This is my absolute biggest fear. I would cry if I went to vote and saw someone forged my signature or my name was stamped as having already voted.
I’ve been the victim of car theft and violent crime, but I think this would be the ultimate worst.
I voted at 8:15 this morning. When I walked up to the table, show my ID and get my ballot, one of the two poll workers was signing the voter forms for people that obviously weren’t there. She signed a signature for “Mark GRxxxxx” something. I asked about it. They said they were signing for absentee ballots that they were counting.
I thought this was odd. I called the election committee attorney for my county. I asked why a poll worker would be forging signatures for voters on the registry. He confirmed without any prompting, “They are signing for absentee voters so they can’t vote again.”
I report this because it occurs to me just how easy fraud still is with the absentee ballots.
I waited in line briefly to cast my vote in Cuyahoga County Ohio, (Cleveland area), but had left my billfold. I had to go get my billfold in order to SHOW MY DRIVER’S LICENSE in order to vote!
Suffice it to say, I was happy to do it. Oh, and no electronic voting machines, I had to take a pen and darken in the circles like the old ITED test we all took in school.
So simple.