Voter registrations thrown out in Nevada

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=...95&nav=168XRvNe

 

Voter Registrations Trashed

 

(Oct. 12) -- Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash.

 

Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.

 

The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed at democrats. Thee focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.

 

The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.

 

Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.

 

"We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant and he ripped them up right in front of us. I grabbed some of them out of the garbage and she tells her assisatnt to get those from me," said Eric Russell, former Voters Outreach employee.

 

Eric Russell managed to retrieve a pile of shredded paperwork including signed voter registration forms, all from Democrats. We took them to the Clark County Election Department and confirmed that they had not, in fact, been filed with the county as required by law.

 

So the people on those forms who think they will be able to vote on Election Day are sadly mistaken. We attempted to speak to Voters Outreach but found that its office has been rented out to someone else.

 

The landlord says Voters Outreach was evicted for non-payment of rent. Another source said the company has now moved on to Oregon where it is once again registering voters.  It's unknown how many registrations may have been tossed out, but another ex-employee told Eyewitness News she had the same suspicions when she worked there.

 

It's going to take a while to sort all of this out, but the immediate concern for voters is to make sure you really are registered.

 

The company has been largely, if not entirely funded, by the Republican National Committee. Similar complaints have been received in Reno where the registrar has asked the FBI to investigate.

 

Interesting..

[Slayer 0]

They're only 5 electoral votes, so who cares

[Guest MikeSC]

That's horrible.

 

It's up there with the rampant voter fraud for the Democrats in CO.

-=Mike

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Supposedly this group was also working to get petitions for Nader in Arizona. That is still in court, according to Ballot-Access news

 

ACORN is part of the conspiracy with ACT and Rock the Vote to give Mike a reason to not accept any Kerry victory. If you need a "Kerry cheated" banner, i'm sure somebody will provide it to you

[Guest MikeSC]

Supposedly this group was also working to get petitions for Nader in Arizona. That is still in court, according to Ballot-Access news

 

ACORN is part of the conspiracy with ACT and Rock the Vote to give Mike a reason to not accept any Kerry victory. If you need a "Kerry cheated" banner, i'm sure somebody will provide it to you

I won't bitch about it as rampant voter registration fraud is a key to any Democratic Presidential campaign. It's, sadly, the case.

 

However, they need, desperately, to update the system so registration is far less possible.

-=Mike

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

However, they need, desperately, to update the system so registration is far less possible.

 

I'm seeing what you're going for.. but that statement doesn't get there.

 

The system could use some means to reduce false registrations.

 

Paying people to get people registered seems like an ingredient for messing with the system. I doubt the chances of people voting over 10 times, unless there's a huge absentee ballot operation

 

(and yes, i'd say absentee ballots are necessary, since people may be out of town during the election)

 

rampant voter registration fraud is a key to any Democratic Presidential campaign

 

Do you think the Republican party has their hands clean when it comes to election fraud?

[Guest MikeSC]

However, they need, desperately, to update the system so registration is far less possible.

 

I'm seeing what you're going for.. but that statement doesn't get there.

 

The system could use some means to reduce false registrations.

 

Paying people to get people registered seems like an ingredient for messing with the system. I doubt the chances of people voting over 10 times, unless there's a huge absentee ballot operation

 

(and yes, i'd say absentee ballots are necessary, since people may be out of town during the election)

 

rampant voter registration fraud is a key to any Democratic Presidential campaign

 

Do you think the Republican party has their hands clean when it comes to election fraud?

Oh, I'm sure the GOP has done so --- but they have not approached what the Dems have done as of late.

 

The registration system needs to be updated big-time --- and penalties for fraud should be increased in a major way.

-=Mike

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

yeah.. there's room to increase penalties for election fraud

 

But i'm sorta baffled on what system to use, since they all have the potential to be manipulated

[Guest MikeSC]

yeah.. there's room to increase penalties for election fraud

 

But i'm sorta baffled on what system to use, since they all have the potential to be manipulated

Wouldn't simply having registration tied to Social Security numbers (with photo ID required at polling places or when applying for an absentee ballot) work?

