HAMPTON - Three people are charged with voter registration fraud.

According to police, Brittany Wyatt, 18, Anthony House, 22, and Jessica Lemon, 18 worked for a non-profit group to get new voters.

They allegedly made up close to 80 names to make quota so they could get paid, according to police.  

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The non-profit group checked names and then notified the city of the irregularities, police added.

Wyatt and Lemon, of Newport News, each face one count of voter registration fraud; House, of Hampton, faces four counts.

The three have been released.

At home Friday, Anothony House said he regrets what he did. He said he went into the job to do the right thing.

He says he was paid $10 an hour and was required to turn in 15 forms a day. He also claims new recruits were told to bring 18 a day and the numbers got larger for each new worker.

13News has learned the three worked for Community Voters Project, which is a program of The Fund for the Public Interest, based in Massachusetts. There's a sparslely-decorated office on E. Mercury Blvd. in Hampton.

According to its Website, the Community Voters Project is an intensive, multi-state campaign to register hundreds of thousands of minority voters in communities across the nation and local registration offices will be responsible for registering between 10-50,000 voters.

The Suffolk registrar says three fraudulent forms showed from that same group.  Overall, there may be up to 10 other fake forms unrelated to that investigation.

In Norfolk, officials wouldn’t release numbers, but they confirm they’ve found false registrations.

Officials there believe they're coming from third party groups that are not local and have workers who are paid to register new voters.