Here's one.

Here's another.

Here is one:
http://www.votepair.org
George

Here's another Ohio instance:

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/summit/1096018375266600.xml

clay

How can we monitor vote fraud on election day without being accused of intimidation? Can we take legally photographs inside the precinct? Can we follow the vans which are transporting the same 10 voters to 20 different precincts so they can each vote under 20 different names? We need guidance NOW so we can get organized for election day, and can't find any set of clear rules.

The 527's are ACTing up:

"We've seen voter fraud before, but never on this level"

Several years ago I ran for city council in Ann Arbor, MI. In doing so, I obtained the voter registration list from the city clerk. While sorting it through a database program to find voters in my ward, I was surprised to find the names of a number of people who I knew personally still registered to vote in Ann Arbor, even though I knew they had moved out of Ann Arbor years before! When I contacted the city clerk's office about the discrepancies, they weren't concerned. Now while I doubt that those particular people would try to come back and vote in Ann Arbor, there are no doubt plenty of folks like that all over the country.

To ask a question: When someone registers to vote in a new location, is any effort put forth to cancel their registration in their old location?

Charlie Sykes, a radio show host in Milwaukee, has been discussing this issue. His weblog has some info:

http://www.620wtmj.com/620programs/charliesykes/weblog.asp

I have a feeling you'll get a lot of Ohio examples. The strategy is already clear: Put extra stress on the system using the every-vote-must-count pressure against the defense of fair, accurate, and manageable methods. Anything that slows down the vote-counting will be inverted and used later to portray the boards of election as reactionary, restrictive, squash-the-vote types being manipulated by their evil stringpulling Rove-bots. If it's a close vote in Ohio, and at this point I don't think it will be, then, hold on to your butts, cause all bets will be off. Any kind of bizarre outcome will seem equally likely of occurring. Even if it's not close, its legitimacy will be questioned, at least up until the next round of shenanigans.

Gary K,

Yes people vote in two places. See the stories on voters registered in both NYC and Fla.

However, the bigger problem is that absentee ballots are often requested for these people without them even knowing it.

In the 2000 election, a clerk for a Federal Judge in Fla (these are usually outstanding recent grads from the best law schools) wrote about how his absentee ballot kept getting stolen before it got to his mailbox. He had to make a number of requests.

He raised the issue of whether someone in the Postal workers union might be intercepting ballots so that they could fill them out and send them in.

Sir,

No matter what, JFK will win. You see, he has not only NYT, PBS, etc. but also bloggers like DailyKos who encourage voter fraud to win. In other words, Bush has a checkmate.

- Already Carter, NAACP etc are saying FL will have 2000 again. (So, Demos are playing good people here.)

- Now Kos and others are encouraging voter behavior like Mayor Daley (vote early and vote often).

So, Bush will lose big time. Right now, as there are groups like MoveON, Bush is Nazi, etc. that are underground planning the fraud. You will not see the real polls now. But, come Oct. 28 (JFK last meetup), things will slip for GOP.

You heard it here first. JFK wins by 5%, thanks to voter fraud. GOP cannot do anything, as they are checkmated.

AKB

hope this helps

www.columbusdispatch.com/election/election-local.php?story=dispatch/2004/09/25/20040925-A1-02.html

www.votepair.org

www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/summit/1096018375266600.xml

www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200210\POL20021017d.html

www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C65437%2C00.html

www.nytimes.com/2004/09/29/nyregion/29vote.html

www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=9&screen=news&news_id=36061

www.freep.com/news/mich/register23e_20040923.htm

wowktv.com/news/index.cfm?newsItemID=1303

www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200409140829.asp

30,000 fraudulent registrations in Wisconsin. http://www.jsonline.com/news/racine/sep04/262511.asp (registration free, but required)

What's needed is some prosecutions. Every time votes are produced from a cemetary, someone should go to prison. Every time someone abets multiple voting, falsifying ballots, buying votes on the street, nursing home vote scams, breaking the seals on ballot boxes, someone should do time. If only a few hundred out of the thousands involved were prosecuted it would put a stop to most of that.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=VOTE%20FRAUD

So my suggestion, as an ancillary to this excellent program, would be to encourage people via blogs and talk radio to start calling and writing lawmakers now to demand rigorous enforcement of vote fraud laws. When congress gets a thousand calls a day on one subject, they pay attention.

