'Barack H. Obama' Pennsylvania Voter Registration Card Baffles Detectives

PITTSBURGH -- A Pennsylvania detective is trying to figure out how an apparent prankster was able to fill out a 2008 voter registration card signed "Barack H. Obama."

By the time Butler County elections officials processed the card, it went into the state's computerized database with the last name "Obana" – that is, with an `n' in place of the `m.' But a detective tells The Associated Press that whoever did it was clearly trying to register using President Barack Obama's name.

The card was discovered last week when a jury commissioner in the county north of Pittsburgh was compiling a role of potential jurors which, in Pennsylvania, can be drawn from voter registration lists.

Detective Scott Roskovski says nobody voted using the bogus voter registration card, though filling it out falsely could be a felony.

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• Diana Camacho, left, chants “we want to vote,” after the elections office in Miami-Dade County closed its doors to voters who waited in long lines for an absentee ballot in Doral, Fla., Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

• Voters wait in long lines to cast their ballots on November 6, 2012 at Victory Elementary School in Bristow, Virginia. (KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

• Voters line up to cast their ballots during the first day of early voting in Nevada at the Centennial Center polling station on October 20, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

• People queue to vote at a polling station in Washington,DC on November 6, 2012. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

• South Floridians stand in line during the last day of early voting in Miami, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

• A lengthy line of voters fill a hallway at Battlefield High School November 6, 2012 in Gainesville, Prince William County, Virginia. (KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

• A long line of voters is seen outside Mt.Bethel Baptist Church in Washington, DC on November 6, 2012. (EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images)

• Several hundred DeKalb County residents crowd the Chamblee, Ga., early voting center to cast ballots on the last day of advance voting, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/David Tulis)

• People queue to cast their ballots at a polling station in Washington, D.C. on November 6, 2012. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

• This photo shows about half of the line waiting to vote, only some twenty minutes into the voting day at the Stonewall Middle School November 6, 2012 in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia. (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images)

Comments

[Dee Furrier]

12:43 AM on 01/23/2013

My bet is he voted for Romney !

[panzershreckman1]

07:57 AM on 01/20/2013

Voter ID protects the UNITED STATES and her integrity and Constitution. Lack of PROTECTS THE DISHONEST and their rise to power. No matter what party.

[Bebesc]

07:30 AM on 01/20/2013

It was not a political prankster! It was voter fraud that was pervasive. Obama's campaign cheated in the election to get him elected.

[storgrisdemo]

08:30 AM on 01/20/2013

Yeah, and everyone of them used the name Barack H. Obama, or Osama bin Laden..

[pinchstuff]

07:20 AM on 01/20/2013

I saw Joe Biden vote in PA, just over the Delaware line. Probably voted in Maryland too. The question is-who did he vote for? He's not that smart and in all the confusion....

[ny johnny]

07:04 AM on 01/20/2013

You're not suggesting, oh no not the democrats . Please we all know that all politicians are honest ,trustworthy, only have the American peoples interest at heart, and never fatten their wallets at taxpayers' expense doing for special interest groups doing. Right? Please say it isn't so.

[sjser]

06:43 AM on 01/20/2013

When precincts have 100% of the people registered in a precinct voting, and all votes register on the machines for one party and zero for the opposing party, or 150% of the people registered voting, that needs to be checked also.

[lonelyNCdem]

07:11 AM on 01/20/2013

You need to read snopes.com and quit listening to Faux.

[panzershreckman1]

07:58 AM on 01/20/2013

Where are any facts like that on snopes? Thats right, there aren't any. Stop watching CNN

[sjser]

12:34 PM on 01/20/2013

Why is it you think I am so stupid that I have to resort to TV commentators and pundits for my opinions? I may be a good deal older, but I am not clueless.

[raddison4x]

06:21 AM on 01/20/2013

Obama won the election by only 3 million votes. He won every state that did not require voter ID. The states he lost were the ones that required voter ID.

In Ohio they were bringing bus loads of Somolian's in who did not even speak English and no one questioned it.

How many dead voted? How many voted multiple times? In a country with over 300 million people, 3 million is a very small number yet no one looks into it because the Democrats will scream discrimination.

[ivotedabsentee]

10:35 AM on 01/20/2013

[ He won every state that did not require voter ID. The states he lost were the ones that required voter ID.]

Yes, it is true that Obama lost in the four states which required photo ID - Georgia, Indiana, Kansas and Tennessee. By the same token, Obama also lost in 20 states which did not require photo ID.



[In Ohio they were bringing bus loads of Somolian's in who did not even speak English and no one questioned it.]

And you know for a fact these voters could not speak English?

