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.
DEFIANCE, Ohio (AP) -- Elections officials knew something was wrong when they got voter registration cards for Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy, Michael Jordan and George Foreman.
They notified the Defiance County sheriff, who arrested Chad Staton on Monday on a felony charge of submitting phony voter registration forms. Investigators also were looking into allegations that he was paid with cocaine in exchange for his efforts.
Staton, 22, had fraudulently filled out more than 100 voter registration forms, Sheriff David Westrick said.
"Staton was to be paid for each registration form that he could get citizens to fill out," the sheriff said. "However, Staton himself filled out the registrations and returned them to the woman who hired him from Toledo."
Staton was charged with false registration and was released without bond pending arraignment.
No other charges had been filed in the case Monday, authorities said.
According to Westrick, the NAACP's National Voter Fund had submitted the false registrations to the elections board in Cleveland. George Forbes, Cleveland chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Monday that the voter fund operates independently from his chapter.
Officers said they interviewed a Toledo woman who claimed that she had paid Staton with cocaine for the registrations. Officers said they obtained a search warrant and took voter registrations and drug paraphernalia from her home.
The woman claimed she had been recruited by a Cleveland man to obtain voter registrations, Westrick said.
No, if they used the only real keyboard on the planet, an IBM MODEL M, it would only take 6 seconds and require no retouching.
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I agree, people are odd. Why do you think I have slashdotemail@gmail.com? I got tired of my other accounts being mailbombed by both Dems and GOPers when ever I said thinks they didn't like.
Hell, pointing out that Bush isn't from Texas and that kerry hasn't done anything in the Senate for almost a year are not opinions, they are facts.
People need to get a sense of perspictive
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pessimism doesn't exist. people who are labeled pessimistic simply know they way the world works and tell others about it.
That isn't what they mean and you know that I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT EXECUTIVES AND/OR CEOS. I am talking about a tax on anyone who make more than 10x the average income. Say you spend 5 years writing a book and it becomes a best seller, well you would be unable to make more than 10 times the average income from your hard work.
What the green party platform has said is that if you make more than 10x the average wage in INCOME anything over that is taxed at 100%.
IOW, if you come up with a great idea you can only make 10 times they yearly income of the typical person by selling it to others, anything over that mark goes to the goverment.
No, the green party is a failure because they are complete and total dumbasses. It used to part of the Green party platform to tax at 100% any income over 10x the typical wage so people who busted their ass and built up a business or made a great product would not be rewarded for their work.
They also believe the goverment should run and effectivly control all public and privite housing in the USA.
Then explain all the problems that Apple has been having with logic boards, power supplies, batteries and lcd's over the past few years.
Apple products are made in some of the same third party factories that dells are made in. And the excuse that MAJOR PC MANUFACTURE has the same problems doesn't work as Apple is a premium brand and they market themself as better.
Almost all countires that require 'mandatory voting' don't require that someone vote. They just require that they sign the voter sheet at the local polling place.
"It puzzles me how somebody who won the vote of less than 25% of the population [wikipedia.org] can claim to be democratically elected."
That is because 50% of the people do not vote. Kind of the point of a democracy, isn't it? Forcing people to vote doesn't work as people forced to vote do not pay attention the the issues and just randomly check somebody.
You mean the list below? None of those bills even begin to impliment the programs he says he is for. Perhaps you should read them next time.
Items 1 through 48 of 48
1. S.CON.RES.84 : A concurrent resolution recognizing the sacrifices made by members of the regular and reserve components of the Armed Forces, expressing concern about their safety and security, and urging the Secretary of Defense to take immediate steps to ensure that the reserve components are provided with the same equipment as regular components. Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 11/21/2003) Cosponsors (None) Committees: Senate Armed Services Latest Major Action: 11/21/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
2. S.300 : A bill to award a congressional gold medal to Jackie Robinson (posthumously), in recognition of his many contributions to the Nation, and to express the sense of Congress that there should be a national day in recognition of Jackie Robinson. Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 2/4/2003) Cosponsors (69) Committees: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Latest Major Action: 10/20/2003 Held at the desk. Note: For further action, see H.R. 1900, which became Public Law 108-101 on 10/29/2003.
