Vote Fraud investigation - Task Force - Chicago Tribune
Reportage
Description
Tribune Investigative Task Force member William Mullen uncovered evidence of widespread election fraud in the March 21 presidential primaries in Chicago while working undercover as a clerk in the Chicago Board of Election Commissioner's City Hall office.
Reporters
Media History
The reporting was intended for these media types: Newspaper
Additional Resources
- "Kusper Aides Testify in Vote Fraud Probe" - Unsigned - The Chicago Tribune
- "Kusper Ad Recruits Poll Judges Here" - Unsigned - The Chicago Tribune
- "Kusper Asks Specifics" - George Bliss and William Currie - The Chicago Tribune
- "Thompson Says Walker Shifted On Voting Probe" - Robert Davis and Pamela Zekman - The Chicago Tribune
- "Oust 175 Fake Poll Judges, G.O.P. Urges" - Pamela Zekman - The Chicago Tribune
- "Reform Vote Law: Ogilvie" - John Elmer - The Chicago Tribune
- "20,000 Seek U.S. Marshals in Polls" - George Bliss and William Currie - The Chicago Tribune
- "Move to Divert Vote Probe Fails" - John Elmer - The Chicago Tribune
Effects and Outcomes
State and federal congressional hearings and investigations. Federal grand jury indictments and subsequent arrests of over 40 Democratic party workers and volunteers. Federal government pledges oversight of November presidential election.
Articles, Books, Video/Film
VIII-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Vote Machine Waste Told" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 4, 1972
Part of the Tribune's Task Force Report on vote fraud in Chicago's Board of Election Commissioners. This piece ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "2 Precinct Bosses Take 5th In Probe" - George Bliss and William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 6, 1972
Supplemental to the Task Force series on vote fraud in Chicago, this piece reports on the Illinois House elections ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "U.S. Probes '71 Vote in 34th Ward" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 7, 1972
Part of the Tribune's Task Force Report on vote fraud in Chicago. This piece reports on the expansion of the ...IX-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Payrolls Padded on Voting Machines" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 5, 1972
Part of the Tribune's Task Force Report on vote fraud in Chicago.Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Kusper Crony Draws Big Fee From Vote Board" - William Mullen and George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
October 9, 1972
Reports on the money paid to one of Kusper's associates through the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners. ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Kusper Office Ballot Records are Missing" - George Bliss and William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
October 10, 1972
A supplemental piece to the Tribune's Task Force investigation into Chicago vote fraud. As investigations into the ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Kusper Opposes Use of Marshals at Polls" - Pamela Zekman and William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 11, 1972
Despite investigations into vote fraud, the chair of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners opposes federal ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Fraud Check Proposed by Vote Commissioner" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 13, 1972
The Democratic controlled Board of Election Commissioners in Chicago reverses precedent and proposes a fraud check ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "FBI Probes Terror in West Side Politics" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 14, 1972
The FBI investigates Chicago's West Side vote fraud after a Tribune task force report on the city's vote fraud.Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Subpena Ward Boss Lists" - George Bliss and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune | Precinct Data Is Sought in Vote Probe
October 21, 1972
After indicting 40 election judges and poll workers on vote fraud charges, a federal grand jury investigation into ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "37 indicted in Vote Fixes; Total Hits 75" - George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
October 28, 1972
A federal grand jury investigation indicts 37 more people in their vote fraud investigation. Part of the Task Force ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Details of Vote Stealing Charges" - Pamela Zekman and William Currie - Chicago Tribune | 5 City, County Patronage Workers Among Indicted
October 28, 1972
Supplemental story to the Task Force Report examines the identity of those indicted in a federal grand jury vote ...X-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Vote Canvass Fails; Ghosts Haunt Rolls" - George Bliss and William Currie - Chicago Tribune
October 30, 1972
Although the Tribune's investigation into vote fraud produced a federal grand jury investigation, the Tribune finds ...I-"Reveal Huge Vote Fraud" - George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
September 10, 1972
The first article in the Tribune Task Force's lengthy investigation into election fraud in the March 21 primary ...II-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Election Board Infiltrated by Tribune's reporter" - William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
September 10, 1972
Written in the first person, Task Force reporter William Mullen describes how he infiltrated the office of Stanley ...III-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Dem-Rule Polls Kill 2-Party System" - George Bill and William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
September 11, 1972
The Task Force reports that instead of official Republican election judges controlling the poling places for ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "U.S. to Widen Vote Probe" - Ronald Yates and William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
