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The Georgia Secretary of State's office has launched an investigation into the disposal of tens of thousands of Fulton County voter registration cards, More than 75,000 cards that contained a voter's full name, address and Social Security number were found in a trash bin and a random sampling showed many were for active voters.

The cards were contained in more than 30 boxes of voter registration application cards, precinct cards and other documents Monday in a construction trash bin at Atlanta Technical College in southwest Atlanta.

``This represents a significant and serious breach of the personal information of Fulton County voters and an outrageous violation of the trust and integrity of Fulton County's elections,'' Secretary of State Karen Handel.

Handel has called in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the county solicitor general's office to investigate and said she will audit the county elections office, because ``this breach also creates serious concerns about the overall operations'' of the office