TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating 1,500 voter-registration forms received by the Leon County elections office that apparently were altered to register local students as Republicans.
County elections supervisor Ion Sancho said it was suspicious enough that the registration forms were all photocopies, but the new voters also were between the ages of 18-24, a group that often registers with no party affiliation.
"When we saw that all of these individuals were registered as Republicans, a buzzer went off," Sancho said.
Most were students at Florida A&M University, Florida State University or Tallahassee Community College. The office began calling the applicants, contacting a couple-dozen before deciding to turn the voter forms over to the FDLE.
"Once it became clear that their information did not jibe with the information on the application forms, that's when we decided to act," Sancho said. "The overwhelming majority of them had not selected the Republican Party as the party they wanted to be registered in."
The Leon County case is one of several being looked at across the state. In some cases, there are reports of bogus addresses, forms coming in with false information and registered voters who are being re-registered without their knowledge.
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In Leon County, the alleged fraud could have meant the 1,500 applicants wouldn't be allowed to vote. Sancho, however, said he is placing them on the voting rolls with no party affiliation.
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