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Here's how... (5.00 / 1) (#12)
by Key on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 01:04:53 AM EST
If you vote through early voting, your name is supposed to appear on a list that is sent to your local precinct for election day.  At the start of the election day, the judges at the precinct are supposed to go through the sign in sheets and mark off every person who voted early.

This did not happen in all cases.  In fact, I worked my local caucus in the evening (for Clinton), and was voted secretary for my precinct.

As people signed in, they needed to show proof that they had voted in the election (a requirement for participating in the caucus).  If they did not have proof, we made a mark next to their name.

After everyone signed in, we went through the voter sign in sheets to check if people who said they voted, in fact had signed the voter rolls.  A few people had not signed the rolls, and there was no mark next to their name showing an early vote.

It was then that we learned that people who voted early never got marked off on the election day voting rolls.

(Side note - For the caucus, we ended up looking on early voting list for each person we could not find on the election day sign-in sheet, and in each case we found their names on the early voting list but no mark in the election day roll that they had early voted.)

SO..... To sum it all up, if someone voted early, there's a good chance the record of this fact never got noticed by a local precinct judge, so on election day the person could go and sign in at their precinct and cast a second vote.

This is where the fraud probably would have occurred, at least where someone voted twice in the same party primary.


Okay.... (none / 0) (#13)
by Fabian on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 05:56:51 AM EST
Ohio has early voting.  I should know, since I got at least two robocalls informing me of the process.  

I never realized it could potentially allow people to vote twice.  Time to close that loophole up!

(I have to wonder if people double voted intentionally or not.)

Thanks for the info.

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I think it's even easier than that. (none / 0) (#21)
by corn on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 11:35:35 AM EST
Caucus (or Precinct Convention as they're called in Tx) aside, voting in both the Repub and Dem primaries would be as simple as lining up twice.  They check that you're on the voter roles, but they don't verify that you haven't already voted in the other party's primary.  This would only be verified if later the books were compared.

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