Comments on: Non-Profit Raided In Voter Fraud Probe

Questions Raised About ACORN’s Voter Registration Drive

[babooph]

Maybe all is not to worry -the supreme court may just order another term for Bush& refuse to count the whole election .

[lovemygop]

Attorneys.....if a non-profit is engaged in fraud to this extent, what regulations would prompt the IRS to revoke a non-profit status? Enlighten the rest of us...please.

[pleasechange-2009]

Obama knows he cannot win over the red states, so he is scamming the system like a dirty con-man. The national media is doing their part by constantly showcasing the results of the "Bum Polls" (telephone polls conducted during the day, when only bums are at home to participate). I will feel so much better after American voters have overwhelmingly rejected Obama and his socialist agenda. Mark my word; the time is near.
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[cornbluth]

ELECTION NON-STORY #2313:

1) ACORN has been around for a while - although generally a liberal organization, it is not part of the Democratic Party and is not Obama''s organization.

2) The alleged fraud is being committed by persons filling out voter registration cards, not ACORN itself. This fraud could be committed by persons either using any other voter recruitment organization or not using one at all and just sending their voter registration applications directly in to the government. ACORN is not necessary to facilitate this fraud.

3) These allegedly fraudulent applications, as with any other applications received by the state, must pass through the state''s screening process.

4) Unless you''re a muddle-headed conspiracy theorist, you cannot seriously allege that the Democratic Party and/or Obama is committing, or even encouraging, voter fraud. The argument against ACORN is only slightly less weak. However, when partisan elected officials get in the act... (ex. Florida in 2000).

[Regensburger]

Relax. The RNC will just have Diebold rerun the numbers, just like they did in 2000 and 2004. Everything''s under control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Kq4dxPwY8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsgY4_BB2lo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy1sz-xBxf8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vvq_YseZVc

[rdoddato]

This group is tied to Obama and he even worked for them when he had the very important job of Community Organizer. Fraud, fraud, fraud, catch them all, cheating for Obama, cause he can''t win the real way. Pathetic!!! And our tax dollars are paying for this ***!!!! They should all be shut down and put in jail, with the people they registered!!

[gettyleigh-2009]

Did Sen. Barack Obama''s campaign attempt to hide a paid working relationship with a radical leftist organization that has admitted to major financial improprieties and has been convicted in numerous major voter fraud scandals?

That question is being openly asked by the Republican National Committee after it was disclosed Obama''s campaign paid more than $800,000 in services to Citizen Services Inc. (CSI), a nonprofit organization that is an offshoot of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN.

[gettyleigh-2009]

ACORN is the nation''s largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families. It has held violent, disruptive protests, seeks to regulate banks, supports left-leaning education policies, is accused of working on urging partisan voter turnout for elections, and seems to promote driving businesses from cities.

CSI is headquartered in New Orleans in the same building as ACORN. The three directors of CSI are also top leaders of ACORN. The two groups have close financial ties.

The Obama campaign''s payments to CSI %u2013 first reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review %u2013 raise questions about the nature of Obama''s current relationship with ACORN. Obama has been closely linked with the radical group and may have even helped drive large amount of money to the organization

[gettyleigh-2009]

According to FEC records reviewed by the Tribune-Review, the Obama campaign paid CSI $832,598.29, from Feb. 25 to May 17, including $564,342.21 for "stage, lighting and sound."

That payment immediately stood out after a pro-Hillary Clinton blogger contacted CSI Director Sunday Alabi, who also serves as an ACORN leader. Alabi said CSI doesn''t perform stage, lighting or sound services.

Also unusual was payment to CSI of $63,000 and $75,000 for advance work. Excluding the large payments to CSI, the average amount the Obama campaign spent on advance work paid to other organizations was $558.82.

[gippybear]

ACORN, Rev. Wright, Billy (I''ll Blow You Up) Ayers, and on and on. What a pile of rubbish.

I''ve got a bounce in my step, and a lump in my shorts!

The media may be collectively ignoring the landfill, but I doubt you can keep calling trash a beautifull work of art!

LOL Looooosers!

The Dallas Cowboys?! Sharp, real sharp!

[gettyleigh-2009]

WI 2004 The district attorney%u2019s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, %u201Can apparent violation of state law,%u201D according to the paper.

[gettyleigh-2009]

VA 2005 In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.

In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,%u201D they wrote, %u201Cinformation appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with ' 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."

[gettyleigh-2009]

TX 2004 ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters %u201CThe signature is not my signature. It%u2019s not even close.%u201D His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.

[gettyleigh-2009]

PA 2008 An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.
2004 Reading%u2019s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was %u201Cabsolutely out of hand,%u201D and added: %u201CNot only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.%u201D The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.

[gettyleigh-2009]

MN 2004 During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.

[gettyleigh-2009]

OH 2007 A man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties.
2004 A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called %u201Cblatantly false%u201D forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.

[gettyleigh-2009]

NM 2005 Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group%u2019s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: %u201CIt%u2019s safe to say the forgery was widespread.%u201D
2004 An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was %u201Cmanufacturing voters%u201D throughout New Mexico.

[gettyleigh-2009]

NC 2004 North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.

[gettyleigh-2009]

MO 2007 Four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election.
2006 Eight ACORN employees in St. Louis were indicted on federal election fraud charges. Each of the eight faces up to five years in prison for forging signatures and submitting false information.
2003 Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.

[gettyleigh-2009]

MI 2004 The Detroit Free Press reported that %u201Coverzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.%u201D ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.