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CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) A former employee with the Barnes County Auditor’s office is questioning the legality of college student addresses used to cast votes in the November 2014 general election.

Karen Christenson asked Barnes County officials to conduct a full investigation as to how votes from students living in dorm rooms were recorded in precincts 3 and 4.

She says became concerned about using Dorm names and room numbers as a street address because this didn’t appear to be a complete mailing address as specified under North Dakota Century Code. Christenson says one of the student ID Certificates had only a PO Box number and many had dorm names and room numbers only, which is not acceptable according to the 2014 Election Official manual.

Christenson says student certificates did not prevent voter fraud as it was intended to do, but rather it appears they created a potential for voter fraud under North Dakota Century Code.

Christenson told the commission as she was trying to have this incident investigated by the proper authorities she was suddenly fired from her position for insubordination on January 12.

Barnes County States Attorney Carl Martineck says the allegations and the concerns raised by Christenson on January 20 will be addressed and investigated.