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[FL] State investigates voter applications
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 06, 2004 10:55pm |
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| Category | Scandal |
| Media | Newspaper - Orlando Sentinel |
| News Date | Wednesday, October 6, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating 1,500 voter-registration forms received by the Leon County elections office that apparently were altered to register local students as Republicans.
County elections supervisor Ion Sancho said it was suspicious enough that the registration forms were all photocopies, but the new voters also were between the ages of 18-24, a group that often registers with no party affiliation.
Most were students at Florida A&M University, Florida State University or Tallahassee Community College. The office began calling the applicants, contacting a couple-dozen before deciding to turn the voter forms over to the FDLE.
"Once it became clear that their information did not jibe with the information on the application forms, that's when we decided to act," Sancho said. "The overwhelming majority of them had not selected the Republican Party as the party they wanted to be registered in."
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