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Over 2,800 people who were already dead may have "voted" in last November's election in Minnesota -- an indication either of voter fraud, or of record-keeping so flawed that it leaves the state vulnerable to fraudulent ballots being cast according to a government watchdog group. Minnesota Majority, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with several Republican supporters, is calling for a federal investigation into Minnesota's election practices. "The secretary of state's office is now in what I interpret to be panic mode," Minnesota Majority founder Jeff Davis tells Newsmax. According to Davis, the issue of deceased persons on the voter rolls dates...

Zogby: Obama Leads 75% to 15% With Dead Voters by Hugh Ken Knott B. Sirius As if gaining with female and Catholic voters wasn't enough, Democratic President-to-be Barack Obama now leads John McCain with 75% of registered dead voters. McCain draws the support of just 15% of corpses, with the remaining 10% are undecided. When numbers are adjusted to from registered to likely dead voters, Obama loses just 2% of the vote. "This is proof that Obama appeals to people of all ages," said an anonymous Obama spokesperson. When asked why he supports Obama, dead actor Humphrey Bogart said, "Mr....

Local 2 investigates dead voters. The push to register voters for this year's presidential election is breaking records. More than 1.9 million people are registered to vote in Harris County alone. But how many of the people listed on the voter roll are actually eligible to cast a ballot? Investigative reporter Amy Davis shows you how hundreds of voters could sway this year's election -- voters who are not even alive. "All-in-all, a great person, a great woman, just a wonderful person" is how Alexis Guidry described her mother to Local 2 Investigates. "As far back as I can remember,...

Thousands on the rolls after death, creating potential for fraud Woodwick Street was quiet — with a few residents working in their yards and adding to post-storm brush piles at the curb — when Texas Watchdog visited on a recent Saturday to try to find Harris County voter Linda K. Hill. “I’m sorry, but she passed on two years ago,” said a mustached man wearing a Dallas Cowboys baseball cap and driving a motorized chair down the street. He was Linda Hill’s husband, Henderson Hill Jr. Linda Kay Hill, a homemaker and Louisiana native, died Aug. 2, 2006, of a...

HOUSTON -- Note: The following story is a verbatim transcript of an Investigators story that aired on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2008, on KPRC Local 2 at 10 p.m. Local 2 investigates dead voters. The push to register voters for this year's presidential election is breaking records. More than 1.9 million people are registered to vote in Harris County alone. But how many of the people listed on the voter roll are actually eligible to cast a ballot? Investigative reporter Amy Davis shows you how hundreds of voters could sway this year's election -- voters who are not even alive. "All-in-all,...

Lake County prosecutors have announced grand jury indictments against two campaign workers for Democratic state Senator Terry Link of Waukegan on charges of forgery and perjury. The indictments announced against Jerry D. Knight, 40, of Zion and Kenneth Davison, 50, of Waukegan allege the men included the names of dead voters on Link's nominating petitions. Knight faces 11 perjury counts and one forgery count. Davison is indicted on nine perjury counts and two forgery counts. All are felonies.

Jane Drury voted last year in an election in Stonington, Conn. The only problem is, she died eight years ago. Her daughter Jane Gumpel thought someone must have goofed. “I was surprised because this is not possible,” she said. But it did happen. The town clerk’s record clearly shows Drury’s vote, marked by a horizontal line poll workers put next to her name. And it turns out, Drury isn’t the only voter to apparently cast a ballot from the grave. [snip] 8,558 deceased people who were still registered on Connecticut’s voter rolls. They discovered more than 300 of them appeared...

The wickedly funny and witty political columnist and bestselling author Ann Coulter (or as I call her the blonde bomber) once wrote that when liberals pass by a graveyard, they see potential voters. I would take it further: when liberals see hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens swarming over our unprotected borders, they see potential voters. An added bonus is that these illegal aliens can't speak English and are ripe for indoctrination by the Democrat Party's Hispanic overseers within the "liberal plantation." Do you think this writer exaggerates? Just look at the recent congressional race in southern California between Bilbray...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Three poll workers accused of casting ballots in the name of dead voters were among six people indicted on charges of violating election laws in a state Senate race, a prosecutor announced Wednesday. Prosecutor Bill Gibbons said his investigation found no evidence of a widespread conspiracy to throw the election to either candidate. Democrat Ophelia Ford was certified the winner over Republican Terry Roland by 13 votes last September. The state Senate overturned the election this year amid allegations of irregularities. "There was an effort on the part of certain individuals ... to cast some illegal votes...

MEMPHIS — The state prosecutor at Memphis is deciding if indictments will be sought in the voting scandal surrounding Ophelia Ford's election to the Tennessee Senate. Prosecutor Bill Gibbons is reviewing a report from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on the District 29 election in which two ballots were cast in the names of dead people. "There's a lot of material to review," Gibbons said Thursday. "If we feel indictments are appropriate we would submit that for consideration to the grand jury." Gibbons declined to say when he expects to make a decision. Ford is not accused of wrongdoing but...