-=Mike

[teke184 0]

On a slightly unrelated note, I'm going to laugh my ass off if voter fraud in Colorado gives Kerry that state but ALSO passes the amendment that will split the state's Electoral Votes by percentage.

 

If that happens, it helps Bush because he'll get 4 while Kerry gets 5 and, with Kerry trying to catch Bush in the EV totals from the looks of things, it hurts him more than it helps him.

[teke184 0]

yeah.. there's room to increase penalties for election fraud

 

But i'm sorta baffled on what system to use, since they all have the potential to be manipulated

Wouldn't simply having registration tied to Social Security numbers (with photo ID required at polling places or when applying for an absentee ballot) work?

-=Mike

Yeah, but it would disenfranchise the illegal aliens, convicted felons, and the dead.

 

Not sure about the felons, but I think we all know who tends to get the best of the immigrant vote and the graveyard vote.

[snuffbox 0]

yeah.. there's room to increase penalties for election fraud

 

But i'm sorta baffled on what system to use, since they all have the potential to be manipulated

Wouldn't simply having registration tied to Social Security numbers (with photo ID required at polling places or when applying for an absentee ballot) work?

-=Mike

Perhaps there should be severe penalties for voter fraud...and an effort to ensure that all capaign volunteers/employees know this beforehand.

[Guest MikeSC]

yeah.. there's room to increase penalties for election fraud

 

But i'm sorta baffled on what system to use, since they all have the potential to be manipulated

Wouldn't simply having registration tied to Social Security numbers (with photo ID required at polling places or when applying for an absentee ballot) work?

-=Mike

Perhaps there should be severe penalties for voter fraud...and an effort to ensure that all capaign volunteers/employees know this beforehand.

Make the person REGISTERING also liable for it. It's not like you'd forget registering a month earlier.

-=Mike

[snuffbox 0]

yeah.. there's room to increase penalties for election fraud

 

But i'm sorta baffled on what system to use, since they all have the potential to be manipulated

Wouldn't simply having registration tied to Social Security numbers (with photo ID required at polling places or when applying for an absentee ballot) work?

-=Mike

Perhaps there should be severe penalties for voter fraud...and an effort to ensure that all capaign volunteers/employees know this beforehand.

Make the person REGISTERING also liable for it. It's not like you'd forget registering a month earlier.

-=Mike

Definitly. And a fine for each single fraudulant registration.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

They're only 5 electoral votes, so who cares

 

Considering Bush wouldn't have won the election had he not won my state even if he won still Florida, I think even the smallest of numbers can make a big difference.

[Guest MikeSC]

yeah.. there's room to increase penalties for election fraud

 

But i'm sorta baffled on what system to use, since they all have the potential to be manipulated

Wouldn't simply having registration tied to Social Security numbers (with photo ID required at polling places or when applying for an absentee ballot) work?

-=Mike

Perhaps there should be severe penalties for voter fraud...and an effort to ensure that all capaign volunteers/employees know this beforehand.

Make the person REGISTERING also liable for it. It's not like you'd forget registering a month earlier.

-=Mike

Definitly. And a fine for each single fraudulant registration.

You know, I feel dirty agreeing with you.

-=Mike

[Guest Nanks]

Election fraud seems so rampant over there. We don't seem to have these kind of problems here. Or am I just not paying attention?? The media certainly doesn't seem to notice it.

[teke184 0]

Election fraud seems so rampant over there. We don't seem to have these kind of problems here. Or am I just not paying attention?? The media certainly doesn't seem to notice it.

I think it's more rampant over here because we have elections every two years for a variety of offices.

 

Doesn't Australia, like most Parliaments, only have elections about every 4-6 years unless a special one is called?

[Guest Nanks]

Pretty much every 3 years over here. That's for Federal and State elections, which don't coincide, so we have some kind of major election every couple of years.

[jesse_ewiak 0]

I'm not sure, but I also guess the Aussies don't have different standards for each state. It's no big deal if you move from say Sydney to Perth. Here though, you have to reregister, make sure you're registration actually gets processed, that you aren't "accidently" labeled a felon because someone with the same name as yours comittied one, etc. I'd say just federalize the whole process, but someone would scream state's rights.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

yeah.. I don't think the standards when it comes to felon eligibility are uniform

 

making a uniform standard should be something that should be considered.

