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MONTREAL — Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois says she’s concerned about reports of possible voter fraud involving anglophone and allophones from outside the province trying to register in the Quebec election.

Marois says the PQ has asked for more details on the issue from Quebec’s chief electoral officer.

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Her comments follow a story on Saturday in Montreal’s Le Devoir newspaper.

The newspaper cites an electoral officer in a downtown Montreal riding who says many English-speakers and others whose first language is neither English nor French have recently tried to register to vote.

The electoral officer says some of the people didn’t have proper documentation.

He called the situation “worrisome and abnormal.”

“It’s as if [Montreal’s] Trudeau International Airport was wide open and we distributed free visas to anyone who came through, without question,” Mathieu Vandal, the president of local electoral office in Montreal’s Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jacques, told Le Devoir.