"Many instances of voter fraud alleged in recent years have "morphed from facts and allegations to urban legend" and the biggest instances of the problem locally happened 20-plus years ago, according to a Kern County grand jury report released Thursday.
Jurors investigated the local voting system, according to the report, after receiving a letter last year detailing a public presentation made by a 2002 30th Assembly District candidate alleging there were "huge discrepancies in voter registrations" before his loss.
The report doesn't name names but it's obviously referring to Bakersfield businessman and Republican Dean Gardner, who lost the race to Democrat Nicole Parra by a razor-thin margin and alleged voter fraud at the time.
The large increases in Democratic Party registrations in that district before the November 2002 general election "appears to be the result of more active organizing by that party rather than devious or illegal activities," grand jurors wrote. ...
The report said elections officials have many, thorough ways to keep the voter rolls clean and to minimize fraud. The only recommendations made in the report were for county elections officials and other staff to "continue to do the excellent job they have been doing" and for the auditor-controller to post a copy of the report for public review."
The entire article, with commenting and the Grand Jury Report, is at http://www.bakersfield.com/blogs/politics/x1284224764/Grand-jury-debunks-reports-of-local-voter-fraud
A hat tip to Voting News blog from Verified Voting.
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