Posted on 11/01/2008 12:29:21 PM PDT by Son House
Examples of possible voter fraud in Ohio stretch from the farmlands to the West Coast. In Highland County, 95-year-old Mildred Meddock registered and voted for the first time in her life despite her advanced Alzheimer's disease. Her granddaughters learned of her newfound patriotism when they visited the nursing home where Meddock lives and saw an "I voted today" sticker on her clothing. Records show that Meddock registered Sept. 26 when two Highland County Board of Elections employees visited the home, Heartland of Hillsboro, about 65 miles south of Columbus. Four other residents also were registered and voted that day. "I'm hot. I'm livid," said granddaughter Chrystal Brown. "A month ago, she couldn't tell you her name she was so bad, and, depending on what time of day it is, her name is the only thing she can tell you." ... "My question is...which side was she coerced into voting for, or maybe my question is how many impaired elderly people are used and taken advantage of for their vote?" Brown said. ... Other odd voters include at least six people who cast ballots at Veteran's Memorial during Golden Week the overlap between the final week of voter registration and the first week of early voting. None have any apparent links to Franklin County; four don't seem to have any links to Ohio whatsoever. And at least one of them has ballots in hand from two different states: here and California. Their registrations and ballots have been segregated by the Franklin County Board of Elections because mailed confirmations of their registrations were returned by the post office as undeliverable. On Tuesday, the board sent them another letter asking them to confirm their Ohio residences and to warn them about the penalties for committing registration and/or voter fraud.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local%5fnews/stories/2008/10/29/fraud30.html?sid=101
Among those under scrutiny for questionable registrations and votes are:
* A man who most recently lived at Rescue Mission in Syracuse, N.Y. He listed his address as 154 E. Long St. Downtown. There’s no such address. The 49-year-old man never has registered to vote in New York.
* A 27-year-old man who has lived in Kentucky since 1998 listed his address as 2462 Parsons Ave. That address, if it existed, would fall somewhere below the Rt. 104 overpass near the railroad tracks in a heavily industrialized area of the South Side.
* A 33-year-old native Californian who voted in Ohio on Oct. 4 using the address of a German Village house. The current resident of that house and the Californian were roommates at UCLA in the mid-1990s. The California native is registered as a permanent vote-by-mail voter in San Francisco County, meaning that he can vote there as well. He had utilities connected at his new business address in San Francisco on Sept. 1. His MySpace account, last updated in August, lists his address in San Francisco.
None of them could be reached for comment. Their ballots will remain segregated and sealed until the Board of Elections determines where they live.
This election is gonna be so close and with all these possible vote frauds, this election is going to the courts.
It could be a long winter.
“We’re coming for you frauds”
I wish that were so. But historically, the day after elections everything seems to be forgotten, swept under the rug as they prepare to commit fraud during the next election.
Will Senator McCain challenge any of this fraud if the election is close and we lose?
I helped my mom (lack of caps denotes mother-in-law who treats me like a daughter) do her absentee ballot yesterday. I explained how to do the one party thing, and showed all the other ways (by each individual) she could vote. She then said “Well, wouldn’t it be easier to just vote for one party?” I said yes. Then she said “Well, where’s the Republican one?” So I showed her, and after she said she couldn’t finish filling in the circle, I finished it for her.
I am so proud of myself for not just saying “Well, Mom, here’s where you make your circle!” (She’s vision impaired)...but I wanted to! And I’m so glad she voted for my girl Sarah, oh, and John too!
Oops, just realized I was wearing my McCain/Palin badge...but we were at the township office, not a polling place, so I was ok, right??
she couldn’t finish filling in the circle
as long as that’s the circle she intended, but Øbama is going to be desperate to get her to change her mind because ACORN fraud has less influence now that their getting caught everywhere
This sounds suspiciously like what former longtime W PA Congressman, Austin Murphy, ended up going to jail for. They registered (and voted Democrat for) all the nursing home patients in his district. The family of some Alzheimer’s patient who had been a lifelong Republican were startled to discover that she had voted a straight Democrat ticket even though she was incapable of telling anyone her name and signed the ballot with an “X.” That’s what started the investigation that landed him in jail.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Too big a wuss. He’ll try to out-magnanimous Nixon in ‘60, even though the future of the country is at stake. If it were Palin, on the other hand.......
A.J. went to jail? After he left office?? I’m surprised I missed that one.
“election is going to the courts.”
I gained weight last time this happened, this time I’m going on a diet...at least I will come out of it better looking.
There were reports in 2000 of Democrats going into nursing homes in Florida to “help” people vote—so if Gore had managed to win Florida after all the recounts it might have been on the basis of votes cast by Alzheimer’s patients who didn’t know what they were doing.
In May, 1999, Murphy was indicted by a Fayette County grand jury of engaging in voter fraud. He was charged with forgery, conspiracy and tampering with public records. Murphy insisted that he was only trying to help elderly nursing home residents fill out paperwork that accompanied an absentee ballot. According to the grand jury, Murphy and two others forged absentee ballots for residents of the nursing home and then added Murphy's wife, Eileen Murphy, as a write-in candidate for township election judge. The next month, following closed-door negotiations, all but one of the voter fraud charges were dropped. Following the hearing, he left the building by a back door to avoid an angry crowd outside. He was sentenced to six months probation and fifty hours of community service.
How silly of me to think that he went to jail like a Republican would have. What was I thinking?
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