Thomas Veil
Oct 19, 2004, 10:32 AM
:p I'm glad this got caught, anyway. Looks like our election officials are on their toes.
When Defiance County election officials got a batch of voter registration cards for Dick Tracy, Mary Poppins, Michael Jordan and George Foreman, they might have wondered whether the person who gathered the cards was smoking crack.
Maybe not, but he was being paid for his trouble in crack cocaine, said Defiance County Sheriff David Westrick.
On Monday, sheriff's deputies arrested Chad Staton, 22, of Defiance, who admitted to investigators that he filled out about 130 registration cards, making up the names and addresses. He said he was hired by a Toledo woman to solicit voter registrations.
She gave him a choice of cash or drugs for his work, Westrick said. He chose crack cocaine.
Full story (http://www.cleveland.com/politics/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/109818540796130.xml)
When Defiance County election officials got a batch of voter registration cards for Dick Tracy, Mary Poppins, Michael Jordan and George Foreman, they might have wondered whether the person who gathered the cards was smoking crack.
Maybe not, but he was being paid for his trouble in crack cocaine, said Defiance County Sheriff David Westrick.
On Monday, sheriff's deputies arrested Chad Staton, 22, of Defiance, who admitted to investigators that he filled out about 130 registration cards, making up the names and addresses. He said he was hired by a Toledo woman to solicit voter registrations.
She gave him a choice of cash or drugs for his work, Westrick said. He chose crack cocaine.
Full story (http://www.cleveland.com/politics/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/109818540796130.xml)
