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Posted: Thursday, February 8, 2001 | 1:13 p.m.
Report alleging St. Louis voter fraud sent by Bond to federal
prosecutor
By Libby Quaid
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three months after calling for a federal
investigation into allegations of voter fraud in the Nov. 7
election, U.S. Sen. Christopher Bond has sent a
one-and-a-half-inch thick report to the U.S. attorney in St.
Louis.
U.S. Attorney Audrey Fleissig's office confirmed Thursday it had
received the report, which contends that Democratic efforts to
extend voting hours in the city of St. Louis were a criminal
attempt to encourage voting by those not legally entitled to
vote.
Among the allegations: The lead plaintiff in a lawsuit to hold
open the polls was either dead or never existed.
A lawyer for the group of Democrats who filed the lawsuit -- a
group including the Gore-Lieberman campaign and freshman U.S.
Rep. William Lacy Clay -- said there was no attempt to encourage
voting by unregistered voters.
Craig Rasmussen, a Washington spokesman for Clay, said the
congressman would have no comment on the report.
About an hour before the 7 p.m. poll closing time, a St. Louis
circuit judge ordered polls kept open until 10 p.m. The Missouri
Court of Appeals threw out the order about 40 minutes later,
closing the polls.
A spokesman for Bond confirmed Missouri's GOP senator had
received the report, a copy of which was obtained by The
Associated Press, and referred it to authorities. Other than his
November letter urging Fleissig to conduct a probe, the
memorandum is the only collection of evidence Bond has forwarded,
the spokesman said.
``I can confirm that Sen. Bond has referred to the proper
authorities this report about improper efforts to influence the
November 2000 election in Missouri,'' said the spokesman, Ernie
Blazar, who declined further comment.
Bond's office said the report was prepared by concerned citizens
in St. Louis, including a number of lawyers, whom they refused to
identify.
The report's cover page says it was prepared for Bond and
summarizes ``events of likely election fraud'' on Nov. 7.
``Hudreds of felons, non-residents and those not legally entitled
to vote in the November general election in fact cast a ballot in
the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County,'' the report reads.
The lawyer for the plaintiffs, Douglas Dowd of St. Louis,
disputed the allegations.
``All you had to do was turn on the television to see what was
going on,'' Dowd said. ``People were being turned away by the
hundreds in the city because of the Board of Election
Commissioners' failure to be prepared. All we were trying to do
was remedy that problem.''
Confusion over a named plaintiff, Dowd said, was a
misunderstanding made under heavy time pressures. The plaintiff,
listed as Robert D. Odom, was actually an aide to Clay, Robert M.
Odom, who had already voted and was prepared to testify about
witnessing chaos at the polls, Dowd said.
Once he learned Odom had already voted, Dowd said, he decided to
use another witness who had, in fact, been turned away.
``It was a simple misunderstanding,'' Dowd said.
Before leaving office in January, former Secretary of State Bekki
Cook, a Democrat, concluded that the St. Louis election chaos
involved too few voters to have changed the election's outcome.
But her successor, Republican Matt Blunt, said her report
contained ``glaring defects'' and is conducting his own
investigation.
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