Plain Dealer: Kerry wins Cuyahoga...maybe more than we know...

[EMunster]

maybe already posted...

http://www.cleveland.com/election/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/110181082962790.xml

(the emerging picture)

A focus of Monday's testimony was three lists containing names and addresses of 495 voters whose provisional ballots were rejected, according to an analysis led by Dr. Norman Robbins, a neurosciences professor at Case Western Reserve University who volunteered for the Greater Cleveland Voter Registration Coalition.

The first list held names of 32 rejected voters the coalition said it reliably registered and delivered to the elections board. The names never made it onto the rolls or were entered incorrectly, Robbins said.

The second list contained 201 rejected voters who were on county voter registration rolls Aug. 17 but had dropped off by Oct. 26. They may have inadvertently been dropped, perhaps during a September software change, Robbins said. Elections Director Michael Vu said he doubts that happened.

The third list contained 183 voters who were on rolls Oct. 26 but given provisional ballots and rejected as not registered. Another 79 were rejected because they didn't sign the provisional ballot, which Robbins maintains they should never have had to use. Vu said he would review the lists Robbins provided and wished he had had them sooner. He also plans a study of the more than 6,000 voter registration cards dropped on the board of elections after the registration deadline. Many of those voters may have gone to the polls unaware the Get-Out-The-Vote group that registered them failed to turn in their cards on time rightly landing their provisional ballots in the discard pile.

[MrUnderhill]

1. Question about that largest group...

6000 registrations were dropped off after the deadline?

So it was OUR registration group that disenfranchised (or failed to enfranchise I guess) people who had a reason to believe they could vote?

We paid pretty good money to these groups to do these registrations and we ended up with some fake forms to take our money and some people paid in drugs for fake forms... and now we find out that they had thousands of potentials registrations that they just FAILED TO TURN IN? It isn't like they got 6000 at the last minute, they were holding them.


WHO DID THIS?!?!? I want to make sure they don't get any of our funds next time!!!

[ewulf]

2. Good Question.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was just another Republican voter suppression drive. If it was people legitimately on our side, they should be slapped for their stupidity, if it was the repugs, people should go to jail.

[Senator]

3. We might want to find out...

...who's claiming they came "after the registration deadline."

[bones_7672]

4. I worked a polling place 11/2

and we had two people who came in to vote but were prevented by the Cuyahoga Cty BOE because their unions turned in their registration forms late.

[truehawk]

5. kick