3. S.305 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include in the criteria for selecting any project for the low-income housing credit whether such project has high-speed Internet infrastructure. Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 2/5/2003) Cosponsors (1) Committees: Senate Finance Latest Major Action: 2/5/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
4. S.318 : A bill to provide emergency assistance to nonfarm-related small business concerns that have suffered substantial economic harm from drought. Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 2/5/2003) Cosponsors (19) Committees: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship; House Small Business Latest Major Action: 4/1/2003 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
5. S.503 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow increase the minimum tax credit where stock acquired pursuant to an incentive stock option is sold or exchanged at a loss. Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 3/4/2003) Cosponsors (3) Committees: Senate Finance Latest Major Action: 3/4/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
6. S.530 : A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to create a presumption that a disability or death of a Federal employee in fire protection activities caused by any of certain diseases is the result of the performance of such employee's duty. Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 3/5/2003) Cosponsors (1) Committees: Senate Governmental Affairs Latest Major Action: 6/20/2003 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security.
7. S.577 : A bill to establish the Freedom's Way National Heritage Area in the States of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 3/7/2003) Cosponsors (3) Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources Latest Major Action: 3/7/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
8. S.633 : A bill to modify the contract consolidation requirements in the Small Business Act, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 3/17/2003) Cosponsors (5) Committees: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Latest Major Action: 3/17/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
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If you throw enough shit, some of it will stick.
I just don't get what is up with these 5 times yearly announcements that the internet is coming to an end.
Give it up already and find another way to get PR for yourself and/or your company.
If it bothers you so much, why don't you buy them the correct equiptment and ship it to them?
Yes. That was the before time, from the long long ago.
No.
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,
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/REGISTRATIO N_SCAM?SITE=1010WINS&SECTION=POLITICS&TEMPLATE=DEF AULT
DEFIANCE, Ohio (AP) -- Elections officials knew something was wrong when they got voter registration cards for Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy, Michael Jordan and George Foreman.
They notified the Defiance County sheriff, who arrested Chad Staton on Monday on a felony charge of submitting phony voter registration forms. Investigators also were looking into allegations that he was paid with cocaine in exchange for his efforts.
Staton, 22, had fraudulently filled out more than 100 voter registration forms, Sheriff David Westrick said.
"Staton was to be paid for each registration form that he could get citizens to fill out," the sheriff said. "However, Staton himself filled out the registrations and returned them to the woman who hired him from Toledo."
Staton was charged with false registration and was released without bond pending arraignment.
No other charges had been filed in the case Monday, authorities said.
According to Westrick, the NAACP's National Voter Fund had submitted the false registrations to the elections board in Cleveland. George Forbes, Cleveland chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Monday that the voter fund operates independently from his chapter.
Officers said they interviewed a Toledo woman who claimed that she had paid Staton with cocaine for the registrations. Officers said they obtained a search warrant and took voter registrations and drug paraphernalia from her home.
The woman claimed she had been recruited by a Cleveland man to obtain voter registrations, Westrick said.
Do the apps from ProFantasy Software work under your product? http://wwwprofantasy.com/
No, if they used the only real keyboard on the planet, an IBM MODEL M, it would only take 6 seconds and require no retouching.
I agree, people are odd. Why do you think I have slashdotemail@gmail.com? I got tired of my other accounts being mailbombed by both Dems and GOPers when ever I said thinks they didn't like.
Hell, pointing out that Bush isn't from Texas and that kerry hasn't done anything in the Senate for almost a year are not opinions, they are facts.
People need to get a sense of perspictive
pessimism doesn't exist. people who are labeled pessimistic simply know they way the world works and tell others about it.
Fine, come up with a good excuse! Me, I never lose my USB drive...
;->
HEY, where is my Virgin USB drive!!!
Never mind
That isn't what they mean and you know that I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT EXECUTIVES AND/OR CEOS. I am talking about a tax on anyone who make more than 10x the average income. Say you spend 5 years writing a book and it becomes a best seller, well you would be unable to make more than 10 times the average income from your hard work.
