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Vote Fraud in Utah and Michigan
The helpful voice on the other end of the phone says, "Push 3, if you'd like to have an absentee ballot sent directly to your home."
Convenient isn't it?
A little too convenient for Pat Beckstead, elections coordinator for Davis County, who says voters taken in by that ruse will never see the ballot or have their vote counted.
Convenient isn't it?
A little too convenient for Pat Beckstead, elections coordinator for Davis County, who says voters taken in by that ruse will never see the ballot or have their vote counted.
"It seems we have someone out there calling people, promising to register them to vote over the phone, or telling them that they can receive a ballot by mail," Beckstead says. "We don't know who it is or why they are doing it."
Beckstead says election workers only recently discovered the telephone scam after a temporary employee, new on the job, received an inquiry from a Davis County resident wondering when they would receive their ballot in the mail.
"She asked one of the other workers how to answer that question, and then there were several of us who reported taking calls along those same lines. We just made the connection that there might be a problem," Beckstead said, emphasizing that such calls definitely are not coming from the county.
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2427209
10/19/04- Secretary of State Terry Lynn Land is warning people of an absentee ballot phone scam. The attorney general says some people in southeast Michigan have received phone calls telling them the date for mailing absentee ballots has passed, and instructing them to send that ballot somewhere else.
The attorney general wants to make it clear that the date has not passed, October 30th is the last day to request an absentee ballot by mail, but you can still go to your local clerk's office to fill one out in person until Monday November 1st.
Ballots must be turned in by the time the polls close on election day, but can be submitted any time before that.
http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=2447764&nav=0RbQS8dP
Beckstead says election workers only recently discovered the telephone scam after a temporary employee, new on the job, received an inquiry from a Davis County resident wondering when they would receive their ballot in the mail.
"She asked one of the other workers how to answer that question, and then there were several of us who reported taking calls along those same lines. We just made the connection that there might be a problem," Beckstead said, emphasizing that such calls definitely are not coming from the county.
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2427209
10/19/04- Secretary of State Terry Lynn Land is warning people of an absentee ballot phone scam. The attorney general says some people in southeast Michigan have received phone calls telling them the date for mailing absentee ballots has passed, and instructing them to send that ballot somewhere else.
The attorney general wants to make it clear that the date has not passed, October 30th is the last day to request an absentee ballot by mail, but you can still go to your local clerk's office to fill one out in person until Monday November 1st.
Ballots must be turned in by the time the polls close on election day, but can be submitted any time before that.
http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=2447764&nav=0RbQS8dP
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