Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Top News

Thousands of voter registration forms faked, officials say

Oct. 10, 2008
More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana's Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.
Related Stories from UPI.com

Voter forms nearly lost in delivery snafu

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Boxes containing 3,402 voter-registration forms were temporarily misplaced after an unknown individual signed for them in New York, officials say.
Civil rights leader Abraham Woods dies

Civil rights leader Abraham Woods dies

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The Rev. Abraham Woods Jr., a Baptist minister who led voter registration drives and protests against segregation in Birmingham, Ala., has died.

Catholic Church drops ACORN funding

BALTIMORE, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The Roman Catholic Church has halted donations to the community organizing group ACORN due to questionable voter registration drives, a church official says.

Surveys, not ballots, found on Fla. road

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Election officials say the papers found scattered along a Tampa freeway this week were voter survey forms and not absentee ballots.

Man's dog gets card to vote

ALBUQUERQUE, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- An Albuquerque man said he was shocked to receive a voter registration card for his dog after he jokingly filled out a form at Wal-Mart.

Official wants charges filed against ACORN

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Indiana's Republican secretary of state claims he has evidence the community group ACORN has submitted fraudulent voter registrations.
Bush calls for Ohio voter probe

Bush calls for Ohio voter probe

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the status of 200,000 newly registered Ohio voters, the White House said.

NAACP, GOP seek election changes

HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- With Election Day fast approaching, Republicans and the NAACP both are seeking legal backstops for voting problems in the state of Pennsylvania, officials say.

Phony voter forms swamp county clerk

CHICAGO, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The Lake County, Ill., clerk's office says it has been swamped with fraudulent voter forms -- including one from a dead goldfish.

U.N. to offer voter education in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The United Nations announced Monday the launch of a six-month program in Iraq to educate the voting public about developments in the provincial elections.

Voter databases causing confusion, suits

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Switches from local to statewide voter registration databases are causing confusion and triggering lawsuits in several U.S. states, analysts say.

Palin calls out Obama about ACORN

WEST CHESTER, Ohio, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Sarah Palin called on Barack Obama's campaign to release communications it's had with the group accused of voter registration fraud in several U.S. states.

High court rules in Ohio voter matter

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday the Ohio secretary of state didn't have to give county election boards lists of voters whose names don't match state data.

Ohio takes voter ruling to Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- The Ohio attorney general filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lower court decision that could challenge voters at the polls.
Obama: ACORN 'not advising' campaign

Obama: ACORN 'not advising' campaign

MAUMEE, Ohio, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama says a community activist group under siege by Republicans is "not advising our campaign."
1 of 29
Youngsters compete in Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Contestants (L-R) Cooper Barth of West Long Branch, New Jersey, Eboseremhen Eigbe of Galloway, New Jersey, Jacob Bayly Hunter of Sante Fe, New Mexico and Massound Sharif of Albany, New York, all await their turns to compete during the 3rd round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. UPI/Mike Theiler