Bolivia's National Electoral Court (CNE) requested the Attorney General Office to investigate alleged irregularities in the issuance of free ID cards, a program supported by the Venezuelan government.

The court reported in a communiqué that submitted to the prosecutor "the claims and backup documents" provided by opposition deputy Ninoska Lazarte, the principal petitioner.

Lazarte told AP that since the program started in 2006, "to get the card has been fairly easy." The program is intended to provide indigenous peoples and poor peasants with ID cards.

"There are people holding several ID cards; there are cloned numbers and other irregularities that have contaminated the electoral roll," said Lazarte.

The Venezuelan government donated an information technology system and cash to finance the program.