHL: The reason she justified it,
she said, "Well, you know, when
people come into the political eye, like a lottery winner, then we're going to
look at them." Well, a lottery winner is a lot different from somebody who barely is --

O'REILLY: So,
you would launch an investigation if
you were her?

WIEHL: They have -- they have launched an investigation on
her.

O'REILLY: There is one?

WIEHL: On her -- not of -- on her of the investigation --

O'REILLY: The attorney general of Ohio?

WIEHL: Exactly. An investigation -- that all they've said today is it's ongoing.

O'REILLY: But they're all -- they're all Democrats, so, you know --

WIEHL: Well, but they have to do it.

KELLY: It's not a mystery.

O'REILLY: And I'm not saying that
Democrats are corrupt. I'm just saying that, you know, in a state like Ohio -- or in any state -- there's a lot of cronyism. Now, where's the ACLU in this? Aren't they the privacy people?

WIEHL: They're busy. 

KELLY: This is a shocker, isn't it?

O'REILLY: They didn't show up. Where is the ACLU? No, they didn't know about it.

KELLY: I'll tell you where
they are. They are out
in California
on behalf of the gay marriage advocates.

O'REILLY: Oh, so, they're all the way in that --

KELLY: They're
busy.

O'REILLY: -- they couldn't help Joe
the Plumber.

KELLY: Yeah.

O'REILLY: Don't they have bathrooms, the ACLU?


KELLY: It's so ridiculous. 

O'REILLY: Don't they have restrooms there on the
premises? Don't they like plumbers?

KELLY: The ACLU would absolutely be involved in this. 

WIEHL: But they're too busy.

KELLY: This is tailor-made for the ACLU.

O'REILLY: Can you imagine if a Republican
did this to a Democrat? It's unbelievable.

KELLY: The outrage would be --

O'REILLY: But nothing -- no ACLU. We haven't seen any of them.

WIEHL: No, no, they're all in California doing the whole gay marriage
thing.

O'REILLY: They're all in California.

WIEHL: You know, it takes a lot to file all these lawsuits in California.

O'REILLY: All right. Let's get -- let's get to this. So, we just
want to establish: no ACLU
in Ohio --

WIEHL: No.

O'REILLY: -- helping Joe the Plumber.

WIEHL: No, even though there is a huge privacy
issue. 

KELLY: I'm sure they'll step in and help [O'Reilly Factor producer] Jesse
[Watters] if he gets sued, too.



From the October 31 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:



O'REILLY: Lots of reaction to Ohio authorities
investigating Joe the Plumber.

Matt Buckner, Lyndora, Pennsylvania:
"O'Reilly, you are right. Governor Strickland wants to attack Joe. I want
to join you in protecting our citizens."

If anything happens to Joe the Plumber, you will know
immediately, sir.

Sara Wagner, Columbus, Ohio:
"I am appalled by Democrats investigating Joe. Running a background check
on him is ridiculous."

David Jozsef, Toronto, Canada:
"Where is the ACLU on this violation of privacy? Or is it just terrorist
privacy they want to protect?"


Probably that. 
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In a November 2 Politico.com piece, Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund
cited Columbus Dispatch reporting
about an Ohio investigation into a group of "out-of-state
registrants," some of whom reportedly voted or requested absentee
ballots, and all of whom reportedly shared a house. Fund wrote that
"[t]he owner of the house the fraudulent voters stayed at is also under
investigation." However, although Fund apparently referred to an October
18 Columbus Dispatch article in
describing the investigation, Fund omitted comments made by the state
prosecutor, reported in the same article, expressing his view that the people
voting illegally believed they were entitled to vote and did not intend to
break the law.

Fund wrote that Franklin
County prosecutor Ron O'Brien "cracked down in the case of
13 out-of-state registrants who came to Ohio
to register voters in Columbus
for the group Vote From Home." Fund later stated, "The Columbus
Dispatch reported last month that 'none of them seems to have ties to Ohio' -- and
apparently had no intention of staying there. One has even moved back to England,
where he is a student. It is illegal in almost all states to vote somewhere
that is not your permanent residence." Fund continued, "The owner
of the house the fraudulent voters stayed at is also under investigation. He
has voted in Ohio even though he has lived and
worked in New York for the past four
years," adding that "[m]any are concerned that other fraudulent
votes could be cast in Ohio."

But Fund did not note that O'Brien also reportedly
said the following: "[M]y take is that they haven't come here to
deceive anyone," and, "They were under the impression they were
entitled to vote. That's how they were reading the law."

From the November 2 Politico.com article:


There are already documented
examples of fraudulent registrations being converted into fraudulent votes in Ohio, where ACORN and
other groups were active. Darrell Nash, an ACORN registration worker, submitted
an illegal form for himself and then cast a paper ballot during the state's
"early voting" period. 

Franklin County prosecutor Ron O'Brien also cracked down in
the case of 13 out-of-state registrants who came to Ohio
to register voters in Columbus
for the group Vote From Home. The group all lived out of the same rented
1,175-square-foot house in Ohio,
registered to vote and then most of them either cast early voting ballots or
submitted applications for absentee ballots before leaving the state. They have
agreed to have all of their ballots canceled in exchange for the prosecutor's
decision not to file charges. 

