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Workers paid by a liberal group to register voters in Franklin County have turned in more than 500 forms with nonexistent addresses and potentially fake signatures, elections officials said yesterday.
Board of Elections Director Matthew Damschroder said he has forwarded the cards to county authorities for possible criminal charges.
Elections workers verifying new-voter forms discovered signatures with the same handwriting, addresses that were for vacant lots and incorrect information for voters who already were registered, Damschroder said. One card had the name of an East Side man who’s dead.
All the questionable cards were turned in by workers for Ohio ACORN, a group that’s also paying people to gather signatures for a proposed November ballot initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage.
As Stefan Sharkansky points out at his Sound Politics Blog, these are the same folks who are implicated in voter registraion schemes in many other states, and fed fictitious voter info to a judge.