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Thousands of new-voter cards in Ohio undeliverable
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By Jim Siegel
Enquirer Columbus Bureau
COLUMBUS - Thousands of cards mailed by county election boards to newly registered voters in Hamilton County and throughout the state are being returned because the people can't be found.
John Williams, director of the Hamilton County Board of Elections, said the situation indicates that there might not be as many new voters as some expect in a state deemed crucial in the presidential election.
Ohio Republican Party Chairman Robert Bennett on Tuesday said it's a result of statewide registration fraud conducted by independent groups that support Democratic candidates.
"By most accounts, their work can only be considered sloppy, haphazard and, in some cases, downright illegal," Bennett said, noting that the state party plans to take out full-page ads in Ohio newspapers encouraging citizens to stop voter fraud.
Democratic Party spokesman Dan Trevas said the fraud uncovered in Ohio equates to "minor errors" when viewed in the bigger picture.
"The vast majority of those registered for the first time are intent on voting," he said.
Bennett cited instances in 10 counties where potentially fraudulent voter registration forms were submitted.
He said many were submitted by groups he terms "auxiliaries of the Democratic Party": the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and America Coming Together.
The groups paid people to register voters. Some registrations were filled out for dead people, some contained fake addresses, and others named fiction characters such as Dick Tracy and Mary Poppins.
Jess Goode, spokesman for ACT in Ohio, has denied wrongdoing by his group. He said the Republican Party is scared of the number of new Democratic voters headed to the polls in two weeks.
An estimated 7.9 million people have registered in Ohio, up from 7.1 million at the beginning of the year.
Williams is currently investigating fraud by someone working for ACORN who he said submitted voter registrations for about 35 people who don't exist.
Newly registered voters in Hamilton County are mailed a card telling them where to vote and what political districts they live in. But thousands of those cards were returned because the people, or the addresses listed on voter registration forms, couldn't be found.
"There is quite a number," Williams said, noting that not every returned card is a suspected case of fraud. "People do actually move.''
State GOP records, confirmed by Williams, show that through Oct. 4, Hamilton County mailed 63,403 cards to new registrants, and 4,152 were returned - a rate of 6.6 percent.
The number was third-highest in the state behind Cuyahoga County's 14,461 and Franklin's 6,917, according to GOP records. In Butler County, 255 cards mailed to new voters were returned, while 24 were returned in Warren County, according to GOP records. Clermont County numbers were not available.
Tim Burke, chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party and the county elections board, said an updated number of cards returned is 5,808 out of 150,000 mailed not only to new voters, but also to those changing addresses, for a return rate of less than 4 percent.
Burke said fraud makes up a small percentage of the hundreds of thousands of newly registered voters in Ohio.
"I think Republicans are attempting to justify what they intend to do on Election Day by raising questions of voter fraud and overplaying this," he said.
What both the Democratic and Republican parties in Ohio intend to do is use a 51-year-old law that allows them to place challengers at polling sites. The parties are recruiting lawyers, law students and others to ensure that people are allowed to vote, or to potentially challenge voters' eligibility.
Bennett said his efforts are likely to focus on heavily Democratic areas where many new voters have been registered. Democrats expect to match the effort.
As further evidence of registration fraud, Bennett said the Ohio Republican Party sent out its own letters to newly registered Ohio voters, encouraging them to vote Republican.
In the counties where new registration was highest, 3 percent to 9 percent of the letters were returned because the people were not located.
"I can say ... as someone who's been in state politics for 40 years, that the normal rate of return is less than 1 percent," he said. "These results are really unprecedented and frightening."
Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, joined Bennett Tuesday and said Ohio's issues of voter registration fraud cases are alarming and part of a national problem.
"Whether it's for profit motive or political motive, fraud is being committed in the registration process in a way that makes more possible fraud on Election Day," he said.
"I'll bet you this. If Mary Poppins and Dick Tracy vote on Election Day, they'll vote for John Kerry."
E-mail jsiegel@enquirer.com
hey fire hows it goin? you should bring back your watch list in the ibox. good day
last i heard "they" and by they i mean wierd people filed 30 suits allready, lost 20 suits with 10 remaining.
