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[conjur]

GOP Registers 28,000 Imaginary Voters
http://www.scdp.org/blog.php

These days, GOP spin just can't keep pace with harsh reality.

Earlier this week, the GOP claimed it had registered 40,000 new voters.


Meanwhile, the state Republican Party said it has registered 40,000 new voters for Nov. 2. Executive director Luke Byars said the party searched computer databases for conservative voters who had moved to South Carolina but failed to register. The State, 10/22/2004

40,000 is an impressive number. Too bad it isn't true.

The Associated Press reported that there were only 49,000 new voter registrations in the entire state, and the majority of those registrations were by African-Americans.

Nonwhite voters showed the biggest gains in voter registrations heading into Tuesday's elections, according to figures the South Carolina Election Commission released Wednesday.

In all, more than 49,000 people added their names to voter registration rolls by Oct. 2, the registration deadline.

The figures show that the state picked up 37,202 nonwhite voters, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians and American Indians since the 2000 presidential election. That was a 6 percent increase.

Nonwhite voter population grew most in Lexington, York, Dorchester, Richland and Greenville counties.

Registration among white voters rose by 12,061, or by 1 percent, since 2000.

Black voter registration statewide grew by 25,760 voters, or 4 percent. Traditionally, black voters have supported Democratic candidates, so that increase may be good news for people supporting Democrat Inez Tenenbaum's U.S. Senate bid.

Now, I know for a fact that the South Carolina Democratic Party registered 16,000 new voters. And there have been plenty of other organizations - such as the S.C. Progressive Network, the Carolina Peace Resource Center, the South Carolina Voter Education Project - who did voter registration drives of their own.

Just for the sake of argument, let's assume that the GOP registered ALL 12,061 new white voters.

Where'd the other 28,000 come from?

 

[conjur]

UPDATE to the following:

Originally posted by: conjur
GOP Challenges (35,427 Ohio) Voters
http://www.dispatch.com/electi...23/20041023-A1-01.html

In yet another sign of how fiercely Ohio will be contested in the Nov. 2 presidential election, Republicans challenged 35,427 newly registered voters yesterday. And both parties named thousands of people to be challengers at the polls.

The Ohio GOP said it is questioning new voters in 65 counties where mail sent to them was returned as undeliverable.

But overburdened elections officials were left wondering how to comply with a state law requiring a hearing on each challenge no later than two days before the election.

"I?m not sure how we?re going to accomplish this," said John Williams, deputy elections director in Hamilton County. "We?ve never had anything like this before."

Those who have been challenged must receive a letter by first-class mail no later than three days before a hearing to answer the challenge ? with a lawyer and witnesses, if they choose.

In Franklin County, where 4,219 challenges were filed, officials are considering using the Veterans Memorial auditorium to hold hearings.

"Burden or not, we?ll do it to the best of our ability," said Matthew Damschroder, county elections director.

Damschroder said hearings can be short ? showing a driver?s license or utility bill can prove residency. But if mail was returned once, hearing notices also might be returned ? meaning no hearing can be held.

William Anthony Jr., chairman of both the Franklin County elections board and the county Democratic Party, said public notices might be appropriate to ensure new voters know they have been challenged.

Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, stressed the challenges will not result in voters being turned away from polling places on Election Day.

"If an individual?s registration is deemed invalid by (a county election?s) board and the person shows up at the poll on Election Day, they will be given a provisional ballot," LoParo said.

Such ballots are held for 10 days while a voter?s eligibility is determined.

Still, voter advocates worried about the impact on voting in what has become an increasingly contentious election.

"That?s horrible," said Susan Truitt, of Citizens? Alliance for Secure Elections in Ohio. "I hope it doesn?t affect people going out to vote."

Ohio is expected to have about 1 million new voters.

Republicans felt compelled to challenge the registrations "so any question about their validity could be cleared up prior to Election Day," said Ohio GOP chairman Robert T. Bennett.

The challenges arose from a letter Bennett sent to all voters who registered between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31. The letter, Bennett said, welcomed the new voters "to the process" and invited them to vote Republican.

Of the 232,000 letters mailed, about 30,000 were returned as undeliverable either because the registrants didn?t exist, had moved or died, or because the letters went to vacant houses or bogus addresses, Bennett said.

