Fake bust?

Nefertiti bust may be a fake: Thought to be an ancient treasure of the Nile, it may have been made in Germany less than 100 years ago according to art historians.

The bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, considered to be the Mona Lisa of the ancient world, may be a fake, according to two art experts.



Swiss historian Henri Stierlin, author of several books on Egypt and the Middle East, claims in his new work, Le Buste de Nefertiti – une Imposture de l'Egyptologie? (The Bust of Nefertiti – an Egyptology Fraud?) that the treasure, until now believed to be 3,300 years old, could be a 1912 copy.

He suggests it was made by an artist named Gerardt Marks on the orders of German archeologist Ludwig Borchardt, who is credited with digging it out of the banks of the Nile south of Cairo in 1912.

"It seems increasingly improbable that the bust is an original," Stierlin, who has been working on the subject for 25 years, told Agence France-Press.

He said Borchardt had hoped to produce a new likeness of the 18th-dynasty Egyptian queen wearing a necklace he knew she had owned, and at the same time carry out a colour test with ancient pigments found at the archeological site.

But Stierlin said a German prince admired the copy as an original, and Borchardt didn't want to make his guest look stupid.

Recent radiological tests seemed to have proven that the bust was more than 3,000 years old. They also uncovered a hidden face carved into the statue's limestone core.

But Stierlin has argued that while is it possible to carbon-date pigments, it is impossible to accurately date the bust because it is made of stone covered in plaster.

Inconsistent with Egyptian style

He noted that the bust has no left eye, which the ancient Egyptians would have considered a sign of disrespect to their queen. He pointed out that the shoulders were cut vertically, while Egyptian artisans cut their busts' shoulders horizontally.

He said French archeologists who were present at the 1912 dig never mentioned the find, nor did contemporary written accounts.

Berlin author and historian Edrogan Ercivan's new book, Missing Link in Archaeology, which was published last week, adds to Stierlin's argument. Ercivan has also called the Nefertiti bust a fake, saying it was modelled on Borchardt's wife, the Guardian newspaper reported.

Both historians have said Borchardt kept the bust for 11 years before handing it over to a Berlin museum.

Dietrich Wildung, director of Berlin's Egyptian Museum, has refuted the historians' claims, saying they are attempts to exploit the work's popularity. "A beautiful woman and a putative scandal — that always sells," he told the Guardian.

The bust is now on display at Berlin's Altes Museum. It will return to the Neues Museum when it reopens in October after a restoration by British architect David Chipperfield.

Queen Nefertiti, the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, lived from about 1370 BC to 1330 BC.

The Madoff of medicine?

A doctor in the United States is accused of faking data in 21 published studies linked to painkillers such as Vioxx and Celebrex.

There's been so much about corruption in the news lately whether it's on Wall Street or from bugs in cyberspace or scam artists looking to steal our money, our privacy and even our identities. Now there's news of fraud of another kind.

In what has been described as the longest and most wide-ranging case of scientific fraud, Dr. Scott Reuben, a renowned Massachusetts anesthesiologist, has been accused of fabricating data (and in some cases even inventing patients out of thin air) from 1996 to 2008 in 21 published studies. The fraud has rocked the medical community with Scientific American calling Reuben the medical equivalent of Bernard Madoff, the former NASDAQ chairman who is awaiting sentencing for his admitted $65-billion fraud.

Reuben, who is currently on leave from the Baystate Medical Center (located on one of the campuses of Tufts University School of Medicine), studied the use of several drugs to relieve pain and speed recovery after surgery. The hospital has since asked the journals who had published Reuben's work to retract the studies, some of which reported favorable results from Pfizer Inc.'s Bextra, Celebrex and Lyrica and Merck & Co. Inc.'s Vioxx. His research also claimed Wyeth's antidepressant Effexor could be used as a painkiller.

"Dr. Reuben deeply regrets that this happened," his attorney, Ingrid Martin, told the Associated Press. "Dr. Reuben cooperated fully with the peer review committee. There were extenuating circumstances that the committee fairly and justly considered."

While Dr. Reuben's research was not included with the clinical trials that led the US Food and Drug Administration to approve Celebrex and Lyrica, his work was considered widely influential on how doctors treat surgery patients for pain.

