Indiana adopted strict voter ID laws in 2006, ensuring that voters couldn’t cast a ballot unless they showed valid photo identification. The new laws decreased election turnout during the 2014 midterm elections.

An investigation into voter registration fraud was first launched in Hendricks and Marion counties in late August, after county election officials found questionable applications. Some forms were missing information or just wholly inaccurate.

This small investigation expanded to include at least 56 other counties. In Hendricks and Marion counties, at least 10 applications have been deemed fraudulent out of 28,000 that were seized, said David Bursten, a spokesman for the state police.

But a training manual Varoga sent to The Huffington Post instructs canvassers to never write on a registration form themselves. It also says, in all caps, that falsifying a form is a felony.

Patriot Majority USA has asked the Justice Department to look into the application seizures. The Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, another advocacy group, sent a letter to Indiana’s secretary of state asking that voters caught up in the investigation be able to vote on Election Day.