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i'm shaneyboy and i authorizes this message. lol =o)
when the goin gets tuff, the tuff get on thier knees.
my thoughts exactly
hearing news of the dollar taking a big dive and throughin or market for a loop. have you guys been keepin up on it?
i watched Faith in the white house lastnight. rent it if you get a chance. http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_5238.shtml
It appears to me that the author clearly has only political motives a with this article, you would think that having a man who has the balls to confess christ and actually have the fruits to back it up would be celibrated. The following is part of a reply to this article i found on the net....................................................Do you have any idea why France, Russia or Germany didn’t want us to get rid of Saddam? Because The people in charge were getting rich off the Billions of dollars in Oil for Food program kick back scheme and these countries had Billions is loans tied up with this madman, it had nothing to do with morality!
Also don’t you know how horrible this guy was? He was a brutal dictator who besides wanting to amass an arsenal of deadly weapon was committing genocide and ethnic cleansing for the last 30 years! Saddam is responsible for the deaths of 1.3 million of his own people during his brutal 30 years of rule, and where over 100 mass graves have been found in the Iraqi desert so far, some with thousands of little children in them with holes blown through their heads! So you’re telling me that France, Russia & Germany are on the high moral ground and America is the villain for ridding the world of this madman, because it would have never of happened if we had to get their permission!
100% total pacifism is morally stupid and un-Biblical, when you have a demon possessed madman like Saddam, his sons, Hitler or Stalin who are committing genocide on millions of people, do you really think that preaching the Good news of the Gospel is going to stop them? If all Christians were pacifists then evil would have prevailed long ago! Posted by: DSH / October 22, 2004 02:21 PM
http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_5238.shtml
lol! you never have a camera when you really need one!
big time joke! these people don't give a rats behind about truth. i seen two black church leaders on the factor the other day and the democrat wouldn't even answer his questions, just reply with a bush bash. i don't think bill would have let him slide if this whole bunk scandal wasn't goin on. it is good that the church is finally waking up on these issues though. black, white, yellow, blue, whatever we are first and foremost followers of christ.
oh man i got the flu guys, guess this means im voting for Kerry. i really did get the flu, it was not very pretty. i never get a shot cause it gives me a lingering headache. the one time i did, GOT THE FLU!
That should ballance out the voter fraud. i was in madison a few weeks back and man i tell ya the Liberals or out in full force this time around. you prolly heard about the cigerettes for a gore vote caravans they had up there in 2000.
that guy is my hero.
I will have to catch you later nlightn, getting ready for a trip up north. i will just say for now that the same God that lead Abraham out of sodom and gomorra to to flee thier destruction and begin the jewish race and eventually command them into battle, knew the enemy then and that there was no alternative. and He will return in a battle where israel will be the victor over a huge one world army and they will be laid to waste. Not that I think Bush is a triger happy madman (as some would portray him) however sadamm was just that, and a sponser of suicide bombers that killed innocent civilians. i believe there is no alternative to terrorism than to wipe them out. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. Jesus was God and was from the beginning. I will be glad to answer more in depth when i get time. please don't take this as an attack and you are welcome here anytime. thanks
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welcome nlightn, this is a no spin zone. ;o)
cded looking for .o5 in a week or so
i haven't had time to follow this O'rielly thing. it wouldn't suprise me if his enemies had something to do with it. hope evrything comes to light.
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whats that scripture?....... there will be 2 in the field, one will be taken. sounds like there will be a schism in the very endtimes to me.
km, sold usga @ .24 for a loss never bought back in, still holding cded and hstj spwp tfct. thinking of buyin realestate fixer uppers instead of the market right now. gore invented grudges. lol
usga rocked the house today up 71%
CONGRATS KM3! you are our 777th poster. hats off to ya. lol
you would swear he and Micheal Moore got together to paint Bush as a terrorist in his latest propaganda message.
thank goodness im not in that mess.
see gore on cspan yet?
#38_ Recognise the Supernatural Power of God's Word _________ For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart (Heb. 4:12). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Word of God is quick, powerful, and sharp. It can help an individual to overcome depression. It can help us disern which thoughts are of God and which thoughts are not. The depressed individual needs to remember that God condemns his sinful behavior but not him. God desires that the depressed individual change his negitive, self-derogatory thinking.
what happened to plkc?
LOL!!! to her that might not be a life form yet.
hstj in @ .01 also
first i heard about it.
right on the money there.
great song. =o)