Charlotte Observer/McClatchy: One voter, two signatures: How did NC candidate’s vote appear twice in ‘08 election?

Retired Col. Donna Lake cast her ballot on a chilly October day in 2008 at the Wayne County Public Library, about three miles from her home in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

Fifteen days later, on Nov. 4, 2008, another ballot was cast under Lake’s name, this time at a polling place in New York.

How that happened seems to be a mystery. Lake, now a candidate for North Carolina’s Senate District 7, says she didn’t vote twice. …

It’s also rare for someone to vote twice in an election, one expert said.

“Double voting is not really an issue in the United States,” said Common Cause Director of Voting and Elections Sylvia Albert, adding that “it’s really hard to vote twice.”