Nbadan
09-18-2009, 08:20 PM
Of the 1.3 million voter registrations filed by the ACORN/Project Vote efforts in 2008, Project Vote's director Michael Slater estimates<18> that
450,000 were new registrations
450,000 were changes of address
20-25% (260,000-325,000) were duplicates
5% (65,000) were incomplete
1-1.5% (13,000-19,500) were fraudulent
ACORN's investigations found 9,000 questionable registrations, and a lawyer for the group estimated that another 5,000-6,000 additional questionable registrations were turned in <18>, for an estimated undetected error rate of .4-.5%.
ACORN compared to other voter registration efforts.....
Other mass-registration drives have had similar, if not worse problems. In 2006, the California Republican Party experienced problems with fake names on registrations, with an error rate as high as 60 percent.<20><21>
2008 vote fraud accusations...
During the 2008 Presidential election conservatives repeatedly accused ACORN of "voter fraud." These accusations had the appearance of a coordinated campaign. Though actual voter fraud involves knowingly casting an illegal ballot, these accusations occurred before any voting had occurred.
NOTE: YOU CANNOT HAVE AN INSTANCE OF VOTER FRAUD UNTIL SOMEONE ACTUALLY CASTS A BALLOT AND IS NOT THE PERSON HE CLAIMS TO BE..
Conservatives charged that ACORN was intentionally submitting these "fraudulent" applications as part of scheme to "rig" the election, where the problematic registrations would enable people to vote multiple times.<1> ACORN stated that they have quality-control procedures and that registration gatherers are required to flag questionable applications so election officials will know they are suspect, but they were required by law to turn in all registration forms they receive.
Vote fraud in the U.S. ...
The actual incidence of vote fraud in the United States is extremely low. According to one study, "from 2002 to 2005 only one person was found guilty of registration fraud. Twenty people were found guilty of voting while ineligible and five people were found guilty of voting more than once."<22>
The Nevada raid....
On October 7, 2008, after weeks of news reports of accusations by Republicans of improper voter registrations, Nevada state authorities raided the Las Vegas offices of ACORN, looking for evidence of voter fraud.<4> The raid was "the result of a joint investigation by state agencies, the U.S. Attorney's Office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation."<5> The state alleged that "ACORN had hired 59 felons through a work release program as canvassers and submitted nearly 300 apparently fraudulent voter registration cards as part of the drive." According to one press report<6>,
"ACORN officials said they were stunned by the search because they had unilaterally identified and flagged suspicious voter registration cards to the county elections board starting in July and had been cooperating with authorities to cull bad information and fire workers who collected that information, said Brian Mellor, senior counsel for Project Vote."
No evidence of voter fraud was found in the raid and no charges were filed. ....BUT! IT was reported and that's all that mattered
Source Watch (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ACORN_and_elections)
450,000 were new registrations
450,000 were changes of address
20-25% (260,000-325,000) were duplicates
5% (65,000) were incomplete
1-1.5% (13,000-19,500) were fraudulent
ACORN's investigations found 9,000 questionable registrations, and a lawyer for the group estimated that another 5,000-6,000 additional questionable registrations were turned in <18>, for an estimated undetected error rate of .4-.5%.
ACORN compared to other voter registration efforts.....
Other mass-registration drives have had similar, if not worse problems. In 2006, the California Republican Party experienced problems with fake names on registrations, with an error rate as high as 60 percent.<20><21>
2008 vote fraud accusations...
During the 2008 Presidential election conservatives repeatedly accused ACORN of "voter fraud." These accusations had the appearance of a coordinated campaign. Though actual voter fraud involves knowingly casting an illegal ballot, these accusations occurred before any voting had occurred.
NOTE: YOU CANNOT HAVE AN INSTANCE OF VOTER FRAUD UNTIL SOMEONE ACTUALLY CASTS A BALLOT AND IS NOT THE PERSON HE CLAIMS TO BE..
Conservatives charged that ACORN was intentionally submitting these "fraudulent" applications as part of scheme to "rig" the election, where the problematic registrations would enable people to vote multiple times.<1> ACORN stated that they have quality-control procedures and that registration gatherers are required to flag questionable applications so election officials will know they are suspect, but they were required by law to turn in all registration forms they receive.
Vote fraud in the U.S. ...
The actual incidence of vote fraud in the United States is extremely low. According to one study, "from 2002 to 2005 only one person was found guilty of registration fraud. Twenty people were found guilty of voting while ineligible and five people were found guilty of voting more than once."<22>
The Nevada raid....
On October 7, 2008, after weeks of news reports of accusations by Republicans of improper voter registrations, Nevada state authorities raided the Las Vegas offices of ACORN, looking for evidence of voter fraud.<4> The raid was "the result of a joint investigation by state agencies, the U.S. Attorney's Office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation."<5> The state alleged that "ACORN had hired 59 felons through a work release program as canvassers and submitted nearly 300 apparently fraudulent voter registration cards as part of the drive." According to one press report<6>,
"ACORN officials said they were stunned by the search because they had unilaterally identified and flagged suspicious voter registration cards to the county elections board starting in July and had been cooperating with authorities to cull bad information and fire workers who collected that information, said Brian Mellor, senior counsel for Project Vote."
No evidence of voter fraud was found in the raid and no charges were filed. ....BUT! IT was reported and that's all that mattered
Source Watch (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ACORN_and_elections)