so i take it that some people are in favor of fraud. i can understand that. gore did win an oscar, grammy, and a nobel peace prize. silly me................
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so i take it that some people are in favor of fraud. i can understand that. gore did win an oscar, grammy, and a nobel peace prize. silly me................
So how many fraudulent votes have been attributed to ACORN since the voter integrity initiative of 2002?
well since that they have been investigated ever since 2000 and just this year about 7 to 9 states, swing states i might add, are being investigated it's hard to tell. i know this isn't good for you because a figure isn't given, but with such a shady history who knows.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
Sorry, there is a clear record of investigations and resolved court cases in the past six years. If the fraud is as extensive and widespread as you seem to be implying, this should be quite easy for anyone to figure out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Las Espuelas
If ACORN were a squirrel, the most responsible thing to do would be to put it out of its misery.
ACORN's gonna have the last laugh, gonna whack McWhacko with a big OAK ugly stick 4 Nov.
HUSSEIN would have beaten McWhacko with or without ACORN.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_
No problems in El Paso....
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El Paso ACORN free of questionable voter registrants
Diana Washington Valdez / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 10/14/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT
EL PASO -- The ACORN office in El Paso registered about 4,500 new voters this summer, or nearly 20 percent of all the county's new registered voters.
"I'm very proud of the work we did in El Paso," said Jose Manuel Escobedo, ACORN's regional organizer in El Paso and South Texas. "It's always very hard to pull in volunteers to canvass, whether it's door-to-door and in high foot traffic areas like we did, but we had very good quality control procedures in place."
The Republican National Committee has focused on ACORN's voter registration complaints in other states, including in New Mexico, but no problems have surfaced in El Paso.
"We talked to them (ACORN) and others early on, and let them know we didn't want to see those kinds of problems in El Paso," El Paso County Elections Administrator Javier Chacon said.
Thanks to voter registration drives this year, El Paso ended up with 25,000 new registered voters, according to election statistics.
To prevent fraud, "we check voter registration applications against our voter registration rolls, we check their Texas driver's license and Social Security number through the state. We have not run into any unusual problems," Chacon said.
In New Mexico, ACORN conducted the single largest voter-registration drive in that state, signing up nearly 80,000 new voters. The FBI is looking into complaints in Bernalillo County involving 1,400 suspicious registrations, but it was not clear whether ACORN had anything to do with those registrations. And, in Las Vegas, state election officials raided the ACORN office there after receiving complaints of numerous fraudulent voter registrations.
National ACORN leaders have denied any wrongdoing, and accused critics of wanting to erase votes cast by low-income people.
Typically, officials said, between 3 and 5 percent of El Paso voter registration applications get tossed out or set aside, mainly because they are missing a signature or other required item.
"I'm not aware of any problems in El Paso with voter registrations," said Michael Moore, chairman of the El Paso GOP. "We have a good relationship with the elections office. We have a greater problem with low election turnouts overall."
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_10713489
Anti-Hero, name your organization something cool like Blackwater or Haliburton.
John mccain, ACORN, & the financial crisis
lengthy read but good read. (it's apdf...lol).
Link is broken. You have two "http://" at the beginning of the URLQuote:
Originally Posted by ashbeeigh
I fixed it in the reply bubble above.
Also: You should warn when you are linking to a .pdf file.
Interesting rebuttal to the McCain claim that ACORN was responsible for financial crisis.
That anyone would claim that ACORN would be considered responsible for the current crisis is absolutely ridiculous. The sad thing is that there are idiots out there who will suck that cool aid up... :depressed
The left has its share of idiots, to be sure, but I wonder how long it will be until some hack like Aggie Hoopsfan posts a thread saying exactly that?
I'm not going to read all the other threads with "ACORN" in the thread so I'll just put this in the thread I started....
five minute video from ACORN about the whole thing.
House GOP Leader Boehner: Cut Off ACORN Fundshttp://www.google.com/reader/ui/2412528845-go-to.gif
from HuffingtonPost Full Feed by The Huffington Post News Editors
WASHINGTON — House Republican leader John Boehner on Wednesday urged President Bush to block all federal funds to a grass-roots community group that has been accused of voter registration fraud.
"It is evident that ACORN is incapable of using federal funds in a manner that is consistent with the law," Boehner, R-Ohio, wrote Bush, saying that funds should be blocked until all federal investigations into the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now are completed.
ACORN, a group that has led liberal causes since it was formed in
1970, this year hired more than 13,000 part-time workers to sign up voters in minority and poor neighborhoods in 21 states. Some of the 1.3 million registration cards submitted to local election officials, using the names of cartoon characters or pro football players, were obviously phony, spurring GOP charges of widespread misconduct.
ACORN has said it was its own quality-control workers who first noticed problem registration cards, flagged them and submitted them to local election officials in every state that is now investigating them.
To commit fraud, a person would have to show up on Election Day with identification bearing the fake name.
Local law enforcement agencies in about a dozen states are investigating fake registrations submitted by ACORN workers and the FBI is reviewing those cases.
Boehner said his office had determined that ACORN had received more than $31 million in direct federal funding since 1998. He said the group had likely received far more indirectly through federal block grants to states and localities. "Immediate action is necessary to ensure that no additional tax dollars are directed to ACORN while it is under investigation," he wrote Bush.
Boehner said he and other Republicans were also asking the Justice Department to investigate ACORN's connections to the home mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, saying ACORN "appears to have played a key role in the irresponsible schemes that led to the current financial meltdown."
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has asked if ACORN, which he accused of perpetuating voter registration fraud, was "destroying the fabric of democracy." ACORN and other advocacy groups have suggested that Republicans are exaggerating the issue to keep the underprivileged, who tend to vote Democratic, from casting ballots.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/1...tml?view=print
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I'm sure Boner supports dubya's funding of religious groups that practice discriminatory hiring, where dubya's reasoning is that if he didn't fund them, he would be restricting their right to practice their religion.