Eerie voter fraud
Forged signatures on nominating petitions stretch across Pennsylvania
To quote Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men, “and the hits just keep on coming.” Hits of voter fraud, that is. Three separate cases in Erie and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania give any self-respecting voter (in Pennsylvania or elsewhere) cause to be concerned.
In Erie, former State Representative Linda Bebko-Jones, together with her former chief of staff, sat in her office with the phone book and personal address book and forged signatures on petitions to get herself re-nominated. She dropped her attempt when the charges surfaced, but when a former State Senator found out his 87-year-old mother’s signature was on the petitions—even though she hadn’t signed anything—he pressed the matter until Bebko-Jones was given criminal charges by the state Attorney General in late February.
In Philadelphia, similar charges are being leveled against two incumbent House members and one contender for a State Senate seat, who are all accused of employing the exact same method of petition forging as Bebko-Jones.
Am I the only one slightly concerned by the adeptness of these state reps, not to mention their staff members, in signature forging? If we don’t get some accountability in government, be it at the local, state or federal level, we’re only going to continue having skewed elections and disenfranchised voters.
posted by: Anastasia on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 08:51 AM
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