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INDIANAPOLIS -- All of the votes cast in Marion County still had not been counted as of early Wednesday afternoon because some voting machines had not been turned in to election headquarters. The county's Democratic Party attacked County Clerk Doris Anne Sadler for what they called her mismanagement of Tuesday's election, 6News' Derrik Thomas reported. Democrat Chairman Ed Treacy compared the county's election troubles with what used to happen in Soviet bloc countries. Sixty-six regular voting machines were not returned to election headquarters as of noon Wednesday, and none of the electronic voting machines was returned, Thomas reported. The outcome...

CLEVELAND -- 5 On Your Side Investigator Duane Pohlman finds that there are several votes being cast by citizens who are dead. Among thousands of graves at Holy Cross Cemetery, Pohlman found the final resting place of Edward Wisniewski. John Wisniewski lived next door to his brother for decades. John Wisniewski said Edward Wisniewski has been buried at the cemetery since 2002. According to an election sign-in sheet, he cast a vote in the May primary. NewsChannel5, in partnership with the National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting, conducted one of the most extensive reviews ever of Cuyahoga County voting records,...

CLEVELAND -- After watching the 5 On Your Side investigation on dead voters, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Bill Mason said he will prosecute anyone who knowingly cast a vote in the place of a dead person. In his report, NewsChannel5 chief investigator Duane Pohlman uncovered dozens of votes being cast from the grave, and Mason said the trouble is just beginning for whomever is responsible for casting votes in the name of the dead. "This really is an attack on the entire system, and it's of paramount importance that we find out how this is happening and we stop it so...

MEMPHIS -- Tennessee's Republican Party chairman complained to Shelby County election officials that electronic voting machine cards were missing in Memphis, the hometown of Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Harold Ford Jr. "It has come to our attention that several smart cards used in early voting are missing from at least one early voting site in Memphis, Tenn.," Bob Davis said in a later dated Thursday. "The lack of oversight and control over these smartcards has created a situation which could allow for voter fraud." The letter called on the commission to "locate these missing smart cards as soon as possible."...

Four people have been indicted on charges of voter fraud in Kansas City, officials said Wednesday. Investigators said questionable registration forms for new voters were collected by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to improve minority and low-income communities. The four indicted -- Kwaim A. Stenson, Dale D. Franklin, Stephanie L. Davis and Brian Gardner -- were employed by ACORN as registration recruiters. They were each charged with two counts. Federal indictments allege the four turned in false voter registration applications. Prosecutors said the indictments are part of a national investigation.....

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Lawyers for the state and groups that opposed Ohio's voter identification rules claimed victory Wednesday in a settlement that suspends the law for absentee voters and clarifies and expands it for voting in person. The agreement clears up confusion in key areas and allows more citizens to vote, said Subodh Chandra, one of the lawyers who filed a federal lawsuit challenging the law. The plaintiffs, including the Service Employees International Union and the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, had argued that county elections boards were disenfranchising voters by inconsistently applying the law. "We have never contended...

Petro to appeal voter-ID ruling over Blackwell’s objections By Alan Johnson The Columbus Dispatch Friday, October 27, 2006 10:30 AM Attorney General Jim Petro has decided to appeal a federal judge's ruling on voter identification requirements — over the objections of Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell. Petro this morning filed a notice of appeal with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals contesting the ruling made just last night by Judge Algenon L. Marbley of U.S. District Court in Columbus. Blackwell, the Republican candidate for governor, decided last night not to appeal Marbley's ruling putting new voter ID requirements...

COLUMBUS - A federal judge on Thursday suspended Ohio's new voter identification law for early voting already under way, saying the state's 88 counties are inconsistently applying the rule for people filling out absentee ballots. U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley granted the temporary restraining order on behalf of labor and poverty groups who filed a lawsuit earlier in the week. The ruling is in effect until Wednesday, when the judge will consider arguments from the same groups seeking to block application of the identification law for voters who go to the polls on Election Day.

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A worker at the Santa Ana Department of Motor Vehicles was arrested Thursday for her alleged role in an identity theft scheme that used applicant information to create fraudulent licenses, official said. Millicent Denise Peterson, 44, was taken into custody after she arrived for work at the DMV field office where her duties including reviewing and approving applications for driver licenses and identification cards, said Renee Focht, and inspector for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. The approval procedure required her to verify the validity of the information submitted on the application by reviewing a valid photo...

24 minutes ago: WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Arizona may require voters to provide photo IDs when they cast their ballots next month. The justices cautioned that they were not issuing a ruling on the constitutionality of Arizona's law. "As we have noted, the facts in these cases are hotly contested," the court said in an unsigned five-page order. The ruling merely allows the Nov. 7 election to proceed with the photo ID law in place. Federal courts still will have to resolve a lawsuit contending that the law will disenfranchise numerous voters, particularly the elderly and...

