Ninety thousand voter-registration forms were dumped by a third-party registration group on the final day of voter registration, 27 October, according to Maricopa County officials.
The Arizona Central reported that the massive dump far exceeded the number Recorder’s Office staff expected to receive.
About 50,000 of the forms have been processed; although some still require additional information from voters to allow them to vote.
The remaining 40,000, however, proved to be totally unusable, because they were torn, wet or damaged.
The group that returned the forms pays its employees by the number of ballots they turn in.
Voter-registration fraud appears to be taking place on a large scale across key battleground states. The State of Pennsylvania has already launched an investigation into thousands of fraudulent applications.
“I want to stress these are not ballots that were cast, but rather applications to register to vote,” Pennsylvania’s Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said during an election briefing.
“The Pennsylvania Department of State has been in touch with the county from the very beginning to provide guidance to them as they conduct their review and will continue to support them as needed.”
The problem was identified when election workers raised concerns about two sets of voter-registration applications, because of similarities between them.
Authorities are now examining around 2,500 forms.
York County Commissioner Julie Wheeler issued a statement in which she said that voter registration forms and mail-in ballot applications were among a “large delivery containing thousands of election-related materials” that the county elections office received from a third-party organization.
Many of the applications were clearly not authorized by the persons named as applicants. In at least one case, the applicant is deceased.
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