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The voter integrity program that has come to be associated with the campaign of GOP Senate nominee Mark Kirk was launched by the Illinois Republican Party, working with a conservative political action committee and an anti-Obama birther, Mother Jones reported.

Sharon Meroni -- who according to Mother Jones blogs under the pseudonym "Chalice Jackson" -- launched a petition demanding Obama's resignation for "high crimes and misdemeanors." Reached on Monday, Meroni wouldn't answer TPMMuckraker's questions, referring any inquiries to another representative. "My role is to recruit, and that's it," she said.

She did, however, say that the proper person to speak with was Curt Conrad, who is listed online as the Executive Director, IL Republican State Committee. Conrad didn't return a message left for him on Monday.

Steve Stevlic, coordinator of the Chicago Tea Party, told Mother Jones that "hundreds" of Illinois tea partiers have volunteered to work the polls in the Chicago area on Election Day.

Kirk's came under fire for his voter integrity program, which he said was aimed at at least two predominately African-American parts of Chicago, as TPMMuckraker reported. The Republican Party chair's posting announcing the voter integrity effort has since been edited to remove references to Republican National Lawyers Association events and his previous statement that "ballot integrity will be a key ingredient to our success." A tweet by the chairman, Pat Brady, connecting the anti-voter fraud effort to the Kirk campaign was also removed.

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