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first of all don't believe media hype and here's the news !!!! Fraud File: Fla., Ohio Watched Thursday, October 28, 2004 WASHINGTON — There are more troubles in Florida Thursday for the left-wing Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (search). Another former employee accused the group of mishandling voter registration forms, meaning many Floridians who thought they would be able to vote this year won't be on the rolls and won't have their votes counted.
Former ACORN employee Mac Stuart was in charge of collecting petitions to put an initiative on the ballot to boost the minimum wage. In the process of collecting signatures, petitioners were asked to fill out voter registration forms.
Stuart said ACORN stored hundreds — if not thousands — of voter registration forms for weeks so they could be photocopied.
"Let's say you bumped into a person who wasn't a registered voter. Technically, in order to fill out the petition, they had to become a registered voter, and they would fill out the voter registration card, and right after that, they would just have us have them sign the bottom of the minimum wage petition and we'd tell them we'd fill in the rest later," Stuart told FOX News.
Stuart said ACORN advised workers to backdate petitions, a violation of state law. These sloppy — and in some cases illegal — procedures mean many who assume they are registered to vote won't be able to cast a ballot on Tuesday.
Voting Problems Surface With 2 Days To Go Double Registrations In Ohio, Fla.; Court To Rule On Ohio Dispute October 31, 2004
Thousands of voters may get their voices heard in two battleground states this year. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that some 27,000 people are registered both in Ohio and Florida. Analysts and polls indicated that those states are among the tightest races this election.
The paper said virtually nothing prevents transitory voters from casting ballots in multiple states.
Federal voting laws require states to compile statewide voter registration lists. But states rarely coordinate with each other to find double registrations.
The paper said records show some voters registered in both Florida and Ohio in the same month.
Court To Rule On Voter Challenges
Federal judges in two states are expected to rule Monday on whether and how Republicans may challenge voters' qualifications at the polls in battleground Ohio.
Democrats say planned voter challenges in Ohio and Florida may target minority voters or cause chaos at polling places. In-person challenges are allowable in both states but questions about the motivation and conduct of poll challengers has become an important legal issue in the campaign.
At issue are thousands of names on the rolls in Ohio that the GOP calls suspect because political mail sent to the voters' listed addresses could not be delivered.
A judge in New Jersey could also rule on whether the poll challenges contemplated in Ohio should be outlawed nationally.
Republicans say they haven't been involved in any efforts to remove qualified voters.
Consumer Watchdog to Candidates: Don't Concede On Election Night
Some computer security experts are calling it a "huge national experiment" -- the widespread use of electronic voting machines this year.
And now, at least one consumer watchdog is advising political candidates not to concede on Election Night.
Bev Harris, the director of Black Box Voting, said it could take days, maybe weeks, for audits to be done of election results and she said there have been more than a few cases where electronic voting machines have "flipped" election results: counting "no's" as "yes's" and vice versa.
Harris is urging county boards of elections to conduct full audits of election results by running vote counts on their master computers and then matching those numbers to the tabulations from individual voting locations. She said if the numbers don't match, a more detailed recount may be needed.
Voters Expect Election Day Problems
The last Newsweek poll before Election Day suggests a big majority of Americans don't expect smooth sailing at voting booths.
Some 59 percent of registered voters in the survey said they expect major problems or disputes at the polls. And about 54 percent said it'll be left up to the courts to again determine the winner.
The Newsweek poll points to more of a shift toward President Bush with three days left before the election. It has the Bush-Cheney ticket leading John Kerry and John Edwards among likely voters, 50 percent to 44 percent.
That lead remains within the poll's margin of error. Nine percent of registered voters say they're still undecided. Florida Voters Already Having Problems Computer problems reported at some early voting sites (South Florida Sun-Sentinel AP)
Problems were being reported at nine of 14 early voting sites in Broward County on Monday morning. Gisela Salas, of the Broward Elections Office, said workers were having problems with a live database connection that is used to verify that a voter is properly registered. The sites, Salas said, that were unaffected were at satellite offices in Deerfield Beach, Hollywood, Lauderhill, Pembroke Pines and Plantation. All the branch offices were reported having problems with the database connection. Many of the sites had voters lined up to cast their ballots. Voters at several sites said poll workers told them the problems started 20 minutes to 30 minutes after the early polling stations opened at 8:30 a.m. The stations close at 6 p.m.
