27 Cuyahoga Voters Found to be Dead

[Algorem]

http://www.newsnet5.com/investigations/10209073/detail.html

Investigation Finds Votes Cast By People Listed As Dead

POSTED: 10:34 am EST November 1, 2006
UPDATED: 10:26 am EST November 3, 2006

CLEVELAND -- ...

NewsChannel5, in partnership with the National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting, conducted one of the most extensive reviews ever of Cuyahoga County voting records, Pohlman reported. The process involved comparing more than 200,000 voters against death records reported by the Social Security Administration...

It is considered a felony, and Kucinich considered it a very serious matter...

Pohlman said ghost voting is large enough of a problem to sway the results of a close race and certainly undercuts the principal that every vote counts...

The 5 On Your Side investigation has prompted Vu to launch an investigation at the BOE...



Cuyahoga poll workers will telephone a computer to tell it their problems

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/10213033/detail.html

POSTED: 4:25 pm EST November 1, 2006
UPDATED: 6:40 pm EST November 1, 2006

CLEVELAND -- New technology is being installed in Cuyahoga County to help prevent problems during next Tuesday's election...

The mayhem of the May 2 primary was made even more maddening by confusion inside the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, and the $275,000 program is supposed to fix that, reported 5 On Your Side chief investigator Duane Pohlman...

The program is called IRV, which stands for interactive voice respond unit.

On Election Day, poll workers will phone in their status to IRV. If a green light is indicated, it means everything is fine. Yellow means no check in yet. Red means there are problems, and purple means big problems...


http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec06/electronic_11-02.html

...REP. DENNIS KUCINICH (D), Ohio: There is such a powerful awareness among the American people about this question of the deficiencies in the technology that it has actually undermined confidence in the election process.

If somebody can show me you could have an election with a 100-percent assurance ... then yes, I'm ready to hear what they have to say. But until that time, look, there's plenty of reasons to be concerned.


Return to paper ballots

KWAME HOLMAN: Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, a presidential candidate in 2004, is calling for a return to paper ballots for future presidential elections because, he says, paperless electronic machines are unreliable.

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: It's not failsafe. If somebody can show me you could have an election with a 100-percent assurance, that there's no vulnerabilities to attack, there's no vulnerabilities in the software, that the software works like a dream and the hardware's perfect, people can show that, then, yes, I'm ready to hear what they have to say. But until that time, look, there's plenty of reasons to be concerned...

[Richardo]

1. That's a VERY misleading subject line. Why not use the original?

"Investigation Finds Votes Cast By People Listed As Dead"

[Algorem]

5. maybe it should be "found TO BE dead"?

English is my 3rd language,after pig latin and frontier gibberish.I'm going to look up the correct grammar in my Fukkin Wagnall,hope I can find it before editing period expires.I'm off to my library,or as the neighbors call it "that pile of trash in your garage".

[Richardo]

6. I'd go for that.

[Algorem]

7. got it,just barely.

it was fun watching the view count though,heheh.

[davidinalameda]

2. they should go to southern West Virginia and Chicago

I'm sure they'd find more than 27 people voting from the great beyond

[EFerrari]

3. Or a certain regal county in a northwestern state. n/t

[zbdent]

4. Probably find that Bob Hope voted for Bush and Republicans

dozens of times in the 2006 primaries ... in several different states ...