Kiffmeyer Warns Of Voter Registration Scam

Sep 28, 2004

St. Paul (AP) Minnesota Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer says her office is getting complaints about a voter registration scam.

Kiffmeyer says residents in the Moorhead area and Rice and Isanti counties have been contacted by telemarketers who say they're with the League of Minnesota Voters or a group called "Women's Right to Vote."

The callers tell residents they're not registered to vote and then ask for residents' Social Security number and other personal information. Kiffmeyer says the so-called voter registration calls are not legitimate.

She says you can't register to vote over the phone -- you have to sign a form.

Kiffmeyer says the voter registration form also does not ask for a full Social Security number. The League of Women Voters says it's not involved with the phone calls, and is working to get the word out about them.

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