5/26/2004
Enabling ballot fraud
I didn't know this had passed, but now I read that Gov. Bush signs a law eliminating witness signatures on absentee ballots.
This will streamline absentee ballot fraud and make it harder to prosecute if detected. Remember: It was a check of witnesses' signatures that helped uncover systematic ballot fraud in the 1997 Miami mayoral election. Now anybody with a pocketful of blank absentee ballots can be a local power broker.
(Crooked politicians and lazy election supervisors can breathe a little easier today -- Jim DeFede.)
This will streamline absentee ballot fraud and make it harder to prosecute if detected. Remember: It was a check of witnesses' signatures that helped uncover systematic ballot fraud in the 1997 Miami mayoral election. Now anybody with a pocketful of blank absentee ballots can be a local power broker.
(Crooked politicians and lazy election supervisors can breathe a little easier today -- Jim DeFede.)
