Just got back from the voting booth in KY, someone was registered with my SS# in another county...

[Modern_Matthew]

Thankfully, the wonderful poll workers were determined to get it straightened out.

Had to go to the County Clerk's office and allow them to copy my Social Security card.

They said they have never seen anything like it, but I did get to vote. Voted a straight Democratic ticket.

Clerical error or fraud? What do you think?

[a kennedy]

1. Dang......I'd be really pissed....

Hope it's all worked out and no ramifications later on......

[Modern_Matthew]

4. The county clerk will work on it...

Hopefully, if it's some kind of fraud... this helps unearth it.

[MerryBlooms]

2. The paranoid side of me would be checking my credit report. n/t

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. +1 except 'practical' instead of 'paranoid' n/t

[Modern_Matthew]

9. Did that recently. The bad score I have is all due to me. Lol... nt

[CherokeeDem]

3. I think we would all like to believe a clerical error....

However...after living in Florida during the Gore election...nothing surprises me.

(BTW...I live in Lexington.)

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. could be a mistake...could be intentional

i had someone use my social on a 1099-S (sale of property) one time...it was a $60,000 piece of land so that really screwed up my taxes and had to get fixed. it was a mistake because the form was filled out by a paralegal who didn't bother to check that there were two people with the same name (first, middle and last) that were 29 years old in the same town...it was dumb luck.

sP

[Angry Dragon]

7. I do not believe I have ever been asked for my SS# to vote

[Modern_Matthew]

8. I wasn't on the books like I had been... they called to verify my SS#...

And it said my number was registered to a female in a county that I've never been to.

[Recursion]

10. You need your SS# to vote? That's illegal in so many ways

The Social Security number is to be used only for tracking Social Security payments and benefits. Yes, I know, that ship has sailed, but requiring it for voting seems very strange to me.

[Modern_Matthew]

11. It's just because my name wasn't on the books... had been the past 5 times.

When they were trying to figure it out at the courthouse, I had to provide it to see what was up.

[LiberalFighter]

12. Clerical error only if 1 or 2 numbers different.

If there is absolutely no similarity with the other person's soc then fraud. IMO

[EFerrari]

14. Well, if you've been punching in a lot of numbers

you could have hit "enter" and have scrolled down or read the next line without realizing it. I just did someone's 7 years of back tax filings and after a while, you just go on "automatic" and that's when errors occur.

[eShirl]

13. found this after reading your post: "What's it like to share your SSN with 50 people?"

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/07/8687299-whats-it-like-to-share-your-ssn-with-50-people-follow-a-victims-struggle

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Undocumented workers need to provide Social Security numbers when they begin a new job. Often, they provide stolen or invented SSNs. Because employers often don't check the accuracy of the numbers, the technique is effective. When a particular SSN is used successfully in obtaining work permission, it is often shared with others. Some who use the SSN at work go on to use it for obtaining credit cards, loans, government benefits and so on. If imposters use their own names -- or invented names -- on those applications, none of the usual identity theft protections will be triggered, and the rogue accounts are not reported on the standard consumer credit report. Instead, the credit bureaus create what are sometimes called "sub-files" to indicate that multiple identities are associated with that SSN. Consumers are generally only able to obtain information about their own sub-file, attributed to their correct name.
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It's unclear how common sub-files are, but identity protection service ID Analytics provided insight into this critical question last year. After studying more than a billion applications for credit, it revealed that 40 million SSNs have multiple names connected to them. While many of these can be attributed to innocent typographical errors or legitimate name changes, others indicate fraud. About 2 million U.S. adults have three or more SSNs associated with their names, said Stephen Coggeshall, head of research at ID Analytics.

How many Jonathon Barnetts are out there? It's not as rare as you might expect. More than 140,000 SSNs are associated with five or more people, and 27,000 are connected to 10 or more people, according to ID Analytics.

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