Trail Tales: Crack for a Ballot?
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
As President Bush and Sen. John Kerry continue to pound at each other on national security, fiscal policy and flu shots in key battleground states, voters in some states have already cast their ballots — and there's already some weirdness going on at the polls.
Crack for a Ballot?
In Defiance, Ohio, Chad Staton, 22, presumably is a fan of U.S. pop culture. That may be why he was arrested for submitting phony registration forms with the names Mary Poppins, Michael Jordan and George Foreman, among others.
Sheriff David Westrick told FOX News that Staton was charged with filing more than 100 fictitious voter-registration forms, all of which he allegedly filled out himself.
Staton was paid for each registration form by Georgianne Pitts, 41, who allegedly satisfied her debt by paying Staton with crack cocaine in lieu of cash.
Pitts told Defiance County deputies she was recruited to collect voter registration forms by Thaddeus J. Jackson of Cleveland. Pitts gave the deputies a business card she said Jackson gave her. The card identifies Jackson as the state assistant director of the NAACP's National Voter Fund.