"Doctors have been using (his) findings very widely," said Dr. Steven Shafer, editor of Anesthesia and Analgesia. "His findings had a huge impact on the field."

As a result of Dr. Reuben's fabricated studies, Shafer said researchers would need to re-examine the literature and may be forced to repeat clinical trials.

Critics condemn 'marketing studies'

According to media reports, Pfizer gave Reuben five research grants between 2002 and 2007, and he was also a paid member of the company's speakers bureau, giving talks about Pfizer drugs to colleagues.

Pfizer said in a statement that it was not involved in the conduct of any of these independent studies or in the interpretation or publication of the study results.

"Independent clinical research advances disease treatments and improves the lives of patients," Raymond F. Kerins Jr., a Pfizer spokesman, told The New York Times. "As part of such research, we count on independent researchers to be truthful and motivated by a desire to advance care for patients. It is very disappointing to learn about Dr. Scott Reuben's alleged actions."

Pharmaceutical companies routinely hire physicians to conduct studies of drugs that are already approved. Companies say these studies are legitimate preliminary investigations of new uses for their products. But critics allege that drug companies often underwrite studies of little scientific merit in hopes of persuading doctors to prescribe the medicines more often.

As a result of the Reuben fraud, some critics are calling for a crackdown on the use of small scientific studies for ‘marketing purposes'.

RCMP arrest Revenue Canada officials

Two Canada Revenue Agency employees have been arrested and two others suspended for their alleged roles in connection with a $4.5-million tax-fraud scheme, Revenue Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn said Wednesday.


Blackburn said the two arrested employees were team leaders at the Montreal tax-services office of the CRA.

In an interview with CTV Newsnet's Power Play, Blackburn said his organization called in the RCMP after the CRA's investigation was underway.

"It shows that our own internal investigation works quite well," he said. "Our employees are professional, there's 45,000 of them, but sometimes (these) situations happen."

At a news conference in Montreal earlier on Wednesday, he referred questions about possible charges about the two employees to the RCMP.

Blackburn said the agency's investigation was originally looking into firms owned by businessman Tony Accurso, a leader in the Montreal construction industry.

The CRA alleges that three construction companies, Simard-Beaudry Construction Inc., Construction Louisbourg Ltee., and Hyprescon, funnelled nearly $4.5 million into two dummy corporations that were not involved in any commercial business. The agency says the dummy corporations were used to falsify invoices.

The CRA says that in these types of schemes, the invoices are fraudulently used to reduce individuals' or companies' revenues for tax savings purposes.

The four CRA employees, who are all suspended without pay pending an internal agency investigation, allegedly tried to hide the activities from the tax agency.

The investigation was launched as a result of regular internal audits into the agency's workings, Blackburn said.

"The system is well-protected," he said.

But opposition critics says that the audit system needs to be tightened, considering that there are billions going to be spent in infrastructure as part of the government economic stimulus plans.

"It's very troubling (and) it's not very good timing for Canadians who are struggling and trying to make ends meet," Liberal treasury board critic Dan McTeague said.

None of the allegations have been proven in court as of yet, and all persons under suspicion should be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Tories draw attention to immigration fraud

After being flooded with fake wedding photos, false forms and forged signatures, the Canadian government is sounding the alarm over immigration fraud.

Officials launched a campaign yesterday warning potential immigrants they could be removed from Canada if they enter under false pretences.

The warning came in a video the government posted on the Internet, and will be carried in brochures sent out in different languages to Canadian visa offices around the world. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney also issued a warning about immigration consultants, saying they don't get you in faster, and if you hire one it had better be from the government's approved list.

Kenney's political opponents say unscrupulous consultants are the real problem -- and that the scams will persist until the government starts regulating that industry.

The minister described the elaborate hoaxes people orchestrate to bolster their application chances.

Department officials say they've received forged signatures and letterhead from imposters using the names of members of Parliament and doctors; fraudulent death certificates; and letters from Canadian funeral-home employees who don't exist.

Kenney recounted his recent visit to Canada's consulate in northern India where there's a "wall of shame'' -- a mosaic of falsified papers tacked up for all to see.

During that trip, he said he learned of a burgeoning industry in which immigration fraud is given a festive twist.

"I heard about the growth of so-called 'marriage palaces', where actors are hired to play the part of guests at weddings,'' Kenney told a House of Commons committee.

