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Posted on 09/23/2004 8:00:47 AM PDT by esryle
More Than 800 Voter Registration Cards Being Investigated
AKRON, Ohio -- The state of Ohio is stepping in to investigate possible voter fraud in Summit County. And the Lake County prosecutor is also looking into fraud there.
More than 800 voter registration cards in Summit County are under investigation, NewsChannel5 reported.
The Board of Elections said the voter registration cards in question are for addresses that don't exist, spelling mistakes or have similar handwriting.
Fifty of those questionable cards apparently came from the AFL-CIO central office in Cleveland, WEWS reported.
The AFL-CIO said it's registering thousands of union members this year, and had no knowledge of the faulty cards, which are filled out by volunteers.
AFL-CIO Executive Secretary John Ryan told NewsChannel5’s partner The Akron Beacon Journal that "it's not only a felony, but it's playing with democracy in a dangerous, horrible way."
Elections officials said the bogus cards were kicked out by the computer and forwarded to state investigators.
In the meantime in Lake County, elections officials said some voter advocacy groups are forging registration cards.
In one example, a man who's been dead for 20 years is apparently a new registered voter.
And in another case, it looks as if an entire neighborhood will be out of town on Election Day. Everyone there applied for absentee ballots.
This fraud comes on the heels of a report NewsChannel5 did just Wednesday on identity theft and voter registration. (Read Report)
Never give out your full social security number if asked. Elections officials only require the last four digits for verification.
Will C=BS cover THIS? Mmakes you wonder why skerry campaign was so sure they would win OHIO
I think some fraud happened in Ohio in 2000, esp. in the Youngstown, Akron, and Toledo areas. However W won by 4 so the point was moot.
We can't let the Dems steal this election, and it looks like there is something actually being done about it!
I don't see what the big deal is - he's buried in the district where he registered to vote...
That's just Kerry shoring up his base...
Did they also report that the same 50 wanted to enroll as Democrats?
This goes hand-in-hand with the recent report of Alzheimer's disease nursing home patients being taken to the polls by their spouse and the spouse gets to vote "for them", essentially voting twice.
Holy mackeral Andy. Caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
Happy to see that the computers are doing their job. 800 down, thousands to go.
What would be fun, is not to announce it, but wait for the union phoney to show up to vote under the illegal name and arrest his ass.
ping
union vote fraud in Ohio
It is scary to think boau the potential for massive absentee ballot fraud. If somebody can get hold of lists with Social Security numbers, they can simply forge the ballot applications and then steal the ballots out of the mailboxes while the voters are at work. Easy as pie.
I wish all dead people shared this man's sense of civic responsibility.
I would love to someday see the actual valid-vote tallies for the last several elections, for a side-by-side comparison with the fraud-inclusive results. Do they have that stat-book in Heaven's library?
Well in LBJ's 1960 Texas they not only registered to vote but then showed up at the polling place and voted in alphabetic order, no less. Remarkably, it wasn't voter fraud back then. I am sure this long-deceased OH guy just got out of line or something.
If Kerry's poll numbers dip any lower, the DNC will no longer be able to take the decreased vote for granted.
Vote early, vote often.
let me guess- registered DEMOCRAP?
Bump.
I'll venture to guess, and go out on a limb, that the AFL-CIO wasn't doing this for republicans... ;-)
Typical union fraud vote. Can anyone tell me if this can be stopped in OH?
That's what I call energizing the base!
Hats off to committed patriots everywhere - getting out the Democratic vote is no picnic!
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