Missouri officials suspect fraudulent registration

Officials in Missouri are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.

Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, a nonpartisan group that recruits low-income voters, who tend to lean Democratic.

"We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don't exist, people who have driver's license numbers that won't verify or Social Security numbers that won't verify. Some have no address at all," Davis said.

Jess Ordower, Midwest director of ACORN, said he was told three weeks ago by election officials that there were only about 135 questionable cards -- 85 of them duplicates.

FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said the agency has been in contact with elections officials about potential voter fraud and plans to investigate.