Fifty calls in an hour to C-span decrying the apparent Democrat plans to skew the election would put them on notice, I would think, and counter their strategy of trying to set the stage before the event by creating expectations of Republican tampering.

This could be what Arlo Guthrie might call "a movement"

We had a city election in Millington, TN yesterday. At my polling spot they were using lead PENCILS to fill out the forms, and giving us PENCILS to sign them with. Please take a INK PEN to the polls with you in Nov.

I have to agree with Marty, in his post. Until there are manditory severe sentences for voter fraud it will remain a threat to the accuracy of our elections. Voter fraud equals an attempt to subvert the will of the voters and if practiced in large enough numbers is a silent coup. In California you can't even think of asking for an ID. However, you can't cash a check, board an airplane, or see your medical provider without an ID check, you should have to prove your identity in the polling places too. Each successful example of voter fraud dilutes everyone's vote.

http://www.gmtoday.com/milwaukeetoday/editorials/belling.asp

Another

This is important work. We can't allow the election to be stolen.

Requiring an ID is a good idea in thought but not in implementation. Then, the reason that many voters might be disenfranchised is not because they have been chased away through some chicanery, but because they don't drive or have a passport. And SSN cards can't be used as ID. Poor, new immigrants, elderly, homeless, can all fit in this category.

Better would be a requirement to corroborate that you are who you are, but not just by using an ID. Maybe this could be by a corroborating person who has already been authenticated.

You might want to add some constraints to avoid abuse:

- The ID of the corroborator has to be recorded at the time of voting.
- The corroborator must be someone who was able to produce a valid ID.
- A corroborator cannot authenticate more than 3 people (or 2 or 5, whatever).

I am quite disturbed by the potential that people who already feel like the general populace doesn't want them around might feel like they can't vote.

Voting twice in New York and in Florida

We are most definetely having issues of voter fraud propogated by groups set up to register "new" voters. In Racine WI they are investigating atleast 6 voter registrations that came in without signatures and those listed said they never authorized the registration. We are no stranger to voter fraud - serveral known instances last election. Unfortunately our DA in Milwaukee is famous for looking the other way or giving a slap on the wrist. I am honestly really worried and wish I knew what to do. I am trying to let everyone know I can that this is going on....but there has to be more we can do. Just today I learned there are instances in CO, OH, MI and TN. Perhaps we could have people infiltrate these groups and document what is going on. We can't get something done unless we can prove it. I wish I had time and resources to do something here....

Thank you for giving us the means to make this Extremely important issue known.

Mary

I think we need a few moles: somebody to penetrate the anti-Bush groups, and volunteer to engage in get out the vote efforts. Hopefully the bad guys will ask us to do something illegal.

Jack

Exit polls may play an important part in identifying voter fraud. If the actual count isn't pretty much in the same ballpark as exit polls predict, a red light should go off and the proper authorities (not Jimmy Carter) should be called to investigate.

The rock has been overturned and the light of day has been shone of these creatures who would corrupt our election process. Let them be put on notice that they are being watched.

Drew's comment:

"Requiring an ID is a good idea in thought but not in implementation. Then, the reason that many voters might be disenfranchised is not because they have been chased away through some chicanery, but because they don't drive or have a passport. And SSN cards can't be used as ID. Poor, new immigrants, elderly, homeless, can all fit in this category."

