Posted on 11/01/2007 4:29:36 PM PDT by LdSentinal
PITTSBURGH -- They went to the polls and their votes were counted even though they’d been dead for years.
Target 11 investigator Rick Earle pored through mounds of data and discovered that thousands of dead voters are still on the Allegheny county election rolls.
There are nearly a million people registered to vote Allegheny County, but we discovered that thousands of them aren't even living. So what's the big deal?
Well, someone could walk into a precinct and cast a ballot in that person's name and we discovered that it has already happened.
Charles Beck voted in the May primary.John O’Donnell and Patricia Deltondo cast a ballot in the general election last year, according to results from Allegheny county election board. But Target 11 discovered it was impossible for any of them to go to the polls.
Target 11 spent weeks looking through voter registration rolls, comparing them with the Social Security master death index.
There were more than a few glitches. Earle discovered more than 9,000 deceased voters were still registered to vote. Even more shocking, more than 16 of them voted in recent elections.
The disturbing part, is that election workers at the polls aren't catching the problem. Mark Wolosik, head of the Allegheny County board of elections, blames the problems on clerical errors.
Wolosik said, “With that many records sometimes you have mismatches. People make mistakes. I hate to admit it, but we do, too.”
Apparently relatives with similar names are voting for their deceased loved ones.
Wolsik said, “The important thing is only person voted.”
Maybe true -- but voting in place of a deceased family member has led to criminal charges in other states. Here in Allegheny County, these voters had no idea they had been voting for their dead relatives.
Since 2002 all of Charles Beck's votes were tallied under his grandfather's name, even though Beck said he alerted poll workers shortly after his grandfather passed away.
Charles Beck said, “I told that lady, my grandfather's deceased at this address. He's gone. So can you cancel out his voter registration and she said she would take care of it. And that was the end of that.”
Wolosik says the county is now working to remove deceased voters from the registry.
Wolsik said, “I think the thing to keep in mind is, when you look at it percentage-wise it's not a very big number.”
Marybeth Kuznik is the executive director of Vote PA. She said voters need to take their own precautions. “One of the best things we can do to combat this is if every voter would check his or her registration during the off season.”
To cut down on the potential for voter fraud, a state senator recently introduced legislation requiring voters to show a photo identification.
After Target 11 brought the mistakes to the election board, they immediately contacted the voters in question, and corrected the errors.
Which is why NYS gov Spitzer wants to give licenses to illegals. Fat lotta good a photo ID's gonna do.
ping
If we treated voter fraud like treason, and prosecuted it accordingly, we’d have a lot less of it.
“If we treated voter fraud like treason, and prosecuted it accordingly, we’d have a lot less of it.”
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Hell, this country doesn’t even treat TREASON like treason anymore!
This is how the Clinton’s plan on winning this time around.
I know. Sigh....
should also make them do the purple dip...
The “Fifty State Strategy” is most definitely in play.
(scratchin' my head here :)
Yea, but by golly don't you dare smoke a cigarette!
You’re right.
When Mrs. Clinton demagogues the “invisible” Americans, she is really talking about the
“ghost” votes she expects her minions to generate.
“Marybeth Kuznik is the executive director of Vote PA. She said voters need to take their own precautions. “One of the best things we can do to combat this is if every voter would check his or her registration during the off season.””
Good plan Marybeth. Every dead person should go chect to see if their name is still on the active voter rolls.
No chance this ditz is a RAT.
Election fraud is like the Energizer Bunny. It keeps going, and going, and going. The only cure is photo ID for voters, and that's why the Democrats fight that in the legislatures and then in the courts.
Congressman Billybob
>That’s how the Clintons plan on winning this time around.<
Why not? It worked for Christine Gregoire in Washington State last time! It took three recounts for Gregoire to win! Dino Rossi is running again for governor to recapture his win in 2006. The RNC did not lift a finger!
No surprise...
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