Phony letters tell people they cannot vote - OHIO

[meisje]

PAINESVILLE -- It is an outright case of election fraud in Lake County.

The phony letter says newly registered voters signed up by the Kerry or Capri Cafaro campaigns or the NAACP, their registrations are illegal and they will not be able to vote.

“That was not authorized by the Board of Elections, said Elections Director Jan Clair. “It was not mailed by the Lake County Board of Elections.”

A real board mailing would have Clair’s signature.

The letter was brought to election officials by Ron Colvin, a longtime registered voter and head of the Lake County NAACP.

Sheriff Dan Dunlap is investigating. “It will be a federal offense because you have

interfered with the constitutionally protected right to vote,” he said.


Congressional candidate Capri Cafaro says she’s sure the letter came from the other side. “So it seems to me the Republicans will stop at nothing to win and this is just another voter suppression tactic,” she said. “I believe it came from someone with significant political motivation.”

In a race where the mud’s been flying, Cafaro’s opponent, Steve LaTorette, decided to sit this one out and said he would have no comment on her charges.

Whether it was Republicans, or Democrats wanting to make it look like Republicans, or some guy sitting in his pajamas at his home computer, the sheriff says from now to Election Day, ignore any message that tells you not to come out and vote.

[deadparrot]

1. Why woudl Kerry people do this?

GOTV is key, and even if it made the * people look bad, why would we do ANYTHING to jeopardize voter turnout? That's what we rely on.

[Rose Siding]

2. How can they find this jerk when they can't find the anthrax killer?

The elections office should hire emergency staff to call or visit every new register :grr:

[snippy]

3. How very republican. n/t

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

4. This sounds like one of those Rove moves..

..recall there was this shadowy effort to smear McCain in SC.

Nothing attributable to the Bush campaign, but it worked to their advantage.