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voter fraud stories: 23 news summaries

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 Karzai Accepts 
 UN Recount, 
 Runoff Looms 

Runoff election looms as prez bows to pressure

Oct 20, 09 4:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hamid Karzai will bow to international pressure and accept the results of a UN-backed recount of Afghanistan's presidential election, US and European officials tell the New York Times. The incumbent will publicly acknowledge he fell short of 50% of the first-round vote as early as today, setting the stage for... More »

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Afghanistan • John Kerry • voter fraud • Hamid Karzai • runoff election • Ban Ki-Moon • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

OPINION

 ACORN Chief 
 Blames 
 Everyone 
 But ACORN 

Bertha Lewis not contrite enough for Dana Milbank

Oct 7, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - ACORN chief Bertha Lewis wasn’t in the mood to apologize at the National Press Club yesterday. For anything. Not for the internal ACORN review showing that $5 million had been embezzled from the group, rather than the previously alleged $1 million (“This is speculation, completely false”), not... More »

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voter fraud • hidden camera • undercover video • Acorn • Dana Milbank • Bertha Lewis

OPINION

ACORN Takedown Campaign Overblown, Misguided

The actions of a half-dozen employees doesn't represent the huge organization

Sep 18, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - The conservative campaign against ACORN—which has now, thanks to a few video “sting” operations, lost its federal funding—is built on an outrageous set of exaggerations and falsehoods, writes Joe Conason for Salon. “No doubt it was fun to dupe a few morons into providing tax advice... More »

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prostitution • voter fraud • DC Madam • video • David Vitter • hidden camera • activists • Acorn • Ken Calvert

 Karzai Set Up 800 
 Fake Poll Sites, 
 Say Diplomats 

Ten times as many ballots as voters, say Western officials

Sep 7, 09 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hamid Karzai's supporters set up hundreds of fake polling stations that delivered hundreds of thousands of votes to the Afghan president, even though nobody voted there, diplomats tell the New York Times. The incumbent's team created as many as 800 fake sites, existing only on paper. Karzai allies also occupied... More »

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Afghanistan • voter fraud • Hamid Karzai • Pashtun • Kandahar • ballots • Ahmed Wali Karzai • Afghanistan election

 Karzai Team Forged All 24K 
 Ballots in 1 District: Charge 

Afghan president's campaign allegedly detained tribal leader, closed polls

Sep 2, 09 7:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tribal leaders in southern Afghanistan make the strongest allegations yet of ballot fraud, telling Dexter Filkins of the New York Times that in their district, "Hamid Karzai's people stuffed all the ballot boxes." Members of the Bariz tribe, who endorsed challenger Abdullah Abdullah, say aides to Karzai's brother—... More »

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Afghanistan • voter fraud • Hamid Karzai • election fraud • ballots • Ahmed Wali Karzai • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

Karzai Stole Afghanistan Election: Rival

With early vote count due Tuesday, Abdullah alleges fraud

Aug 23, 09 1:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai’s strongest political rival in the Afghan presidential race, is charging his opponent with engineering widespread voter fraud in the southern and eastern regions, the Guardian reports. A watchdog group controlled by international officials, which says the official election commission is controlled by Karzai supporters, has... More »

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Afghanistan • voter fraud • Hamid Karzai • election fraud • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

AFGHAN ELECTION

 Karzai, Rival Both Claim Victory 


Aug 21, 09 5:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Afghanistan gets down to the difficult job of counting ballots from 6,200 polling stations, both Hamid Karzai and his main challenger Abdullah Abdullah havd claimed victory in the presidential race. No confirmed results have been released, but a Karzai staffer said reports from election monitors indicate that the... More »

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Afghanistan • voter fraud • Hamid Karzai • voter intimidation • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

(Newser) - The supposedly indelible ink used to mark voters' fingers in today's Afghanistan election rubs off easily with household detergent, raising fears of widespread ballot fraud. Campaigners for Abdullah Abdullah, the main opposition candidate, found they could remove the ink with minimal effort, and a Guardian journalist scrubbed his finger clean... More »

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Afghanistan • United Nations • voter fraud • Hamid Karzai • ink • election fraud • Ashraf Ghani • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

ANALYSIS

Silver: How Do You Rig
11M Votes? Easily
 

Ayatollah's argument against the possibility of vote fraud doesn't hold water

Jun 20, 09 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nate Silver has a bone to pick with the ayatollah. In his attempt yesterday to quash claims of voter fraud, Ali Khamenei asserted that President Ahmadinejad had won by 11 million votes. "How can one rig 11 million votes?" he asked. That's faulty logic, cries Silver on FiveThirtyEight.com.... More »

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • voter fraud • president • Ali Khamenei • election fraud • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • supreme leader

Coulter Faces Voter Fraud Investigation

Pundit voted in Conn. while living in NYC, accusers say

Feb 8, 09 2:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Officials are probing whether Ann Coulter committed voter fraud by casting ballots in Connecticut while keeping a residence in New York City, the New York Daily News reports. A blogger prodded the Connecticut election commission over the possible wrongdoing after a private eye brought it to light. “For over... More »

