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While Voting Is Power has sent in batches of applications for months, registrars have begun to see a disturbing pattern of misinformation on the forms, including duplicates, cards filled out with different colors of ink, or using the names of pets or dead people. In Jefferson, DiMarco sensed something amiss when a new registration card recently crossed his desk.

The card, partially filled out, had his name and listed his office’s post office box on Citrus Boulevard as the address. It also listed him as a male, a Democrat and African-American.

“And I can tell you I’m only one of those,” said DiMarco, who is white and Republican. There was one bright spot, though. “They flattered me by making me younger — I did appreciate that.”

“We want people to register to vote, but there’s a right way and there’s a questionable way,” Jacques Berry said.

But without active voter drives, people without transportation or knowledge of a pending election could be excluded from the process, said Silas Lee, a political analyst in New Orleans.

As for the wrong names and information, Lee said that is more likely attributed to wanna-be comedians, rather than outright fraud.

“You have some people who have a distorted sense of humor,” he said.

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