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 worked a precinct in Dallas County for the primary:
This is normal...The precinct judge is supposed to stamp the names in the book who are on the list as having voted early before election day. If this is not done until after the polls open on election day, there is the chance that someone could vote twice.
Maybe writing their names on the line is in lieu of the stamp (which is definitely quicker!).
That’s crazy. Where I live, the voter rolls used at the polls on Election Day are printed after early voting ends. Absentee and early voters are clearly marked - in fact the signature lines are completely covered with boldface capital letters saying “Voted - Early” or “Voted - Absentee.”
Nobody gets to forge anyone’s signature!