Former lobbyist Don Beason is being investigated.

In a four-page statement filed in Wake County Superior Court, a special agent with the N.C. Secretary of State's lobbying compliance division wrote that he thinks Beason directed some of the 24 groups and companies for which he and his son lobbied in 2007 to include inaccurate information on disclosure forms.

"I have discovered a pattern of under reporting of the lobbyist compensation," agent John M. Lynch wrote. "This under reporting is often done at the instruction of the lobbyist without any written or substantial justification."

The agent said Beason made one request of the Albemarle Mental Health Center, a regional facility in Elizabeth City.

State law treats many reporting violations as misdemeanors.

The affidavit was filed in mid-March in Wake County seeking a judge's help in getting records about Beason from Progress Energy, one of his requests. (N&O)

New Hampshire's Secretary of State predicts record turnout today.

William Gardner said as many as 500,000 voters will turn out, exceeding the record 393,000 who cast ballots in 2000‚ the last time both parties had contested primaries, Bloomberg reports.

State officials also predicted that 150,000 independents would cast ballots — 90,000 in the Democratic primary and 60,000 in the Republican. If that projection is correct, "clearly the independents will have a major impact on the election on both sides," John Lynch, the state's Democratic governor, told CNN.

The polls close at 8 p.m.