Electronic Absentee Ballot Fraud

[WhiskeyGirl]

Attempted absentee ballot fraud in Miami-Dade's August primaries

Fraudsters programmed a computer to make 2,552 absentee ballot requests in three races (see districts below). The scheme didn't work. But it could have.

Fraudulent absentee ballot requests:

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Read more and see map here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/21/3246033/attempted-absentee-ballot-fraud.html#storylink=cpy

And some want to go electronic to make lines shorter?  How many places had long lines?  Few if any?

[WhiskeyGirl]

"Maryland’s proposed online ballot system called vulnerable to cyberattack"

A controversial change in Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s otherwise popular bill to expand early voting could lead to voter fraud and expose the state’s elections to cybersecurity threats, according to a voting group and election technology experts.

The provision, sought for more than a year by Maryland’s State Board of Elections, would allow any Marylander to receive a password by e-mail to download and mark a ballot at home before mailing it back to elections officials. But the problem, critics warn, is that the e-mail system lacks basic protections and there would be no signature verification or other means to ensure that the person for whom the ballot is intended is actually the person who casts it.

Experts have also warned that the proposed online ballot delivery system could be hacked on a massive scale because of a second and related vulnerability that still exists with the state’s new online voter registration system.

Maryland residents can register to vote online with a driver’s license number. But in Maryland, that number is a formula of a resident’s name and birth date that can be found online.

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read more here - http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/marylands-proposed-online-ballot-system-called-vulnerable-to-cyberattack/2013/02/23/18eee5ce-7d33-11e2-a044-676856536b40_story.html

Expanding the 'no meaningful voter id' style potential fraud system already working in many states?

Give any name, any name as long as it's on the list?  No photo ID required?

[WhiskeyGirl]

"This is how Obama really got elected: Ohio voter casts six votes, fraud widespread"

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Let's hope so, because, according to the Columbus Dispatch newspaper, Ohio - a key battleground state - seems to have a big problem with voter fraud:

More than one out of every five registered Ohio voters is probably ineligible to vote. In two counties, the number of registered voters actually exceeds the voting-age population: Northwestern Ohio's Wood County shows 109 registered voters for every 100 eligible, while in Lawrence County along the Ohio River it's a mere 104 registered per 100 eligible. Another 31 counties show registrations at more than 90 percent of those eligible, a rate regarded as unrealistic by most voting experts.

We'll see if the state's officials can get their voter rolls cleaned up before the next election, but honestly, we don't hold out much hope.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/039220_Obama_election_voter_fraud.html#ixzz2LvjCsaI8

[WhiskeyGirl]

"Breaking: Obama campaign caught in major NC vote fraud scheme"

February 19, 2013 North Carolina's Civitas Institute has revealed that the North Carolina State Board of Elections and the Obama campaign conspired to register at least 11,000 people via the internet in violation of state law. This has been confirmed through records requests filed with all of North Carolina's 100 counties. The counting is not yet complete.

Some reason, they want smart phones and other devises to replace in person voting and voter ID photo requirements...

How does it work?

"Wright repeatedly denied that the SBE allowed online voter registration, insisting that it was “web-based voter registration”[ii] instead, as if there could be a “web-based” process that wasn’t online.

    The technology from Allpoint Voter Services uses remote-control pens to transmit “signatures” over the Internet, according to techpresident.com[iii]. After entering voter information in an online form, the citizen “signs” it with a stylus or a finger. The Allpoint technology records the signature and then transmits it to one of two autopens – one in California, the other in Nevada[iv]. One of the pens transcribes the signature on to a paper voter registration form. Allpoint then mails the documents to local election boards – or is supposed to, a point we’ll come back to.

    To say this is not “online” registration but “web-based” is like saying a certain vehicle is not a car, it’s an automobile. The point of having a “wet signature” – one in ink – is to provide a universally accepted way proving that a prospective voter is affirming in person all the facts on the form. To have an auto pen inserted at one point in this long computerized process is a far different thing. Even the Obama campaign called it online voter registration. Because, no matter how you twist words around, that’s what it is."

According to Civitas, the Obama campaign may have been paying Allpoint per registration, in violation of federal law. They also raise the possibility that Obama's campaign may have been prioritizing registrations, accepting some electronically and requiring others to print and turn in their registrations by mail. Finally, county election officials reported that many of Allpoint's registration forms appeared to have very similar signatures. George Gilbert, Board of Elections Director for Guilford County, NC, said Allpoint registrations were “immediately suspect.” While the Obama campaign couldn't directly control party affiliation of registrants, 68 percent of the registrations were for Democratic voters and 21 percent were unaffiliated. Only 10 percent were Republican voters.

read more here - http://www.examiner.com/article/breaking-obama-campaign-caught-major-vote-fraud-scheme