There is always voter fraud. So when it happens no one is surprised, although the party holding the warm, smushy end of the ballot always complains. But this is something I’ve never heard of nor seen. From Michelle Malkin’s blog:
They’ve just posted video of a woman in Lawrence, MA, carrying around blank absentee ballots in Spanish today. She explains how she’s telling people to mark Martha Coakley’s name. The woman handing out the ballots identifies herself as “Isabel Melendez” and says she has a talk show in which she promoted Coakley’s candidacy.
After Katrina I was in Shreveport and ordered absentee ballots on line. They were each sent in an envelope to use sending them back and each envelope had a serial number on it. When I sent them in I had to get them notarized before mailing.
I don’t know Massachusetts election law but I’m willing to bet you’re supposed to do more than shout, “I’ll take two!”
And the other weird thing about the woman wandering around with absentee ballots on election day is (bah-dah-bump!) … you’re supposed to be absent. Not sick, or at work, or busy. Absent. Out of town. Can’t make it back. That’s what I had to stipulate on my absentee ballot. They have made a lot of changes to make vote fraud easier, but I’ll bet that handing out ballots on the street on election day isn’t one of them.
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