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Stop registration fraud has warned that the Motor Voter Act has made it easier for fraud to take place. For example, someone could fake a death certificate or other documentation to change an address on a car’s registration or claim fraudulent insurance money. Fraudulent insurance claims add up to over $40 billion per year.
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In St. Louis, police are investigating a woman whose organization collected 3,800 bogus voter registration cards. Many of those cards tried to register people who have died or have never lived in the city. The director of the group, called Operation Big Vote, has denied wrongdoing but has stepped down from her job. Local election workers say they spent a day calling the names on the cards and found that they were all false.
The director of a voter registration group in Florida says she’s worried about the effect of the 2022 law that raised the maximum fine for voter registration groups to $250,000. It also limited how and where the groups can return forms, banned non-U.S. citizens and people with certain felonies from working with the groups, and limited how much time they can spend on registration drives. The result has been that some groups have shut down their operations in the state.