September 11, 1972
The Tribune reports on the reaction of U.S. Attorney Thompson, who announced that his office will investigated all ...Sidebar: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Forgery Rampant in 7th Precinct, 24th Ward" - William Mullen and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune
September 11, 1972
The Tribune Task Force reports that in the 7th precinct of Chicago's 24th Ward, handwriting experts identified at ...IV-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Probe Shows Plight of G.O.P. Poll Judges" - George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
September 11, 1972
This article reveals how 22 Better Government Association members and Tribune Reporters applied to be Republican ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "State Acts on Vote Fraud" - George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
September 12, 1972Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Suit Seeks U.S. Court Control of Election Board" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
September 12, 1972
This article reports that a suit was brought against the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, seeking an ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Poll Judge Violations Condoned in Election Office" - William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
September 12, 1972
In another follow-up article at the irregularities in the certification of Republican poll judges, who must have ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Kusper Bars Press from Voter Files" - Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune
September 13, 1972
Upon Task Force reporter William Mullen's return to the Board of Election Commissioners office, where he previously ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Loose Controls Permit Vote Judges to Switch Parties" - William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
September 13, 1972
Another follow-up article about the certification of poll judges reveals that oversight is so loose that the same ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Kusper Probers 'Blind' to Fraud" - Unsigned - Chicago Tribune
September 13, 1972
This article takes a look at the investigators employed by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners and why they ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "3 Are Indicted in Vote Fraud" - George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
September 14, 1972
This article reports on the first indictments after the Tribune revealed widespread vote fraud in the March 21st ...V-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Workers Fight to Save Jobs" - William Mullen and William Currie - Chicago Tribune | Vote Fraud Product of Patronage
September 14, 1972
Task Force reporters Mullen and Currie explore reasons why fraud was so widespread in the poll judge certification ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Prober Violated Law: Kusper" - George Bliss and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune
September 15, 1972
In a press conference, chairman of the Chicago Board of Election Comissioners Stanley Kusper accused William Mullen, ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Percy Urges FBI Probe of Vote Fraud in Chicago" - Unsigned - Chicago Tribune
September 15, 1972Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Mass Vote Fraud Arrests" - William Mullen and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune | 40 Reported Cited by U.S. Grand Jury
September 16, 1972
The Tribune reports that at least 35 people were arrested by federal agents after they were indicted by a federal ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Kusper Reign Attacked" - George Bliss and William Currie - Chicago Tribune | Fraud at Polls Described to House Unit
September 16, 1972
The Tribune reports on hearings held by an Illinois House subcommittee charged with investigating the vote fraud in ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "U.S. Acts to Protect Vote" - George Bliss and William Mullen - Chicago Tribune
September 17, 1972
The Tribune reports that the federal government, in addition to arresting those indicted for vote fraud during the ...Follow-up: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "List of 40 Indicted in Vote Fraud" - Pamela Zekman and William Currie - Chicago Tribune
September 17, 1972
The Tribune publishes a list of those indicted for vote fraud by a federal grand jury, including poll judges, ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "20 More Vote Fraud Indictments Expected" - George Bliss - Chicago Tribune
September 18, 1972VI-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Cracking Dem Sanctum" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune | How Tribune Got Vote Fraud Story
September 18, 1972
The Tribune reports on the experiences of reporter William Mullen, who pieced together evidence of vote fraud while ...VII-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Vote-Stealing Old Story in Chicago's Elections" - William Currie - Chicago Tribune
September 18, 1972
Tribune reporter William Currie gives a historical account of vote fraud in Chicago.Editorial: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "The Vote Fraud Tragedy" - Unsigned - Chicago Tribune
September 18, 1972
An editorial by The Chicago Tribune praising the action taken by U.S. Attorney James R. Thompson to bring those who ...VIII-Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "Illinois' Absurd Election Code" - Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune | A Patchwork Quilt
September 18, 1972
Task Force reporter Pamela Zekman delves into Illinois' election code, unpacking its most contradicting and ...Reaction: Task Force Vote Fraud Investigation: "More Poll Cheating Detailed" - William Currie and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune
September 22, 1972