I have captured this in my vote fraud database at
Vote Watch 2004, but I wanted to alert this community with an update on the growing GOP Ohio vote challenge scandal.
Reader EN, first brought this article to my attention in which two U-Toledo faculty members pointed out that the GOP registration challenge was a fraud considering that they live in the addresses that the GOP claimed that did not. Both of them live with their spouses - who are listed at the same address - but the spouses were not challenged. An interesting, additional detail is that one of the faculty members (Alice Frye) points out that she has donated money to the Democratic Party in her name (different last name from her husband) - but her husband (who was not challenged) has not directly written a check to the Democrats. Hmmmm.
Reader EN wrote in his own report, which seems to indicate there is more than coincidence at work here [continued below the fold].
Here is EN's note to me:
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Six Republicans, including one University of Toledo Republican student leader, have challenged the voting rights of over 930 citizens. The list includes soldiers currently serving in Iraq, a military recruitment officer, a UT student who is a Bush/Cheney volunteer, and at least four University of Toledo professors. It includes my wife. My wife and I live at the same place and registered around the same time. She was challenged and I was not. If any mail was truly sent out and returned, the supposed basis for this challenge, I should have received such a letter but never did. This shows that their challenging process is flawed and that other factors determined their selection--perhaps because my wife donated to the DNC (publicly available information) but I had not? Her challenger does not even live in Toledo but in Waterville, Ohio. She never tried to contact us. She knows nothing about us, we have never met or heard of her, and yet she saw fit to issue a totally unjustified challenge. We have had to take time out of our lives to deal with a frivolous charge and much of our week has been wasted with a time-consuming and worry-producing process of contacting various officials and lawyers. This included attending a board of elections hearing in order to make sure that my wife can still vote. Luckily the challenges have been checked, but what about individuals who were not able to show up at a last minute meeting and now believe that they cannot vote? Adding further insult to injury, many concerned people showed up at this board meaning in order to guarantee their voting rights and the Republican members did not allow them to voice their complaints. The signed challenge also clearly states that misusing it is a felony. We hope these people will be investigated because voter intimidation and suppression should not be tolerated in a free society. One has to wonder about the morals, values and character of people who seek to deny voting rights to their fellow citizens, they should be ashamed of themselves.
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Folks, it's time to investigate these challengers and see if they are also targeting those who have funded the Democratic Party.
Please spread the word.