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Earlier today Michelle Malkin noted that Obama’s pet community organization group ACORN is now paying people cash and cigarettes in return for repeatedly registering to vote in violation of election law. (see 1 voter, 72 registrations)

Via the NYPost :

A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.

“Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they’ll give me a dollar to sign up,” said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

“The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I am already registered. The girl said, ‘You are?’ I say, ‘Yup,’ and then they say, ‘Can you just sign up again?’ ” he said.

As if voter fraud wasn’t bad enough the International Herald Tribune also notes that the Obama campaign is getting large sums of cash from fictitious donors by using a loophole in election law that does not require disclosure for donations of $200 or less. Reports are that many of these are coming from overseas.

This has caused the following sort of corruption courtesy the campaign that is bogged down with questions about terrorists (Ayers, Dohrn), racists (Jeremiah Wright), genocidal Islamic first cousin that Obama campaigned for in Kenya (Raile Odinga), communist mentor (Frank Marshall Davis), convicted fundraiser, friend and influence peddler Tony Rezko, ACORN, ex-Fannie Mae employees (Jim Johnson, Raines) and on and on and on….

Last December, someone using the name “Test Person,” from “Some Place, UT,” made a series of contributions, the largest being $764, to Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign totaling $2,410.07.

Someone identifying himself as “Jockim Alberton,” from 1581 Leroy Avenue in Wilmington, Delaware, began giving to Obama last November, contributing $10 and $25 at a time for a total of $445 through the end of February.

The only problem? There is no Leroy Avenue in Wilmington. And Jockim Alberton, who listed his employer and occupation as “Fdsa Fdsa,” does not show up in a search of public records.

An analysis of campaign finance records by The New York Times this week found nearly 3,000 donations to Obama, the Democratic nominee, from more than a dozen people with apparently fictitious donor information

And this:

But even a contributor who used the name “Jgtj Jfggjjfgj,” and listed an address of “thjtrj” in “gjtjtjtjtjtjr, AP,” was able to contribute $370 in a series of $10 donations in August.

A pair of donors named “Derty West” and “Derty Poiiuy,” who listed “rewq, ME” as their addresses and “Qwertyyy” or “Qwerttyyu” as either their employer or occupation, contributed a combined $1,110 in July.

And this:

The questionable donations to the Obama campaign, most of which appear to have been given in small increments online, are bolstering the contentions of some campaign finance groups that additional disclosure requirements are needed for contributions of $200 or less.

Federal candidates are not required to itemize such contributions to the FEC unless the donor’s cumulative total adds up to more than $200. Roughly 70 percent of these contributions to Obama are not reported, compared with more than 75 percent of McCain’s.

On Monday the Republican National Committee filed a complaint against the Obama campaign with the FEC, questioning the legitimacy of the more than $220 million in small donations to Obama’s campaign.

The complaint followed an article on the conservative Web site Newsmax.com that highlighted thousands of dollars in contributions, made in increments of $25 dating back to March, from “Good Will” in Austin, Texas, who listed his employer as “Loving” and his occupation as “You,” as well as thousands in small contributions that started last November from a “Doodad Pro” in Nunda, New York, with the same employer and occupation.

Doodad Pro and Good Will, who made more than 1,000 contributions each and whose totals far exceeded the $4,600 that individuals can legally give to the primary and general elections, were flagged by the FEC in standard letters regarding excess contributions sent to the Obama campaign. The commission alerted the campaign about Good Will as early as June, giving it 30 days to respond.

And this:

The Obama campaign refunded several thousand dollars in contributions to the two donors, even before receiving the letters from the FEC But its campaign finance filing in September showed it had failed to refund more than $10,000 in donations from each of them, although Obama officials say all of the money has now been returned.

Even though Good Will made more than $7,000 in contributions to the Obama campaign in March, and even more after that, Suzanha Burmeister, marketing director at Goodwill Industries of Central Texas, a nonprofit group whose address matches the one listed by the donor, said the organization was not contacted by the campaign until September.

And this:

The contributions from Doodad Pro shot up to $11,275 in February alone, of which FEC records show the Obama campaign refunded only $2,550 initially.

The address listed by Doodad Pro leads to Lloyd & Lynn’s Liquor & Wine in Nunda, a town of about 3,000 people.

And This:

Another donor apparently connected to Good Will and Doodad Pro, “Fornari Usa,” listed the same “Loving” and “You” under employer and occupation, and made a series of $25 donations to Obama in May, totaling $1,050.

The address leads to a women’s clothing store, Fornari U.S.A., in Milpitas, California. Levi Lazo, a sales associate, said she and her manager were mystified by the donations.

“None of us,” Lazo said, “have made any contributions.”

All of this in one article. I have cut out the typical excuses made by the mainstream media in attempts to absolve and distance Obama from this kind of corruption. You can read the whole article here.

It just never seems to stop for Barack Obama, the guy that just keeps on sinking lower into the sewer of same ol’ same ol’ for the Democrats.

It looks like you can take Obama out of Chicago but you can’t take Chicago Politics out of Obama.

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