Election chief warns of absentee scam
People posing as election officials are visiting residents of several counties and offering to take absentee ballots.
By STEPHEN HEGARTY, Times Staff Writer
Published October 22, 2004
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Pasco elections officials have a warning for the county's absentee voters:
Don't give your ballot to a stranger claiming to be from the elections office.
They're not who they say they are.
"The people who are soliciting your ballots in this manner are not elections officials," Pasco Elections Supervisor Kurt Browning warned Thursday.
The warning came after a phone call from a west Pasco woman. Other Florida counties have gotten similar complaints.
"We've had a bunch of them - 100 at least," said Bob Sweat, elections supervisor for Manatee County. "It's probably going on all over the state of Florida."
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