Rendell vows action on voter scams; Pitt students tricked

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04301/402432.stm

In the face of mounting reports from college students who say they have had their party registrations and polling places switched by apparent political scam artists, Gov. Ed Rendell yesterday said his office will refer allegations of possible voter registration fraud to the state attorney general's office.

At the same time, Attorney General Jerry Pappert issued a letter warning the governor against previously announced plans to dispatch teams of Election Day observers to polling places throughout the commonwealth on Tuesday, ostensibly to guard against voting irregularities.

The political set-to, with a Democratic governor crying foul and a Republican attorney general warning that governor not to overstep his authority, came amid increasing complaints by University of Pittsburgh students that their party registrations and, in some cases, their polling places, were switched after they signed what they believed were petitions on topics ranging from medical marijuana to auto insurance rates.

Among those who found themselves on the Allegheny County voting rolls as registered Republicans were clearly ineligible would-be voters, including a 17-year-old Squirrel Hill student and a Chilean graduate student who is not a citizen of the United States. Among those scammed was the son of the former executive director of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.

[Dudley_DUright]

1. Same thing happened at the University of Central Florida and Jeb vowed to

ignore the problem completely.

[eriffle]

2. Leave it to Pitt

students to screw things up.....GO WVU!

Seriously, why do people screw with elections? I mean, this should be a felony, maybe it is, but I hope after a Kerry victory the Help America Vote Act is changed to mandate paper trails and to stiffen penalties for screwing with things like this.

[friesianrider]

3. The same thing happened in eastern PA...

At Montgomery County Community College.

In fact, a freeper wrote a LTTE saying how it "wasn't a big deal" because it could be switched back. (WTF?!)

God we need Eisenhower in there SO badly for AG...

[DeepModem Mom]

4. All over the country, the attempted theft is underway --

I hope we can stop it.

[w4rma]

5. So blatant. In every battleground state, it seems Repugs are succssfully

committing voter fraud and noone is being put in prison.

[Supersedeas]

6. Political Scam artists shout 4 More Years, 4 More Years