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'''October 9, 2008'''

Allegations of voter registration fraud for 4,700 new voter applications turned in to [[Sunshinereview:Lake County, Indiana|Lake County]] officials by the [[Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now]], or ACORN, which bills itself as "the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities."<ref>[http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2008/10/06/updates/breaking_news/doc48ea7da090cb6919628608.txt ''NWI Times'', Fraud, racial discrimination allegations mar voter registrations, Oct. 6, 2008]</ref>

==Board of Elections investigates==
Sally LaSota, director of the Lake County [[Indiana Board of Elections|Board of Elections]] and Voter Registration, said all of the applications submitted by ACORN are being scrutinized after officials found many with the names of deceased residents or suspicious names such as Jimmy Johns, the name of a sub sandwich franchise. [[Republican Party|Republican]] Ruthann Hoagland, the board's assistant registration administrator, to track the ACORN applications.<ref name="IS">[http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081009/NEWS0502/810090575 ''Indy Star'', As voter registration rises, so do fears of fraud, Oct. 9, 2008]</ref>

"One of the glaring problems," Hoagland said, "was that several were done with the same handwriting and signatures, sometimes in a very distinctive style."<ref name="IS" />  In a group of 50 applications she reviewed earlier this week, the listed phone numbers on 48 were nonexistent or out of service, and the other two were for businesses "that had no idea what we were talking about when we called to check on their registration," she said.

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