Vote Today Ohio Founder Fired
Tiffany Wilson reporting from Columbus (2008-10-29 21:40:59)
Source: recordonline.com
Campaigns don’t like controversy less than a week before the election. So when a New York Congressional candidate heard his long time advisor was involved in a voter fraud investigation, he didn’t filibuster. He fired her.
New York Congressman John Hall (D-Dover Plains) fired Vote Today Ohio co-founder Amy Little on Tuesday. palestra.net first discovered that members of Vote Today Ohio, a progressive get out the vote organization, were all voting from the same address more than a week ago. Since then, the Franklin County Board of Elections opened an investigation into the out-of-state organizers for possibly registering and voting without Ohio residency.
“The moment we heard about it, her campaign consulting contract was terminated,” Hall’s Campaign Director, Susan Spear, is reported as saying in the Times Herald-Record.
The Ohio Revised Code stipulates anyone who registers and votes in Ohio must live in Ohio for at least 30 days and intend to live in Ohio permanently. Little and her co-founders, Tate Hausman and Yolanda Hippensteele, meet the first requirement. However, questions remain about their intent to reside in Ohio after November 4.
Little has little tying her to Ohio. She first registered to vote in New York in 1991 and she last cast a ballot during the primaries this February. Hall’s campaign has paid Little more than $11,000 in the past nine months. The TH-Record reports that the money was sent to her New York address. Recently, a New York Post reporter called Little’s New York phone number. A child said Little was in Ohio but would be “home” soon.
Earlier this week the Franklin County Board of Elections hand delivered letters to the Vote Today Ohio members registered to their headquarters/home address of 1979 N. Fourth Avenue. The letters asked whether they were truly Ohio residents, voted without underst