Posted on 09/23/2004 7:11:13 PM PDT by mak5
Painesville - At least one Lake County voter would have made quite a comeback to cast a ballot Nov. 2.
He has been dead for more than two decades, elections officials said.
In a seemingly lesser miracle of wayward democracy, an elderly nursing home resident who only scrawls a shaky "X" when signing official documents suddenly regained a firm, crisp cursive signature when she registered.
Both the dead man and the elderly woman were signed up by voter registration advocacy groups, Lake County elections officials said.
"Those were not their signatures," Lake elections board Director Jan Clair said Wednesday. "Now, we're talking about election fraud here, and we're going to take some of these cases to the prosecutor."
Clair said the veracity of dozens of registration cards and maybe hundreds of absentee ballot requests are being investigated by the Lake County board in an election year with possibly record-setting registration efforts. The 12,000 new registrations in Lake County this year more than double the last two years combined, she said.
"Let's just say there are a lot of voter advocacy groups out there this year with a number of zealous participants who maybe don't understand the law regarding this type of activity," Clair said.
"We're not going to be allowing anyone to intrude on the integrity of democracy," Clair said.
She said that the registration of the deceased man was filed by the National Voter Fund, the registration arm of the NAACP, and the woman in the nursing home was registered by the group Americans Coming Together, known in this state as ACT Ohio.
She said ACT Ohio had been to two Lake County nursing homes and a number of registrations were now in question.
A spokesman for the National Voter Fund could not be reached. Its Web site, www.naacpnvf.org, says it is a nonpartisan effort to increase participation of the African-American voter.
Jess Goode, state communications director for ACT Ohio, said the Lake County allegations would turn out to be nothing.
"We honestly believe that there is nothing to this and that it was based on confusion and miscommunication," Goode said. "We have tough, professional standards and . . . a well-trained staff.
"Our goal is to make sure more Ohioans are able to vote legitimately."
ACT is a partisan group formed with the specific intent to oust President Bush from office and promote Democrats on all ballots, according to its Web site, www.actforvictory.org.
Groups like ACT are known as 527 organizations because of the number of the section of the tax code that governs political committees. Published reports have said that the organizations have raised nearly $184 million since the end of 2002 to use for get-out-the-vote operations, political advertising and contributions to state and local candidates.
Clair said she is also investigating a potentially fraudulent registration effort by a political candidate, whom she would not name unless the case gets referred to Lake County Prosecutor Charles Coulson.
None of the cases has been turned over to Coulson yet, although board members Wednesday gave Clair the OK to pursue the cases criminally.
There are other apparent irregularities in Lake County, like dozens of people on one street who filed for absentee ballots.
"Like one entire neighborhood that says it's going to be out of town on Election Day?" Clair asked. "That seems more than a little strange, so we're going out to have a talk with some people."
I could not agree more. In fact, I'd be willing to have police at each precinct ready to take anyone who tries to cast a fraudulent vote taken away for all to see. I'm so sick and tired of the RATS using dead people, fake family names, smokes for votes bribery, and whatever else they can to try and steal elections. Hell, I'd say bring back a literacy test but that might be considered extreme by some. But I think it's unreal that the most important decision a person can make can be bastardized or stolen because the liberals can't accept the will of the people.
When reached for comment, the dead voters stated that they had all accidentally voted for PAT BUCHANAN
I was streaming in a Cleveland station this afternoon and heard a local report on this. It was more than just one guy, there were lots, and all registered dems. But why is this a suprise? It has been a long running snicker in this country that the dems vote the graveyards in every election.
Yep, you may live your life in Chicago and die there, but never fear, your vote for the democrat party lives on (forever).
"We honestly believe that there is nothing to this and that it was based on confusion and miscommunication," Goode said. "We have tough, professional standards and . . . a well-trained staff.
CtheBS had tough, professional standards and well-trained staff too but that didn't stop them from perpetrating a fraud. What these people did was election fraud and they must be prosecuted. There is going to be more election fraud this year than in all elections in the past decade combined. Ohio will be right in the middle of it all.
Unfortunately, we won't be able to pinpoint the thousands of
cemetary voters that the Dems will be sliding through.
Meanwhile, in minority precincts, the Dems will post authen-
tic sample "instruction" ballots on the wall with all of the
Democrat candidates boxes marked with an 'X'. Liberal col-
lege students and NY/Fla residents will be able to vote in
two locations. And, when all is said and done the Democrats
will complain about thousands of people who were prevented
from voting by the evil GOP.
They vote a stiff record of Democrat tickets too!
They have to check those empty lots and boarded up houses too, there's plenty of votes coming from them!
The democRATs (i.e. Kennedys, Daleys, Longs, etc.) have a long history of voter fraud. It's past time to prosecute these crimes. And, btw, when is Sandy Berger going to jail?
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Q: "What would happen if Kerry won the election by election fraud?"
A: Then he would be the second JFK to be fraudulently elected to the presidency.
The is why I warn people not the get cocky even when were up... the Dem have long tradition of fake voting and dirty tricks... they have it down to a fine art and in 2000 they took it to a new level... this year they will pull out ever stop and just be blatant...my fear is if 2004 is anything other than a Bush landslide... the Dem will steal it
This is one reason why I think I will vote Republican for the rest of my life. After I am dead, I will be voting Democrat--it seems like everyone always does. Democrats have a long line of tricks--I should know--my family has been Democrats for a long time. Dead folks voting, cats and dogs, felons, multiple votes, ruining the ballots in republican districts and of course 4 legged voting. Fortunately, it looks like the current administration is going over the voter rolls with a fine toothed comb. The democrats have have famous for election fraud since the Civil war.
Oh oh, anytime an organization tells you about their good reputation, or tough, professional standards, it is no time to turn your back on them.
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I think we're finally starting to catch them BEFORE the elections now, vice having to make accusations afterwards. I strongly prefer before than afterwards!
The dead ALWAYS vote a straight democrat ticket.
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I was in the records section at the courthouse today and the county clerk came in to make a copy. She told me that she'd never seen an election like this. She couldn't believe how many new registrations they'd had and she said the military vote is huge. I'd say she's worked in the clerk's office for over 20 yrs so she's seen a few national elections.
We need to be talking this up. Tell your friends about it, and if they haven't bothered to vote for years, explain how the election could well be stolen by voter fraud. The only way around this is for legitimate people to actually get out there on election day and VOTE!
And the AFL-CIO, in Summit County
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