Ethics

"Rampant" Voter Fraud in Ohio

By Ed Brayton

On October 19th, the chairman of the Republican Party in Hamilton County, Ohio, Joe Deters, who was also John McCain's southwest Ohio campaign chairman, called a press conference to declare that there was rampant voter fraud going on in that county:

"If the secretary of state is listening and she has no evidence of voter fraud in Hamilton County, I'm telling you there is," Deters said during a Monday press conference.

Deters said about 40 percent of those registration forms either lacked a proper address or could not be verified in the state's database.

"During that five-day window, it was a free-for-all," Deters said.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 02, 2009 (boomark / email).