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Fun with voters in Ohio

by ward cleaver
Voters in Lake County, Ohio received the following in their mail recently.
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Show's some kind of initiative, doesn't it? It's going to be a fun week!
§More Lake County Fraud
by Jim Crow Back In Ohio
EASTLAKE, Ohio -- False information has reportedly been mailed to Lake County residents on Lake County Board of Elections letterhead.

Chairman John F. Platz and director Janet F. Clair said the mailing does not contain the director’s signature.

All official voter information and mail from the board of elections will have a signature and contain a complete return address.

http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/3867924/detail.html

Andrew Jarvi, who belongs to a Democratic club at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, said two members have gotten calls directing them to wrong polling places on Tuesday. One caller claimed to be from a Democratic Party campaign office and the other from the Lake County Board of Elections.

Many presidential yard signs around the region reportedly have been swiped, bedecked with opposition stickers or, in one case, replaced with an opposition sign.

Michael Vu, head of Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, said voters have also gotten calls claiming Election Day had been postponed until Wednesday.

Jocelyn Travis, head of the Ohio office of Election Protection, a voting rights group led by the People for the American Way Foundation, said the tricksters particularly seem to target minorities, the elderly and new voters.

"Tactics to suppress the votes of African-American and elderly people are the newest form of Jim Crow," said Travis.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1098955980122650.xml

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