Poll workers clash at Falls nursing home

[Algorem]

Source: Akron Beacon Journal

Police, elections board investigate alleged assault over marked ballot

By Stephanie Warsmith
Beacon Journal staff writer

Published on Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008

Poll workers from opposing sides in the presidential race apparently clashed in a physical altercation Friday at a Cuyahoga Falls nursing home when one accused the other of improperly marking a ballot.

George Manos, the 75-year-old Republican, told police that Edith Walker, the 73-year-old Democrat, jumped on his back and struck him in the head three to four times with her fists. Manos said two other elections workers had to pull Walker off his back, according to a report filed with Cuyahoga Falls police.

Manos said it happened after he accused Walker of ballot tampering, and he wants to prosecute.

The incident, which occurred about noon at Gardens of Western Reserve nursing home, is being investigated by both the police and the Summit County elections board. The board probe could lead to a closer examination of the other votes with which Walker was involved...



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Registration fraud creates a potential "nightmare" election, McCain campaign says

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/10/registration_fraud_creates_a_p.html

Posted by Stephen Koff October 14, 2008 10:29AM
Categories: Democratic Party, Elections, McCain, Obama, Presidential candidates, Real Time News, Republican Party

Washington -- Two prominent former U.S. senators who support John McCain warned this morning of "a potential nightmare" on Election Day and afterward if measures aren't taken to monitor precincts in battleground states including Ohio.

John Danforth, a former senator from Missouri and a former United Nations ambassador, said he is deeply concerned "that this election night and the days that follow will be a rerun of 2000, and even worse than 2000."

It could be worse than the hanging chad controversy and recounts in Florida, and lead to political accusations and court fights that could delay the country from knowing the election's true outcome.

"We believe that this is a potential nightmare," Danforth said this morning at a news conference at the National Press Club. He and Warren Rudman, a former senator from New Hampshire, chair McCain's "Honest and Open Elections Committee..."

[Ian David]

1. You go, Edith Walker! Do NOT let them take your vote, even if you have to fight! n/t

[JeanGrey]

7. Did I read it wrong? Wasn't it Manos vote that was being

taken?

[my2sense]

2. Just Damn

I hope this isn't a sign of things to come on election day.

[stillcool]

3. John Danforth..

wants very much for this to be a huge controversy, but I bet it won't be about counting votes. It will be about excluding voters. I wonder why he neglects to mention what went on in Ohio 2004? Republicans really don't like people voting.

[thunder rising]

4. Ohio SoE's should be fired. How many years does it take to train somebody to work a poll?

I'm a poll worker in FL and I know there is not a chance for a pollworker to modify a ballot since everybody knows what to do. Pollworkers don't even get a chance to touch a ballot after it has been marked.

[KansDem]

5. Let me see if I understand this...

The board probe could lead to a closer examination of the other votes with which Walker was involved...

So "suspicious ballots" handled by the Dem requires "closer examination," whereas all the Diebold vote-flipping during 2004 in which "Kerry" became "Bush" barely elicited a raised eyebrow?

[pattmarty]

6. The Republicans have no morals. They cry voter fraud........

........and try to stop early voting, voter registration, pull this voter "caging" bullshit and cry about Dem pols that steal elections. Well, guess what motherfuckers, it's you ass hole republicans that are blocking legitimate voters from voting and trying to put an onus on voting registration. Well it is more and more looking like "blowout" this November and there will be HUGE changes coming Jan 20. AND, I really do hate being this way, but it's now OUR turn and all you crazy John Birch, greedy, neocon, rich motherfuckers are gonna be on the short end for once.