"It was an astounding number," he said. "The potential for these fraudulent registrations to produce fraudulent votes at the ballot box is very real."

But Democrats said returned mail is not proof of fraud.

The challenges are "an unprecedented effort to throw tens of thousands of voters off of Ohio?s voting rolls," said David Sullivan, Ohio coordinator for the Democrats? voter-protection project.

Bennett said there was no attempt to target Democratic strongholds. Most of the returns came from Ohio?s large urban counties ? which tend to be Democratic ? so that?s where the majority of challenges were filed, he said.

Meanwhile, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor William D. Mason has been asked to examine whether the challenges are legal because there could be a conflict between federal and state law, a county elections official said. Cuyahoga County had the most challenged voters in the state: 17,717.

Some legal experts are concerned that there could be lawsuits if each county doesn?t handle the challenges the same way.

Yesterday was the deadline for challenges to registration lists. It also was the deadline for the parties and other groups to appoint challengers and witnesses at the polls.

The law allows the parties, groups of five or more candidates, and issue committees to name one challenger at each precinct to question whether voters are eligible and one witness to watch ballot counting.

Only voters, poll workers, police and challengers can go inside polling locations. Both parties have been recruiting lawyers and others to be on hand if there are any problems.

In Franklin County, Democrats filed witnesses and challengers in 495 of the county?s 788 precincts. Republicans filed someone in every precinct.

Republicans said they filed 3,500 challengers covering 7,900 precincts statewide, including all precincts in the 31 most populous counties. Democrats didn?t have a breakdown but said they filed "thousands" statewide.

Some observers worry the parties will indiscriminately challenge voters in heavily Democratic or Republican precincts as a strategy to discourage people from voting.

Both parties deny that, but Edward B. "Ned" Foley, director of an election-law center at Ohio State University, said state law should provide the chance for the press or independent observers to watch.

In that spirit, The Dispatch filed yesterday as a challenger and witness at precincts in Franklin County and elsewhere. The newspaper asked the committees for and against State Issue 1 to be the appointing authority, and the committee opposing the issue agreed.

"Because Ohio?s role in this election is so important, it is vital for the newspaper to observe the process from beginning to end," said Alan D. Miller, Dispatch managing editor/news.

"We filed the required paperwork because it was the only way to gain access to the polling places and elections-board counting rooms under the state?s guidelines. We will observe; we have no intention of challenging anything."

GOP Voter Suppression in Ohio
http://www.mydd.com/story/2004/10/28/192844/76#readmore

ELECTION BOARD THROWS OUT 976 CHALLENGES BY REPUBLICAN PARTY

GOP Challenger Barbara Miller Could be Indicted on Felony Charges


AKRON, Ohio - The Summit County Board of Elections abruptly threw out 976 challenges of voter eligibility by the Republican Party today after Barbara Miller, the challenger, revealed that she did not have any personal information about the eligibility of any of the challenged voters.

Instead, Miller said that her challenges were based on a list of "undeliverable mail" given to her by the Republican Party. The list was based on a GOP mailing sent to registered voters throughout the state of Ohio.

After Miller presented this as her evidence, Russell Pry, Summit County Election Board member, told her that she could be indicted for signing a sworn challenge without any personal knowledge about the eligibility of the voters. Miller's reaction was to plead the Fifth Amendment.

Catherine Herold, the first voter challenged at the hearing, told the board that she believes that she was on the undeliverable list because she "refused the letter when she saw that it came from the Republican Party." She and many others expressed anger that their eligibility had been challenged - which could force them to vote by provisional ballot on Nov. 2.

"This is an outrage," Herold said. "I feel as if I am being called a liar for claiming to live at my address."

The Summit County Board of Elections has indicated that they plan to call in the Department of Justice to conduct a criminal investigation of the challenges.

Following is an excerpt from a transcript of today's hearing (for email copies contact Emilie Karrick). Catherine Herold and Neil Klingshirn, attorney for several of the challenged voters, are available for interviews.

"undeliverable" came from mail sent as registered mail that must be signed for at the post office or signed for in-person if someone was home when the mail was delivered.

If the item isn't signed for in a few days, it's returned as "undeliverable".


I hope they throw the book at this Barbara Miller.

