41 percent of Cuyahoga voters took part in election [200,000 more registered voters than adults]

The Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 | Joan Mazzolini

[Akron Al]

41 percent of Cuyahoga voters took part in election

A little more than half the active voters in Cuyahoga County voted in last week's election, a bit more than voted in the last governor's race four years ago.

The official voter turnout is nearly 41 percent of all voters on the rolls, including inactive ones.

Cuyahoga County has 1.05 million registered voters, which tops the number of adults in the county by 200,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The county board of elections says the number of active voters -- people who have voted in the last four years -- is nearly 900,000, but that includes people who have moved out of the county in those years.

Election officials said 427,252 people voted in last week's election.

Cuyahoga County's official rate of 41 percent is lower than the state average of 53 percent. Coshocton County, south of Holmes County, had the best turnout, with 77 percent of its registered voters casting a ballot Nov. 7, according to the Ohio secretary of state's Web site.

Cuyahoga election workers are busy determining how many of the 14,000 provisional ballots cast Election Day are valid. Provisional ballots are used when questions arise about voter eligibility or identification.

Nearly 27,000 absentee ballots that came in after Friday have yet to be counted.

The board expects nearly 3,100 ballots from overseas and military voters, which must arrive by this Friday to be counted. That's also the deadline for people who voted on provisional ballots to provide proper identification to the board.

Meanwhile, lawyers for a homeless group and a labor union Tuesday told a federal judge that several county election boards, including Cuyahoga's, are not properly handling provisional ballots.

In a filing in U.S. District Court in Columbus, the lawyers said provisional ballots that didn't include birth dates or addresses were placed in a "rejected" pile in Cuyahoga County even though a court order Nov. 1 requires voters only to provide the last four digits of their Social Security numbers.

They also said some boards wrongly forced voters whose driver's licenses listed old addresses to vote provisionally when they should have been allowed to vote by regular ballot.

The lawyers want U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley to order the secretary of state's office to tell boards to stop rejecting provisional ballots that don't include birth dates or addresses and to count all provisional ballots that should have been regular ballots.

To reach this Plain Dealer reporter:

[hoosierham]

You aren't going to be able to turn back the expansions already in effect,but we should insist that all voters be U.S. citizens,limit absentee to good cause,and demand verifiable identification.

Online "novelty" driver's licenses are cheap;a salesman of my acquaintance has confiscated THREE excellent forgeries from his son.College students desire to get in clubs and drink alcohol pumps millions of dollars into i.d. counterfeiting.

[meyer]

Articles like this are posted with passages underlined to suggest voter fraud. The main problem identified in this article is merely that Cuyahoga County has a lot of people moving in and out and voter registration records don't keep up. All that this means is that people don't generally take the time to contact the elections department in their former county of residence to cancel their registration when they move. If things were working properly, this would occur automatically when they registered to vote in a new location.

It would be interesting to see if my own name was still on the voting rolls in Cuyahoga county. For the record, I moved out of state 5 1/2 years ago, and I did inform the county of my move. I wonder how I might check that...

[ccmay]

Hear, hear. No representation without taxation. No vote for wards of the state.

-ccm

[siunevada]

Cuyahoga County prosecutor Bill Mason said he will prosecute anyone who knowingly cast a vote in the place of a dead person.

Oh, man. Good luck trying to investigate this. If they've got a paper ballot they might be able to lift a usable fingerprint and if the state has a fingerprint match computer, it might be possible to come up with a suspect.

[Gondring]

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[StormEye]

"Our so-called "elections" are a joke. Useful idiots from all over the world are now making decisions for the taxpayers who actually live in the U.S. I think we might want to try to get a handle on this joke. Don't ya think?"

I have stated before on FR: " If America's elections continue to be fraudlent, then those governments that are "elected" are illegitimate and the laws enacted are meaningless garbage! When the local, state and federal governments are perceived to have gained power illegitimately by a "critical mass" of the citizenry, then hell will break loose in our country. I don't think this situation will be tolerated very long. The troops will have to called out on the public.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I agree. Anyone with half a brain can see the difference between this election and the previous two elections. When the Commie 'RATS lost, they all threw tantrums and had their "lawyers" all over the polls and ballots like stink on crap. This time, the 'RATS won and all is A-OK and on the up and up. If the few Americans left in this country don't see this, then this country is in even worse shape than most of us think it is.