The Missouri Supreme Court struck down the state's new voter identification law Monday that would have required voters to show a photo ID at the polls. A lower judge ruled last month that the ID requirement was an unconstitutional infringement on the fundamental right to vote. The state Supreme Court agreed in a 6-1 opinion. The new law would have required voters to show a photo identification card issued by Missouri or the federal government before they could cast a ballot. Voters lacking the ID this fall would be allowed to cast a provisional ballot, but after that, only the...

St. Louis Election Board officials say they've discovered at least 1,492 "potentially fraudulent" voter registration cards - including three from dead people and one from a 16-year-old - among the thousands pouring in before today's voter registration deadline for the Nov. 7 election. City Republican elections director Scott Leiendecker said the board's staff expects to find even more bogus voter-registration applications among the thousands remaining to be processed. The board plans to turn all the questionable cards over to city Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce for investigation and possible prosecution, said board chairman Kimberley Mathis. The board says all the questionable...

A new book by David Horowitz and Richard Poe has enraged the Left and alarmed many conservatives. It exposes the machinations of a radical clique working at the highest levels of government and finance to undermine American power. That book is The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. It hit the New York Times bestseller list in its first week in print. Here to tell us about The Shadow Partyis co-author Richard Poe, our esteemed colleague at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, where he serves as director of research. Mr....

Around here, Democrats will make a statement about their attitudes on ethics and law and order. Local activist liberals recruited Donovan Riley to run against incumbent Democrat State Senator Jeff Plale because Plale is insufficiently red-meat: he supports school choice, is pro-life, and supports allowing law-abiding citizens to apply for conceal carry permits. For these outrageous positions, the left has targeted Plale for defeat. Two problems: Riley didn’t live in the district (which includes the East Side and South Side suburbs); and apparently engaged in voter fraud. He is running on the slogan “A Democrat who will vote like one,”...

Ohio Voting Problems Deemed Severe By CONNIE MABIN Associated Press Writer CLEVELAND (AP) -- Problems with elections in Ohio's most populous county are so severe that it's unlikely they can be completely fixed by November, or even by the 2008 presidential election, a report commissioned by Cuyahoga County and released Tuesday says. A nonprofit group hired to review the county's first election with new electronic voting machines found several problems with the May 2 primary, the results of which were delayed six days because roughly 18,000 absentee ballots had to be hand counted. The absentee ballots had been improperly formatted...

State Senate candidate Donovan Riley is a big believer in democracy. So much so that he rarely misses a chance to vote.And, in one case, Riley may have gone so far as to vote twice in the same election.Yep, that's right - twice in the same election.That is the allegation laid out by a special-interest group in a complaint filed with the state Elections Board on Friday. The complaint by All Children Matter, a proponent of private school vouchers, cites documents that suggest that Riley, a 69-year-old former CEO of the University of Illinois Hospital, voted twice in the 2000...

Workers paid by a liberal group to register voters in Franklin County have turned in more than 500 forms with nonexistent addresses and potentially fake signatures, elections officials said yesterday. Board of Elections Director Matthew Damschroder said he has forwarded the cards to county authorities for possible criminal charges. Elections workers verifying new-voter forms discovered signatures with the same handwriting, addresses that were for vacant lots and incorrect information for voters who already were registered, Damschroder said. One card had the name of an East Side man who’s dead. All the questionable cards were turned in by workers for Ohio...

Dan Malloy's gubernatorial campaign called Tuesday morning for all of New Haven's voting machines to be inspected after a voter discovered Malloy's name missing from a New Haven voting machine. The incident took place within the first hour of voting at the Ellsworth Avenue fire station, in Ward 24. A Malloy voter noticed that Malloy's name wasn't on the ballot. He informed people at the polls, including a Malloy volunteer named Al London, who contacted the campaign. Malloy is running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination against John DeStefano, who's the mayor of New Haven. New Haven's registrar of voters, Sharon...

The decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award former President Jimmy Carter the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 requires some serious review. The Committee stated that it was honoring the former president "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." But history tells a different story - that of a political neophyte president who, when it came to conducting domestic and foreign affairs, was way out of his depth. According to Michael Schoenfeld of Commentary, who reviewed Carter's book Living Faith,...

OPEN VOTING FOUNDATION 9560 Windrose Lane Granite Bay, CA 95746 Phone (916) 295-0415 alan@openvoting.org PRESS RELEASE -- JULY 31, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Subject: WORST EVER SECURITY FLAW FOUND IN DIEBOLD TS VOTING MACHINE Contact: Alan Dechert Reference: PICTURES (Click on thumbnail. Click again on lower half of picture for high resolution) SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA -- “This may be the worst security flaw we have seen in touch screen voting machines,” says Open Voting Foundation president, Alan Dechert. Upon examining the inner workings of one of the most popular paperless touch screen voting machines used in public elections in the United...