The Indianapolis Star has an article by the Associated Press entitled Time-zone letters may be forged. According to the story, two letters submitted to the USDOT docket purporting to be from the town of Ireland, Indiana and parishioners of St. Raphael Catholic Church in Dubois have typewritten names but no signatures. Some of the people listed claim they were not even contacted before the letters were submitted.
Just what the time-zone issue needed–forged astroturf from a church.