Charity Rorie,a mother of four,sat in her Mishawaka,Ind.,kitchen,stunned that her name appeared on a 2008 Democratic presidential primary petition for then-candidate Barack Obama.
“That’s not my signature,”she told Fox News,saying her signature is “absolutely”a fake. She also said she was troubled someone forged both her signature and that of her husband,Jeff,and listed personal details such as their address and birthdays.
“It’s scary,”Rorie said. “It’s shocking. It definitely is illegal. A lot of people have already lost faith in politics and the whole realm of politics,so that just solidifies all of our worries and concerns.”
Robert Hunter Jr. said his name was faked,too.
“I did not sign for Barack Obama,”he told Fox News,adding his signature supporting the then-Illinois senator’s effort to get on the primary ballot was also a forgery.
As he examined the Obama petition he held in his hands,Hunter pointed out that “I always put ‘Junior’after my name,every time …there’s no ‘Junior’there.”He said the signature on the petition looks “very close”to his real one,but it clearly is not.
“My wife and I actually signed a petition for Hillary Clinton,”he said. “I am an Obama fan,but not in the primaries I wasn’t.”
The prospect that theirs are two of an estimated 150 signatures that may have been forged on the petitions has raised the question of whether President Obama actually reached the legitimate number of signatures needed to be placed on the ballot in Indiana…
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