False forms found in voter sign-up
Published: Wed, Oct. 15, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Wed, Oct. 15, 2008 02:43AM
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closeRALEIGH -- The State Board of Elections so far has found 135 bogus voter registration forms submitted by a community organizing group.
The elections board is checking suspicious voter registration forms handed in by canvassers working for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
ACORN works to register low-income people as voters.
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Gary Bartlett, the elections board director, gave a preliminary count of the fakes: 104 from Durham, 30 from Wake and one from Mecklenburg.
The investigation is not yet complete. "We're still processing voter registration applications," Bartlett said.
ACORN cooperated with the investigation.
Since 2007, ACORN claims to have registered 1.3 million people nationwide, including nearly 28,000 in North Carolina.
The group checks all the completed forms its canvassers return and flags all the questionable applications. By law, the organization must give all forms to the elections boards, even the suspicious ones.
Falsified registration forms do not lead to voter fraud, elections officials said. Names that do not have accurate information don't make it on to the voter rolls. People who fill out multiple registration forms appear only once on the voter list.
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