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A review of Minnesota’s statewide database of registered voters revealed at least 2,812 deceased individuals voted in last November’s general election, according to a new report by the “traditional values” advocacy group Minnesota Majority. After obtaining the list of voters who participated in November’s election, the group hired an independent firm who specializes in “death suppression” for direct mailing lists to review the data. The process, which involved matching names and addresses to state death records, bore troubling results. According to Minnesota statute 201.13, the commissioner of health is to report monthly the name, address, date of birth, and county...

Over 2,800 people who were already dead may have "voted" in last November's election in Minnesota -- an indication either of voter fraud, or of record-keeping so flawed that it leaves the state vulnerable to fraudulent ballots being cast according to a government watchdog group. Minnesota Majority, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with several Republican supporters, is calling for a federal investigation into Minnesota's election practices. "The secretary of state's office is now in what I interpret to be panic mode," Minnesota Majority founder Jeff Davis tells Newsmax. According to Davis, the issue of deceased persons on the voter rolls dates...

Zogby: Obama Leads 75% to 15% With Dead Voters by Hugh Ken Knott B. Sirius As if gaining with female and Catholic voters wasn't enough, Democratic President-to-be Barack Obama now leads John McCain with 75% of registered dead voters. McCain draws the support of just 15% of corpses, with the remaining 10% are undecided. When numbers are adjusted to from registered to likely dead voters, Obama loses just 2% of the vote. "This is proof that Obama appeals to people of all ages," said an anonymous Obama spokesperson. When asked why he supports Obama, dead actor Humphrey Bogart said, "Mr....

Local 2 investigates dead voters. The push to register voters for this year's presidential election is breaking records. More than 1.9 million people are registered to vote in Harris County alone. But how many of the people listed on the voter roll are actually eligible to cast a ballot? Investigative reporter Amy Davis shows you how hundreds of voters could sway this year's election -- voters who are not even alive. "All-in-all, a great person, a great woman, just a wonderful person" is how Alexis Guidry described her mother to Local 2 Investigates. "As far back as I can remember,...

Thousands on the rolls after death, creating potential for fraud Woodwick Street was quiet — with a few residents working in their yards and adding to post-storm brush piles at the curb — when Texas Watchdog visited on a recent Saturday to try to find Harris County voter Linda K. Hill. “I’m sorry, but she passed on two years ago,” said a mustached man wearing a Dallas Cowboys baseball cap and driving a motorized chair down the street. He was Linda Hill’s husband, Henderson Hill Jr. Linda Kay Hill, a homemaker and Louisiana native, died Aug. 2, 2006, of a...

HOUSTON -- Note: The following story is a verbatim transcript of an Investigators story that aired on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2008, on KPRC Local 2 at 10 p.m. Local 2 investigates dead voters. The push to register voters for this year's presidential election is breaking records. More than 1.9 million people are registered to vote in Harris County alone. But how many of the people listed on the voter roll are actually eligible to cast a ballot? Investigative reporter Amy Davis shows you how hundreds of voters could sway this year's election -- voters who are not even alive. "All-in-all,...

Lake County prosecutors have announced grand jury indictments against two campaign workers for Democratic state Senator Terry Link of Waukegan on charges of forgery and perjury. The indictments announced against Jerry D. Knight, 40, of Zion and Kenneth Davison, 50, of Waukegan allege the men included the names of dead voters on Link's nominating petitions. Knight faces 11 perjury counts and one forgery count. Davison is indicted on nine perjury counts and two forgery counts. All are felonies.

Jane Drury voted last year in an election in Stonington, Conn. The only problem is, she died eight years ago. Her daughter Jane Gumpel thought someone must have goofed. “I was surprised because this is not possible,” she said. But it did happen. The town clerk’s record clearly shows Drury’s vote, marked by a horizontal line poll workers put next to her name. And it turns out, Drury isn’t the only voter to apparently cast a ballot from the grave. [snip] 8,558 deceased people who were still registered on Connecticut’s voter rolls. They discovered more than 300 of them appeared...