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Ann Coulter • voter fraud • New York • Connecticut • Bill Maher • voter registration • Bill Maher Grid

Ohio Vote Fraud Probe Uncovers Single Case

Allegations of widespread Cincinatti-area fraud prove unfounded

Jan 29, 09 2:30 AM CST
(Newser) - An investigation into allegations of widespread voter fraud in Ohio's Hamilton County last fall found just one case, reports the Cincinnati Enquirer. A county prosecutor—and local chairman of John McCain's campaign—had demanded 600 votes be examined. The only fraudulent vote was cast by a Connecticut man who turned... More »

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voter fraud • Ohio • Cincinnati • election fraud • voting irregularities • Election 2008

 Death of GOP IT Guru 
 Fuels Conspiracy Mills 

Plane crash involving Karl Rove's IT consultant raises suspicions

Dec 26, 08 5:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The death of Karl Rove's IT consultant in a plane crash last week has let loose a flood conspiracy theories, the Zoo reports. Michael Connell was due to testify in a case alleging voter fraud in Ohio in 2004, and had asked for police protection, according to some reports. He... More »

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Karl Rove • voter fraud • GOP • Ohio • conspiracy theory

 Thai Court  Dissolves 
 Ruling Party, Boots PM 

Court dissolves ruling parties in fraud case, triggers scramble to form new government

Dec 2, 08 3:30 AM CST
(Newser) - A Thai court has ordered the country's ruling coalition parties to be dissolved and Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawt and other leaders immediately banned from politics for five years after finding them guilty of electoral fraud, Reuters reports. Wongsawat has accepted the ruling but it's unclear whether his ouster will be... More »

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Thailand • voter fraud • People's Power Party • People's Alliance for Democracy • Thai protesters • Somchai Wongsawat

Voting Could
Get Ugly, Warn Watchdogs

Ballot denial, long
lines likely in battleground states

Oct 30, 08 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - With record-shattering turnout anticipated, voter-rights groups predict contentious voting in battleground states, where Republicans are accused of disenfranchising new voters—who are overwhelmingly Democrat. In Florida, a “no match, no vote” standard denies ballots to people whose registration info clashes with government records, an obstacle not unique to that... More »

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voter fraud • voting • voters • voting rights • Election 2008 • Florida voting • voting process • new voters

(Newser) - The election is heating up in Virginia, with fake notices and lawsuits flying around the swing state. The majority black region of Hampton Roads has been blanketed with official-seeming fliers falsely stating that Democrats are to vote November 5, Talking Points Memo reports. And the NAACP has sued the state,... More »

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voter fraud • Virginia • Election Day • NAACP • Election 2008 • swing states • voter intimidation

ACORN Inflated New Voter
Count by 850K

Almost a third of its registrations
have been rejected

Oct 24, 08 2:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - The community organizing group ACORN and Project Vote's boast of having signed up 1.3 million new voters was off by 850,000, reports the New York Times. Just 450,000 of the registrations represent genuine new voters. Another 450,000 were already-registered voters who changed their address, and 400,... More »

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voter fraud • Election 2008 • voter registration • Project Vote • Acorn

Justices Won't Force Ohio to Check Voter Registrations

Ruling is blow to state Republican party

Oct 17, 08 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court ruled today that Ohio does not have to verify hundreds of thousands of new voter registrations, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The court did not assess the Ohio Republic Party’s claim that registration needs cross-checks to prevent fraud, but rather ruled that the party did not... More »

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voter fraud • Ohio • US Supreme Court • Election 2008 • voter registration • Acorn

Liberal Group 
Files Fake
Voter Forms

ACORN under scrutiny in several states; used names of the dead

Oct 10, 08 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Authorities have discovered more than 2,000 phony registration forms filled in by a liberal activist group in an Indiana county, CNN reports. The forms from ACORN—already being probed for alleged fraud in Nevada and Missouri—included the names of dead people and sandwich shop Jimmy Johns. A lawyer... More »

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voter fraud • Indiana • election fraud • Election 2008 • voter registration • Acorn

Foreclosed Homeowners May Lose
Voting Rights

Dems: GOP plans to challenge addresses

Sep 25, 08 5:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many of the million Americans who lost their homes through foreclosure in the last couple of years may discover at the polls that they've lost their right to vote in the upcoming election as well, the New York Times reports. Election officials and voter rights groups fear that failure to... More »

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voter fraud • foreclosure • voting • voters • election monitors • ballots • voter registration • swing states

 Dems, GOP
 Battle Over
 New Voters

Issue becomes focus as huge turnout expected

Aug 12, 08 8:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Voter registration has become a hot-button election issue in a year that’s seen millions of new voters, the Wall Street Journal reports. In line with party trends, Democrats are working to register as many people as possible and deploying vote-protection legal experts, while Republicans keep a wary eye on... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • voter fraud • Election 2008 • voter registration

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