Voter registration fraud

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Voter registration fraud is the act of registering to vote, or registering someone else to vote, when fraud is involved. Voter registration fraud is considered to be a type of vote fraud.

Different ways to commit fraud in the voter registration process include:

• Filling out and submitting a voter registration card for a fictional (made-up) person. The made-up name on the card can be recognizable ("Mickey Mouse") or just a random made-up name, like "Jessica Random".

• Filling out a voter registration card with the name of a real person, but without that person's consent, and forging his or her signature on the card.

ACORN and voter registration fraud

• See ACORN and voter registration fraud.

Examples of voter registration fraud

Wisconsin, 2008

Wisconsin voter fraud

Latoya Lewis pled guilty on October 12, 2009 on charges of voter registration fraud. Lewis, who was working for ACORN when she committed the acts in 2008 that led to her guilty plea, said she was trying to "meet her quota as a paid registrar".

California, 1997

In 1997, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to request that the Justice Department prosecute La Hermandad Mexicana Nacional after investigators for the House Administration Committee complained that the group had registered hundreds of illegal voters prior to a very close congressional election in Orange County, California.