Posted on 09/24/2004 7:25:29 AM PDT by amordei
More than 1,000 voter registration forms and absentee ballot requests may be fraudulent in Lake and Summit counties, where investigations of irregularities are broadening.
Lake County Sheriff Daniel Dunlap said Thursday that he will investigate an attempt to register a dead person and other possibly fraudulent documents that were submitted to the Lake County Board of Elections. Advertisement
Dunlap also said he has notified the FBI and the Ohio secretary of state.
"We want to make sure the election here in Lake County is the best possible," Dunlap said. "I don't know if this was a concerted effort or if it was just an overzealous, independent person here and there who decided to push the envelope."
Elections officials have said hundreds of absentee ballot applications and dozens of voter registration cards are in question. Lake County Prosecutor Charles Coulson, also involved in the probe, said the problems are more significant than originally thought.
"We've seen voter fraud before, but never on this level," Coulson said Thursday. "I grew up in Chicago and this looks like the politics of Mayor Daley in the '50s and '60s."
Lake election and law enforcement officials said their investigation is centered on absentee registration attempts by the nonpartisan NAACP's National Voter Fund and an anti-Bush, nonprofit group called Americans Coming Together, or ACT Ohio.
The National Voter Fund could not be reached Wednesday or Thursday at its Washington, D.C., offices.
A spokesman for ACT Ohio, however, said the group believed the allegations would prove groundless.
Several registration applications submitted by campaign volunteers for a candidate are also being scrutinized, Lake elections board Director Jan Clair said.
None of the officials would identify the candidate, however.
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More voter fraud ping!
'nonpartisan NAACP'???? Maybe legally they are suppose to be, but come on.
We need to make this story bigger than Rathergate. NOW!
"... absentee registration attempts by the nonpartisan NAACP's National Voter Fund..."
There is a nonpartisan NAACP? Does it have any affiliation withe the other NAACP?
Yes, they do. Just another example of liberal bias.
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Send this story to friends, blogs, whatever. The only fear I have at this point is that they will steal this election.
ACT has employed seriuous criminal offenders to gather personal data. They have no shame.
Exactly.
Bump again.
You can tell it's about Democrat vote fraud when you have to read deep into the article to see "who done it" . . . if it was Republicans or conservatives, the headline would scream it . . .
Maybe this is it - the AG is finally doing something about it.
Nonpartisan?!?
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1224707/posts
You can add this to the incedent in summit county where they found a man dead for 20 years recently registered to vote. The AFL_CIO is involved in that one.
I knew it was the Democrats because "Republican" wasn't found in the title!
How 'bout that? If ACT and the NTL Voter group aren't charged under exisiting vote fraud and election laws, authorities need to charge them with filing forged documents.............. There's a lot of that going on lately.
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Is this what they mean when they say republicans stop blacks from voting?
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