The wickedly funny and witty political columnist and bestselling author Ann Coulter (or as I call her the blonde bomber) once wrote that when liberals pass by a graveyard, they see potential voters. I would take it further: when liberals see hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens swarming over our unprotected borders, they see potential voters. An added bonus is that these illegal aliens can't speak English and are ripe for indoctrination by the Democrat Party's Hispanic overseers within the "liberal plantation." Do you think this writer exaggerates? Just look at the recent congressional race in southern California between Bilbray...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Three poll workers accused of casting ballots in the name of dead voters were among six people indicted on charges of violating election laws in a state Senate race, a prosecutor announced Wednesday. Prosecutor Bill Gibbons said his investigation found no evidence of a widespread conspiracy to throw the election to either candidate. Democrat Ophelia Ford was certified the winner over Republican Terry Roland by 13 votes last September. The state Senate overturned the election this year amid allegations of irregularities. "There was an effort on the part of certain individuals ... to cast some illegal votes...

MEMPHIS — The state prosecutor at Memphis is deciding if indictments will be sought in the voting scandal surrounding Ophelia Ford's election to the Tennessee Senate. Prosecutor Bill Gibbons is reviewing a report from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation on the District 29 election in which two ballots were cast in the names of dead people. "There's a lot of material to review," Gibbons said Thursday. "If we feel indictments are appropriate we would submit that for consideration to the grand jury." Gibbons declined to say when he expects to make a decision. Ford is not accused of wrongdoing but...

DETROIT A newspaper's review of ballots cast in the November election shows many were cast under the names of people who have died, were serving time in prison or did not live in the city. Detroit election records say Fred Douglas Henley voted at a polling precinct Nov. 8. Henley, however, died the day before the election, and his voting address long has been vacant and boarded up, The Detroit News reported Sunday. Blanche Credit died in 2003. But she's recorded as voting in November, too. It is unknown whether Henley and Credit were names someone used to cast fraudulent...

On Presidents' Day at the National Constitution Center, Gov. Rendell announced his veto of a bill that would have required all voters to show identification when they go to the polls. Rendell said that the bill, which passed the legislature last week on largely parti-line votes, would have the effect of disenfranchising those without easy access to identification, including nursing-home residents, displaced families, the very poor and those without a driver's license. In addition, he said that the identification requirement, which now applies only to people voting at a polling place for the first time, would slow the voting process...

NASHVILLE - The Senate effort to oust a newly elected Democrat will be moving slower in order to comply with a federal judge's ruling, the chamber's top Republican said Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Ron Ramsey, the leader of the push to oust Sen. Ophelia Ford, said he's not sure when he'll be able to reintroduce a resolution to void the election. "I don't know. It could be a week, it could be two weeks," Ramsey said. "The bottom line is we have to do it right because we do have a judge looking over our shoulder." Senate Republicans, arguing that...

MEMPHIS — The inspector in charge of supervising Election Day work at the precinct where at least two ballots were cast in the names of dead people last fall was convicted of forgery in 1987, criminal records show. Eddie Hayes, 58, has worked for 20 years a part-time inspector for the Shelby County Election Commission, but found no problems at the North Memphis precinct where several disputed ballots were cast in the special election won by state Sen. Ophelia Ford by just 13 votes. Hayes, who has not been accused of wrongdoing in the voting irregularities, also works as a...

EVERETT - A statewide computer sweep of voter registration records in Washington found 11,500 voters listed as dead by the state Health Department. The sweep this month also found 36,000 voters who appear to be registered in two counties. The manager of the new $6 million database project, Pam Floyd, says the names have been flagged for further scrutiny. Snohomish County immediately canceled the voter registrations for the more than 1,400 dead people. The state has 3.5 million registered voters. Monthly sweeps are planned for duplicate and deceased voters. In March, officials plan to create the first comprehensive list of...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — At least 68 people recorded as voting in Shelby County between 1994 and 2004 were dead at the time the ballots were cast, a television station reported. The investigation by WMC-TV uncovered several names of voters, which according to Shelby County Election Commission records, cast ballots as much as eight and 10 years after federal records show they died. “I certainly have no idea how any of this could have happened,” commission administrator James Johnson said. He said he would turn the results of the station’s investigation over to the district attorney for further investigation. Prosecutors...

