evidence of fraud. The State Republican Chairman has commented, "people ask me with fraud

would demo like? It would look like this."289

2.

Myriad Other Problems and Irregularities

We version of literally thousands upon thousands of additional irregularities in Ohio. As

a matter of fact, the Election Protection Commission has testified that to date, there have been

over 3,300 incidents of voting irregularities entered for Ohio alone.290 The following is a brief

highlight of some of the more egregious irregularities we have learned of during the course of

our investigation:

a.

Intimidation and Misinformation

In the course of our hearings we learned:

·

The NAACP testified that it received over 200 calls regarding incidents of suspected

voter intimidation or unusual election related activities, particularly actions taken by

challengers who intimidated poll workers and voters. Other specific incidents

involved a caller who reported that someone was going door-to-door telling

people they were not registered to vote. A voter in Franklin County received

information in the mail identified as being from the state that said he would have to vote

by provisional ballot because he had moved; in fact, the voter had not moved and

had lived at the address for 10-15 years. One polling place worker was only asking

African American voters for their address. A new voter was told that there were

vote challengers at her precinct. When she was voting, she was confused by the

punch cards. She was afraid to ask poll workers for help for fear that she would

be challenged. Vote challengers were demanding that voters provide ID, leading

many people to leave. This egregious behavior should be curtailed by the state.291

·

In Franklin County, a worker at the Holiday Inn observed a team of 25 people who called

themselves the "Texas Strike Force" using payphones to make intimidating calls to likely

voters, targeting people recently in the prison system. The "Texas Strike Force"

members paid their way to Ohio, but their hotel accommodations were paid for by the

Chris McGann, Rossi Given Fresh Hope as `Mystery Voters' Grow, S E A T T L E PO S T -

IN T E L L I G E N C E R, Jan. 4, 2005, at http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/206446_governor04.html

(Dec. 8, 2004) (statement of Jon Greenbaum, Director, the Voting Rights Project).

(Dec. 8, 2004) (statement of Hilary Shelton, Director, Washington Bureau, National Association

for the Advancement of Colored People).

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