Absentee Ballot issues in Iowa

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Muscatine resident Craig White says a Democratic campaign worker somehow gave his 75-year-old mother the impression that it was OK for her to sign his name on an absentee ballot request form when he wasn’t home.

It’s a felony under Iowa’s voting laws to falsify a signature.

“It shocked me, and it really almost made me change my vote,” said White, a Democrat. “As far as I’m concerned, my civil rights were violated.”

Elsewhere, reports of unauthorized absentee ballot paperwork have led to an investigation by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

Floyd County Attorney Normand Klemesrud, a Democrat, said the DCI is checking into cases in his county in which someone allegedly filled out the request paperwork for an absentee ballot without the voter’s consent or knowledge. Chari Paulson, the DCI’s assistant director, didn’t return phone calls about the matter Friday.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/articl ... ck_check=1

Not sure if this is an actual attempt at fraud, or a classic case of idiocy on the part of some campaign workers...

I cannot see the article because it’s behind a pay wall, but I say, let’s give the benefit of a doubt and chalk this up to stupidity rather than villainy.

In this day and age there are MUCH easier ways to do election fraud—(electronic voting machines with no paper backup).

As polarized as things are these days, we really do not need to undermine the legitimacy of the voting process.

We don’t have faith in our leaders.

We don’t have faith in each other.

If we lose faith in our election process too… well, things will get really ugly.

I kept clicking on the link and finally got the full story to appear.

What I found interesting is that the Democratic Party is putting lawyers between the investigators and those who may be committing election fraud.

There's now a situation in Pennsylvania..

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt214665.html