[mhsden]

06:06 AM on 01/20/2013

Voter Fraud Noooo Really . Its not the first time and I'm sure it wont be the last ; /

[William R Thompson Jr]

05:19 AM on 01/20/2013

It goes to show how easy voter fraud really is.

[dougie monty]

03:18 AM on 01/20/2013

That would be a neat trick anyway. Anybody with any sense of history knows the real Obama was a resident of Illinois, not Pennsylvania.

[Trisha66]

02:56 AM on 01/20/2013

Seriously? Give me a break! Go do some REAL cop work on REAL criminals. Wasting everyones $$ on this BS.

[raddison4x]

06:24 AM on 01/20/2013

Yeah, go investigate Benghazi or Fast and Furious that was swept under the rug. Don't bother looking into voter fraud. 3 million dead and illegal's voted so just ignore all of that.

Obama won by a whopping 3 million votes so get over it.

****Isn't that what liberals would say????****

[panzershreckman1]

07:59 AM on 01/20/2013

If you don't think FRAUD is a crime, then what is to you?

[jrp1947]

02:36 AM on 01/20/2013

i think there is a lot more voter fraud than the government wants us to know about because we might have to start all over with new elections and a clean slate. besides if all the current office holders are in jail for voter fraud who do we elect? I don't think anyone knows how to run unless they get repubican/democrat suport adn that is shameful.

[llwlknsn]

03:07 AM on 01/20/2013

Yep.

[Unca Allen]

02:01 AM on 01/20/2013

Some districts voted 158% of registered voters for Obama....in Florida. Hmmm...how did that happen?

[ghpianoman]

02:37 AM on 01/20/2013

Yeah.. that's a myth that's already been debunked many times... keep trying...

[Unca Allen]

03:03 AM on 01/20/2013

It was posted yesterday in the news.  Check again, chump.

[raddison4x]

06:28 AM on 01/20/2013

Yes and Allen West lost his seat when 4,000+ voters somehow voted in the middle of the night when the polls were closed. (he was ahead before this )

AND In Ohio there were pictures of busses that were brought with Somolians who did not speak English who voted for Obama. No one questioned it.

Obama won in all the states that did not require ID and lost in the states that required ID. Hmmm? But everyone turns their heads and claims he won.

[lonelyNCdem]

07:12 AM on 01/20/2013

And all of those charges have been proven false, including your micro-bio. Find new lies to spread, these are getting boring.

[Unca Allen]

01:48 PM on 01/20/2013

Why would states not require ID?  I can think of a few clandestine reasons.

[Brian Workman]

12:56 AM on 01/20/2013

Why is there no investigation by the FBI on ALL Obama Votes by DEAD PEOPLE & ILLEGAL ALIENS?!?!?

[me again]

01:08 AM on 01/20/2013

Your proof? This sounds like a GOP prank, not a Dem prank.

[raddison4x]

06:32 AM on 01/20/2013

You can't be serious???? It was common knowledge that the dead, illegal's, people voting multiple times,etc. were being reported but there are enough people like you that make comments like you just did and everyone else is supposed to believe that Obama won.

He won by only 3 million votes. There are over 300 million people in this country......so it was very easy to come up with 3 million fake votes.

People should have to pass a knowledge test before they are allowed to vote.

[ghpianoman]

02:39 AM on 01/20/2013

Yeah.. that's already been debunked many times... stop getting your news from Rush.. even Fox has debunked that

[raddison4x]

06:38 AM on 01/20/2013

Fox didn't debunk that. If so, do tell which anchor said that????

Did you also know that a plane carrying 50 thousand pounds of military votes crashed??? Wonder who those votes were for??? Did you know that a lot of the military were not able to vote because their votes wouldn't make it in time and they were not allowed to extend their voting window? Did you know that the states with voter ID required, Obama lost and in the states with no voter ID required, he lost???

I think you must have missed those reports.

Obama stole this election by 3 million votes....he stole his Illinois Senator win by collecting a mere 150,000 FAKE registrations himself and then pinned it on his opponent. So he has been cheating and stealing elections since he first slithered into Chicago.

[peterhailey]

12:44 AM on 01/20/2013

When I attempted to vote in the Bush-Edwards election I went to the voting station three blocks from my house. I was told "Oh you don't vote here, go home and get your voter registration card. It will tell you which election station to use". I went home, got my voter registration card and drove to the election station at city hall 12 blocks away from my house. "Again I was told, "Oh you don't vote Here". I was directed to my designated voting station. It was located 5 miles outside of town, down a dirt road, to a fire station out in the middle of nowhere. I waited 45 minutes in line to vote. If I didn't know any better I would think that someone was trying to discourage me from voting.

[ghpianoman]

02:41 AM on 01/20/2013

It normally goes to wherever you last registered