The Columbus Dispatch reported last
month that "none of them seems to have ties to Ohio" -- and apparently had no
intention of staying there. One has even moved back to England, where he is a student. It
is illegal in almost all states to vote somewhere that is not your permanent
residence. 

The owner of the house the
fraudulent voters stayed at is also under investigation. He has voted in Ohio even though he has lived and worked in New York for the past
four years. 

Many are concerned that other
fraudulent votes could be cast in Ohio.



From the October 18 Columbus
Dispatch article: 


About 200,000 newly registered Ohio voters have been flagged by the
secretary of state because their names, addresses, driver's-license numbers, and/or
Social Security numbers don't match other state or federal records.

Likely among them are the 12 people who have
registered to vote since August using the address of the 1,175-square-foot Brownlee Avenue
house.

Some of them already have voted. Others requested
absentee ballots but have yet to return them to the Franklin County Board of
Elections.

None of them, however, seems to have ties to Ohio - no close
relatives, no public-records trail, no obvious intention to stay in the state
past the election.

Most of them grew up on the East Coast, attended
colleges there and registered to vote in their home counties. It is not illegal
to be registered to vote in more than one state. But it is illegal to vote in
more than one or to vote in a state that is not your permanent residence.

The owner of the house also is coming under scrutiny.
He has voted in Ohio even though he has lived
and worked in New York
since 2004.

All 13 are under investigation by Franklin County
Prosecutor Ron O'Brien. None has any apparent ties to ACORN, the Association of
Community Activists for Reform Now, whose voter-registration activity has come
under scrutiny in Ohio
and other states.

"My take is that they haven't come here
attempting to deceive anyone," O'Brien said. "They were under the
impression they were entitled to vote. That's how they were reading the
law."

He has talked to several of the people or their
attorneys. He doesn't believe they set out to intentionally thwart the law,
which requires voters to live in the state at least 30 days before the
election. 

Daniel Tokaji, assistant director of an elections law
center at Ohio State
University, said residency is not
always cut and dried under Ohio
law. The statute says: "A person shall not be considered to have gained a
residence in any county of this state into which the person comes for temporary
purposes only, without the intention of making such county the permanent place
of abode. ... That place shall be considered the residence of a person in which
the person's habitation is fixed and to which, whenever the person is absent,
the person has the intention of returning."

"My bottom line is for some of these cases,
there's a gray area in the law as to whether someone's intention to remain is
sufficient in circumstances where they've come here and it's not clear how long
they plan to stay here," Tokaji said.
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In a November 2 Politico.com piece, Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund
cited Columbus Dispatch reporting
about an Ohio investigation into a group of "out-of-state
registrants," some of whom reportedly voted or requested absentee
ballots, and all of whom reportedly shared a house. Fund wrote that
"[t]he owner of the house the fraudulent voters stayed at is also under
investigation." However, although Fund apparently referred to an October
18 Columbus Dispatch article in
describing the investigation, Fund omitted comments made by the state
prosecutor, reported in the same article, expressing his view that the people
voting illegally believed they were entitled to vote and did not intend to
break the law.

Fund wrote that Franklin
County prosecutor Ron O'Brien "cracked down in the case of
13 out-of-state registrants who came to Ohio
to register voters in Columbus
for the group Vote From Home." Fund later stated, "The Columbus
Dispatch reported last month that 'none of them seems to have ties to Ohio' -- and
apparently had no intention of staying there. One has even moved back to England,
where he is a student. It is illegal in almost all states to vote somewhere
that is not your permanent residence." Fund continued, "The owner
of the house the fraudulent voters stayed at is also under investigation. He
has voted in Ohio even though he has lived and
worked in New York for the past four
years," adding that "[m]any are concerned that other fraudulent
votes could be cast in Ohio."

But Fund did not note that O'Brien also reportedly
said the following: "[M]y take is that they haven't come here to
deceive anyone," and, "They were under the impression they were
entitled to vote. That's how they were reading the law."

From the November 2 Politico.com article:


There are already documented
examples of fraudulent registrations being converted into fraudulent votes in Ohio, where ACORN and
other groups were active. Darrell Nash, an ACORN registration worker, submitted
an illegal form for himself and then cast a paper ballot during the state's
"early voting" period. 

Franklin County prosecutor Ron O'Brien also cracked down in
the case of 13 out-of-state registrants who came to Ohio
to register voters in Columbus
for the group Vote From Home. The group all lived out of the same rented
1,175-square-foot house in Ohio,
registered to vote and then most of them either cast early voting ballots or
submitted applications for absentee ballots before leaving the state. They have
agreed to have all of their ballots canceled in exchange for the prosecutor's
decision not to file charges. 

The Columbus Dispatch reported last
month that "none of them seems to have ties to Ohio" -- and apparently had no
intention of staying there. One has even moved back to England, where he is a student. It
is illegal in almost all states to vote somewhere that is not your permanent
residence. 