 

[TranceNation]

Originally posted by: conjur
UPDATE to the following:

I hope they throw the book at this Barbara Miller.

hell yeah prosecute the b*tch

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: Ldir
It looks like the Repuglicans are firmly in the sleaze lead so far.

Buahahahahaha

You want to try again?

CsG

do you want to try again? registering non-existant voters doesn't really do too much:

there is little likelihood that phony registrations could be used to affect the outcome of an election because of safeguards in place

meanwhile, GOP groups are doing far worse things, basically preventing people from voting in the first place!

so which is worse, registering people twice, who will still only get one ballot, or tricking people don't disagree with them into thinking they've registered to vote? or preventing former felons from voting only if they are black (more likely to vote liberal), but mysteriously not doing it when they're hispanic (more likely to vote conservative)?

 

[conjur]

REPUBLICAN PARTY DECEIVING VOTERS IN WEST VIRGINIA
http://atrios.blogspot.com/

Charles Town, W.V., Oct . 31, 2004 ? Democratic leaders in one of the
nation?s most hotly-contested battleground states are receiving reports
of voter suppression activities that can be traced back to the
Republican Party. The suppression activities have continued despite
warnings from officials in Berkeley and Jefferson Counties.

?These phone calls are outrageous and illegal,? says Michael Cassell,
Chairman of the Jefferson County Democratic Party. ?They are designed
to suppress the vote for John Kerry and all democrats. The republicans
were warned before, but they continue to break the law?

In mid-October, John Smalls, County Clerk in Berkeley County, W.V.,
sent a letter to the Eastern Panhandle Republican Party about phone
calls that were traced back to its headquarters. The calls made to
Democrats in this tri-county area 60 miles northwest of Washington,
D.C., informed Democratic voters they were either not registered at
all, or would not be able to vote on election day.

At that time, Republican Party spokesperson Mary Diamond admitted that
some mistakes may have been made. She said the calls were made to
determine if people were registered to vote.

When he learned of the activities in neighboring Berkeley County, John
Ott, the top election official in Jefferson County stated, ?This is an
improper act.? He encouraged voters to contact authorities if they
receive improper phone calls.

In the last few days, suppression activities have spread to Jefferson
County. Several voters have received phone calls telling them that
they are not registered despite the fact that they are.

?These calls are being made by people who claim they are calling from
Democratic headquarters in Charles Town,? Cassell said. ?They trick
voters into revealing personal information, and then tell them they
cannot vote.?

?He told me I was not a registered voter,? said Bill Jackson of Charles
Town, of the phone call he received. ?Later when I found out that he
was not calling from Democratic headquarters, I was outraged. I wonder
how many other voters have gotten these calls.?

?This is exactly the kind of dirty trick Republicans tried in Florida
four years ago.? Cassell says. ?I?m calling on the US Attorney to
prosecute these illegal phone calls. ?

Fry them!!

 

[CADsortaGUY]

<- got a call earlier today from an unidentified person trying to tell me my polling place was different than what it really is after I answering their question on if I supported Bush or not. I called our campaign office to see if the number(caller ID ) was one of theirs and it is not.

Looks like ACT or some other group is gaming the system...

CsG

 

[wiin]

Clintonista Judge Dlott Again Rules for Vote Fraud in Ohio

U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott today decided to throw out Ohio's law allowing whistle-blowers to stop fraud at polling sites.


Pro-Kerry Judge Dlott Married to Democrat Money Man

Dlott made it clear in her interview with the Enquirer that she didn't care what people thought about her biased decrees. "And besides, she says, people are stuck because her appointment is for life."


No way Republicans can win with a judge like Dlot. US courts are filled with jugdes like Dlott.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: wiin
Clintonista Judge Dlott Again Rules for Vote Fraud in Ohio

U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott today decided to throw out Ohio's law allowing whistle-blowers to stop fraud at polling sites.


Pro-Kerry Judge Dlott Married to Democrat Money Man

Dlott made it clear in her interview with the Enquirer that she didn't care what people thought about her biased decrees. "And besides, she says, people are stuck because her appointment is for life."


No way Republicans can win with a judge like Dlot. US courts are filled with jugdes like Dlott.

Her appointment isn't for life. Judges can be removed. Granted - it's pretty hard to do so - but this beeeeotch seems to be a model candidate to be removed because of her arrogant flaunting of her position.

