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    Ohio issues dozens of subpoenas in mass voter fraud investigation

    Ohio issues dozens of subpoenas in mass voter fraud investigation

    FEBRUARY 7, 2013
    BY MICHAEL DORSTEWITZ



    Now that the 2012 election is over, reports of voting irregularities — even outright fraud — are beginning to surface. Close to home, St. Lucie County has become the subject of a lawsuit, and Hamilton County, Ohio, is also coming under fire.

    As I watched the results on Nov. 6, the instant Ohio fell, I knew it was all over for Mitt Romney. “What happened there?” I wondered. Gov. John Kasich, U.S. Sen. Rob Portman and House Speaker John Boehner were supposed to have had the Buckeye State all sewn up.

    As it turns out, maybe Ohio wasn’t such a rout for President Obama as was originally reported.

    In an exclusive report, Barry Horstman wrote in the Cincinnati Enquirer that “more than two dozen subpoenas” have been issued in Hamilton County, which includes the city of Cincinnati, all having to do with election fraud allegedly committed by voters and poll workers alike. The Enquirer story said:

    By a unanimous vote, the four-member county Board of Elections decided Tuesday to issue 28 subpoenas and scheduled two hearings later this month at which voters will be given a final opportunity to provide explanations before the cases are turned over to prosecutors for possible criminal charges. Pending further investigation, several other subpoenas may be issued later.

    Some of the cases involve attempted double-voting in Walnut Hills, Westwood, Silverton and elsewhere. One deals with a Florida resident who attempted to use her old Greater Cincinnati address to vote in Hamilton County last November. And in another episode, someone who voted at an Avondale polling place on Election Day claimed to be a woman who already had cast an absentee ballot.

    “She did not attempt to vote twice,” elections board chairman Tim Burke told the Enquirer. “Someone apparently voted in her name.”

    Most troubling for election officials was the accidental discovery that a veteran poll worker appeared to have been engaged in a double-voting scheme allegedly involving both her and her granddaughter. She had served as a poll worker since 1988.

    According to the Enquirer, the poll worker then attempted to cover up her activities:

    Ordinarily, her Election Day vote would have been flagged by a supplemental list of voters who had requested absentee ballots, but that list was mysteriously missing from that polling place. The poll’s presiding judge later told officials that the woman in question “was disruptive and hid things from the workers on Election Day,” according to an elections board report.

    Further investigation indicated that the poll worker apparently prepared absentee ballots using the names of at least three other voters.

    Another unusual circumstance involved the case of a 75-year-old woman who died before her absentee ballot was even mailed out to her.

    “There’s no way this person voted that ballot,” elections board member Alex Triantafilou told the Enquirer. “On its face, it looks like the husband voted for the deceased wife.”

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    EXCLUSIVE: Heat steps up in voter fraud investigation

    Hamilton County officials plan 28 subpoenas as criminal charges loom

    Feb 5, 2013 |

    Hamilton County election officials will issue more than two dozen subpoenas concerning possible vote fraud during November’s election, including cases in which a poll worker may have falsified votes and where someone “voted” via an absentee ballot sent to her several days after she died.

    By a unanimous vote, the four-member county Board of Elections decided Tuesday to issue 28 subpoenas and scheduled two hearings later this month at which voters will be given a final opportunity to provide explanations before the cases are turned over to prosecutors for possible criminal charges. Pending further investigation, several other subpoenas may be issued later.

    Some of the cases involve attempted double-voting in Walnut Hills, Westwood, Silverton and elsewhere. One deals with a Florida resident who attempted to use her old Greater Cincinnati address to vote in Hamilton County last November. And in another episode, someone who voted at an Avondale polling place on Election Day claimed to be a woman who already had cast an absentee ballot.

    “She did not attempt to vote twice,” elections board chairman Tim Burke said. “Someone apparently voted in her name.”

    While the cases being investigated are an infinitesimally small portion of the nearly 422,000 votes cast countywide, they are a large number in terms of vote fraud.

    The last vote fraud prosecution in Hamilton County is believed to have occurred in 2008, and across Ohio, only “a relative handful” of cases from 2012 currently are being examined by county officials, said Matt McClellan, a spokesman for Secretary of State Jon Husted.

    One of the more intriguing Hamilton County cases also is arguably the most troubling, because it involves a longtime poll worker from Madisonville who apparently voted twice and may have had a hand in falsifying four other votes.
    That case came to light as officials examined whether the poll worker’s granddaughter had voted twice.

    The girl told officials that her grandmother had filled out an absentee ballot request in her name and then voted it, “because she didn’t think I would go do it.” The granddaughter, however, cast a provisional ballot – used when there are questions over a voter’s eligibility – on Election Day, which caught officials’ attention because two votes in her name had been cast, one of which was later disqualified.

    As investigators dug deeper, they learned that the grandmother – a poll worker since at least 1988 – also had both cast an absentee ballot and voted at the polls under her own name.

    Ordinarily, her Election Day vote would have been flagged by a supplemental list of voters who had requested absentee ballots, but that list was mysteriously missing from that polling place. The poll’s presiding judge later told officials that the woman in question “was disruptive and hid things from the workers on Election Day,” according to an elections board report.

    The woman’s questionable actions did not end there. Officials found that not only had the granddaughter’s absentee ballot been sent to her grandmother’s Whetsel Avenue address, but that three other absentee requests – in the names of men – also originated from the same address.

    All three of those requests were received by the elections board on Oct. 25, the same date as the woman’s absentee request. All three ballots were returned to the board on Nov. 1, the same date that the woman’s absentee vote was returned. And the investigative report concludes with one other potentially incriminating detail: “Handwriting on all documents is similar.”

    While the woman involved soon may have bigger legal concerns to worry about, elections officials already have taken one punitive action: she now is a former poll worker.
    Another unusual case concerns an absentee vote purportedly cast by a 75-year-old woman who died several days before the ballot was even mailed to her Loveland home.

    The woman died Oct. 1, but the elections board on Oct. 11 received a signed absentee ballot in her name dated Sept. 29.

    What makes that timetable impossible – and legally problematic – is that her ballot was among roughly 60,000 absentee ballots countywide that were not mailed to voters until Oct. 5.

    “There’s no way this person voted that ballot,” said elections board member Alex Triantafilou. “On its face, it looks like the husband voted for the deceased wife.” The husband also cast an absentee ballot, in an envelope also signed and dated Sept. 29.

    That was one of two cases in which a voter’s pre-election death raised questions. In the other, however, the vote counted, because the 67-year-old Springfield Township man died on Oct. 5 – only hours after casting his absentee ballot in person at the elections board Downtown.

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    I don't foresee an open honest election until we change the system, it must be taken from the hands ot politicians to count or monitor.
    I'm old with many opinions few solutions.

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