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What a surprise
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...QGgdgD93LPR783
ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe
By OSKAR GARCIA – 17 minutes ago
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote.
A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.
No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and do ents away.
Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names.
The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities formed a task force to pursue election-fraud allegations in Nevada.
What a surprise
That's it..I"m voting for McCain.!!
let's see if there is a conviction.
this is Repug intimidation, pure and simple.
Doesn't mean fraud isn't happening. Both parties do it.
There have already been scores of convictions of ACORN workers from the last two elections!
Oh that's right, the media doesn't report such things against democrat activist groups. It would only be news if they were a right wing group.
Yes, but I believe the conviction rate is about 20:1 democrat:republican. Most of them are from ACORN.
dubya's politicized US attorneys witch-hunted Rove/neo-c*nts claim of "massive voter fraud" for years and found nothing.
otoh, the Repugs have intimidated blacks, hispanics, etc, caged voters, purged voter lists of legit voters, and stole the 2004 Ohio election.
Are you just making statistics up out of spite?
My God!
Where are you getting these numbers? WND?
Chump, get a life. Get a dictionary. Learn the meaning of words. I said:
In no way does that claim that number as fact!Yes, but I believe the conviction rate is about 20:1 democrat:republican. Most of them are from ACORN.
It gets very tiring to have ing jerks like you twist what someone says. You should write for a liberal paper, or do liberal talk radio. The Lemmings would love you.
Why do you believe it? Did a magic leprechaun come down from his rainbow and whisper it in your ear?
So what you believe should in no way be confused with actual facts.
I can't argue with that.
Perhaps you would be better served using what you know as opposed to what you believe when you're tossing around STATISTICS. Find a real statistic then come back and compare it to your number and see if tis remotely close.
Ok - how's this for some facts! Anybody see a pattern here?
Recent Fraud
State Year Details
AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.
CO 2004 An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.
2005 Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.
FL 2004 A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.
MI 2004 The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous 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.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the do ents.
MO 2007 Four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including iden y 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.
NC 2004 North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.
NM 2005 Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”
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 “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.
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 “blatantly false” 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.
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.
PA 2008 An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for iden y 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’s 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 “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.
TX 2004 ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.
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,” they wrote, “information 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."
WA 2007 Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.
WI 2004 The district attorney’s 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, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.
Here's another news item:
More Milwaukee Voter Fraud... Name that Party?
By Warner Todd Huston (Bio | Archive)
September 1, 2008 - 01:48 ET
Milwaukee has discovered some more voter fraud with 10 more voter registration workers are being investigated by Wisconsin authorities. Fittingly, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered the story in its paper on August 29. Unfittingly, the Journal Sentinel forgot one, tiny aspect of the story... that the voter fraud was perpetrated by Democrats. In fact, one of the organizations, ACORN, is intimately linked with Barack Obama.
Milwaukee’s top election official said Thursday she plans to seek criminal investigations of 10 more voter registration workers, including two accused of offering gifts to sign up voters.
So, what we have here is an Old Media story about voter fraud where the salient fact that the fraud is being committed by Democrats and Democrat organizations is somehow absent from the story. What a surprise, eh?
Voter bribery, voter fraud, workers misrepresenting themselves with false driver's license numbers, fake Social Security numbers, there's lots of details in the story. Yet, the word Democrat never appears once in the story.
So, who was responsible for all this fraudulent registration?
All the workers were paid by two organizations running voter registration drives, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and the Community Voters Project. Overall, 37 of the suspect workers were on the ACORN payroll, 11 were paid by the voters project and it’s not clear who employed the other one.
For those of you unaware, ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is a far left group that is intimately linked with Barack Obama since his early days in the corrupt Chicago, Daley Democrat political machine. ACORN has given Obama much financial support over the last two decades. ACORN is also big on furthering the unAmerican thuggery of unions all across the nation. And that means they are strictly a Democrat organization... not that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wants anyone to know that.
So, what are the charges here?
Among the latest group, two ACORN workers are accused of offering pre-paid gasoline cards or restaurant gift cards to people in exchange for signing up to vote.
Edman said she wants Landgraf to look into whether the workers violated a state law that forbids offering cash or gifts to sway voters.
Eight voter project workers are suspected of making up information on voter applications, Edman said.
