Cobb County: Ballot requests run into a glitch

[Mark E. Smith]

Source: The Atlanta Journal Consitution

A Republican-generated effort to get out the vote for the Dec. 2
runoff election has hit a snag as thousands of requests for absentee
ballots have been denied because the applications were not signed.

County elections officials are contacting voters by mail, directing
them to print applications from county or state election Web sites
and fax them in by Wednesday.

Many of the unsigned requests came in the form of cards printed
by the Republican National Committee and mailed to voters. Repub-
lican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss is in a tight battle to retain his seat
by beating Democratic challenger Jim Martin.

Cobb County received about 7,075 of the cards from voters that
were not signed, about 44 percent of the cards received. "We've
never seen anything near that ratio," registration manager Beth
Kish said.

DeKalb County election officials have received 5,000 applications
from the RNC mailing and trejected 2,800 of them.

Read more: http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/11/22/ballots.html

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Can we call it vote fraud yet?