[NoCalMike 0]

I could have sworn when I voted in 2000, when they found me on the list, they had me initial it, which would eliminate anyone else trying to pretend to be me, from coming in and using my name.

[Guest MikeSC]

Election fraud seems so rampant over there. We don't seem to have these kind of problems here. Or am I just not paying attention?? The media certainly doesn't seem to notice it.

Our system is so insanely outdated it's not even comical now. Every single state has dead people still on the voter rolls, people are registered in multiple states (since states are exceptionally bad at removing voters from the rolls who have moved), and few people are willing to do the work to actually go down the rolls in each state to make sure nobody is registered twice.

 

Add into that the facts that the states do not share info about their voter registration lists, allowing double registrations, and you have a system with some serious flaws.

-=Mike

[Dr. Tom 0]

and few people are willing to do the work to actually go down the rolls in each state to make sure nobody is registered twice.

If they'd just modernize a little, no one would have to do anything like that. Voter registrations can be entered into a database, and depending on the database chosen and the queries run, duplicates can easily be spotted and resolves. Of course, from the news clips I've seen, most of these states maintain paper voting records after entering them into a computer program that probably bears little resemblance to a database in terms of power and functionality.

 

While I think states should maintain their own voting records, the federal goverment should force them to modernize. Their shoddy record-keeping affects federal elections, after all. Make them put everything into databases, which are easy to update and maintain, and easy to share information from with other states.

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

I'm passing this on

 

original source

 

Searching for information on the voter registration fraud stories breaking tonight in Nevada and Oregon, I kept coming across the same name: Nathan Sproul of Sproul & Associates in Phoenix, Arizona.

Nathan Sproul is the former head of the Arizona Republican Party and of the Arizona Christian Coalition (ah, the irony... a Christian).

 

Sproul is connected with the Republican National Committee-funded voter registration organization, Voter Outreach, Inc., a group that used paid registrars to register voters in a number of states including Nevada, Oregon, Arizona and perhaps more, including Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maine and Missouri.  (Others states pending, particularly swing states.)  Sproul's organization also recruited registrars by fraudulently telling recruits that they would be working for America Votes, a legitimate nonpartisan GOTV operation!

 

But Nathan Sproul may have made one fatal mistake in his efforts... He got greedy.  Yes, he failed to pay many workers and he didn't pay his rent.  He pissed some people off.  And he raised suspicions.  There is a good chance that this may be fraud on a MASSIVE scale...

 

(more)

 

Diaries :: Bob Johnson's diary ::

 

Sproul was also instrumental in getting petitions signed for Ralph Nader to get on the ballot in - surprise! - swing states!

 

Here is the first page of a Google search on Nathan Sproul.

 

Some real gems turn up:

 

How about this newsgroup posting to a forum for librarians warning them of a possible fraud perpetrated by Sproul.  It includes a description of the scam in Pennsylvania, an article from a West Virginia newspaper reporting the same scam, and a comment from a librarian in Medford, Oregon outlining the same scam in her library... all fraudulently misrepresenting the organization doing the hiring as America Votes:

 

From: "McCullough, Holly" [email protected]

Date: Fri Sep 17, 2004  5:49:58  AM US/Eastern

Subject: Re: SCAM ALERT: Voter Registration

We had the same thing happen here in PA.  Sproul and Associates hires

Kelly temp services to do voter registration.  At one library site

where they were suppose to be only doing voter registration they were

also asking people how they were going to vote.  I did some research

and found out that they were doing the same thing in WV (see the

article below) and one temp worker claims that they were trained to

ask people how they were going to vote.  If the person said "Bush"

they were given a voter registration form.  If they said "Kerry" they

were just told thank you and no form was given.  When we found out we

asked them to leave immediately.  One explanation from Sproul and

Associates was that they were doing "market surveys" at some sites. 

Later they claimed that it was just a problem with a few temp workers.

Sproul and Associates is headed by Nathan Sproul the former head of

the GOP and Christian Coalition in Arizona.

