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Fla. Officials Asked to Probe


Fla. Officials Asked to Probe Voter Fraud
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.Elections officials asked prosecutors Thursday to investigate possible voter fraud involving 25 registration forms with apparently bogus addresses, including some that match a public park, a parking lot and a utilities building.

Two of the forms were filled out by individuals at the Duval County elections office and 23 were submitted by people who registered voters independently. Officials didn't immediately know who turned in the independent registrations, said Erin Moody, a spokeswoman for the elections office.

Moody said the 25 forms were turned over to the state attorney's office in Jacksonville. State Attorney Harry Shorstein indicated late Thursday that he hadn't yet seen the forms.

The disclosure is the latest wrinkle as the state tries to avoid problems reminiscent of the 2000 presidential race in which President Bush defeated Al Gore by 537 votes. The disputed election involved accusations that votes weren't properly counted and people were wrongly removed from election rolls.

Duval County had already registered the 25 voters before someone whom election officials declined to identify tipped them to the suspicious information. All but three of the individuals registered as Democrats. Two chose no party and one checked Republican.

The Associated Press checked each address and found only one that matched an occupied house. Most of the addresses didn't exist. Residents at the occupied house said they moved in this week and did not know the person registered at the address.

Several Florida counties have discovered problems with voter registration forms turned in by independent groups. Thousands are missing information, meaning thousands of people could find out Nov. 2 that they are unable to vote in the contest between Bush and Democrat John Kerry.



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Muslim get-out-vote unit pushes






Muslim get-out-vote unit pushes deadline


Theresa LePore vowed to close the Palm Beach County elections office at 5 p.m. Monday, the final day to register to vote in the Nov. 2 election, but a young man who arrived about 15 minutes after the deadline managed to drop off 550 applications on behalf of a group of Muslims determined to oust President Bush.

LePore, no stranger to confrontations, said the man demanded she accept the bundles of voter registration applications attached to slips of paper identifying them as having been collected by Voting Is Power, which goes by the acronym VIP and is an offshoot of the Washington-based Muslim American Society.

LePore said he showed up, carrying a box of applications, about 15 minutes after she locked the door to her office at 5 p.m. She said she told him her office was closed but he could mail the forms as long as they were postmarked by midnight that night.
But, she said, he wasn't satisfied and managed to slip inside the lobby when someone left.

''He started hollering about disenfranchising people,'' said LePore, who took the box after he thrust it at her.

She said that, because some of the applications were dated in July and others were incomplete, she told him he should have turned them in on time so the potential voters could have cast ballots in the Aug. 31 primary or corrected missing information.

''Then he started saying, 'You're all alike,' or something to that effect, and 'It's better in New York,' '' she said. ''And I said, 'Why don't you go back to New York?' ''

The man did not identify himself and Bret Wask, whose name was on the VIP labels attached to the forms, did not return numerous telephone calls to The Palm Beach Post.
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Florida is one of five battleground states Muslims have targeted for get-out-the-vote efforts, foundation Executive Director Mahdi Bray said Thursday. VIP recruiters in Florida registered about 7,000 new Muslim voters he hopes will go to the polls on Election Day and vote for Kerry, he said.

Florida has about 120,000 Arab American voters, of whom about 15 percent are Muslim, according to pollster James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute in Washington. The other states VIP has targeted are Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan, which has 235,000 Arab American voters, the largest in the country.

''This administration's policy of preemptive war has destabilized the region,'' Bray said Thursday. ''Many of us who know the region know that this can of worms this administration has opened, this mistaken policy, will haunt the Muslim world for years to come.''

Although critical of Bush's decision to invade Iraq, Bray said that, like his peers he is pleased that Saddam Hussein was arrested.

''He's a dictator. He's a thug,'' he said. ''But what we've done to deal with this thug and this dictator is unconscionable.''


Although the groups cannot formally endorse a party, most of them support Democratic causes and candidates. Of the top 10 527s, only one, the Club for Growth, is Republican-oriented.

ACT's political action committee also supports Kerry. Millionaires George Soros and Peter Lewis collectively have donated more than $13 million to ACT and MoveOn.org, another pro-Kerry group, according to Internal Revenue Service records.

Law enforcement officials are investigating complaints, including unauthorized party affiliation changes, bogus voter registrations and forged absentee ballot requests, in St. Petersburg, Tallahassee and Miami-Dade County. A state department spokeswoman confirmed the U.S. Department of Justice is investigation allegations of voter fraud in Florida.





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Fla. Officials Asked to Probe Voter Fraud


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Oct 7, 9:36 PM (ET)

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Elections officials asked prosecutors Thursday to investigate possible voter fraud involving 25 registration forms with apparently bogus addresses, including some that match a public park, a parking lot and a utilities building.

Two of the forms were filled out by individuals at the Duval County elections office and 23 were submitted by people who registered voters independently. Officials didn't immediately know who turned in the independent registrations, said Erin Moody, a spokeswoman for the elections office.

Moody said the 25 forms were turned over to the state attorney's office in Jacksonville. State Attorney Harry Shorstein indicated late Thursday that he hadn't yet seen the forms.

The disclosure is the latest wrinkle as the state tries to avoid problems reminiscent of the 2000 presidential race in which President Bush defeated Al Gore by 537 votes. The disputed election involved accusations that votes weren't properly counted and people were wrongly removed from election rolls.

Duval County had already registered the 25 voters before someone whom election officials declined to identify tipped them to the suspicious information. All but three of the individuals registered as Democrats. Two chose no party and one checked Republican.

The Associated Press checked each address and found only one that matched an occupied house. Most of the addresses didn't exist. Residents at the occupied house said they moved in this week and did not know the person registered at the address.

Several Florida counties have discovered problems with voter registration forms turned in by independent groups. Thousands are missing information, meaning thousands of people could find out Nov. 2 that they are unable to vote in the contest between Bush and Democrat John Kerry.




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