"This is done to create fraudulent marriage photos to fool our visa officers. Some fraud is perpetrated by applicants and some by unscrupulous immigration representatives.''

Car owners get hit by extended warranty scam

In my experience, extended warranties are rarely worth the money (with some exceptions of course, I personally always like extended warranties on computer or other tech purchases) . But there’s a car-related scam currently making the rounds that really stretches credulity.

The pitch uses a recorded phone call to remind you that your car warranty is set to expire, offering to help you out with an extended warranty. I’d say I’ve been getting at least two or three of these calls a week, some weeks its daily (funniest part here is, I don't even own a car LOL) .

Here’s the pitch: "Your factory warranty is about to expire ... You are still eligible to reactivate warranty coverage ... This is the final call before we close the file. Press 1 to speak to a representative about your vehicle, press 2 to be taken off the follow-up list."

Most of the calls originate out of St. Louis, but police suspect that the numbers are being spoofed to mask their origin. The calls originally started showing up out west but have now made their way into Ontario.

Going under monikers like Canadian Auto Warranty Services and World Wide Warranties, the scammers offer you the chance (even though they have no idea what kind of car you actually own) to purchase a five-year extended warranty for $175 – by credit card, of course.

The whole thing is nothing more than a phishing expedition designed to get that card data. If somebody does bite, they run the risk of dealing with a company that no longer exists. The few who do get something in return quickly find that the warranty isn't honoured by most mechanics.

Steer clear, warns the RCMP's Louis Robertson, who also works for Phonebusters - the centralized police agency that handles telemarketing fraud across the country. Call your dealership to check on your existing warranty, he says, and see if they can suggest any reputable companies that provide extended warranties.

You're fiiiirrrrreeeeeeddd!!!!!

City of Toronto employees fired after alleged fraud

Nine City of Toronto employees caught allegedly bilking benefits from the city's insurer have been booted from the taxpayer-funded city payroll after spending approximately two weeks at home with pay.

The city confirmed today it has terminated the employment of nine civic employees who submitted fraudulent claims for benefits under the employee benefits plan.

"The City takes very seriously every instance of alleged wrongdoing in the organization and the actions taken today follow the City's investigation of the matter," officials stated in a press release.

City officials sent out the release just as Councillor Mike Del Grande was asking about disciplining employees at the city's audit committee meeting.

After questions from the Sun the city publicly revealed the social services staffers were at home with pay and that Manulife Financial had uncovered the alleged fraud through their audit process.

"The City's Fraud Prevention and Conflict of Interest policies formalize the expectations of personal honesty and integrity required of City officials and employees," the release stated.

"It remains a fact that the number of City employees found to have violated City policies related to fraud remains very, very low."

The Sun revealed last week Toronto Police’s fraud squad is investigating the incident.

Toronto Mayor David Miller is expected to comment on the firings further.

Bell says customers must pay bills racked up by fraudsters

Bell Canada has taken out full-page newspaper ads warning customers they are responsible for costly long-distance calls made through their voicemail systems, even if they were done so fraudulently.

In the ad, Bell says it has received several complaints about a voicemail fraud scam whereby "experienced criminals...illegally gain access to company voicemail systems and then place long distance calls from within those systems."

While a spokeswoman for BCE's Bell Canada says the bills have been reduced by the phone company, the businesses insist they shouldn't be forced to pay for any of the illicit calls.

Businesses are crying foul after receiving sky-high phone bills that charged them upwards of $200,000 because hackers were able to break into their Bell voicemail system and hijack it to make long-distance calls.

The warnings come too late for Burlington, Ont. law firm Martin & Hillyer.

Martin & Hillyer, says it has been hacked and is battling to erase a bill that includes charges worth more than $207,000 in calls to Sierra Leone in western Africa.

The law firm isn't alone in but Bell Canada spokeswoman Julie Smithers calls the situation "really rare" and a "very old scam" that affects primarily business customers, although she said some residential consumers have been caught as well.

Here's how Bell thinks it works: an automated dialler will target a specific phone number, and wait for the voicemail to respond. Then, the computer will go through standard voicemail passwords.

Often the voicemail passwords have never been changed from the original programmed default, they are the same as the phone number or extension, or they are easily guessed, such as 1234.

