Article: 'Daily Voting News' For March 20, 2009

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org A group of election officials in Clay Co Kentucky were arrested over the past few days for election rigging schemes that have taken place over the past few years. One of the schemes they used was to instruct some voters that when they finished on the ES&S iVotronic touch-screen machines they were to only push the "Vote" button once. The unsuspecting voter would then leave the booth and crooked poll workers would enter the booth with the last voter's ballot still in "Review" mode. The poll workers would then select the names of candidates who had paid for the service and finalize the ballot. The FBI and DoJ should have a fun time with this one. ...

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