Several days after presidential votes were tallied in what has become the hotbed of Florida's post election confusion, police in Palm Beach County confiscated a ballot-box mechanism from the car of a well-known local Democrat. According to a plice report filed at the Palm Beach County sheriff's office and obtained by ABCNEWS, Irving Slosberg, 53, pulled the mechanism from his car and handed it over to police on Nov. 11 after denying to a county government employee that he had it. When told of the incident, Palm Beach County's supervisor of elections, Theresa Lefore, declined to press charges, according to the report.
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The state investigation was prompted by a complaint from Todd Vinson, a law clerk in Miami who is a registered Pensacola voter.
Vinson, state investigators and others involved outline this series of events:
On Oct. 10, Vinson requested the Escambia County Supervisor of Elections to mail an absentee ballot to his Miami apartment. After it failed to arrive, he requested a second ballot on Oct. 24.
It, too, disappeared.
Vinson, 28, said he complained to his father, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, last Thursday. That morning, the elder Vinson called Jones.
Jones' office reviewed all the absentee ballots and discovered a ballot with Todd Vinson's name on it. When Jones compared the signature on the ballot to the signature on Vinson's voter registration card, the two did not match.
Jones faxed a copy of the signature to Todd Vinson.
``It was clearly forged,'' he said. ``Somebody definitely got hold of it and sent it back in. The question is where did they get it, and my speculation was that it happened somewhere in the post office. It made it down here to Miami, but it never made it to me.''
Jones sent a third ballot to Vinson via next-day mail that arrived in time for Vinson to cast a ballot for Bush. Jones then contacted the State Attorney's Office, U.S. Attorney Mike Patterson and the Florida Division of Elections.
Edgar said the signed witness required for all absentee ballots listed a fictitious address.
State Attorney Curtis Golden said that if the Postal Service was involved, his office might turn the investigation over to federal law enforcement officials.
Patterson declined on Wednesday to say whether his office is participating in the investigation. He did indicate his office is interested in the matter.
``In general, that kind of voter fraud or fraudulent activity surrounding a federal election is something we would be interested in,'' he said.
Vinson, 28, said he complained to his father, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, last Thursday. That morning, the elder Vinson called Jones. . . . Jones' office reviewed all the absentee ballots and discovered a ballot with Todd Vinson's name on it. When Jones compared the signature on the ballot to the signature on Vinson's voter registration card, the two did not match.
Yes, thanks for your post. I remember these things but had forgotten. Had it been a Republican who had done these things, they'd have been NAILED, sent to jail for lots of time. It's unbelieveable what dastards the Dems. are.