1.) Almost every state has provision for a non-driver identifivation card--many use these as ID for checks, etc.
2.) "poor"? How does this equate with not having a valid, verifiable ID? It's certainly not a barrier when social services require ID (and every one I've worked with/had contacts with have required verifiable IDs).
3.) new immigrants: unless they are citizens, they don't have the right to vote in our elections. If they are citizens, what's the barrier to them having a valid ID? None.
4.) Elderly: if they don't have valid IDs by the time they hit the nursing home, something's seriously wrong...
5.) Homeless: a tough category, but I have worked with homeless. They can have valid IDs if they want them.

None of the categories Drew mentioned need be barriers to having identity verified by valid IDs. Requiring a valid ID is a good first step to knocking down voter fraud.

Shelby County, Tennessee, (Memphis) has a backlog of 20,000 unprocessed registrations, and more coming in.

http://www.abc24.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=BC3455A2-C0AB-4E70-8300-F9ABAF5EFC67

Word is already out, despite the story saying otherwise, that folks will still be allowed to vote even if they don't have a card or can prove registration on voting day. It's a mess already, just waiting to be abused.

My suggestion would be for folks to take their camera-phones with them. If you see something going on, snap a few photos right away. Get faces, license plates, names on vans, whatever. Do it before confiscation can occur, if possible. The more documentary and photographic evidence, the better.

Upload them ASAP, then send emails to the bigger name bloggers (ie. Bill or Instapundit in Tennessee) with links. Maybe someone with a lot of bandwidth can host the most damning photos, for the inevitable avalanches of hits.

Be careful. In many black precincts, just the presence of a lone white will be evidence of intimidation. You may have trouble. So don't do stuff like that.

Isn't it something when tax exempt money is used to engage in a fraudulent vote drive and then tax revenues must be used to try to prevent phony registrations from being used for fraudulent voting? I think that not only should criminal prosecutions be instituted, but as well the organizations involved should be sued to repay the treasuries of the communities involved.

Gary K. noted that the voter registration lists contain many names of people who've moved away, and wonders why the rolls don't get purged. The reason is, these excess names are essential to the fraud.

Crooked precinct captains (who work the same precincts year after year) know exactly which "voters" won't be showing up on election day. These names are then assigned to operatives who show up and vote fraudulently under that name. (The van drivers are usually provided with copies of the list and simply tell their passengers their new names as carry them from one precinct to another.)

Down here in Mississippi the same operative will vote 20 - 30 times or more, using a different name every time.

New NJ Election Fraud 800#:

September 13, 2004

PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT

In order to enhance its accessibility, the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission has introduced a new toll free telephone number.

The Commission phone number, 1-888-313-ELEC (3532), can be dialed from within the State of New Jersey and will enable filers, the public, and media to consult with ELEC staff without incurring long distance charges.

The toll free number has been introduced to encourage candidates, treasurers, lobbyists, and other filers, as well as the public and press, to contact the Commission directly to obtain answers to important questions.

Important goals of this initiative are to improve compliance with the law and provide even easier access to Commission informational resources.

I know of a county in Texas where the county Democratic party chairwoman "helps" all the folks at the nursing home vote every election.

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU OCT 14, 2004 10:58:04 ET XXXXX

DNC ELECTION MANUAL: CHARGE VOTER INTIMIDATION, EVEN IF NONE EXISTS

**World Exclusive**

The Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee are advising election operatives to declare voter intimidation -- even if none exists, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.

A 66-page mobilization plan to be issued by the Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee states: "If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike.'"

[HIGHLIGHT OF ELECTION DAY MANUAL, NOVEMBER 2004. CLICK FOR IMAGE .JPG FILE]

The provocative Dem battle plan is to be distributed in dozens of states, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

One top DNC official confirmed the manual's authenticity, but claimed the notion of crying wolf on any voter intimidation is "absurd."

"We all know the Republicans are going to try to steal the election by scaring people and confusing people," the top DNC source explained.

Developing...

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