The Cheating Begins

[Doug]

Friday, 10/06/06

Voter registrations faked in GOP drive
About 150 forms questioned in Metro, Williamson County

At least five apparently bogus voter registration forms were submitted to the Metro Nashville election commission by a worker with ties to the Republican National Committee, and up to 150 other registrations have been called into question, The Tennessean has learned.

Election officials in Williamson County said they were probing three to five potentially fraudulent forms that might or might not be related to the Metro cases.

The five Metro forms contain the names, addresses and phone numbers of bona fide citizens, but the birth dates, Social Security numbers, signatures and some other details are wrong. Four of the citizens told The Tennessean that they did not submit the forms.

The five contain a signature with a surname of Morrison and a first name that is illegible but appears to begin with a "D." Metro staff said the registration forms bearing that signature were submitted in the name of Tennessee Victory 2006, a booster group advocating for GOP candidates in the state. A sixth form also apparently contains bogus information but does not bear a Morrison signature.

"I think it's pretty scary," said Jon Glassmeyer of east Nashville.

Read the rest here.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Any suggestions for how to stop the cheating without disenfranchizing legitimate voters? I wish I could say only the Rs do this, but (while at the moment the Dems are clean, our history isn't) every party seems to feel that an honest win isn't good enough - or that their party isn't really good enough to win on merit (whether or not that's actually true).