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Election Problem Log - 2004 to 2009
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VotersUnite! began this problem log with the November 2004 election. It continued its compilation of problems reported in the media by adding news stories about subsequent elections, through 2009. See also: Failures by vendor and Failures by state.
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11/6/2006 Registration fraud UT Daggett County. More voters were registered than the population in 2005, according to the census. Story
10/13/2006 Registration fraud NV Las Vegas, Washoe County. An employee of a private voter registration firm alleges that his bosses trashed registration forms filled out by Democratic voters because they only wanted to sign up Republican voters. Eric Russell worked for a company called Voters Outreach of America, along with 300 other people. He says he got into a beef with the company over a pay dispute, and witnessed his bosses ripping up registration forms that had been filed by democrats. "They were thrown away in the trash. I grabbed them out," said Eric Russell. One of those forms belonged to Daren Gray, who was shocked to learn that the re-registration form he filled out was never turned in. Story
3/1/2005 Registration fraud MO Greene County. There were discovered as many as 788 illegally registered voters at Baptist Bible College in Springfield Missouri.
2/8/2005 Registration fraud WI Milwaukee. Fraud being investigated by federal and local authorities. "... many peculiarities, inconsistencies, duplications and plain unanswered questions [were] found in recent days by the newspaper in its review of the election in the city. Story2
1/24/2005 Registration fraud WI Milwaukee. "1,242 votes came from a total of 1,135 invalid addresses. That is, in some cases more than one person is listed as voting from the address. Of the 1,242 voters with invalid addresses, 75% registered on site on election day, according to city records." Story
11/16/2004 Registration fraud IN Hendricks County. 102 provisional ballots were given to voters who registered through registration drives, but whose names were not on the rolls. Story
11/7/2004 Registration fraud NJ Hundreds, perhaps thousands of students at Rutgers University thought they were registered only to find that they weren't on the rolls and could only vote provisionally. Many colleges are reporting the same problem. Story Archive
11/3/2004 Registration fraud MD Diebold Hundreds of student voters at the University of Maryland, College Park, were turned away because they had been improperly registered by a campus organization. Story Archive
10/31/2004 Registration fraud FL Leon and Alachua Counties: Students at Florida State, Florida A&M, and University of Florida. some of whom signed petitions to legalize medical marijuana or impose stiffer penalties for child molesters, unknowingly had their party registration switched to Republican and their addresses changed. Switching voters' party affiliations does not affect their ability to vote, but changing addresses does, because when voters shows up at their proper polling places, they will not be registered there. About 4,000 potential voters in all have been affected. Story Archive
10/31/2004 Registration fraud NV This month, the Clark County election supervisor found 800 felons who are illegally registered to vote. They include people serving time in prison, those on parole, and those who have committed violent crimes and sex offenses. Such people, under state law, are banned from voting. Story Archive
10/30/2004 Registration fraud OR People working for Sproul & Associates deceived students into registering as Republicans, apparently so they could get paid for the registrations. Story Archive
10/30/2004 Registration fraud WI Milwaukee. A just-released list of newly registered voters contains at least two dozen non-existent addresses. Story
10/29/2004 Registration fraud FL Broward County. ACORN was sued Friday by two lawyers in Fort Lauderdale for disenfranchising 11 South Florida residents, one from Broward and 10 from Miami-Dade County, by taking their completed voter registration forms and not turning them in. Story Archive
10/28/2004 Registration fraud CO Denver prosecutors charged two ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) employees with falsely filling out multiple voter forms to boost their pay in a paid registration drive. Story Archive
10/27/2004 Registration fraud NE Personal Report -- In Douglas County, Nebraska, polling places have been changed since the primary elections. I have a registration card (less than six months old) telling me where to vote. The online information from the Douglas County Election Commission gives a different address. I called the Election Commission and they verified the new address and gave no explanation for why we weren't notified of the change. This could cause a major problem in the election since Douglas County has a half million population. (VotersUnite! learned that some polling locations have recently been changed. Some have not.)
10/21/2004 Registration fraud NV Voters Outreach of America (Sproul and Associates) was caught ripping up Democratic registration forms. Link below has multiple articles and links. Story1 Story2
10/21/2004 Registration fraud OR Voters Outreach of America (Sproul and Associates) may be destroying Democratic registration forms here, too.
Story1 Story2
10/21/2004 Registration fraud PA Meadville. Sproul and Associates of Chandler, Arizona, was hired by the Republican National Committee to canvass Pennsylvania and register new voters. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that some canvassers claim they were given instructions to avoid adding anyone to the voter rolls who might support the Democratic presidential nominee.
Story1 Story2
10/20/2004 Registration fraud SD Voter-registration groups didn't turn in all the completed forms to the county office.
Story Archive
10/13/2004 Registration fraud IA Voters who, legitimately, included their Social Security number as the ID on their form have had their registration rejected because the state connection to the Social Security database isn't working yet and the auditors can't verify the ID information. Story
10/12/2004 Registration fraud CO Because of the widespread voter-registration fraud and the delays of both the Democratic and Republican parties in turning in forms, Secretary of State Davidson instructed auditors to allow voters to vote on provisional ballots if they claim they had registered before the deadline. Story
10/11/2004 Registration fraud CO Voter registration groups have turned in hundreds of fraudulent registration forms, forging signatures, registering voters multiple times, registering felons, and changing facts that could affect voters' ability to vote in the general election. Story
10/8/2004 Registration fraud MN St. Paul. When police at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport stopped a man for running a stop sign late last month, they found an unusual stash in his car trunk: More than 300 voter registration cards that had been filled out but never submitted to the Minnesota secretary of state.
Story
10/8/2004 Registration fraud OH Hamilton County is investigating 19 registrations that may be for non-existent people. Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) turned in cards with similar handwriting and false addresses. Story
10/8/2004 Registration fraud PA Berks County. Director of elections Bellman said his office has had numerous calls from people who were registered through a group called the Association Communication Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), complaining that those taking down the voter information deliberately put inaccurate information on the form. Bellman said he also received a batch of registrations from Citizens for Consumer Justice in Allentown that contained several hundred forms, including ones that have been held since July and ones with fictitious names and addresses and even wrong counties. Story
10/7/2004 Registration fraud SC Florence man arrested for turning in over 1,000 fraudulent registration forms. Story
10/3/2004 Registration fraud WI In Racine, the district attorney's office is investigating seven voter registration applications filed by Project Vote in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Story
10/1/2004 Registration fraud FL Widespread allegations of criminal vote fraud in Florida, days before the state closes registration for the presidential election. Story
9/30/2004 Registration fraud MI Ingham County. Massive voter registration fraud discovered. The group behind the fraud is PIRGIM (Public Interest Research Group of Michigan).Story
9/29/2004 Registration fraud WI Racine. Project Vote registrations include some that voters claim they didn't sign. Two people working with the group are under criminal investigation. Story
8/25/2004 Registration fraud NM Bernalillo County. Over 3,000 suspect registration forms. At least one 13-year old boy has received a registration card. Story
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