Ghetto the Vote

"Get out the Vote" drives have largely revolved around getting people who don't pay attention to politics to vote for the Democratic candidate. Normally party activists will drive around in a big van and entice people with food or goodies and then take them to the poll and tell them to vote for Democratic candidate.

Procedures such as registering to vote earlier than election day and standards to prove residency hamper these types of drives. That's why the Democrats will always oppose any type of voter registration. They don't have enough civic minded people to vote for their candidates so they bribe the homeless.

CLEVELAND - Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked.

The huge effort by a pro-Obama group, Vote Today Ohio, takes advantage of a quirk in the state's elections laws that allows people to register and cast ballots at the same time without having to prove residency.

Republicans have argued that the window could lead to widespread voter fraud because officials wouldn't have an opportunity to verify registration information before ballots were cast.

Among the volunteers were Yori Stadlin and Vivian Lehrer of the Upper West Side, who got married last week and decided to spend their honeymoon shepherding voters to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.

Early today, Stadlin's van picked up William Woods, 59, at the soup kitchen of the Bishop Cosgrove Center.

"I never voted before," Woods said, because of a felony conviction that previously barred him from the polls. "Without this service, I would have had no way to get here."