Voter Fraud Overblown in Ohio, Official Says

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Posted: 8:02 PM Oct 14, 2008
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Reports of widespread voter fraud in Ohio are overblown, according to Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner.

There have been reports that Canvassers for Acorn, a community organizing group, has turned in large numbers of fraudulent voter registration forms in Ohio and other battleground states.

On Tuesday, Brunner instructed county elections officials to report all instances of suspected voter fraud to her office, as well as to local authorities, so she and the attorney general can join in the investigation.

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Posted by: Sonja on Nov 1, 2008 at 03:13 PM
I tend to think there is fraud here no one wants to acknowledge. I've been called five times, by both political campaigns, each asking for a different person with my surname. None of the people asked for were members of my family or have ever lived here. Hmmm...Do you think maybe someone registered to vote using my address and surname? My local board of election official doesn't seem too interested in this - Oh, he's a democrat.

Posted by: brian on Oct 15, 2008 at 03:42 PM
brad you are an idiot. i wish you rich buckeyes would live in a poor mans state like wva and see what 50 years of strait ticket socialism can do. keep votin for those commie pin heads and you will have universal health care(lines to the street, waiting months to see a doc ect)censorship(no more talk radio, sensitivity training, being fired like don imus, dan abrams, rush, and anyone the liberals disagree with.)we will also pay 10 bux a gallon because of the environmental wackso who keep us from drilling(iran and saudi just love the environmental wackso) then 20 percent unemployment when obama taxes the businesses(a poor man dosent pay taxes or create jobs, so why give tax breaks to people who don't pay taxes(disability frauds, welfare ssi ect) wake up west by god va, we cant afford 4 days of this obama dude nonless 4 years of this empty suit say whatever it takes bag of wind bumb in a 5,000 dollar suite.

Posted by: Brad on Oct 15, 2008 at 01:20 PM
Just because there have been fraudulent voter registrations doesn't necessarily mean there have been fraudulent votes

Posted by: REPUBLICAN VOTER FOR A REASON on Oct 15, 2008 at 12:54 PM
GO FIGURE A DEMOCRAT, ONE OF STRICKLANDS BALOON HEADS SAYS THAT THIS IS HAS BEEN OVERBLOWN... BUT THE FACT IS THAT THE OBAMA CAMP DROVE HOMLESS PEOPLE TO THE POLLS TO VOTE AT A TIME WHEN YOU DONT HAVE TO PROVE RESIDENCY TO VOTE IN THIS STATE.... THATS NOT OVERBLOWN... THATS FACT.. AND IF THATS NOT VOTE BUYING THEN WHAT IS..THERE ARE PROBLEMS THIS YEAR AND THAT WOMAN IS NOT DOING HER JOB

Posted by: Another Backfire on Oct 15, 2008 at 07:31 AM
The fallout of the Repb. and Rush's little trick of getting people to vote for Obama in the primary thinking McCain could beat him and not Hillary they tried to turn the Dem's against each other and it worked for awhile but then the debates started and anyone with half a brain could see McCain is no smarter than George Bush,and Palin doesn't have a clue so now they want to cry foul. Its their own fault they created the problem trying to steal another election

Posted by: Joe on Oct 15, 2008 at 07:26 AM
Let me guess which political party the Secretary of state resides. Acorn is a democrat ran organazation that perpetuates voter fraud. Listen to the people that are being interviewed. They were cohorsed into registering multiple times. You shouldnt have to beg people to vote. If you do, thats an uninformed vote.

Posted by: ACORN EAT YOUR HEART OUT on Oct 15, 2008 at 05:42 AM
ACORN IS A WEAK BUNCH OF PUNKS. THE DEMOCRATS IN WEST BY GOD VIRGINIA HAVE IT GOING ON, DEMOCRATS VOTE STRAIT TICKET HERE FOR 30 YEARS AFTER THEY DIE. LOOK AT GRANDADDY. IM SURE HE WOULD OF VOTED HILLARY MY GRANDDAD WAS A RACIST BOB BYRD STYLE DEMOCRAT. EVEN THOUGH HE DIED BACK IN 1984 HE WAS A GOOD DEMOCRAT AND WOULD OF VOTED FOR MANCHIN AND BYRD, OBAMA MAY NOT GET GRANDADYS VOTE BECAUSE HE IS A CLOSET MUSLIM AND MY GRANDAD WOULD OF PERFERRED A WHITE MAN OVER A COLORED MAN LIKE KOO KLUX KLOWN BOB BYRD. HECK ACORN GET A LIFE THEY EVEN POLL DEAD DEMOCRATS IN MY STATE , JUST ASK THE STRANGE CREEK CEMETARY IM SURE THEY HAVE BEEN POLLED BEFORE AND IM SURE THERE REGISTERED AND HAVE ALREADY VOTED ABSENTEE 30 YEARS AGO. IN WVA YOU CAN DIG UP A CORPSE CALL HIM A DEMOCRAT AND GETTING MORONS TO VOTE FER HIM TRULY THE MOST CROOKED STATE IN THE WHOLE USA. JUST LOOK AT OUR LAST TWO GOVERNORS, BRIBES, FAKE DEGREES, ADULTRY, AND THE LIST GOES ON.

Posted by: charles carroll on Oct 15, 2008 at 04:07 AM
The Republican national committee dirty tricks brigade has infiltrated acorns ranks to discredit and make legitimate voter regristration drives appear fraudulent .They will go to any lengths to try and make this good organization look bad .I worry that the Bush Administration will engineer some kind of National emergency like another terror attack between now and the election . I still think they made an attempt to sabotage Obamas plane that was forced to make an emergency landing in Indiana .I asked a airline pilot about the emergency slide that deployed in the tail cone on the MD80 obama was a passenger on , he said it was unheard of for that to happen inflight .He said that it caused the plane to pitch and yaw causing a severe loss of control . Its very likely that people willing to make an assination attempt on a presidential candidate will do anything to derail this election .

Posted by: Pablo on Oct 14, 2008 at 09:34 PM
Of course this is being overblown. This is how McCain/Palin and the facist republicans will explain their loss on Nov. 4th. They can't remember back to 2000 in Florida when the republicans stole the election. These facists won't stop at anything. Of course, any voter fraud should be dealt with harshly and quickly, Democrat or republican.

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