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MAN GIVEN CRACK COCAINE TO REGISTER VOTERS ARRESTED IN OHIO
Mon Oct 18 2004 13:26:03 ET

October 18, 2004

The Defiance County Sheriff's Office arrested Chad Staton, age 22, of Stratton Ave., Defiance, on a charge of False Registration, in Violation of Section 3599.11 of the Ohio Revised Code, a felony of the fifth degree.

The SheriffÕs Office alleges that Staton filled out over 100 voter registration forms that were fictitious. Staton was to be paid for each registration form that he could get citizens to fill out. However, Staton himself filled out the registrations and returned them to the woman who hired him from Toledo, Ohio. Deputies allege that Staton was paid crack cocaine for the falsified registrations.

Defiance Deputies along with Toledo Police Department detectives conducted a search warrant of a residence on Woodland in Toledo, believed to be the home of the woman who hired Staton to solicit voter registration. Officers confiscated drug paraphernalia along with voter registration forms from the home. The occupant of the home, Georgianne Pitts, age 41, advised law enforcement, along with Ohio B.C.I.&I., that she had been recruited by Thaddeus J. Jackson, II, of Cleveland, to obtain voter registrations. Pitts admitted to paying Staton crack cocaine for the registrations in lieu of money.

A business card provided by Pitts indicated that Jackson is the Assistant NVF Ohio Director of the NAACP National Voter Fund.

The initial complaint received by the Sheriff's Office came from the Defiance County Board of Elections. The Board had received the 100 plus registration forms from the Cuyahoga Board of Elections that had been submitted to the Cuyahoga Board by the NAACP National Voter Fund.

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If I had said NRA hands out guns for voter registration, this thread would have lit up.

i just cant see why anyone would use drugs.


is life really that bad that you have to "enlighten" it somehow?

HAHAHAHA

Fuckin hilarious!!

Nice use of Tyrone! He'll be back shortly.

I don't think there's much to say. If it's true, the woman who hired the crackhead should go to jail. The story didn't say that he was hired to register only Democrats, just people in general.

You try and give a crackhead some crack and he goes and fucks it up. What is this world coming to?

Crack Kills

Eh, you're likely to see a lot more articles like this as the election nears. I remember in 2000 in Wisconsin where Democrats were giving out food and clothing to get people to vote. In Michigan they gave out cigarettes. This really doesn't surprise me.

Yea at least they are getting people to vote instead of disenfranchising them like all the blacks in Florida

See, I disagree . . . I think both situations are wrong. But again, that's just my opinion.