Media source/ Detroit Free Press
date/September 23,2004
State/Michigan
City orCounty/Wayne, Oakland, Ingham and Eaton counties/Detroit, Pontiac
# of suspect votes/a couple thousand questionable registrations."
past history/Detroit Elections Director Gloria Williams said her office has been receiving several thousand new registrations a day, about half of which were duplicates of people already registered.
Ingham County Clerk Mike Bryanton said some of the alleged fraud he had reviewed was "pretty obvious," including names taken out of the phone book and as many as eight people registered from a single apartment address.
source of fraud: individual Overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters, election and law enforcement officials said Wednesday
and employee/the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) and Project Vote
.The Project Vote office in Ohio fired two workers earlier this year for submitting bogus voter applications
who is taking action against/Ingham County Sheriff's Detective Mark Bowser
State Elections Director Christopher Thomas
Link http://www.freep.com/news/mich/register23e_20040923.htm
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