On Tuesday, Allan Kittleman made a confession to the Rock Creek Women's Republican Club that he might hope his four children don't find out about.
Kittleman explained that early voting legislation passed in the General Assembly this year without an amendment he had proposed that would have required voters to provide identification when voting early.
To support it, Kittleman gave a personal example of how easily voter fraud can occur. He told the women of going to vote at his children's school in Howard County in the 2004 election, shortly after the death of his father, Bob Kittleman, a well-respected senator and civil rights leader in the county, who had 1,500 people attend his memorial service.
"And they gave me my dad's [voter registration] card," Kittleman said. "I didn't look 78. I knew his birthday — Jan. 31, 1926. I knew his address. And as a teenager I knew how to sign his name. Many of you know, as teenagers, kids know how to sign their parents' name."
Kittleman, in this case, did not sign his father's name, he said.
"I did not vote for my father, and I told them he had passed away. They gave me a form, I filled it out and they purged his name from the rolls."
