N.M. kids getting voter ID cards [vote fraud alert]

N.M. kids getting voter ID cards [vote fraud alert]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 20 (UPI) -- New Mexico officials are asking the federal government to investigate a rash of voter-registration cards being mailed to children in Bernalillo County.

Some 3,000 of the cards have been found to be questionable because they lack signatures, have incorrect addresses or contain other discrepancies, said County Clerk Mary Herrera.

Sheriff Darren White has asked the U.S. attorney's office to investigate.

Herrera said her staff has called some of the people whose names appear on suspicious forms. Some have said they didn't register -- raising the question of who is registering them and why.

She and White say the numerous voter-registration drives going on in New Mexico could be to blame.

Critics say some groups pay their workers for each voter they register, giving them incentive to file improper forms.

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