the dirty tricks have begun: VOTING SCAMS in Florida

[Mabus]

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/10/22/Pasco/Election_chief_warns_.shtml
Election chief warns of absentee scam
People posing as election officials are visiting residents of several counties and offering to take absentee ballots.
...The Pasco woman said someone came to her home to collect her absentee ballot earlier this week. She said she was led to believe they were from the elections office. The woman told the strangers she hadn't completed the ballot, but they took it anyway.
...
Manatee Elections Supervisor Sweat said the people collecting the ballots appeared to know exactly who had absentee ballots. It is possible for political parties, candidates and political groups to get lists of voters who request the absentee ballots.

Sweat said it appeared the collections were occurring in neighborhoods full of low-income, minority and elderly residents.
...
However, ACT stays away from the actual ballots, according to Tait Sye, state communications director for ACT, a Democratic voter mobilization group.

"We have turned in thousands of request cards for Pasco," Sye said. "But we are not collecting the absentee ballots, period."


http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/politics/9987412.htm
Posted on Fri, Oct. 22, 2004 ...
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced a statewide investigation of fraudulent voter registration Thursday, and Leon County elections chief Ion Sancho said college students seem targeted for electoral dirty tricks.

County officials and the Secretary of State's office have received numerous complaints of forged voter registration, voters' party affiliation or addresses being switched, bogus absentee ballot applications and other types of fraud in recent weeks.

Since early voting began Monday, there have also been reports of callers telling voters they can cast a ballot by phone or that someone will come to their house to pick up their absentee ballot.

[grannylib]

1. yeah, you knew it was coming. the only way the reThugs can win is to

cheat; it's just part of their genetic makeup, apparently. hope the media will get the word out fast enough to keep people from being taken in by the wrong-wing shenanegins.

[Eric J in MN]

2. I wish we could get a photograph of these people claiming to

be election officials, who aren't.

[sister moon]

3. I'm so proud to be a Floridian

here we go fucking up another election. we've been warned over and over to be ready for this shit but people are so damn STUPID they give their ballot to a stranger on their doorstep. where do these people live? i've got some swampland I'm selling door-to-door. Jeezus help these poor dumb bastards.

[sventvkg]

4. Get ready for the coming Fight....................

eom

[linazelle]

5. Offers to pick up any kind of ballots should send off red flags and it has

They must think the people in FL are really stupid.

[Eric J in MN]

6. If anyone offers to take your absentee ballot, get a photo

of them and their license plate number (nt)