Anyone post this already - Invisible Ink?

[AmyCrat]

It's about the Ukraine, but consider the implications...

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'Invisible ink' used in election fraud
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11500128%255E401,00.html
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THE senior British MP in charge of monitoring last Sunday's polls in Ukraine has revealed how the election was undermined by intimidation, fraud and invisible ink.

Bruce George, chairman of the Commons Defence Committee and head of the international Short-Term Observation Commission in Ukraine, told The Times one of the election monitors handed him a suspicious pen from a polling station.
Mr George, a veteran Labour MP who helped to oversee the election in Georgia last year, found that anything written with the pen vanished in 15 minutes. "I saw a pen that had ink that disappeared when it dried," he said.
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[ContraBass Black]

1. Simple genious!

That's the way it works in today's world.

[Generator]

2. Maybe all my Alias watching has paid off

My husband is always saying "Well, how can they do that?"

Honey, if they want it bad enough they can do anything and make it look like Jennifer Garner in a wig.

Or on the other hand, if we posit this theory-we will be labeled loons. This ain't the USSR baby-it's Democratic freedom loving America? ISN'T IT? :think:

[geo]

3. Jennifer Garner in a wig...

rofl... :) -G

[MarkusQ]

4. Wasn't there some complaints about funny pens somewhere?

This seems to jog a memory, but I'm not sure of what. Some of the polling places having "funny pens" or something, that were different than at the other polling places (according to, IIRC, a poll worker who voted in their own precinct before going to the precinct they were working at or something).

This is a vague memory & I'm exhausted, so don't conclude anything based on my post unless someone can refute it or source it.

--MarkusQ

[Helga Scow Stern]

5. All I remember is something about not enough pens....n/t.

But that doesn't mean there weren't funny pens as well. It would make sense that there might be some of the same techniques.

[Twist_U_Up]

7. yep I remember something about pens too n/t

[LisaL]

6. You don't even need an invisible ink- I think if you use pen

instead of a #2 pencil, optical scan machines might not scan the votes correctly. As I remeber, allegations were some people were given pens instead of #2 pencils.

[senegal1]

8. yes there were several posts about being handed a

pen instead of a pencil and the election worker saying that either would work. However someone later in the thread mentioned that that county and I can't remember which one uses a certain kind of machine (not sure which) and that those machines can only be calibrated to either a pen or a pencil but not both reliably. I will see if I can find the thread before I turn in.

[senegal1]

9. see the other thread I pulled up from page 20 about

pen vs pencil 527