Posted by
Team Turk on Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:39:54 PM
From United Press International:
Hundreds of bogus address changes have surfaced near St. Louis and the election board is warning voters to make sure they get a polling-place notification card.
If the card does not show up, a voter's address may have been fraudulently changed, the county elections director said.
The bogus address changes are among fraudulent voter-registration cards turning up in St. Louis County within the past couple of months, The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported.
The bogus registrations included at least one dead person, officials said.
Most of the suspicious registrations and address changes were submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, election officials said.
ACORN is under scrutiny for thousands of suspicious voter registrations submitted in St. Louis, which is separate from St. Louis County, and Kansas City.
The group's Missouri registration drive is tied to its support for a ballot proposal to increase Missouri's minimum wage to $6.50 an hour from $5.15 an hour.