Hachiroku ハチ*ク wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:12:42 -0700, edspyhill01@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> Republican or Democratic, you might need this pamphlet.
>>
>> http://www.stealbackyourvote.com/
>
> Seems ACORN is doing quite well at stealing votes all by themselves.
> You remember ACORN? They were a group that had Barack Obama as a lawyer...
>
>
> ACORN Signs Up The Dallas Cowboys In Fraud Sting
>
> The group know as ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform
> Now) is getting a lot of attention due to irregularities in their voter
> registration practices. Their Las Vegas office was raided after complaints
> of voter fraud. Some reports even say they have registered the whole
> starting line up of the Dallas Cowboys to vote in Nevada. The group has
> been submitting registrations through a voter sign-up drive known as
> Project Vote.
>
> The Allegheny County district attorney said Thursday that criminal charges
> could result from nearly 100 fraudulent voter registrations submitted in
> the Pittsburgh area, some of which came from a group accused of flooding
> elections offices around the country with bogus applications.
>
> Some, but not all, of the questionable applications came from canvassers
> working for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now,
> known as ACORN, which lobbies for poor communities. ACORN is facing
> scrutiny in Pennsylvania and at least eight other states on accusations of
> filing fake voter registrations.
>
> DURHAM - State Board of Elections officials are trying to determine
> whether about 100 voter registration forms submitted by a local chapter of
> a national grassroots organization to the Durham County Board of Elections
> are fraudulent.
>
> Similar accusations have been lodged across the country against the
> Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which goes by the
> name ACORN. In Durham, the claims were made last month after the group
> submitted about 5,000 voter registration forms to the county board of
> elections.
This whole ACORN thing is ridiculous. We're talking about
a few hundred voter registration forms out of 1.3 million
that ACORN has submitted. And many of those were flagged
by ACORN as possibly fraudulent when they were turned in.
Really, if this were some big conspiracy to steal votes,
they wouldn't be signing up the Dallas Cowboys. This is
a relative few employees of ACORN who forged registration
cards in order to increase their pay since they were being
paid per card.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar...e_fraud_cases/
"What's going on here is a fair amount of partisan
behavior on the part of local election officials,"
said Kettenring of ACORN. Noting that ACORN had
flagged problematic registration cards to local
authorities, he added, "They're politicizing cards
that we identified ourselves and marked as such."
The organization is working with law enforcement
agencies in four states, and in five other states
contacted law enforcement agencies with information
about activities by specific ACORN employees, he
said.
"These are former workers who defrauded us and we
would like them brought to justice," Kettenring
said.