Democrat's ballot request opens door to election mishaps, fraud (Alaska)

You may have received an application for an absentee voter ballot from either the Republican or Democratic party -- or from both -- this year. If you've received applications from both parties, you surely noticed a few differences. The Republican application is to be sealed before being mailed. You have to place your own postage on the Republican application, and the return address on the Republican form is the Alaska Division of Elections.

The Democratic application is in the form of a postcard, comes with postage paid, and has the following return address: ADP, PO Box 231230, Anchorage AK, 99523-9990. What's ADP, you ask? It's the Alaska Democratic Party.

That means, if you fill out one of the Democratic application forms, your personal information, including (potentially) your Social Security number, your party affiliation, your home address, date of birth, phone number and other information, will go zooming, open-faced, through the mail and to the Democratic Party before it ever makes it to the Division of Elections.

Alaska law says that a qualified voter may apply for an absentee ballot to "the director" of elections. It does not specify that the application cannot go through a third party, so the Democratic application form is perfectly legal. But legality is only part of the equation when it comes to elections. There's no telling how many applications the Democrats mailed out, or to whom. We know that at least some of the forms went to people who are not registered Democrats.

The fact that the open-faced forms are received by the party before being sent to the elections division opens the door for all kinds of voting fraud. The party could easily build a database from the information on the cards, but there's nothing fraudulent about that. It's also possible, however, that the cards of Republican voters could be delayed or mislaid. Applications could be tampered with, or simply destroyed. Alaska law requires the Division of Elections to provide an absentee ballot to an eligible voter who accurately fills out an official application. The law does not stipulate that the Democratic Party must forward every request it receives to the Division of Elections.

We think this application sends a bad message to voters and creates at least the possibility for fraud and voter disenfranchisement. We suggest that voters use the official form from the Department of Elections, and we urge the Democratic Party to change its form in the future.

> That means, if you fill out one of the Democratic
> application forms, your personal information, including
> ... party affiliation, ... will go zooming, ... to the
> Democratic Party before it ever makes it to the Division
> of Elections.

And if your affiliation is Republican, guess what the odds
are that the forms will never make it to the D.E, and your
ballot will not show up.
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Subject: Will you be turned away on November 2nd?

This email is unfortunately not a hoax or urban legend.
Share it with any people whose votes you care about.
This is particularly important in "battleground" states.

1. Register in person

Unless you registered to vote in person at an official
location, you may not be registered, or you may have a
defective registration. You need to verify your voter
registration status in person with your local elections
office.

2. Verify it

There is some chance that even if you were properly
registered, and even voted in the primaries, someone
has since tampered with (filed a change on) your
registration, either to enable someone else to vote
as you, or just to deny your vote. Verify your
registration. Do this as late as possible (still
with time to fix it)

3. Look for abuse

If you gave personal information to a door-to-door,
telephone or web "get-out-the-vote" operation, there
may be fictional voters signed up as members of your
family or as unrelated people living at your address.
When you verify, ask who else is registered at your
address, or with your same name.

4. Vote as early as possible

If your locale allows it, you need to consider voting
absentee, and as early as possible, to forestall the
ability of someone else to impersonate you and steal
your vote. Register directly with the issuing office,
and not through a third party.

In Kansas, you can register up to 15 days before the
election, but vote as early as 20 days before. So
register NOW, and then you can complete steps 2/3/4
on October 13.

Although the legacy media is not eager to report it, the
2004 election promises to include significant levels of
vote fraud. Ineligible voters, multiple voters, voter
impersonation (vote theft) and registration interference
have all been reported.

3rd-party registration drives cannot be trusted with
something as important as your vote.

Innocent error is possible with any group, but the more
radical organizations are actually invalidating or simply
not filing the registrations of voters not sympathetic
to their candidate. They are also creating additional
fictional registrations based on real addresses, names
and other personal info.

You need to take steps to ensure that your vote counts,
and that information about you is not being used to
enable fraudulent votes.

this is a planned program of disobedience and violation of federal law in mass by the dnc/kerry/moveon.org.

the ideas is to create mass confusion and then have more reason to hate after W wins. insurrection is closer to the objective by the deaneacts... this was planned and carried out in counties where there are favorable judges to their causes so when the briefs are put forward they will be denied and long litigation's will ensue and more democratic hatred will be generated.. they plan the destruction of our voting system to get in power and stay there......

they hate America and conservatives .... they want it all or nothing..... and i dont mean nothing lightly.....

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