Ms. Moore said she delivered 19 absentee voter ballots from inmates at the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio to the Lucas County Board of Elections, but said she did not know it was illegal. State law prohibits anyone but the voter or a relative from hand-delivering an absentee ballot. As one member of the elections board noted, “ironically, it was Ms. Moore who disenfranchised the CCNO voters.” Ohio wasn’t the only place where NAACP “help” violated state election laws. In Harris County, Texas, three NAACP members stayed inside an Early Voting poll location for several hours, selecting people out of line to vote ahead of others, an illegal activity they openly acknowledge. Houston NAACP Chapter President Rev. Reginald Liley claimed they “just wanted to help and did not, to his knowledge, break any rules,” but Harris County’s chief elections official confirmed their actions were “improper and illegal.” “Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.” -John Selden
As the Ohio NAACP coordinator for northwest Ohio and past president of the Toledo chapter of the NAACP, perhaps WilliAnn Moore should have known better. The Toledo Blade reports: