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| 2006/10/12-14 [Politics/Domestic/Election, Politics/Domestic/911] UID:44791 Activity:nil |
10/12 US Election Assistance Commission finds little evidence of fraud
at voting polls. Most voting fraud apparently occurs through
absentee ballots:
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20061011/1a_lede11.art.htm
\_ So they didn't find stuffed ballot boxes... who said they would?
Now, where does it say they didn't find evidence of or the potential
for manipulation of Diebold voting machines?
\_ Just in time for a story about recently found fraudulent voting
registration applications by a Democrat group:
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/10/11/ap3084684.html |
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| www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20061011/1a_lede11.art.htm Print | Report skeptical of fraud at polls Little evidence found despite pending bills By Richard Wolf USA TODAY WASHINGTON At a time when many states are instituting new requirements for voter registration and identification, a preliminary report to the US Election Assistance Commission has found little evidence of the type of polling-place fraud those measures seek to stop. USA TODAY obtained the report from the commission four months after it was delivered by two consultants hired to write it. At least 11 states have approved new rules for independent voter-registration drives or requirements that voters produce specific forms of photo ID at polling places. Several of those laws have been blocked in court, most recently in Arizona last week. The House of Representatives last month approved a photo-ID law, now pending in the Senate. The bipartisan report by two consultants to the election commission casts doubt on the problem those laws are intended to address. There is widespread but not unanimous agreement that there is little polling-place fraud, or at least much less than is claimed, including voter impersonation, dead' voters, non-citizen voting and felon voters, the report says. The report, prepared by Tova Wang, an elections expert at the Century Foundation think tank, and Job Serebrov, an Arkansas attorney, says most fraud occurs in the absentee ballot process, such as through coercion or forgery. Wang declined to comment on the report, and Serebrov could not be reached for comment. Others who reviewed the report for the election commission differ on its findings. Jon Greenbaum of the liberal Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law says it was convincing. The committee wrote to the commission Friday seeking its release. Thor Hearne, counsel to the American Center for Voting Rights, notes that the Justice Department has sued Missouri for having ineligible voters registered, while dead people have turned up on the registration rolls in Michigan. It is just wrong to say that this isn't a problem, he says. That's one reason the commission decided not to officially release the report. There was a division of opinion here, Chairman Paul DeGregorio says. Barry Weinberg, former deputy chief of the voting section in the Justice Department's civil rights division, reviewed their work. Fraud at the polling place is generally difficult to pull off, he says. |
| www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/10/11/ap3084684.html Election officials say hundreds of potentially bogus registration cards, including ones for dead and underage people, were submitted by a branch of a national group that has been criticized in the past for similar offenses. At least 1,500 potentially fraudulent registration cards were turned in by the St. Louis branch of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, leading up to Wednesday's registration deadline for the Nov. Invalid registrations solicited by ACORN workers included duplicate or incomplete ones, a 16-year-old voter, dead people registering, and forged signatures, Mathis said. "Fifteen hundred may not sound like a lot, but it is a big deal and it disenfranchises the election process," she said. There's a lot of taxpayer dollars being wasted on this." Scott Liendecker, director of Republican elections for St. Louis, said his office will turn the matter over to the US attorney's office for possible prosecution once a final count of potentially fraudulent submissions is finished next week. Mary Wheeler-Jones, the Democratic elections director, said she does not dispute the accusations against ACORN. Louis Post-Dispatch, which first reported the potential fraud, that prosecution could be warranted. "We try very hard to monitor the employees, but there are chances of things slipping through," Mellor said. ACORN, founded in 1970, sends paid and volunteer workers around cities to sign up new voters. The group ran voter registration drives in Missouri and 16 other states this year. Similar allegations have been made in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado, though no charges have been filed. This year in Missouri, ACORN has turned in about 40,000 new voter registrations. The other 20,000 were collected in the Kansas City area, according to election officials. Four ACORN workers were fired over a September 2003 incident after the St. Louis board pointed out more than 1,000 questionable new voter registration forms collected by ACORN. ACORN registered more than a million US voters in 2004, when it also had to defend itself against fraud allegations. That year, unreadable cards, duplicate registrations and other invalid or potentially fraudulent registrations turned up in Ohio, Minnesota, North Carolina and Virginia. Stock quotes are delayed at least 15 minutes for Nasdaq, at least 20 minutes for NYSE/AMEX US indexes are delayed at least 15 minutes with the exception of Nasdaq, Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 which are 2 minutes delayed. |