Results of a state senate election in western Tennessee showed Democrat Ophelia Ford had edged Republican Terry Roland in the race to fill the seat previously held by Ford’s brother, John, who was forced to resign after being indicted on bribery charges. The margin of victory was just 13 votes out of 8,750 cast. The margin of victory may have been provided by 60 deceased voters. Buster Chops, spokesman for the Tennessee Democratic Party, credited an aggressive outreach program to register and cast votes for recently departed Tennesseeans. “Republicans tend to overlook this segment of the population,” Chops said. “It’s...

The concrete steps lead from the street up a terrace to where a house once stood, where rolling brown grass now covers an empty lot. This was the North Memphis home of Joe L. Light, a renowned folk artist who lost the property in foreclosure five years ago and wound up in a nursing home. Yet someone claiming to be Light gave this address -- 607 Looney Avenue -- and voted in the September special election that put Ophelia Ford in the state Senate by a razor-thin margin. There's an even bigger problem -- Light died on Aug. 6, six...

The district attorney, the TBI and the Election Commission haven't talked to the first witness, yet Harold Ford Sr. says his own probe of Shelby County's dead voter scandal is done. The former congressman said he's talked to several poll workers and voters and can link the scandal back to a 71-year-old Republican election judge and a plot to sabotage son Harold Ford Jr.'s bid for the U.S. Senate. Local Republicans quickly labeled Ford's allegations as "smoke and mirrors" and slanderous. Following reports that two dead voters cast ballots in the September state Senate race that sister Ophelia Ford won...

Republican leader calls former congressman's claim 'absurd'As a Shelby County voter fraud investigation lurches forward, former congressman Harold Ford Sr. isn't waiting for answers. Ford said Thursday he's opened his own investigation into allegations that two dead voters cast ballots in the September state Senate race that his sister, Ophelia Ford, won by 13 votes. Ford said he's not prepared to make any accusations, yet suggested evidence of any skulduggery will lead to Republicans, not his own Democratic Party. "It's gotten to (where people are saying), 'Hey, we're out here voting dead people.' It is clear that is not the...

As a Shelby County voter fraud investigation lurches forward, former congressman Harold Ford Sr. isn't waiting for answers. Ford said Thursday he's opened his own investigation into allegations that two dead voters cast ballots in the September state Senate race that his sister, Ophelia Ford, won by 13 votes. Ford said he's not prepared to make any accusations, yet suggested evidence of any skulduggery will lead to Republicans, not his own Democratic Party. "It's gotten to (where people are saying), 'Hey, we're out here voting dead people.' It is clear that is not the case. We know that for a...

Memphis Paper Finds Dead Voters, Prompts Fraud Probe By Joe Strupp Published: December 15, 2005 3:45 PM ET NEW YORK Results of a state senate election in western Tennessee have been thrown into doubt, and an investigation into voter fraud launched, after the Commercial Appeal of Memphis uncovered proof that votes had been cast for dead people. The Sept. 15 special election to fill a vacant seat in the 29th state Senate District, which includes part of Memphis, had already drawn intense interest when the margin of victory was just 13 votes out of 8,750 cast. Democrat Ophelia Ford had...

NEW YORK Results of a state senate election in western Tennessee have been thrown into doubt, and an investigation into voter fraud launched, after the Memphis Commercial Appeal uncovered proof that votes had been cast for dead people. The Sept. 15 special election to fill a vacant seat in the 29th state Senate District, which includes part of Memphis, had already drawn intense interest when the margin of victory was just 13 votes out of 8,750 cast. Democrat Ophelia Ford had edged Republican Terry Roland in the race to fill the seat previously held by Ford's brother, John, who was...