DETROIT A newspaper's review of ballots cast in the November election shows many were cast under the names of people who have died, were serving time in prison or did not live in the city. Detroit election records say Fred Douglas Henley voted at a polling precinct Nov. 8. Henley, however, died the day before the election, and his voting address long has been vacant and boarded up, The Detroit News reported Sunday. Blanche Credit died in 2003. But she's recorded as voting in November, too. It is unknown whether Henley and Credit were names someone used to cast fraudulent...

On Presidents' Day at the National Constitution Center, Gov. Rendell announced his veto of a bill that would have required all voters to show identification when they go to the polls. Rendell said that the bill, which passed the legislature last week on largely parti-line votes, would have the effect of disenfranchising those without easy access to identification, including nursing-home residents, displaced families, the very poor and those without a driver's license. In addition, he said that the identification requirement, which now applies only to people voting at a polling place for the first time, would slow the voting process...

NASHVILLE - The Senate effort to oust a newly elected Democrat will be moving slower in order to comply with a federal judge's ruling, the chamber's top Republican said Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Ron Ramsey, the leader of the push to oust Sen. Ophelia Ford, said he's not sure when he'll be able to reintroduce a resolution to void the election. "I don't know. It could be a week, it could be two weeks," Ramsey said. "The bottom line is we have to do it right because we do have a judge looking over our shoulder." Senate Republicans, arguing that...

MEMPHIS — The inspector in charge of supervising Election Day work at the precinct where at least two ballots were cast in the names of dead people last fall was convicted of forgery in 1987, criminal records show. Eddie Hayes, 58, has worked for 20 years a part-time inspector for the Shelby County Election Commission, but found no problems at the North Memphis precinct where several disputed ballots were cast in the special election won by state Sen. Ophelia Ford by just 13 votes. Hayes, who has not been accused of wrongdoing in the voting irregularities, also works as a...

EVERETT - A statewide computer sweep of voter registration records in Washington found 11,500 voters listed as dead by the state Health Department. The sweep this month also found 36,000 voters who appear to be registered in two counties. The manager of the new $6 million database project, Pam Floyd, says the names have been flagged for further scrutiny. Snohomish County immediately canceled the voter registrations for the more than 1,400 dead people. The state has 3.5 million registered voters. Monthly sweeps are planned for duplicate and deceased voters. In March, officials plan to create the first comprehensive list of...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — At least 68 people recorded as voting in Shelby County between 1994 and 2004 were dead at the time the ballots were cast, a television station reported. The investigation by WMC-TV uncovered several names of voters, which according to Shelby County Election Commission records, cast ballots as much as eight and 10 years after federal records show they died. “I certainly have no idea how any of this could have happened,” commission administrator James Johnson said. He said he would turn the results of the station’s investigation over to the district attorney for further investigation. Prosecutors...

Results of a state senate election in western Tennessee showed Democrat Ophelia Ford had edged Republican Terry Roland in the race to fill the seat previously held by Ford’s brother, John, who was forced to resign after being indicted on bribery charges. The margin of victory was just 13 votes out of 8,750 cast. The margin of victory may have been provided by 60 deceased voters. Buster Chops, spokesman for the Tennessee Democratic Party, credited an aggressive outreach program to register and cast votes for recently departed Tennesseeans. “Republicans tend to overlook this segment of the population,” Chops said. “It’s...

The concrete steps lead from the street up a terrace to where a house once stood, where rolling brown grass now covers an empty lot. This was the North Memphis home of Joe L. Light, a renowned folk artist who lost the property in foreclosure five years ago and wound up in a nursing home. Yet someone claiming to be Light gave this address -- 607 Looney Avenue -- and voted in the September special election that put Ophelia Ford in the state Senate by a razor-thin margin. There's an even bigger problem -- Light died on Aug. 6, six...

The district attorney, the TBI and the Election Commission haven't talked to the first witness, yet Harold Ford Sr. says his own probe of Shelby County's dead voter scandal is done. The former congressman said he's talked to several poll workers and voters and can link the scandal back to a 71-year-old Republican election judge and a plot to sabotage son Harold Ford Jr.'s bid for the U.S. Senate. Local Republicans quickly labeled Ford's allegations as "smoke and mirrors" and slanderous. Following reports that two dead voters cast ballots in the September state Senate race that sister Ophelia Ford won...

Republican leader calls former congressman's claim 'absurd'As a Shelby County voter fraud investigation lurches forward, former congressman Harold Ford Sr. isn't waiting for answers. Ford said Thursday he's opened his own investigation into allegations that two dead voters cast ballots in the September state Senate race that his sister, Ophelia Ford, won by 13 votes. Ford said he's not prepared to make any accusations, yet suggested evidence of any skulduggery will lead to Republicans, not his own Democratic Party. "It's gotten to (where people are saying), 'Hey, we're out here voting dead people.' It is clear that is not the...