Vote fraud in the 2008 election

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Generally Vote fraud can be divided into several categories including:

  • On September 16, 2008, the Obama legal team announced that they would be seeking an injunction to stop an alleged caging scheme in Michigan wherein the state Republican party would use home foreclosure lists to challenge voters still using their foreclosed home as a primary address at the polls. [1] Although Michigan GOP officials called the suit "desperate"[2], a judge found the practice to be against the law.[3]
  • On October 5, 2008 the Republican Lt. Governor of Montana, John Bohlinger, accused the Montana Republican Party of vote caging to purge 6,000 voters from three counties which trend Democratic. These purges included decorated war veterans and active duty soldiers.[4]
  • A review of states' records by The New York Times found unlawful actions leading to widespread voter purges.[5]
  • A dispute between the Social Security Administration commissioner and the National Association of Secretaries of State about the use of the Social Security database to test the validity of voters led to the shutdown of the database over the Columbus Day holiday weekend.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/09/obama_dnc_file_lawsuit.html
  2. ↑ http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/16/michigan-gop-obama-camp-suit-desperate/
  3. ↑ url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/us/politics/14brfs-RULINGONVOTI_BRF.html?ref=us
  4. ↑ http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2008/10/05/opinion/hjjbijjejjigfj.txt
  5. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/us/politics/09voting.html
  6. ↑ http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/10/voter-registrations-spark-testy-exchange/?mod=googlenews_wsj
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