The owner of the house the
fraudulent voters stayed at is also under investigation. He has voted in Ohio even though he has lived and worked in New York for the past
four years. 

Many are concerned that other
fraudulent votes could be cast in Ohio.



From the October 18 Columbus
Dispatch article: 


About 200,000 newly registered Ohio voters have been flagged by the
secretary of state because their names, addresses, driver's-license numbers, and/or
Social Security numbers don't match other state or federal records.

Likely among them are the 12 people who have
registered to vote since August using the address of the 1,175-square-foot Brownlee Avenue
house.

Some of them already have voted. Others requested
absentee ballots but have yet to return them to the Franklin County Board of
Elections.

None of them, however, seems to have ties to Ohio - no close
relatives, no public-records trail, no obvious intention to stay in the state
past the election.

Most of them grew up on the East Coast, attended
colleges there and registered to vote in their home counties. It is not illegal
to be registered to vote in more than one state. But it is illegal to vote in
more than one or to vote in a state that is not your permanent residence.

The owner of the house also is coming under scrutiny.
He has voted in Ohio even though he has lived
and worked in New York
since 2004.

All 13 are under investigation by Franklin County
Prosecutor Ron O'Brien. None has any apparent ties to ACORN, the Association of
Community Activists for Reform Now, whose voter-registration activity has come
under scrutiny in Ohio
and other states.

"My take is that they haven't come here
attempting to deceive anyone," O'Brien said. "They were under the
impression they were entitled to vote. That's how they were reading the
law."

He has talked to several of the people or their
attorneys. He doesn't believe they set out to intentionally thwart the law,
which requires voters to live in the state at least 30 days before the
election. 

Daniel Tokaji, assistant director of an elections law
center at Ohio State
University, said residency is not
always cut and dried under Ohio
law. The statute says: "A person shall not be considered to have gained a
residence in any county of this state into which the person comes for temporary
purposes only, without the intention of making such county the permanent place
of abode. ... That place shall be considered the residence of a person in which
the person's habitation is fixed and to which, whenever the person is absent,
the person has the intention of returning."

"My bottom line is for some of these cases,
there's a gray area in the law as to whether someone's intention to remain is
sufficient in circumstances where they've come here and it's not clear how long
they plan to stay here," Tokaji said.
<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - WSJ &#39;s Fund reported on "fraudulent voters" in Ohio, without noting prosecutor reportedly said those in question weren&#39;t "attempting to deceive anyone" {...} In a Politico.com piece, John Fund described "out-of-state" registrants who reportedly cast ballots in Ohio as "fraudulent voters," without noting that a Columbus Dispatch article Fund apparently cited in his piece quoted an Ohio prosecutor saying of the people: "[M]y take is that they haven&#39;t come here to deceive anyone. ... They were under the impression they were entitled to vote."   {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> November 3, 2008, 9:37 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> November 4, 2008, 12:21 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;19KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{LITERATURE &gt; CYBERPUNK} - Ohio t-shirt</title>
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		<description>If you're from Ohio, as I am, you might appreciate this t-shirt. "Ohio, It's A Buckeye Leaf, Seriously" (Thanks, Richard Metzger!)...
  
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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; NEWSPAPERS} - Economic message buoys Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>COLUMBUS, Ohio - Senator Barack Obama entered this presidential race as the antiwar candidate, defined by his early and vocal opposition to the 2003 Iraq invasion. He captured the left wing of the Democratic Party, particularly in Iowa, and rode that support to the nomination.</description>
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Www.Boston.Com</span> - COLUMBUS, Ohio - Senator Barack Obama entered this presidential race as the antiwar candidate, defined by his early and vocal opposition to the 2003 Iraq invasion. He captured the left wing of the Democratic Party, particularly in Iowa, and rode that support to the nomination.<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Economic message buoys Obama - The Boston Globe {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> November 3, 2008, 5:00 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> November 3, 2008, 12:11 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;45KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/">Regional</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/">North America</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/">United States</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/massachusetts/">Massachusetts</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/massachusetts/localities/">Localities</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/massachusetts/localities/b/">B</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/massachusetts/localities/b/boston/">Boston</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/massachusetts/localities/b/boston/news-and-media/">News and Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/massachusetts/localities/b/boston/news-and-media/newspapers/"><b>Newspapers</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{NEWS &gt; ALTERNATIVE} - Now It's Clear Why Some People Are Scared of Early Voting: Because It Empowers People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>Vote Today Ohio shows that you can bring marginalized people to vote early, and really challenge the powers that be.</description>
		<source url="http://www.alternet.org/election08/105744/now_it%27s_clear_why_some_people_are_scared_of_early_voting%3A_because_it_empowers_people/">Alternet.Org</source>
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Www.Alternet.Org</span> - Vote Today Ohio shows that you can bring marginalized people to vote early, and really challenge the powers that be.<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Now It's Clear Why Some People Are Scared of Early Voting: Because It Empowers People | Election 2008 | AlterNet {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> November 2, 2008, 7:00 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> November 2, 2008, 9:18 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;35KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/news/">News</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/news/alternative/"><b>Alternative</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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