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Steal the Vote 2004, part 3

Ohio again. Somebody is calling mainly elderly residents, pretends to be from the election board and tells them the polling station has changed:

Damschroder said there are two scams: The caller tells voters their precincts have changed or the caller offers to pick up an absentee-ballot application, deliver the ballot to the voter and return the completed ballot to the elections office.

By law, the elections board mails absentee ballots and the only deliveries are made to voters in nursing homes by both a Republican and Democratic elections worker. The only person who can return an absentee ballot, besides the voter, is an immediate family member.

“People are calling saying, ?I got a call last night when I was watching Oprah from this group,? ” Damschroder said. “By law, the board of elections does not give anybody a ballot to deliver.”