 

They also always said they represented America Votes.  When I finally

asked them to give me the contact information for America Votes they

told me that "America Votes is a non-partisan voter registration drive

project of Sproul & Associates.  Everything originates from this

office.  There is a partisan organization with that same name." 

Clearly they know that when they say they represent America Votes they

are misleading people.

 

Holly

 

Here is the article from the WV paper for more info.

 

VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE 'MISLEADING'

 

Publication: THE CHARLESTON GAZETTE

Published: 08/20/2004

Page: 1A

Headline: VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE 'MISLEADING'

Byline: TOM SEARLS

[email protected]

 

For a mother of two teens trying to finish up college, $9 an hour as a

temporary customer service representative sounded good.

 

"I wanted to find something that would work around my schedule and be

flexible," said St. Albans resident Lisa Bragg.

 

After spending more than an hour with Charleston personnel agency

Kelly Services last week, Bragg was hired. "They wouldn't tell us at

first what this job was," the 37-year-old Bragg said Thursday.

 

Then she found out it was registering Republican voters at One Stop

convenience stores throughout the Charleston region.

 

But she won't be there today, the first day she was scheduled to be on

the job.

 

"I'm giving up a job that I need," she said. "It's the only decent job

I've found."

 

While the job was to last six weeks, the $9 an hour was far above the

minimum wage of $5.15 Bragg was offered for most other temporary

employment.

 

Bragg feels her employers were misleading the public, even if it's not

illegal. Employees were to approach One Stop customers and ask if they

favor George Bush or John Kerry for president. If Bush was their

answer, they were then to inquire if the person was registered to vote

and offer them a voter registration card.

 

If the person supported Democrat Kerry, they were only to say thank

you and give them a registration card only if asked.

 

If asked questions, employees were instructed, "Only state you are

there to conduct a simple field poll to see what neighborhood support

is ... a nonpartisan registration drive."

 

They were told to quietly listen to any person who becomes angry and

to remember, "The goal is to register Republicans and to remain

positive."

 

"Is this the way it has to be? People have to be sneaky to make $9 an

hour?" Bragg said.

 

Employees were also given the number of a Kelly Services employee to

contact if there are problems. Contacted Wednesday, two different

employees said they would have someone from Sproul & Associates, the

firm paying for the survey, answer any questions.

 

Later, a Kelly Services employee who would identify himself only as

"Rob" initially said a message had been left with Ben Decker at

Sproul's office. He said he had no contact number for Decker, then

agreed to release a Michigan number.

 

A message left with Decker was not returned.

 

"[Kelly Services] said the less you know about the company, the better

off you are, especially if the media would come asking questions,"

said Bragg, an admitted Democrat. "That made me more curious than ever

as to who's behind this and what's going on."

 

Sproul & Associates appears to be operated by Nathan Sproul, former

head of the Arizona Republican Party and a wealthy GOP activist who

has been involved in petition drives. An Internet search shows Sproul

has received some financing from national Republican groups, though it

was not clear who is paying for the West Virginia work.

 

Bragg, and another person working for the group, said they were told

the owners of the One Stop stores had agreed to allow them to conduct

the work on the stores' lots. Patrick C. Graney III and Michael R.

Graney are listed as the principal owners of 42 One Stop stores,

according to the state Alcohol Beverage Control Administration.

Messages left at One Stop's headquarters in Belle were not returned.

 

For Bragg it's an economic loss, but one she carries with pride. She

asked about registering voters with another organization - a group

that treats those of all political persuasions the same - and found it

pays only $5.50 an hour.

 

"I just don't want to be in my hometown and mislead people," she said.

 

To contact staff writer Tom Searls, use e-mail or call 348-5192.

 

Begin forwarded message:

 

From: "Meghan O'Flaherty" <[email protected]>

Date: September 16, 2004 3:29:16 PM PDT

To: <[email protected]>

Cc: Subject: [LIBS-OR] SCAM ALERT: Voter Registration

 

Recently the Jackson County Library has been contacted by persons

purporting to represent America Votes.  Our director was contacted by

a Harry Miller and asked to call an 800 number to give permission for

America Votes to conduct a non-partisan voter registration project in

our libraries.  I received a letter from Sproul and Associates,a

consulting firm in Arizona,also saying they represented America Votes,

with the same request.  I contacted the Kevin Looper, the Oregon State

Coordinator for America Votes, to verify the information and received

this reply from him:

 

"Here is what I know:  We do not have a Harry Miller in our employ.

