Word: frauded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Woody Jenkins wanted to expose the election fraud that he says robbed him of a U.S. Senate seat from Louisiana. He might have succeeded--if it weren't for a felon named Papa Bear, an alleged prostitute and three witnesses who say they were paid to lie on Jenkins' behalf...
...investigation he demanded after the election. They had learned that Jenkins hired a two-bit gumshoe named Thomas ("Papa Bear") Miller--a New Orleans operative with a long, sometimes violent criminal record. Papa Bear's job: to troll the New Orleans ghettos in search of "witnesses" to the fraud that supposedly delivered Landrieu her victory. Of the six such people interviewed by FBI agents, three said they were given money by Miller in exchange for pretending that they had cast multiple Landrieu ballots or driven vans of illegal voters around town. The others told such inconsistent tales--one said...
...Teller Machine which identifies cardholders by the iris of their eyes. Using standard video cameras with specialized real-time image processing, ATMs will snap a shot of a customer's irises, then compare it with a pre-recorded digital file before releasing any cash. Thanks to the iris's "fraud-proof" reliability, NCR and Sensar predict that banks will soon be selling everything from airline tickets to insurance policies through the local ATM. Sadly the innovation comes too late to save the life of Jonathan Levin, son of Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin, who was murdered several weeks...
...FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS] Claims of fraud dogged this June's parliamentary elections...
...power in 1992, but was disappointed when only 66 percent voted. Turnout was especially low in Algiers, where a FIS bombing campaign designed to discourage voters had killed 22 in the past week. In addition, TIME's Scot MacLeod reports that while international monitors agree that outright ballot fraud was relatively absent, most Algerians believe the outcome was rigged from the start since Zeroual party relied on government patronage and control of television to boost its chances...