Las Vegas: "Fake voter sign-ups increasing"

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Nevada's position as a battleground state in the presidential election has sparked a surge in fake voter registrations, Clark County's top election official said.

"We've never seen anything close to this," said Larry Lomax, registrar of voters.

So far, the office has flagged several hundred suspicious registration forms, but Lomax believes many more escaped detection among the 5,000 forms coming through his office every week...

some groups are illegally paying for each registration form submitted instead of paying workers by the hour. The practice is against both state and federal law...

Lomax said people have brought completed registration forms to his office and told him they were paid by the form. One person mistakenly included his pay stub in a stack of forms, which showed him being paid by the form, not the hour...


Politics · Sat, 07/10/2004 - 08:39 · Importance: 1


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