No Fraud Charges Over 2000 Elections
A state investigation into alleged Monterey County voter registration fraud before the November 2000 elections failed to turn up enough evidence to file charges.
“I was disappointed,” county Registrar Tony Anchundo said Tuesday. It was Anchundo who asked the California secretary of state’s election fraud unit to look into payments of $6 for each Republican voter registered.
County election officials said several hundred registration forms were turned in by people working for a Fresno contractor hired by the Republican Party. Anchundo said the “bounty hunters” were changing party affiliations, registering fictitious people and misleading citizens.
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