CsG

 

[cquark]

Automated phone calls tell voters that polling places have changed when they haven't.

Some voters on Monday complained of getting misleading automated phone calls over the weekend telling them either that their polling place had changed or that a vote for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry was a vote to legalize gay marriage.

The messages - known as robo calls - were placed in heavily Democratic cities of Detroit, Flint and Pontiac and the Democratic-leaning city of Grand Rapids.

?When you vote this Tuesday, remember to legalize gay marriage by supporting John Kerry,? the call said. ?It?s what we all want. It?s a basic Democratic principle.?

Kerry opposes same sex marriage. Earlier this year, Kerry spoke against a proposal to amend the federal constitutional to ban same sex marriage, saying the issue was divisive and should be left up to states. He supports civil unions for gay or lesbian couples.

The phone calls were made in communities with large populations of African Americans, many of whom vote Democratic, but who also have supported the passage of Michigan?s ballot Proposal 2, a ban on same sex marriage.

?It?s obvious that they?re using this as a wedge issue to suppress the vote in Detroit,? said Josh Elling, 28, a Kerry supporter from Detroit, who received the call Sunday evening. ?I think it?s shameful.?

Bush?s Michigan campaign spokesman John Truscott said the campaign had nothing to do with the calls and that he was not aware of them.

?I checked with both the party and campaign and nobody knows anything about it,? said Truscott, spokesman for the Bush campaign in Michigan. ?Our best advice is basically don?t believe what you hear, especially anything coming at the 11th hour.?

The calls about polling place changes were received by Democratic voters in Macomb County as well as in Democratic-leaning cities in Ohio, another hotly contested state in the presidential election.

The Kerry campaign was incensed by the calls, which gave no indication of who was the sponsor.

?We?re pretty appalled that the Republicans would stoop to something like this 48 hours before the election,? said Donnie Fowler, executive director of the Kerry campaign in Michigan.

 

[conjur]

Great

From Drudge:

Before voting even began in Philladelphia -- poll watchers found nearly 2000 votes already planted on machines scattered throughout downtown... One incident occurred at 2601 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa: Ward 37, division 8... pollwatchers uncovered 4 machines with planted votes; one with over 200 and one with nearly 500... A second location, 1901 W. Girard Ave., Berean Institute, Philadelphia, Pa, had 300+ votes already on 2 machines at start of day... INCIDENT: 292 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 7/7: ADDRESS: 122 W. Erie Ave., Roberto Clemente School, Philadelphia, Pa.; INCIDENT: 456 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 12/3; ADDRESS: 5657 Chew Ave., storefront, Philadelphia, Pa... Developing...

http://www.indiemediamagazine....tory=20041102143234275 <--- can't get page to pull up

 

[gutharius]

Someone Needs to sticky this thread.

 

[tallest1]

Originally posted by: conjur
Great

From Drudge:

Before voting even began in Philladelphia -- poll watchers found nearly 2000 votes already planted on machines scattered throughout downtown... One incident occurred at 2601 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa: Ward 37, division 8... pollwatchers uncovered 4 machines with planted votes; one with over 200 and one with nearly 500... A second location, 1901 W. Girard Ave., Berean Institute, Philadelphia, Pa, had 300+ votes already on 2 machines at start of day... INCIDENT: 292 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 7/7: ADDRESS: 122 W. Erie Ave., Roberto Clemente School, Philadelphia, Pa.; INCIDENT: 456 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 12/3; ADDRESS: 5657 Chew Ave., storefront, Philadelphia, Pa... Developing...

http://www.indiemediamagazine....tory=20041102143234275 <--- can't get page to pull up

amazing

 

[gutharius]

Drudge Report:

Before voting even began in downtown Philladelphia -- poll watchers found over 1000 votes already planted on machines... One incident occurred at 2601 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa: Ward 37, division 8... pollwatchers uncovered 4 machines with planted votes; one with over 200 and one with nearly 500... A second location, 1901 W. Girard Ave., Berean Institute, Philadelphia, Pa, had 300+ votes already on 2 machines at start of day... Developing...

http://www.drudgereport.com/

I wonder what the party affiliations of the planted votes were?

