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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 888347" data-attributes="member: 12952">Looks like his first term might be in more danger.SOUTH BEND - Suspected fake petition&nbsp; pages to place Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the ballot&nbsp; during the 2008 Indiana primary passed through the county voter&nbsp; registration office on days when the Republican head of the office was&nbsp; absent, The Tribune has learned.The&nbsp; pages in question bear the stamped signature of Republican Linda&nbsp; Silcott, indicating Silcott was not in the office at the time to sign&nbsp; the documents by hand. By comparison, most of the other, non-suspicious&nbsp; pages examined by The Tribune contain Silcott&#039;s written signature.Meanwhile, 13 more St. Joseph County&nbsp; residents whose signatures appear on the petitions, including former&nbsp; South Bend mayor and Indiana governor Joe Kernan, have come forward to&nbsp; say they did not sign the documents, and the Indiana Republican Party&nbsp; has called for a federal investigation into the matter.In addition, Holcomb, the state Republican Party chair, has called on the Department of Justice to investigate the matter.&quot;The&nbsp; integrity of every election is of the utmost importance,&quot; Holcomb said&nbsp; in a news release. &quot;This weekend’s disturbing news that perhaps hundreds&nbsp; of ballot access petition signatures submitted by the campaigns of&nbsp; Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are fraudulent raises real questions&nbsp; about the integrity of our process and whether or not those individuals&nbsp; should have been on the primary ballot in the first place.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 888347, member: 12952"] Looks like his first term might be in more danger. SOUTH BEND - Suspected fake petition pages to place Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the ballot during the 2008 Indiana primary passed through the county voter registration office on days when the Republican head of the office was absent, The Tribune has learned. The pages in question bear the stamped signature of Republican Linda Silcott, indicating Silcott was not in the office at the time to sign the documents by hand. By comparison, most of the other, non-suspicious pages examined by The Tribune contain Silcott's written signature. Meanwhile, 13 more St. Joseph County residents whose signatures appear on the petitions, including former South Bend mayor and Indiana governor Joe Kernan, have come forward to say they did not sign the documents, and the Indiana Republican Party has called for a federal investigation into the matter. In addition, Holcomb, the state Republican Party chair, has called on the Department of Justice to investigate the matter. "The integrity of every election is of the utmost importance," Holcomb said in a news release. "This weekend’s disturbing news that perhaps hundreds of ballot access petition signatures submitted by the campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are fraudulent raises real questions about the integrity of our process and whether or not those individuals should have been on the primary ballot in the first place." [/QUOTE]

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