Voter registration fraud leads to inflated voter rolls, but has little effect on voter fraud.

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These people arrived more than 20 years ago and as citizens their names appear in the voter rolls.

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That law's loose voter registration requirements would later be exploited by Acorn employees in an effort to flood voter rolls with fake names.

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The state's voter rolls have swelled by more than 150, 000 this year, including a wave of new voters in black areas of Indianapolis and Gary.

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Indiana, for one, has voter rolls filled with the names of the dead, those who have moved out of state and felons ineligible to vote.

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One room featured Steve Kest, executive director of ACORN, the community organizing group that's fighting back against Republican accusations that it's stuffing the voter rolls with nonexistent people.

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That relationship might explain why prior to the election Mr. Ritchie waved off evidence of thousands of irregularities on Minnesota voter rolls, claiming that accusations of fraud were nothing more than "desperateness" from Republicans.

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Still more brazen tactics, as seen in campaigns mounted in Colorado, Florida and New Mexico, would summarily purge thousands of registered voters, whom state officials suspect might not be citizens, from the voter rolls.

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Vote officials instead used manual voter rolls.

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Of the 1, 130 volunteers Sweeney and her team reviewed, about 579 provided zip code, date of birth and gender, the three key pieces of information she needs to identify anonymous people combined with information from voter rolls or other public records.

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It has also been reported that Venezuela is in charge of voter registration rolls and that Bolivian passports are actually being printed in Venezuela and Cuba.

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So has Florida, which has not only tried to restrict voter-registration drives but also limited early voting and sought to purge ineligible voters from its rolls, using a list full of errors (that effort has been suspended).

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