Voter Scam Alert

If someone comes to your door offering to help you vote, especially if they present you with a ballot to mark and sign, be very cautious/suspicious and contact the police with any identifying information you have.

The only ways to vote before November 4th are:

A) Go to your county auditor's office and vote early (you can do this through November 3rd)

B) Request an absentee ballot. If you requested an absentee ballot, it will come to you in the mail. It will NOT be brought to your door by an election official and if someone is bringing you a ballot, you are likely about to be the victim of voter fraud.

Another note: Absentee ballot requests must be in by 5 p.m. Friday, October 31st, to your county auditor. If someone comes to your door this weekend and wants to help you fill out an absentee request, ignore it as you will NOT receive a ballot before the election.

If you are voting by absentee ballot, it MUST be postmarked by November 3rd or it will not be counted. Follow ALL directions on the ballot, especially signing your envelope. If you do not sign the envelope where indicated, your votes will not be counted.

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MS October 31, 2014, 10:27 pm But there is no voter fraud...so we are told...HA!!

RS November 1, 2014, 12:36 pm I do not know the specifics of this event but I do know that some people who have requested an absentee ballot from a form that was mailed in, will forget or not understand that it is a two-form process and that the 2nd form, the ballot, will have to be filled out for the vote to count. I can see someone, either a Democrat or Republican, coming to that door knowing that the person has an absentee ballot but has not turned it in and will offer to take the completed ballot to the Auditor\'s office for them. I suggested to Dean yesterday that before a public article about \"voter fraud\" was printed that more information needed to be discerned before actually stating that it was indeed \"voter fraud\" As chair of the Benton Co. Democrats, I have the utmost confidence in the voting process and if indeed someone brought a blank ballot to someone\'s house to fill out, we as a party would want that stopped. I am sure I speak for the Republicans as well. The problem with pressing the emergency button without knowing the details of the incident only puts fear and distrust into the voting process. Until and if more information is known, the public should not panic and as a reader of the Vinton Today, I expect higher journalistic integrity instead of trying to make a story out of, what just maybe, miscommunication on the part of the person involved. Voting in Iowa and Benton Co. is safe, that should be the message. FYI \"voter fraud\" where someone poses as someone else at the polls has been proven by the current Secretary of State as not a factor in our election process.
Editor\'s Note: As the headline states, it is a \"Scam\" by definition \"A confidence trick, an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence\"

AG November 3, 2014, 9:01 pm What is the \"incident\" being reported? There is no news here. The headline should read \"Instructions for Voters\".

PM November 4, 2014, 12:31 pm Thanks for the heads up, you do a great service by alerting the public to all of the scam attempts in the area, no doubt stopping them in their tracks before more damage is done! This is one thing I appreciate most about Vinton Today! I notice there wasn\'t any complaints on any of the other scam alerts...

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