Once it finds the correct password -- often a predictable number combination -- the automated dialer will choose an option on the voicemail that allows it to make long-distance phone calls.

On the phone bill it will appear as though the calls were made directly from the office or home number.

The Bell ad says its systems come with adequate security devices, but "like locks on your car or on your house, they have to be used properly in order to be effective."

Smithers said Bell does have technologies to detect "bizarre calling patterns and in a lot of cases we can stop it by placing a block on long distance."

But she added "it is extremely important and it is the customer's responsibility to put passwords in place that are difficult to guess."

In Oakville, Gordon Cowan, the president of GPS Consulting Group & Insurance Agencies, faced a similar problem but on a smaller scale.

His offices rung up more than $60,000 in charges, starting with a 14-hour period on a weekend in early October.

"I came in on Sunday and there was a call from the Bell Canada fraud squad saying we had been breached. They shut our voice mail system down," Cowan said in an interview.

"They told us to change our passwords, which we have been doing anyway, and they would be in contact with us."

Cowan says that a week later the hacking happened again.

In both instances, Bell Canada agreed to reduce bill as a "goodwill gesture" -- in the law firm's case they cut it down to about half of the $207,000.

Cowan's $60,000 bill was slashed to about $7,000.

Bell says that Canadians are responsible for taking steps to prevent their voicemail from being hacked.

"It is something that's not unique to Bell -- it has been seen by pretty much every telephone company in the country, the U.S. and internationally," Smithers said.

Last week, reports from Australia said that police were investigating claims from a Perth business that its Internet phone lines were hacked, resulting in a $120,000 phone bill from more than 11,000 international calls.

Bell offered up a number of tips for companies to ensure their phone systems are not compromised. But Bell also says companies will have to pay for those calls made when the systems are hacked.

"Remember that you are responsible for paying for all calls originating from, and charged calls accepted at, your telephone, regardless of who made them or who accepted them," the ad states.

The following is a list of steps Bell says companies can take to protect their voicemail systems.

- Ensure employees change default password immediately after being assigned a voicemail box.
- Program systems to require passwords of six or eight characters.
- Avoid easily-guessed passwords.
- Require users to change their password every 90 days, as a minimum.
- Disable the offsite "through-dialling" option if it isn't necessary.
- Remove all unassigned mailboxes.

"While these precautions are of a general nature, and might not protect every aspect of an individual telephone system, they will go a long way to reducing your vulnerability to this type of fraud," the ad states.

India rocked by Satyam scam

Chair of outsourcing firm with offices in Canada resigns after revealing profits massively inflated

Ramalinga Raju visited Toronto four years ago to discuss how Indian outsourcing firm Satyam Computer Services Ltd. was using Canada as a beachhead to gain access to the huge U.S. market.

But on Tuesday, the Satyam chair was waving a white flag of surrender after he admitted to a massive accounting fraud that caused the company's stock to plummet by nearly 80 per cent while casting a cloud over India's emerging economy.

Raju, who founded India's fourth-largest software services exporter with his brother and brother-in-law two decades ago, shocked investors and the Indian business community by tendering his resignation and revealing that Satyam's profits had been massively inflated over the years.

He claimed that about $1 billion (U.S.), or a staggering 94 per cent, of the cash on Satyam's books was "artificial" or "non-existent" and apologized to the company and its stakeholders.

"What started as a marginal gap between actual operating profit and the one reflected in the books of accounts continued to grow over the years," Raju wrote in his statement of resignation. "Every attempt to eliminate the gap failed. It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten."

He added that no other board member was aware of the financial irregularities at Satyam, which in Sanskrit means "truth."

It is the biggest corporate scandal in India's memory, dubbed "India's Enron" by analysts, and one that has raised questions about regulatory oversight and the role of Satyam's external auditors, global firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

As well, the scandal promises to shake up India's once-booming outsourcing sector while possibly threatening foreign investment.

The fallout could even extend to Canada, where the Indian outsourcing industry had carved out a niche in southern Ontario because of proximity to the U.S. heartland.

"They find a presence in Canada useful because, in addition to doing business with Canadian clients, they also want to do business with American clients," said Bernard Courtois, president of the Information Technology Association of Canada, which counts some of Satyam's competitors as members.

