Friday, October 29, 2010

GOP Accuses Dems. Of Voter Fraud


Murphy (left) and Fitzpatrick (right) at a debate in Bristol last
 week. (Tom Sofield)
Update 5:41 p.m.: After a hearing in Doylestown that lasted hours the Bucks County Board of Elections agreed to let people who absentee ballots were rejected to correct the mistakes.

The deadline for corrections in election day at 8 p.m.

Local Republicans are accusing Democrats of playing dirty in the 8th District Congressional race, between Republican Mike Fitzpatrick, who is leading in the polls, and incumbent Democrat Patrick Murphy.

Members of the Bucks County GOP say that democrats sent out a letter, which was purported to be from a state voter assistant program that doesn’t exist, the letter urged voters to send in absentee ballots if they would be out of the area on the November 2 election day.

The problem is the ballots were sent to the Murphy campaign in Bristol instead of the county voting board.

GOP leaders say the Murphy campaign could have tampered with the ballots before sending them to the county.

Fitzpatrick told reports that the Bucks County District Attorney has begun an investigation into the claims of voter fraud.

The Bucks County Board of Elections is sorting through ballots and so far has tossed 900 for being suspicions.

The county Democrats are claiming the board of elections is biased toward the party, which the board is denying.

The county election board is saying ballots were tossed after birthdays and signatures didn't match up with voter registration records were discovered. The county reports that more than 80 percent of the ballots tossed were from democrats.

The deadline for absentee ballots it today.

Murphy said the county republicans are engaging in “Florida-style Bush tactics.”

Tom Sofield (tsofield@buxmontnews.com)
Online Editor

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