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RALEIGH – The White House wants citizens to be able to track where the money from the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going, but the Web site created to track stimulus spending is full of errors.

Recovery.gov breaks down spending state by state. For example, the site shows the state was awarded about $4.3 billion in stimulus money, saving or creating more than 28,000 jobs.

It gets even more detailed, showing stimulus dollars going to 19 North Carolina congressional districts. The problem is that the state only has 13 districts.

The "fake" districts include the 37th, which the site says has raked in close to $4 million in stimulus dollars, and the 86th, which has received more than $1.25 million. There's even District 00, a recipient of more than $90. Recovery.gov also says stimulus money saved or created 54 jobs in North Carolina's nonexistent 91st Congressional District.

State Republican Party Chair Tom Fetzer says that’s a problem.

"My first instinct is that it's kind of funny, until you realize that the government spent $18 million to build this Web site and it can't even determine which congressional districts the money is being spent in, which scares me about how the money is being spent," Fetzer said.

Fetzer says a group of high school students could have done a better job tracking stimulus dollars and counting congressional districts.

"I mean, there's only 435 of them in the whole country. There's only 13 here in North Carolina,” Fetzer said. “I mean, this is not rocket science. If I were the Obama administration, I would be embarrassed and rightfully so."

The administration is blaming the site's mistakes on human error.

Gov. Bev Perdue's Press Secretary, Chrissy Pearson, pointed to the state's own stimulus tracking site.

"This is why we started NCrecovery.gov, which shows transparency and accountability as to how our state's stimulus dollars are being spent," Pearson said.