State Officials Probe Fake Voter Registration Forms

SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, Pa. - Pennsylvania now joins several states where elections offices have received bogus registration applications.

A Susquehanna Valley man is under arrest on charges of submitting fake voter registration applications to Dauphin County.

Luis Torres-Serrano was picked up in York County last week. He is charged with forgery and identity theft.

Authorities said there are at least 19 cases where he randomly picked names out of the phone book and registered them.

Torres-Serrano worked for the local chapter of ACORN, a community organizing group that has been involved in getting people to register, mainly as Democrats.

ACORN is the target of voter fraud accusations brought by the Pennsylvania Republican Party Friday morning.

ACORN submitted thousands of voter registration applications in Philadelphia County that were rejected because they included fake Social Security numbers, addresses or signatures.

State GOP officials said ACORN is stealing voters' identities and using fake information to register.

However, there is no evidence the election board approved any of the fake applications.

"They flag some of them. How many get through? The election boards are so overworked. They're tired. They have to read these applications, they have to read through them, they have to look at them, your eyes get blurry," said Robert Gleason, Pennsylvania GOP chairman.

GOP officials said the integrity of the process is being jeopardized when thousands of registration applications are being rejected.

ACORN's Pennyslvania chapter sent out this response:

"This attack on us is politically motivated."

ACORN defends its own verification process and has said it cooperated in the investigation to arrest Torres-Serrano.


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"This attack on us is politically motivated."
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