Among the workers previously referred to Landgraf, two are accused of submitting cards for dead voters.
Others appear to have submitted cards for people who said they never filled out an application or who were already registered, signed cards themselves, or falsified driver’s license numbers.
That's quite a laundry list. And, realize, this sort of Democrat fraud is happening all across the country in every major city. And it's all perpetrated by Democrats. Someone should pass this info on to the Journal Sentinel.
That's quite a laundry list. And, realize, this sort of Democrat fraud is happening all across the country in every major city. And it's all perpetrated by Democrats.
Mistakes and lapses in enforcing voting and registration rules routinely occur in elections, allowing thousands of ineligible voters to go to the polls. But the federal cases provide little evidence of widespread, organized fraud, prosecutors and election law experts said.
“There was nothing that we uncovered that suggested some sort of concerted effort to tilt the election,” Richard G. Frohling, an assistant United States attorney in Milwaukee, said.
Richard L. Hasen, an expert in election law at the Loyola Law School, agreed, saying: “If they found a single case of a conspiracy to affect the outcome of a Congressional election or a statewide election, that would be significant. But what we see is isolated, small-scale activities that often have not shown any kind of criminal intent.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/wa...pagewanted=all
Last edited by ChumpDumper; 10-07-2008 at 03:16 PM. Reason: forgot the link
I love how many of you are citing the lack of media coverage, but then I take a look at your sources of information and laugh.
PROVE IT! POST THE STORIES TO BACK THIS UP
Really, there have been 40+ convictions of ACORN workers from the last two elections?
One year after the contentious 2004 election, it is clear that politically motivated law firms and organizations leveled unfounded allegations of fraud against ACORN with the goal of tarnishing the community group’s reputation and inhibiting its work. In recent months, three highly publicized legal challenges brought against ACORN staff have been dismissed or withdrawn for lack of evidence. In Ohio, a lawsuit funded by the conservative Free Enterprise Coalition and litigated by the law firm of Shumaker, Loop and Kendrick collapsed on October 28. Two Florida lawsuits, based solely on claims by convicted felon and ex-ACORN employee Mac Start and litigated by Rothstein, Rosenfeldt, Adler of Fort Lauderdale, were dismissed with prejudice. Stuart admitted to making false statements against ACORN.
“This outcome is vindication for our dedicated staff and volunteers who worked around the clock in the 2004 election to make sure the voices of low-income Americans were heard,” said Tamecka Pierce of ACORN. “The conservative groups who leveled false charges should be held accountable – this kind of harassment is clearly designed to intimidate community groups who register people of color.”
Further, criminal investigations responding to allegations of voter fraud recently ended in Colorado, Wisconsin, Florida, and Ohio after finding no evidence of wrongdoing by ACORN or any pervasive voter fraud. In Wisconsin, U.S. Attorney Steve Biskupic, a Republican appointed by President Bush in 2004, concluded, “We don’t see a massive conspiracy to alter the election in Milwaukee, one way or another.” In Ohio, a year-long federal, state, and local investigation ended with no federal indictments. “Our investigation is closed. No one was charged…the federal investigation is closed,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Edwards in Cleveland.
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1214-09.htm
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=8540&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=18427&tx_ttnews[backPid]=8359&cHash=eed3218d29
why won't he post his sources? That would get a lot of people to shut up if he did.
Wiki on ACORN has a list of indictments and convictions. I think this list is incomplete:
There have also been sevarel convictions and incidents related to intimidation. Theft of computers from RNC locations, tire slashings, etc.In some locations, ACORN employees have submitted false voter registration forms rather than obtaining registrations from actual eligible voters.
