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DENVER -- Forgery charges have been filed against an Aurora man accused of submitting 48 false voter registration forms to state officials. John Samuel MaCarthy, 27, faces four counts of forgery and one count of procuring false registration. He's accused of submitting fake registration forms for people in Arapahoe, Jefferson and Denver counties while working for a voter registration collection business known as Choose 2 Vote. He had forged voter registration documents or falsely registered residents with the intent to defraud his Lakewood employer, said Attorney General Ken Salazar. The 48 false registrations occurred between April 19 and April 22...

Fake voter sign-ups increasing By ERIN NEFF and BRIAN HAYNES REVIEW-JOURNAL Nevada's position as a battleground state in the presidential election has sparked a surge in fake voter registrations, Clark County's top election official said. "We've never seen anything close to this," said Larry Lomax, registrar of voters. So far, the office has flagged several hundred suspicious registration forms, but Lomax believes many more escaped detection among the 5,000 forms coming through his office every week. "There are stupid criminals out there, and there are smart ones," Lomax said. "We can spot the stupid ones because they submit them in...