This organization is absolutely not representing America Votes, and my

National leadership is initiating action to get them to cease and desist representations that infringe upon our rights and mislead voters.

 

Further, Sproul and Associates is a partisan political consulting firm

Based in Arizona that works for very conservative causes and has worked to oppose campaign finance reform.  Their use of our name to cover their political leanings makes me question the overall intregrity of the voter registation that they seek to conduct.  I will be forwarding this information to the Secretary of State's office for further investigation."

 

Meghan O'Flaherty

Headquarters Library Manager

Jackson County Library Services

205 South Central Ave.

Medford, OR  97501

(541) 774-6403

[email protected]

 

So here we have Sproul involved in three (swing) states, using a bogus GOTV name to disguise his organization's own name, and using fictitious names (Harry Miller) as "contacts" for those with questions.

 

But that's just the tip of the iceberg with Mr. Sproul and the RNC. Keep in mind that in the recruitment ads for Voter Outreach, Inc, run on careerbuilder.com in targeted states (including Missouri and Arizona), the bottom of the ads included this statement:

 

Paid for by the Republican National Committee. www.gop.com. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

 

Folks, this was an organized effort in swing states by the Republican Party using Nathan Sproul as their hatchet man.

 

In fact, democrats.com noted Mr. Sproul's efforts in Oregon on September 22, 2004 with this piece:

 

GOP Caught Trying to Use Public Libraries as Fronts

22-Sep-04

Bush Campaign 2004

Mail Tribune: "A local librarian checking on a company's request to set up a voter registration booth in the library discovered the company was not affiliated with a non-partisan national group as it claimed. Sproul & Associates, Inc. of Phoenix, Ariz., phoned and mailed the library in September, saying it had been hired by America Votes. That came as news to America Votes. 'This organization (Sproul) absolutely has nothing to do with America Votes,' said Kevin Looper, the state organizing director for America Votes. America Votes is a non-partisan political organization formed in July 2003 to increase voter registration, education and participation in electoral politics. Libraries in Oregon and other states have been contacted by Sproul." A little digging by librarian Megan O'Flaherty revealed that Sproul & Associates, Inc. is a political consulting firm headed up by former Arizona state Republican Party executive director Nathan Sproul.

 

But they didn't put all the pieces together. Sproul is operating this bogus scam in numerous states.

In Arizona, Sproul set up an organization to battle a proposed Clean Elections initiative that was to be placed on the ballot. Clean Elections would clean up campaign financing in Arizona by delivering public funds to candidates. Sproul wanted no part of that, as this article from azcentral.com makes clear. (Note: It's a cached file so I can't post a direct link.)

 

The story includes some interesting history on Sproul:

 

It can be a complicated program. But simplicity is the key for the anti-Clean Elections committee. Even its name, No Taxpayer Money for Politicians, looks to make the question easy for voters in the November election. It doesn't encourage them to query whether the previous system, with lawmakers beholden to monied special interests, would serve them better. And it doesn't get them to ask why the former head of the Arizona Republican Party and the state's Christian Coalition would be pushing the move.

Sproul, who was born and raised in Tempe, has floated between religious and secular politics. He interned in the office of then-Rep. Jon Kyl during his successful 1994 run for the U.S. Senate, a campaign buoyed by Kyl's perfect voting score from the Christian Coalition. Sproul then worked for the Arizona Christian Coalition, eventually becoming head of that organization. He became executive director of the state Republican party in 1999, stepping down in January 2002.

 

The Christian Coalition was under intense scrutiny for its political activities during the 1990s. As a non-profit organization, it was prohibited from working to elect candidates. But the Federal Election Commission and the Internal Revenue Service determined it was too political.

 

In particular, the FEC cited the campaign of J.D. Hayworth in 1994, the sportscaster's first run at Congress. The FEC determined that it was improper for Thomas Grabinski, who was head of the Arizona Christian Coalition, to also work for Hayworth's campaign. Especially because the Coalition was preparing voters guides to hand out at churches - guides that were fairly blatant endorsements of Republicans like Hayworth and Kyl.