Election records of a September special election that put Ophelia Ford in a state Senate seat show that someone may have used the name of a man who had been dead for six weeks to vote. Ford, a Democrat, beat Republican challenger Terry Roland by 13 votes in a race in which 8,750 ballots were cast. The election was to replace Ford's brother John Ford, who resigned in May after being indicted on bribery charges. The name Joe L. Light was entered into the poll registration book during the Sept. 15 election at the Memphis precinct where Light was registered...

New Jersey Republicans say an analysis of state voter rolls has turned up evidence of "widespread fraud,“ including nearly 5,000 people listed as voting, who were unfortunately, dead. GOP investigators found nearly 55,000 people registered in multiple counties, and nearly 4,400 who voted twice in 2004. What's more, 170,000 New Jersey residents were registered to vote in other states and 6,500 of those appear to have voted twice. Republicans are threatening to sue Democratic Attorney General Peter Harvey to force him to clean up the problems. But Democrats didn't seem too concerned. A spokesman for New Jersey's Democratic Committee tells...

TRENTON, Sept. 15 - The joke has long been that dead people vote in Hudson County, New Jersey's legendary enclave of machine politics. But now the joke may be on New Jersey, according to a new analysis of voter records by the state's Republican Party. Comparing information from county voter registration lists, Social Security death records and other public information, Republican officials announced on Thursday that 4,755 people who were listed as deceased appear to have voted in the 2004 general election. Another 4,397 people who were registered to vote in more than one county appeared to have voted twice,...

Inquiry finds evidence of fraud in election Cast ballots outnumber voters by 4,609 By GREG J. BOROWSKIgborowski@journalsentinel.com Posted: May 10, 2005 Investigators said Tuesday they found clear evidence of fraud in the Nov. 2 election in Milwaukee, including more than 200 cases of felons voting illegally and more than 100 people who voted twice, used fake names or false addresses or voted in the name of a dead person. Election Investigation Photo/Karen SherlockU.S. Attorney Steven M. Biskupic (left), with Milwaukee County District Attorney E. Michael McCann, delivers the preliminary findings of a task force examining possible election fraud at the...

Baby sent polling card A baby has been sent a polling card for the general election. Kiera Spear, who is eight-months-old, got the cards delivered to her home in Haverhill, Suffolk. Her mother Glenda said: "She hasn't show any interest in Mr Blair or Mr Howard or Mr Kennedy. She quite likes Thomas the Tank Engine." The district council which sent out the cards said there had been confusion over Kiera's age. Other children have also been sent polling cards reports BBC online. The Sibley family, from North Somerset, received polling cards for Freddie, five, and his two sisters aged...

Voting by dead people isn't always a scam By Jonathan Martin and David Heath Seattle Times staff reporters Days after his wife of four decades died of liver cancer, Robert Holmgren came home to find her absentee ballot. He filled in Charlette Holmgren's intended votes for Dino Rossi and George W. Bush, forged her signature, and mailed her ballot along with his. "I know by the law it wasn't right, but it felt right in my heart," he said. "I wasn't trying to defraud anybody. I was just going with my wife's last wishes." In six of the state's largest...

At least eight people who died well before the November general election were credited with voting in King County, raising new questions about the integrity of the vote total in the narrow governor's race, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer review has found. The evidence of votes from dead people is the latest example of flaws in an election already rocked by misplaced votes and allegations that there were thousands more votes counted than actual voters. County officials say they are investigating the cases pointed out by the P-I. "These are not indications of fraud," said Bill Huennekens, King County's elections supervisor. "Fraud...

IT NEVER fails. Probe the deepest, darkest pits of corruption in America and, sooner or later, Hillary Clinton turns up. Thanks to a Big-Media news blackout, most Americans don’t know that Congressional elections in South Dakota are melting down fast amid charges of Democrat vote fraud – much of it centered on Indian reservations. How does Hillary fit in? Let me explain. Last week, the Senate passed a vote reform bill 92-2. Only two Senators opposed it: Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton. Among other things, the bill requires voters to show I.D., such as a driver’s license. This will...

