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FLORIDA: DOUBLE TROUBLE [Cris Rapp 10/22 11:01 AM]

More evidence that voter fraud will be a major storyline leading up to, and after, the election. An investigation by the Orlando Sentinel of voting records from Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina reveals that as many as 68,000 cases in which voters with the same names and dates of birth were registered in two states. Records indicate that 1,680 of those people voted both in Florida and in either Georgia or North Carolina during the 2000 or 2002 elections. Such “double voting” is, of course, a felony. One factor complicating matters is that, apparently, the records are sometimes wrong (for example, indicating that a person cast a ballot in Florida when in fact he did not).

This story comes on the heels of an report in the New York Daily News that of the 46,000 voters registered in both Florida and New York City, as many as 1,000 had double voted in past elections. That report prompted Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood to call for an FBI investigation.

Somewhat mystifying, given what these two newspapers were able to turn up, a spokeswoman for Hood’s office tells the Sentinel that officials have “no way of knowing” how many Florida voters are registered to vote in a second state or how many vote twice in a single election. If reporters from Orlando Sentinel and New York Daily News can figure it out, why can’t government officials?