Satyam maintains computer networks and has provided a range of back-office outsourcing services for such blue-chip clients as Citigroup Inc., General Electric Co. and General Motors Corp. The U.S. government has also been a client.

In Canada, Satyam boasts a client roster that includes four of the country's big five banks.
With offices in Toronto, Montreal and Calgary, the company also does business in the Canadian health-care sector and donated $1 million earlier this year to Hamilton's Mohawk College to build "the first working prototype of Canada's national blueprint for electronic health records."

In 2004, Satyam opened its first Canadian development centre in Mississauga with about 100 workers as part of an industry-wide effort to ameliorate concerns some U.S. companies had about the optics of sending jobs overseas. Canada was seen as a "nearshore" compromise with its slightly cheaper labour, English-speaking workforce and attractive tax benefits.

"There are some (U.S.) customers who feel a great affinity to the Canadian market," Raju told the Star in Oct. 2004.

Gary Teelucksingh, Satyam's senior vice-president for the Americas, did not return calls to his Mississauga office yesterday.

Satyam's competitors – Infosys Technologies Ltd., Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Wipro Ltd. – also operate Canadian development centres in Toronto, Mississauga and Windsor.

Outsourcing and, particularly, offshoring of jobs has been a potent political topic in recent years.

"In the U.S., it was this sort of irrational behaviour caused by a mindset that was concerned about illegal immigration and security concerns post-9/11," said Courtois.

But the outsourcing boogeyman never really reared its head in Canada, in part because the country has benefited from jobs shipped north from the U.S. – a trend Courtois expects will continue to accelerate. "I think with the current economic crisis, more people are going to take a look at it," Courtois said.

Holocaust memoir of love is exposed as being a hoax

A purported Holocaust memoir has been exposed as a fraud, prompting Berkley Books to cancel publication plans for the love story involving a concentration camp prisoner and the woman who became his wife.

The February 3 publication date was abruptly cancelled at the weekend, however, when Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
"Berkley Books is cancelling publication of Angel at the Fence after receiving new information from Herman Rosenblat's agent, Andrea Hurst," the publisher said in a release.

The company has also asked Rosenblat to return the money it gave him for his book.

Rosenblat and his wife admitted the book's story of their romance was made up.

"I wanted to bring happiness to people," Rosenblat said Sunday. "I brought hope to a lot of people. My motivation was to make good in this world."

That may have been his intention, but the result has been a lot of wounded people, including his literary agent.

"Herman Rosenblat and his wife are the most gentle, loving, beautiful people," Hurst said. "I question why I never questioned it. I believed it.

"It was an incredible, hope-filled story."

A work of memory

This marks a major about-face for the publisher, which had defended the book to critics, saying it was a work of memory and only the author knew the whole truth.

The Rosenblats' story was also the subject of a children's book, Angel Girl by Laurie Friedman, published earlier this year.

Several detractors say Rosenblat could never have met his wife the way he described.

According to the story told by Miami-based Rosenblat and his wife, Roma Radzicky, he was a prisoner at a sub-camp of Buchenwald in Nazi Germany and she was a young Jewish girl whose family was pretending to be Christian and lived nearby.

The lovebirds would meet on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence, where she would slip him apples and bread. Rosenblat claimed he was then transferred to another camp and the two lost touch until the 1950s, when they were reunited by accident, on a blind date, in New York.

The couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary earlier this year.

'Single greatest love story'

Oprah Winfrey, who twice invited Mr Rosenblat on to her talk show, hailed the book as “the single greatest love story ... we've ever told on air”. The still-unpublished memoir became the basis for a children's book and $25 million (£17 million) feature film, The Flower of the Fence, which is due to start shooting in March

Rosenblat's believers included not only his agent and his publisher, and Oprah Winfrey, but also film producers, journalists, family members, school children and strangers online who ignored, or didn't know about, the warnings from scholars and skeptics that his story didn't make sense.

Historical scholars had doubted the story, noting the layout of the sub-camp made such an encounter at the fence virtually impossible because the couple would have met right next to an SS barracks.

Other Holocaust memoirists have devised greater fantasies. Misha Defonseca, author of Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years, pretended she was a Jewish girl who lived with wolves during the war, when she was revealed that she was in fact actually not Jewish, who lived, without wolves, in Belgium.

