It's fairly obvious that a lot of fraud is being committed in order to ensure a Bush victory, but typically it isn't quite this obvious.  According to The Cincinnati Post, John Kerry's name has been removed from a number of absentee ballots in Hamilton County, Ohio.  In case you forgot, Ohio is a battleground state.  The absentee ballots simply list “CANDIDATE REMOVED” in the slot under Bush's slot…

From Kerry left off some absentee ballots (Cincinatti Post):

Some absentee ballots distributed to Hamilton County voters do not include the name of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, local election officials confirmed today…

…”It's a screw-up,” said Tim Burke, chairman of the Hamilton County Board of Elections. “This just feeds the paranoia that's out there. The tragic thing is that even though I think we will have a very fair and accurate count here, this will cause people to question the accuracy of our operation.”

Although election officials believe only two voters have received the inaccurate ballot to date, Burke said he is worried that the mix-up “will open us up to all kinds of questions and concerns.” He also conceded that some may question whether the problem is, indeed, limited to only a few ballots.

“I'm happy we're talking about a very small number,” Burke said. “But it's something that never should have happened.”

One of the voters who received the inaccurate ballot said today she “just couldn't believe it” when she opened her absentee ballot envelope and noticed that Kerry's name was missing.

“I knew enough to see something was wrong,” said the voter, who asked not to be identified. “But you wonder whether others maybe didn't notice it before they sent their ballots back.”…

…What is especially frustrating, [John Williams, director of the Hamilton County Board of Elections] said, is that the mistake actually had been caught by the election board's proof readers. But when a broken copier forced officials to use an old copying machine, the old, mistaken ballot format without Kerry's name accidentally was printed, he said.

“It's unfortunate it happened,” Williams said. “But I don't think there's any reason for people to worry about the accuracy of the election.”