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Indictment announced in casino-related absentee ballot application probe
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters on Wednesday, Oct. 21, announced the indictment of Walter Sullivan of Montgomery in an investigation into fraudulent absentee ballot applications.
Sullivan was employed as a field worker for FieldWorks, a consulting company providing ground level organization for the Ohio Jobs and Growth Committee, the group promoting Issue 3 on the Nov. 3 ballot, a press release said. The issue calls for casinos in Cincinnati, Toledo, Cleveland and Columbus.
FieldWorks resigned from the campaign after the investigation started.
“Our investigation at no time found any evidence that Ohio Jobs and Growth was involved in any criminal activity,” Deters said in the release. “They at all times acted cooperatively with the investigation. Any representation that they were the target of a grand jury investigation is entirely false.”
Sullivan was charged with five counts of false signatures for forging applications for absentee ballots. If convicted of all charges, he faces a maximum of five years in prison, the press release said.
The probe started when a staffer at the Hamilton County Board of Elections noticed irregularities when processing applications and contacts voters whose signatures were on the forms.
The voters confirmed that they had not requested the forms, the press release said.
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By Robert Beedy
October 21, 2009 2:56 PM | Link to this
Glad to see it. To Bad they didn’t move that fast on ACORN during the last two elections.
By fed up
October 21, 2009 12:50 PM | Link to this
Kudos to the staff of the Hamilton County Board of Elections.