Cuyahoga board investigating registration fraud

CLEVELAND -- The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections says it is investigating an organization that registers low-income voters after it turned up evidence of voter registration fraud.

The board doesn't know how many fake registrations came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. But the board says multiple ACORN workers often handed in voter registration cards listing the same people, but showing them living at different addresses.

The board says an ACORN quota requiring part-time workers to sign up 20 voters per five-hour shift played a role. The organization stopped the registration by the part-timers on Aug. 15.

Officials don't expect fraudulent registrations to affect the November election because of requirements that voters must show identification at the polls. ACORN says it has registered 86,000 new voters in the Cleveland area.