Non-Profit Raided In Voter Fraud Probe
Questions Raised About ACORN’s Voter Registration Drive
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Screen shot of ACORN Web site. ()
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ACORN workers Carlos McCoy and Charmaine Davis try to register voters Sept. 1, 2006, outside the Franklin County Courthouse in Columbus, Ohio. ACORN, which registered about a million voters two years ago, is wrestling with new charges of voter fraud and sloppy work weeks before crucial midterm elections. (AP)
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Play CBS Video Video Vanishing Voters A new report raises questions about a little known, yet problem-ridden process known as voter purging that could cost some Americans their right to vote. Armen Keteyian reports.
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Video Voter Purging Michael Waldman, director of the Brennan Center for Justice, explains what "voter purging" is, why it needs to be reformed, and how the problem might be solved.
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Video Voter Registration Fraud Employees at a Republican voter registration group called Voters Outreach claim a supervisor destroyed completed Democratic voter registration forms, Vince Gonzales reports.
The Las Vegas headquarters of the nation’s largest grassroots community organization for low-income people was raided today by Nevada state authorities as part of a voter-fraud probe.
The raid was initiated by Nevada’s Secretary of State, Ross Miller, after a series of accusations that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also known as ACORN, was submitting voter registration lists to the state that contained false or duplicate names of voters.
“When we got [to the headquarters], no one was there so, there were no arrests,” Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh told CBS News. But, he added “agents did seize lots of records.”
CBS News has learned that the state’s investigation is focusing on the conduct of ACORN’s work force. Critics allege that ACORN hires workers “off the street” to sign up new voters, paying them by the number of voters registered - sometimes resulting in false and duplicate names. But an ACORN spokesman dismisses this allegation and told CBS News that workers are paid “by the hour” and “not by the number of people they sign up.”
In an official statement, ACORN Interim Chief Organizer, Bertha Lewis, called today’s raid “a stunt” and said it “serves no useful purpose other than discredit our work registering Nevadans and distracting us from the important work ahead of getting every eligible voter to the polls.” Lewis says any time ACORN “identified a potentially fraudulent application” they notified election officials. But, Lewis claims Nevada election officials “routinely ignored” ACORN’s concerns and “failed to act.”
The raid comes two months after state and federal officials formed a task force to go after election-fraud allegations. Earlier this year, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey issued a memo to all Justice Department employees telling them in no uncertain terms that “politics must play no role in our efforts.”
ACORN has been around since the 1970’s and has offices nationwide to assist low-income people with a number of issues. Part of the organization’s mission is to help low-income Americans, minorities, and youth, who are “historically disenfranchised” from voting register for elections. ACORN’s website says they “helped more than 1.68 million citizens register to vote” for the 2004 and 2006 elections. And just yesterday, ACORN announced it had conducted its “largest and most comprehensive” voter drive for the upcoming presidential election helping “over 1.3 million Americans register to vote.”
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See all 216 CommentsWho stomps on the American flag, what kind of a moron is he. Or what kind of a moron would befriend and work with such losers. So, 60 minutes, do a story about these three mentioned above and let the American public decide what they think about Obama''s judgement. Do this story before the election, please.
NONE!
Please go do your homework while waiting on your government check you think that is owed you.
1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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Only a fool would think that the Constitution requires that we take peoples word for it that they are a citizen or that they have not already voted...
No gambling in Nevada.
Vote with your pocketbook.
I''ll gamble somewhere else.
I won''t stand for your Gestapo police tactics to discourage Obama supporters from registering voters.
The heck with you, the heck with Las Vegas, and I hope you all drown in a sea of red ink. I''ve got plenty of gambling opportunities closer to home.
the party that believes HARD WORKING people that LOSE their HOMES (many of which did so from OVERWHELMING MEDICAL BILLS)and HOMELESS VETERANS SHOULDN''T be ALLOWED to VOTE because they have no CURRENT or "verifiable" ADDRESS!!!
Goes to show what they REALLY think of our VETERANS!
Go FIGHT and get a few LIMBS blown off or messed up from the TRAUMA of WAR but don''t you DARE try to vote if you DON''T HAVE "PROPERTY" after we''re THROUGH WITH YOU!!!
Posted by lottobee at 11:59 PM : Oct 08, 2008
ya gotta laugh at this troll , voting against another 4 yr term of bussh by voting for republicans who promise you more of the same , is actually a vote for bush .. the sun comes up inthe west .... night is day , blue is red ..etc.. a little desperate sounds like to me
Will AIG hold ANOTHER POST "BAIL-OUT "nearly half-Million dollar" TAXPAYER PAID CELEBRATION PARTY at ANOTHER "exclusive" RESORT and invite someone ELSE on the GOP ticket other than Palin as GUEST OF (dis)HONOR this time now that they''re getting MORE BAIL-OUT MONEY from PAULSON and the NEO-CONTROLLERS of the COLLAPSING ECONOMY?
I''m SURE they would appreciate volunteers and more "observers" exposing ALL the "creative methods" that are being used to skew the REAL vote count.
Probably the SAME regulations that barred numerous CHURCHES from doing the SAME THING from the PULPIT.
I was amazed that the likes of Hagee, Falwell and Robertson could BREAK those laws and get away with it yet HOWL like crazy if ONE HOMELESS PERSON DARED TO VOTE!
Sheesh... talk about your HYPOCRITICAL Sodomites!
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