Historical records prove Rosenblat was indeed at Buchenwald and other camps.

"How sad that he felt he had to embellish a life of surviving the Holocaust and of being married for half a century," said Holocaust scholar Michael Berenbaum.

The damage is broad. Publishing, the most trusting of industries, has again been burned by a memoir that fact-checking might have prevented. Berkley is an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), which in March pulled Margaret B. Jones' Love and Consequences after the author acknowledged she had invented her story of gang life in Los Angeles. Oprah Winfrey fell, as she did with James Frey, for a narrative of suffering and redemption better suited for television than for history.

"If I ever take on another memoir, they're going to have to prove everything, every line," Literary agent Adrea Hurst says. "From now on, I may just stick to basic fiction and nonfiction."

The damage is deep.

Among those fooled, or at least the partially fooled, was Berenbaum, former director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Berenbaum had been asked to read the manuscript by film producer Harris Salomon, who still plans an adaptation of the book.

Berenbaum's tentative support — "Crazier things have happened," he told The Associated Press last fall — was cited by the publisher as it initially defended the book. Berenbaum now says he saw factual errors, including Rosenblat's description of Theresienstadt, the camp from which he was eventually liberated, but didn't think of challenging the love story.

"There's a limit to what I can verify, because I was not there," he says. "I can verify the general historical narrative, but in my research I rely upon the survivors to present the specifics of their existence with integrity. When they don't, they destroy so much and they ruin so much, and that's terrible."

"I was burned," he added. "And I have to read books more skeptically because I was burned."

The story was first exposed by the New Republic magazine. Ben Helfgott, a former Schlieben inmate, told the magazine that Mr Rosenblat's story was “simply an invention”. Mr Rosenblat joins the swelling ranks of discredited memorists. “I wanted to bring happiness to people,” he said. “I brought hope to a lot of people. My motivation was to make good in this world.”

The New Republic article quoted friends and family members who were outraged by Rosenblat. One of his brothers stopped speaking to him.

Rosenblat's story also upset other Holocaust survivors, according to Deborah Lipstadt, a professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. Lipstadt said the survivors didn't believe the tale either.

"How sad that he felt he had to embellish a life of surviving the Holocaust and of being married for half a century," said Holocaust scholar Michael Berenbaum, who himself was duped.

Berenbaum had said the general outline of the Rosenblat romance was likely true but now he says he was "burned."

"In my research, I rely upon the survivors to present the specifics of their existence with integrity. When they don't, they destroy so much and they ruin so much."

Scholars and fellow survivors fear that Rosenblat's fabrications will only encourage doubts about the Holocaust.

"I am very worried because many of us speak to thousands of students each year," says Sidney Finkel, a longtime friend of Rosenblat's and a fellow survivor. "We go before audiences. We tell them a story and now some people will question what I experienced."

"This was not Holocaust education but miseducation," Ken Waltzer, director of Jewish Studies at Michigan State University, said in a statement.

"Holocaust experience is not heartwarming, it is heart rending. All this shows something about the broad unwillingness in our culture to confront the difficult knowledge of the Holocaust," Waltzer said. "All the more important then to have real memoirs that tell of real experience in the camps."

Despite the revelations, The film's producer plans to go ahead with the movie. Harris Salomon, of Atlantic Overseas Pictures, said he had always planned a “loose and fictionalized adaptation”.

I'm guessing... so did Mr. Rosenblat.

1 person, many votes

I was surfing around, and I came across this little youtube video, check this out!!

Hypocrisy in Texas? In the State Legislature? whoddathought?

We've all heard "One man, One vote, let your voice be heard" right? well take a look at this!

The senators are all literally falling over each other in trying to get in as many votes as they can!! They'd vote once for themselves, and then move and run around and vote using the push button panels of the legislators that are not present.. all in full view of everyone else, NO ONE else seems to mind that they're doing this!!
Watch the video closely. One guy actually had his vote stolen away by the guy sitting in front of him. I doubt he'd give the other guy the power to vote while he was actually there. The other ones seem to just randomly walk to empty desks, and more than one person tries to vote on them.

How is THIS not voter fraud? this video is a little old as well, sometime in 2007, why hasn't there been more of an uproar over what's happening? if it happened there, where else could it also have happened/be happening?