Voter Fraud Trial May Demonstrate Obama Never Qualified In
2008
Questions will soon be answered as to whether or not Barack
Hussein Obama actually qualified to be on the 2008 Presidential ballot as the
trial gets underway for a former Democrat Party official and a Board of
Elections worker who are accused of submitting illegitimate signatures on
petitions that enabled both Obama and Hillary Clinton to qualify for the race
in Indiana.
Former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic Party Chairman
Butch Morgan Jr. faces multiple felony conspiracy counts to commit petition
fraud, and former county Board of Elections worker Dustin Blythe is charged
with nine felony forgery counts and one felony count of falsely making a
petition of nomination. The proceedings began Monday in South Bend.
Morgan is accused of being the mastermind behind the plot,
by allegedly ordering Democratic officials and workers to fake the names and
signatures that Obama and Clinton needed to qualify for the presidential race.
Blythe, then a Board of Elections employee and Democratic Party volunteer, has
been accused of carrying out those orders by forging signatures on Obama’s
petitions.
Two former Board of Elections officials have already pleaded
guilty to charges related to the scheme and could testify against Morgan and
Blythe.
Former board worker Beverly Shelton, who allegedly was
assigned the task of forging the petitions for Hillary Clinton, pleaded guilty
in March to charges of forgery and falsely making a petition. The board’s
former Democratic head of voter registration, Pam Brunette, pleaded guilty in
April to felony forgery, official misconduct, and falsifying a petition.
Under state law presidential candidates must obtain 500
signatures from each of the state’s nine congressional districts. In the Second
Congressional District, which is St. Joseph County, Obama’s campaign only got
534 signatures, while campaign rival Hillary Clinton got 704.
Prosecutors in the case claim that nine of the petition
pages of signatures for Obama were forged. Each of the pages contain ten names
which makes it possible that up to 90 names were forged. This means Barack
Obama would have been ineligible (not that he isn’t ineligible on other
grounds) should he fall under the legal limit required to qualify. Clinton on
the other hand still had a significant amount of petition signatures to meet
the threshold of 500.
One Indiana State Police investigator, who investigated the
petitions, said in court papers that “selected names at random from each of the
petition pages and contacted those people directly. We found at least one
person (and often multiple people) from each page who confirmed that they had
not signed” petitions “or given consent for their name and/or signature to
appear.”
If you recall, this is the very thing that tripped up Newt
Gingrich up in the Republican primaries when he failed to get on the ballot in
Virginia because authorities claimed that hundreds of signatures on his
campaign’s petitions were fraudulent. One campaign worker pleaded guilty and
another is still facing charges.