VOTER FRAUD IN OHIO?

Not so much, really. The wingnuts scream and whine about voter fraud before and right after most elections and in Ohio, the claims were shown to be vastly over blown. Of 600 claimed cases, only 1 was fraud.

Only one voter fraud case found
By Kimball Perry • kperry@enquirer.com • January 27, 2009
Cincinnati Enquirer

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said he had allegations last fall of widespread voter fraud – allegations a special prosecutor reported Tuesday were wrong, noting the only voter fraud found was from a Connecticut man who told on himself.

“Ultimately,” Special Prosecutor Michael O’Neill wrote in a report, “the investigators discovered ‘get-out-the-vote’ practices, sponsored by community organizations, which took full advantage of this unique absentee-voting period, but no evidence these practices violated Ohio law.”

Deters was Southwest Ohio regional chairman of Republican John McCain’s presidential campaign, when he complained in October that some people were violating the so-called “golden week” that allowed anyone to register to vote and then vote at the same time.

Deters claimed his office had concrete allegations that people were offered booze and cigarettes to vote specific ways, suggesting they were voting for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Deters specifically asked at that time that more than 600 votes cast between Sep. 30 and Oct. 6 – the “golden week” – be investigated because of the allegations of widespread voter fraud.