Miracle: Man dead twenty years registers to vote.

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Officials: Man Dead For 20 Years Registers To Vote

More Than 800 Voter Registration Cards Being Investigated

UPDATED: 9:46 AM EDT September 23, 2004

AKRON, Ohio -- The state of Ohio is stepping in to investigate possible voter fraud in Summit County. And the Lake County prosecutor is also looking into fraud there.

More than 800 voter registration cards in Summit County are under investigation, NewsChannel5 reported.

The Board of Elections said the voter registration cards in question are for addresses that don't exist, spelling mistakes or have similar handwriting. 

Fifty of those questionable cards apparently came from the AFL-CIO central office in Cleveland, WEWS reported.

The AFL-CIO said it's registering thousands of union members this year, and had no knowledge of the faulty cards, which are filled out by volunteers.

AFL-CIO Executive Secretary John Ryan told NewsChannel5’s partner The Akron Beacon Journal that "it's not only a felony, but it's playing with democracy in a dangerous, horrible way."

Elections officials said the bogus cards were kicked out by the computer and forwarded to state investigators.

In the meantime in Lake County, elections officials said some voter advocacy groups are forging registration cards.

In one example, a man who's been dead for 20 years is apparently a new registered voter.

And in another case, it looks as if an entire neighborhood will be out of town on Election Day. Everyone there applied for absentee ballots.

This fraud comes on the heels of a report NewsChannel5 did just Wednesday on identity theft and voter registration. (Read Report)

Never give out your full social security number if asked. Elections officials only require the last four digits for verification.

[TrueBlue72 0]

NOW we see why the Demoncrats are leading in the voter registration drives in Ohio. I hope that several of these folks are found, proscecuted and sent to jail over this scam. We need to send a message to those who would attempt to steal an election that this will not be tolerated in America.

[CarolinaTiger 0]

i'm not sure what can be done if people choose to defraud the system.

i mean, an entire neighborhood requested absentee ballots? what's up w/ that?

[TrueBlue72 0]

The system can be made secure. Banks do it all the time. You have a voter registration card and your PIN and this is linked to a national database. When you verify your ID and vote, the information goes into a database. When the voting is done, the database is used to look for duplicates. The duplicates are thrown out and that information is turned over to investigators to determine what caused to problem. Any fraud should be proscuted to the fullest extent of the law. A possible sentence would be six months as John Kerry's personal assistant. ROFL