UPDATE: NOW 2000, a gun, and counting... {9:06amCST - 11/2/04}

Before voting even began in Philadelphia -- poll watchers found nearly 2000 votes already planted on machines scattered throughout the city... One incident occurred at the SALVATION ARMY, 2601 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa: Ward 37, division 8... pollwatchers uncovered 4 machines with planted votes; one with over 200 and one with nearly 500... A second location, 1901 W. Girard Ave., Berean Institute, Philadelphia, Pa, had 300+ votes already on 2 machines at start of day... INCIDENT: 292 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 7/7: ADDRESS: 122 W. Erie Ave., Roberto Clemente School, Philadelphia, Pa.; INCIDENT: 456 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 12/3; ADDRESS: 5657 Chew Ave., storefront, Philadelphia, Pa... A gun was purposely made visible to scare poll watchers at Ward 30, division 11, at 905 S. 20th St., Grand Court. Police were called and surrounded the location... Developing...

I sent 2 emails to CNN about this. One to their News Tips addy and to the CNN American Morning Show. Hopefully we will be able to get double confirmation of these events.

 

[conjur]

No idea what they area...could be leftover ballots from last year or empty ballots.

 

[gutharius]

As to earlier Post:

Drudge Report:

Pennsylvania GOP is going to file suit in the Court of Common Pleas in an effort to have the machines in question impounded and have them replaced 'with machines that did not already have votes on them'... Developing...

This is confirmation enough for me.

 

[conjur]

Judge orders GOP to halt poll tactics
http://www.argusleader.com/news/Tuesdayarticle1.shtml

Daschle sues to stop 'intimidation' of Indians

Republican poll workers in Lake Andes were intimidating Native American voters on Monday, a federal judge ruled early today.

Republicans may not write down license plate numbers or follow Native Americans from polling places during today's election, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Piersol ruled in a temporary restraining order.

The ruling comes after Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle sued his opponent, John Thune, and the GOP in federal court in Sioux Falls on Monday, asking Piersol to stop what Democrats say was intimidation of voters.

"This ruling will hopefully ensure that every legitimate voter can vote free of intimidation on Election Day," said Daschle spokesman Dan Pfeiffer.

Piersol, whom Daschle chose for the federal bench, released his opinion about 1:45 a.m. today after hearing one witness from each side.

Daschle is depending on heavy turnout from Native American voters to win an expected close election.

Republicans had not decided whether to appeal, as of early today.

"It's a total joke," said Dick Wadhams, Thune's campaign manager. "What you've got is a situation where there is no credible evidence presented and the judge bent over backward for his long-time political pal."

Daschle charges that GOP poll observers have been crowding voters, making notes as they voted and writing down license plate numbers of cars bringing them to vote.

 

[conjur]

Sue-Happy GOP at it again!!


City GOP challenges absentee ballot count
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/10079432.htm

Philadelphia's Republican Committee today sued city election officials in federal court and sought an emergency order barring the counting of absentee ballots before Friday, contending election officials failed to provide the GOP with an advance copy of approved absentee voters.

Michael Meehan, general counsel to the Republican City Committee, filed the suit this morning on behalf of himself and officials of the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee, arguing that without a court order, absentee ballots will be opened and counted tonight making it impossible to challenge the qualifications of an individual voter.

Lawyers for Meehan and for the City Commissioners and Board of Elections were in chambers with U.S. District Judge William H. Yohn Jr. early this afternoon. The judge had not ruled, and it was not clear if a hearing would be held later today.

:roll:

 

[wiin]

Daschle strong-arms himself into oblivion:

At the McLaughlin Community Center on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, a Daschle operative (a male lawyer in his 50s) has taken over part of the election table and is interfering with the election workers' duties in violation of SDCL 12-18-3, 9.1 (9.2 gives authority to have the person removed and arrested). The election worker feels intimidated by the Daschle operative and feels that the man is interfering with the process. When told this was illegal, he responded "F--k you, do something about it." These sorts of reports are coming in regularly. It's a nice summary of the Daschle campaign's attitude toward the election process.

UPDATE: The auditor has just sent the sheriff out to the polling location.

 

[glugglug]

ballots from 40 Ohio precincts seen loaded onto a truck with Bush/Cheney stickers in Cincinatti which was followed as it brought them into a local school before going to the election headquarters.

Scroll 1/3 way down the page.

 

[conjur]

"Cincinnati"