Obama campaign discredits reported phone-vote offer

ATLANTA - Officials with Barack Obama's campaign are investigating complaints that elderly people in Atlanta have been receiving calls offering to allow them to vote by phone in the Super Tuesday presidential primary.

A volunteer in the campaign's Atlanta headquarters says the campaign learned of the problem Tuesday from listeners who called in to complain to Atlanta radio station WAOK.

Kathy Nicholas says the calls are not coming from the campaign and that campaign officials have asked the Georgia Secretary of State's office to investigate.

Nicholas says the person purporting to be from the campaign apparently gives a number to vote by phone, which is not possible.