Media source/WCPO
Date/Sept 25th
State/OHIO
Voter advocates say a late flood of new registrations will lead to a confusion and lost votes on Election Day. Election boards in Ohio's largest counties are getting nearly double the number of registration cards submitted in 2000.
The scramble is expected to intensify this wee, as the October 4 registration deadline nears. Election boards have hired extra staff members, extended working hours, or both, to process registration cards. Some boards are processing them 24 hours a day.
Dennis Lieberman, chairman of the Democratic Party in Montgomery County, says surveys show that the majority of new voters appear to be Democrats.
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OHIO II
Media source/Cleveland Plain Dealer
Date/9-23-2004
State/OHIO
City of County/Painesville - Lake County
# of suspect votes/dozens of registration cards and maybe hundreds of absentee ballot
past history/The 12,000 new registrations in Lake County this year more than double the last two years combined, she said.
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?"
source of fraud: individual
and employee/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.
who is taking action against/None of the cases has been turned over to Coulson , Lake County Prosecutor, yet,
board members Wednesday gave elections board Director Jan Clair
the OK to pursue the cases criminally.
Link; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1225358/posts
PARTY: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.