At least one blogger has been victimised. From Tall Glass Of Milk :

Sometime between the recall election and today, someone other than myself has taken the liberty of registering me as a democrat at an address I do not and have never lived at—and they used or forged my signature to do it.

It’s now in the hands of Law Enforcement.

More on (possibly) bogus addresses and registrations, from the Cleveland Plain Dealer :

The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections must find more than 17,000 registered voters by Friday to tell them they may be culled from the rolls by Republican challengers.

One problem: the very reason these voters are being challenged is because the elections board can’t seem to reach them.

On Friday, the Ohio Republican Party filed papers questioning the validity of the registrations because the voters’ addresses appeared to be wrong and the mail from the elections board was being returned.

The voters must be allowed to show that their registrations are valid before Sunday. So today, election officials will begin mailing out urgent notices to these voters to the same flawed addresses on their registration forms.

“It’s almost a flaw in the law,” said Michael Vu, director of the county’s elections board.

The elections board plans to hold hearings Friday and Saturday at the Cleveland Convention Center to review all the challenges. But Vu said the board has never before dealt with challenges to the voter rolls, and the procedures were still unclear on Monday.

County prosecutors said the burden should be on Republicans to prove that a voter registration is invalid. But how much evidence is enough? That’s one of the questions that local election officials around the state hope will be answered today by Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, Ohio’s chief election official.

From the New York Daily News :

Some 46,000 New Yorkers are registered to vote in both the city and Florida, a shocking finding that exposes both states to potential abuses that could alter the outcome of elections, a Daily News investigation shows.

Registering in two places is illegal in both states, but the massive snowbird scandal goes undetected because election officials don’t check rolls across state lines.

The finding is even more stunning given the pivotal role Florida played in the 2000 presidential election, when a margin there of 537 votes tipped a victory to George W. Bush.

Computer records analyzed by The News don’t allow for an exact count of how many people vote in both places, because millions of names are regularly purged between elections.

But The News found that between 400 and 1,000 registered voters have voted twice in at least one election, a federal offense punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

One was Norman Siegel, 84, who is registered as a Republican in both Pinellas Park, Fla., and Briarwood, Queens. Siegel has voted twice in seven elections, including the last four presidential races, records show.
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The News’ investigation also found:

• Of the 46,000 registered in both states, 68% are Democrats, 12% are Republicans and 16% didn’t claim a party.
• Nearly 1,700 of those registered in both states requested that absentee ballots be mailed to their home in the other state, where they are also registered. But that doesn’t raise red flags with officials in either place.

From MSNBC :

Ohio’s voter-registration rolls contain more than 120,000 duplicate names, and an untold number of ineligible voters, such as people who have moved out of the state. A review of the rolls by the Columbus Dispatch even found a murder victim and two suspected terrorists among the eligible.
Democrats fear that polling places will be inadequately staffed and equipped to handle the crush of voters on Election Day. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) said Monday she was concerned that many new voters will not get proper notification from county election boards about where to vote — a critical issue in light of a federal appeals court ruling Saturday that voters with provisional ballots — back-up ballots for voters whose names do not appear on the rolls — must cast them in their own precinct for the votes to count.

From the Osceola News-Gazette :

[assistant supervisor of elections]Click said that on Thursday it was determined that a resident who is a student at the University of Central Florida believed she was signing an election petition earlier this year and subsequently a voter registration form was turned in at the elections office with her name on it and with a party designation checked and initialed. According to Click, the person already was registered.

The Osceola County problem is exactly the type of voter fraud state officials are investigating, namely that signatures or possible forged signatures were used to complete fraudulent voter registrations.

In other instances, it appears that workers hired to obtain legitimate voter registrations filled in the information on the registration forms that should have been completed by the registrants. On several occasions, workers appear to have signed multiple voter registrations themselves using information obtained during the registration drive.

Widespread submissions of suspected fraudulent voter applications have been reported so far in Bay, Alachua and Orange counties as well as in Jacksonville, according to state officials.