Many of you won't be shocked or surprised by this article in today's Seattle Times. In the impending third recount in the Washington state governor's race, Democrats are petitioning the state Supreme Court to compel counties to reexamine some 15,000 previously rejected ballots. In other words, they want county officials to look at and rule again on ballots that each respective canvassing board has already looked at and declared invalid.Presumably, Democrats would be on hand to issue challenge after challenge to these ballots, turning the entire system inside out and upside down to come up with the 43 votes they...

CLEARWATER - Votes cast by dozens of dead Floridians are expected to be tabulated on Election Day, when all non-absentee ballots are counted. And ``the votes of those dead people will count,'' said Alia Faraj, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of State. It's not the result of malfeasance but the byproduct of more than 800,000 residents voting early on touch-screen machines since Oct. 18. Based on state mortality rates, a small percentage of those early voters have died, said Steve Whitakre, a research analyst with the state's office of vital statistics. ``On any day, if you took a...

An untold number of ballots from people who have died since casting them will be counted this year because of the haphazard and cumbersome process of enforcing laws in many states to weed out these votes. With millions of voters taking advantage of new, in-person early voting in at least 30 states this year, it's even more likely that such "ghost" votes will be counted because, in most cases, those ballots are impossible to retrieve. Besides, it could be days or weeks after the election before local officials get word someone has died. Earlier this month, in what would be...

DEMOCRAT RECIPE FOR VICTORY: FOLLOW THE PLAYBOOKDem Playbook Includes Forming Shadow Ground Organizations, Committing Fraud, And Filing Lawsuits To Ensure Lawyers Will Decide Election, Not VotersSTEP 1: FORM SHADOW ORGANIZATIONS TO DO THE DIRTY WORKNM Governor Bill Richardson On 527s: "Now That Campaign Finance Reform Is Law … Organizations Like These Have Become The Replacement For The National Democratic Party."  (Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, "The New Soft Money," Fortune, 11/10/03)ACT Led By Top Democrat Operatives, Spending Millions On Turnout. "Led by top democratic operatives, including former AFL-CIO political director Steve Rosenthal and Emily's list president Ellen Malcolm, ACT aims to raise...

ERIE - People who died years ago are being threatened with arrest if they fail to show up for jury duty in Erie County, apparently because of a computer glitch. Jane Bagnoni, who died nearly seven years ago, got a jury summons threatening arrest if she didn't respond. Even to be eligible for the jury pool, she would have had to have voted in the past two years. "What is she doing getting summoned?" asked her jusband, Mario Bagnoni. County officials realize that the problem is causing grief, but haven't been able to figure out the source. Jury coordinator Gladys...

41 ballot requests were dead on arrival Web Posted: 03/18/2004 12:26 AM CST Ihosvani Rodriguez San Antonio Express-News Angelita Aguero was among an estimated 4,000 Bexar County voters who asked for a mail-in ballot in last week's primary election, Bexar County election records show. The problem is, Aguero has been dead since August 2003. And she isn't the only one who appears to have wanted to vote from beyond. A computer at the Bexar County election office recently flagged the names of 41 deceased people who somehow sent applications to vote by mail. The applications are being forwarded to the...

Angelita Aguero was among an estimated 4,000 Bexar County voters who asked for a mail-in ballot in last week's primary election, Bexar County election records show. The problem is, Aguero has been dead since August 2003. And she isn't the only one who appears to have wanted to vote from beyond. A computer at the Bexar County election office recently flagged the names of 41 deceased people who somehow sent applications to vote by mail. The applications are being forwarded to the Bexar County district attorney, officials confirmed Wednesday. But officials there said they aren't optimistic about finding a culprit....

<p>Anna Greggains said she remembers filling out an absentee ballot in last year's mayoral election, and records from the San Francisco Department of Elections show that her husband, Arthur, did the same -- which would be unremarkable, except that Mr. Greggains died in May at the age of 83.</p>

<p>DETROIT -- Despite having died eight years ago, Kathe Beddow still retains one mortal privilege: The right to vote.</p> <p>The city Elections Department in July sent Beddow a voter registration card, even though she hasn't voted in more than a decade. She is also still listed as a registered voter with the Secretary of State's Office.</p>