 

Usually, any appearance of the Coalition and a campaign working together would be deemed a violation of election law. But a federal judge said it was impossible to prove that Grabinski's work with the Christian Coalition influenced his work on the Hayworth campaign.

 

Sproul was also accused of questionable tactics. His name comes up in a U.S. Senate committee report on the organization's activities. The report cites an Arizona caucus meeting during the 1995 national Christian Coalition meeting in which Sproul told members to become active in politics, especially as local precinct committeemen, but to not let on that the Coalition told them to do so. An account of that meeting first appeared in The Arizona Republic.

 

Apparently for Mr. Sproul, the law be damned.

 

More tomorrow. I need to go to bed...

 

Update [2004-10-13 13:18:12 by Bob Johnson]: I was in a meeting all morning (those pesky clients) and I came back to find a helluva' lot of great investigative work here. Essential to the story is the opensecrets infromation on RNC payments to Nathan Sproul and Sproul & Associates under different spellings/cases.

 

Also critical is the fact that Sproul and his organization misrepresented themselves to voters as a legitimate, nonpartisan GOTV organization. That is fraud, my friends.

 

We need to keep digging on this one. And we need our heavy hitters there (hi, Kos!) to make sure this info is reaching media sources who will take our information and use their sources to dig further.

 

This story has the potential to upend the elections IF we can prove that these voter registration frauds were part of an organized and coordinated effort to disenfranchise voters in key swing states. That's why we need to WORK FAST.

 

Americans don't like cheaters. And I imagine that many swing voters and even many soft Bush supporters would turn their backs on these guys if it can be proven that the RNC engaged in widespread fraud in an attempt to win the election.

 

Please keep digging. Unfortunately, I actually have some work that must be done so I will be offline for most of today.

 

Keep going...

 

Bless the Internet.

 

Because America's future leaders are all probably screwed when people use the net to find dirt on them.

[Guest MikeSC]

Posting shit from dailykos?

 

Jesus, Newsmax is more reputable.

-=Mike

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Seems like you're attacking the messenger

[Guest MikeSC]

Seems like you're attacking the messenger

If I could, I'd punch the messenger and kick him in his not-yet-descended genitalia.

-=Mike

...The messenger being kos, not you. I just want to thumb you in the eye...

[Rob E Dangerously 0]

Actually.. the messenger is a member of the site. Each member has a "diary" for reporting various political stuff.

 

I just want to thumb you in the eye

 

And I don't even know where your thumb has been either

[teke184 0]

and few people are willing to do the work to actually go down the rolls in each state to make sure  nobody is registered twice.

If they'd just modernize a little, no one would have to do anything like that. Voter registrations can be entered into a database, and depending on the database chosen and the queries run, duplicates can easily be spotted and resolves. Of course, from the news clips I've seen, most of these states maintain paper voting records after entering them into a computer program that probably bears little resemblance to a database in terms of power and functionality.

 

While I think states should maintain their own voting records, the federal goverment should force them to modernize. Their shoddy record-keeping affects federal elections, after all. Make them put everything into databases, which are easy to update and maintain, and easy to share information from with other states.

Having worked directly with optical scanning technology and the databases that result, I'd say that the technology to put the info directly into the system (mainly the Optical Character Recognition technology) is MUCH more expensive than most election departments would want to pay for.

 

 

The most cost effective scanner for these purposes would be something similar to the Scan-Optics 8000, which is pretty much a giant photocopier that will feed through big stacks of applications and create images of both sides of the paper.

 

From there, the applications can be keyed in by data-entry people looking at the image, thus populating the database. Potentially fraudulent applications may be noticed at this point depending on the number of data-entry keyers working.

 

(Where I work, we have up to 50-60 keyers working at a time and it's hard to see repeated names with that many people working. If there are only 10 keyers, someone would quickly notice multiple applications coming in with the same handwriting but minute differences in the information listed.)

 

 

From there, someone could mine the database to see if names and addresses were being repeated. If so, they could be flagged for investigation and followup.