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.
Your welcome.
Its amazing what some people will though to forge votes. My mother inlaw was in a nursing home with Alzhemiers several years ago, we came in one day and a group of people were there telling them that they would be back to help them fill out there absentee ballots. We raised cane over that one then as she had no clue about her surroundings all she knew was that she wanted to vote for the one with the beautiful wavy hair lol
Agreed. It would bring an unprecedented level of freedom to people.
Could you please expand on this?
Bernie!!!!! He can vote...
(Weekend at Bernies)
Whoa, hold on there! We don't neeed a national ID for this; the national ID could be used for other things (we might have to show it to get groceries or medical help, for example).
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