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Monday, September 13, 2004

No End in Sight to the Possibilities of Fraud in the General Election

Absentee Votes Worry Officials as Nov. 2 Nears
By MICHAEL MOSS
NY Times
Published: September 13, 2004

As both major political parties intensify their efforts to promote absentee balloting as a way to lock up votes in the presidential race, election officials say they are struggling to cope with coercive tactics and fraudulent vote-gathering involving absentee ballots that have undermined local races across the country.

Some of those officials say they are worried that the brashness of the schemes and the extent to which critical swing states have allowed party operatives to involve themselves in absentee voting - from handling ballot applications to helping voters fill out their ballots - could taint the general election in November.

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