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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2008, 6:18 p.m. By Larry Sandler City refers 32 more to DA for voter fraud

Milwaukee's election chief turned 32 more voter registration workers in to the district attorney's office for possible prosecution today, after they tried to submit falsified registration cards.
That brings to 39 the number of registration workers under scrutiny, and the number could grow, Election Commission Executive Director Sue Edman said. An organization warned the commission staff late this afternoon about some questionable cards in the latest batch collected by its workers, Edman said.

All of the workers targeted for investigation were paid employees of two liberal groups running voter registration drives, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and the Community Voters Project.

In many cases, the groups have said they caught the fraud and fired the workers before handing the cards over to the commission. The groups also have said the problems represent a small fraction of the tens of thousands of cards collected by hundreds of workers.

But in a presidential election year, the incidents have revived partisan debate over Wisconsin's voter registration rules, and over the question of whether requiring photo identification for voters would prevent fraud or suppress turnout.

Of the 32 ACORN workers referred Wednesday to Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, Edman said:

# 17 apparently filled out applications and then signed the cards themselves. That involved two to four cards in each case.

# 12 submitted cards for individuals who later told ACORN they never filled out an application. That involved one card in each case.

# One submitted a card for a dead voter. That was the second such case; a voters project worker previously submitted a card for a deceased voter.
# One was apparently making up driver's license numbers for an unknown number of voters.

# One submitted about half a dozen applications for voters who were already registered.

With Wednesday's action, Edman has now referred 35 ACORN workers to Landgraf. She also has referred one worker from the voters project and one whose employer is unknown, and she plans to refer two more from the voters project.

But more workers from the voters project will come under scrutiny, because the group identified problems with a handful of the 7,500 cards it turned in today, Edman said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: acorn; communityorganizer; election; fraud; milwaukee; votefraud; voterfraud
Community organizing for community organizer Barack Obama results in 39 cases of identified registration fraud so far, the majority from ACORN, in Milwaukee, WI.