What the green party platform has said is that if you make more than 10x the average wage in INCOME anything over that is taxed at 100%.
IOW, if you come up with a great idea you can only make 10 times they yearly income of the typical person by selling it to others, anything over that mark goes to the goverment.
No, the green party is a failure because they are complete and total dumbasses. It used to part of the Green party platform to tax at 100% any income over 10x the typical wage so people who busted their ass and built up a business or made a great product would not be rewarded for their work.
They also believe the goverment should run and effectivly control all public and privite housing in the USA.
Read their platform and check for yourself.
And that is why programmers should not be in charge of backups ;->
$149 USD on sale and these come out about every 3 years while apples 109 USD upgrades have been coming out about once per year...
Then explain all the problems that Apple has been having with logic boards, power supplies, batteries and lcd's over the past few years.
Apple products are made in some of the same third party factories that dells are made in. And the excuse that MAJOR PC MANUFACTURE has the same problems doesn't work as Apple is a premium brand and they market themself as better.
Doesn't apple charge 109 for each point upgrade and don't those upgrades come out every 12-14 months?
That is more than Windows costs.
All this is is apple trying to drive the rest of it's resellers out of business.
Listen to what they talk about and they will drop hints.
Really? Like what? Passing bills is his main job and his main way to get things changed.
Forgive me for not trusting someone who doesn't do what he can to backup what he says he wishes to do.
Kerry, like Bush, is just telling people what they want to hear.
Almost all countires that require 'mandatory voting' don't require that someone vote. They just require that they sign the voter sheet at the local polling place.
Halliburton isn't a gun manufacturer...
"It puzzles me how somebody who won the vote of less than 25% of the population [wikipedia.org] can claim to be democratically elected."
That is because 50% of the people do not vote. Kind of the point of a democracy, isn't it? Forcing people to vote doesn't work as people forced to vote do not pay attention the the issues and just randomly check somebody.
You mean the list below? None of those bills even begin to impliment the programs he says he is for. Perhaps you should read them next time.
Items 1 through 48 of 48
1. S.CON.RES.84 : A concurrent resolution recognizing the sacrifices made by members of the regular and reserve components of the Armed Forces, expressing concern about their safety and security, and urging the Secretary of Defense to take immediate steps to ensure that the reserve components are provided with the same equipment as regular components.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 11/21/2003) Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 11/21/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
2. S.300 : A bill to award a congressional gold medal to Jackie Robinson (posthumously), in recognition of his many contributions to the Nation, and to express the sense of Congress that there should be a national day in recognition of Jackie Robinson.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 2/4/2003) Cosponsors (69)
Committees: Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Latest Major Action: 10/20/2003 Held at the desk.
Note: For further action, see H.R. 1900, which became Public Law 108-101 on 10/29/2003.
3. S.305 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include in the criteria for selecting any project for the low-income housing credit whether such project has high-speed Internet infrastructure.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 2/5/2003) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 2/5/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
4. S.318 : A bill to provide emergency assistance to nonfarm-related small business concerns that have suffered substantial economic harm from drought.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 2/5/2003) Cosponsors (19)
Committees: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship; House Small Business
Latest Major Action: 4/1/2003 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
5. S.503 : A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow increase the minimum tax credit where stock acquired pursuant to an incentive stock option is sold or exchanged at a loss.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 3/4/2003) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: Senate Finance
Latest Major Action: 3/4/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
6. S.530 : A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to create a presumption that a disability or death of a Federal employee in fire protection activities caused by any of certain diseases is the result of the performance of such employee's duty.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 3/5/2003) Cosponsors (1)
Committees: Senate Governmental Affairs
Latest Major Action: 6/20/2003 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Committee on Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget, and International Security.
7. S.577 : A bill to establish the Freedom's Way National Heritage Area in the States of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 3/7/2003) Cosponsors (3)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/7/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
8. S.633 : A bill to modify the contract consolidation requirements in the Small Business Act, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] (introduced 3/17/2003) Cosponsors (5)
Committees: Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Latest Major Action: 3/17/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
9. S.822 : A bill to create a 3-year pilot pro
Name the bills please.