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Speaking with a suspect of voter registration fraud
Comments 0 | Recommend 0GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - On Tuesday, the Attorney General's office announced the arrest of two people on charges of forgery in a voter registration fraud case.
Newschannel 3 confronted one of the suspects, Robin Anderson, on Wednesday to get his explanation for turning in fake names to a community activist group.
The Attorney General's office says that Anderson admitted to supplying a false voter registration application in the name of his dead brother.
One of the big positives in the 2008 election has been the amount of people finally getting registered to vote, but now that he's accused of lying on a voter registration form, Robin Anderson fears he may be going to prison for a long time.
Attorney General Mike Cox has asked for criminal charges to be brought against Anderson. Cox says that Anderson admitted to the Grand Rapids Police Department that he submitted three falsified voter registrations applications in the name of his deceased brother who died in 2001.
The Attorney General says that Anderson gave the falsified voter applications to his employer, Community Voters Project, over the summer. The applications were then forwarded on to the Grand Rapids City Clerk's Office where clerk Lauri Parks noticed something was wrong.
"There's a lot of checks and balances that go on in the voter registration process on our end," Parks said.
Clerks checked the three registrations, and then found Anderson's brother's death certificate.
Police want Anderson to turn himself in Wednesday night to be formally charged, but when Newschannel 3 spoke with Anderson on Wednesday, he said he doesn't want to.
"Do you realize if you get convicted of this, you could spend more than a decade in prison for this?" we asked.
"Yeah, I know that and it's not right," Anderson said.
When asked if he had in fact registered a dead person, Anderson was evasive.
"You did not register a dead person?" Newschannel 3 asked.
"No, I am not going to say I didn't until we can try to figure out what's going on here," Anderson said.
The Attorney General also says another local woman will be facing similar charges of falsifying voter registration records.
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