Bogus voter registration forms found

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on October 15, 2008 - 8:01am.
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The State Board of Elections has found 135 bogus voter registration forms.

The elections board is checking suspicious voter registration forms handed in by canvassers working for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, which works to register low-income people as voters.

Elections board director Gary Bartlett said 104 of the incorrect forms were from Durham, 30 from Wake and one from Mecklenburg.

Since 2007, ACORN claims to have registered 1.3 million people nationwide, including nearly 28,000 in North Carolina. The group flags questionable forms submitted by its canvassers, but by law it must submit all forms to the elections boards.

Elections officials said falsified forms do not lead to voter fraud, since names that do not have accurate information don't make it onto the voter rolls. (AP) 

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Re: Bogus voter registration forms found

Submitted by marknewman on October 15, 2008 - 9:29am.

I'm not happy that there were false registration forms but one must put this in perspective. We are talking about 135 out of 28,000 (meaning .48% of their forms were erroneous). Groups registering voters outside of acorn could make the same error rate.

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Re: Bogus voter registration forms found

Submitted by henrye on October 15, 2008 - 9:26am.

I do not buy,The voter registeration as a way for a few people to make a few bucks, When I look at the amount of money the Obama camp has had to spend in this election it blows your mind, What I don't undrestand is the
people do not queston where all this money is coming from and why
Who does he owe politically all I can say it is going to be avery iffy four years

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Re: Bogus voter registration forms found

Submitted by rpkt06 on October 15, 2008 - 9:12am.

Acorn is out of control. This group is being funded with our tax dollars. They are making a mockery out of our most precious right as Americans, the right to vote. There is a difference b/t voter registration fraud and voting fraud as stated below. But it is still fraud.

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some voter registration perspective

Submitted by gercohen on October 15, 2008 - 8:13am.

To put this in some perspective, as of those processed through October 8 (with the last two days registration not counted as well as a processing backlog in most urban counties), North Carolina has registered 708,000 new voters this year. Voter registration forms must match the DMV or social security database, or the voter must show ID at the polls. For those registering at early voting sites starting tomorrow, ID is required.

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Re: Bogus voter registration forms found

Submitted by patanthony on October 15, 2008 - 8:07am.

That last paragraph is an important point - there's a big difference between voter registration fraud and voter fraud. The former occurs, usually, because a low-paid employee is trying to make a little extra money by submitting extra forms, but Donald Duck is not going to show up at the polls.

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