* In Ohio in 2004, four ACORN employees were indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms.[18][19]
* In January 2005 two Colorado ACORN workers were sentenced to community service for submitting false voter registrations.[20] ACORN's regional director said, "we find it abhorrent and do everything we can to prevent it from happening."[21]
* On November 1, 2006, four part-time ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City, Missouri for voter registration fraud. Prosecutors said the indictments are part of a national investigation.[22] ACORN said in a press release that it is in part responsible in these individuals being caught, has fired them, and has cooperated and publicly supported efforts to look into the validity of the allegations.[23]
* ACORN was investigated in 2006 for submitting false voter registrations in St. Louis, Missouri. 1,492 fraudulent voter registrations were identified.[24][25]
* In 2007, five Washington state ACORN workers were sentenced to jail time.[26] ACORN agreed to pay King County $25 000 for its investigative costs and acknowledged that the national organization could be subject to criminal prosecution if fraud occurs again. According to King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg, the misconduct was done "as an easy way to get paid [by ACORN], not as an attempt to influence the outcome of elections."[27][28]
* In 2008, the Michigan Secretary of State office told the Detroit Free Press that ACORN had been submitting a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications to vote.[29]
I have seen a post 2004 study on Ohio Election Fraud that I think lists more convictions: I didn't re-read it.
Interesting stuff on ACT. An exapmle of illegal activity outside of fraud and intimidation. FEC To Collect $775,000 Civil Penalty From America Coming Together, first paragraph:
A funny thing happened to a website that listed ACORN's, ACT's, and NAACP illegal activites during the 2004 elections.WASHINGTON –The Federal Election Commission (FEC/Commission) announced today that it has reached a settlement with America Coming Together (ACT) regarding violations of federal campaign finance laws during the 2004 Presidential election. ACT, a federal political action committee (PAC) that also has a non-federal account registered under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code, agreed to pay $775,000 to settle charges that it used funds raised outside federal limits and source prohibitions to pay for expenses that should have been paid with funds raised within the federal contribution limits and prohibitions. This settlement represents the third largest civil penalty in an enforcement matter in the Commission’s thirty-three year history. The Commission unanimously approved the conciliation agreement.
ACORN now has that domain name, AC4VR! All the links are gone that I have archived. No longer are all the materials available. Her is the article I was looking for from the Fox website, but it's missing all the exhibits that get specific. At least I have them archived. Hundreds of pages of legal stuff, now missing from theweb probably. Here is the Fox link:
VOTE FRAUD, INTIMIDATION & SUPPRESSION IN THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Here is the stuff I have archived but don't know were to find on the internet, and am not searhing for. Page 73-74 of the link:
Is there any FACTUAL comprehensive list against republicans?Index Of Exhibits
A. Kerry-Edwards/DNC “Colorado Election Day Manual: A Detailed Guide To Voting In Colorado,” November 2004
B. Letter From John Tanner, Chief Of Voting Section Of U.S. Department Of Justice’s Civil
Rights Division, To Franklin County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Nick A. Soulas, Jr., June 29, 2005
C. Curington v. Richardson, Jefferson Circuit Court, Case No. 03CI9552 (November 4, 2003 Order).
D. Spencer v. Blackwell, et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Case No. C-1-04-738 (April 28, 2005 Order).
E. Milwaukee Tire Slashing Criminal Complaint
F. Ohio Republican Party v. Marion County Democratic Party et al., Marion County Court of Common Pleas, Case No. 04 CV 0791.
G. November 2, 2004 Order on Motion for Temporary Injunction, J. Thomas Monk, and All Those Persons Similarly Situated Throughout the State of Florida v. Democratic National Committee, Democratic Executive Committee of Seminole County, and the Florida Democratic Party, 04-CA-2312-16-L.
H. DNC’s “IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE” Distributed To Republican Poll Observers In Florida
I. Democratic National Committee, et al. v. J. Thomas Monk, District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fifth District, Case No. 5D04-3642.
J. Transcript Of Pre-Recorded Telephone Call By DNC General Counsel Joe Sandler
K. Timms et al. v. MoveOn.org, Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, Case No. 04 CVH11 011533.
L. Metzger v. Doe, Lucas County Common Pleas Court, Case No. 04-1540.
M. The Reality Of Intimidation, Eric Wang, Op-Ed, THE [UVA] CAVALIER DAILY, http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVartic...21349&pid=1216, November 10, 2004
N. Police Reports, Philadelphia Police Department, November 2, 2004
O. Moss v. Bush, Ohio Supreme Court, Case No. 04-2088.
P. Florida ACORN, “Floridians For All: Campaign Plan For A November 2004 Minimum Wage Cons utional Amendment Initiative,” October 1, 2003
Q. Depositions Of ACORN-Associated Individuals In Mac Stuart Case
R. Democrat Victory 2004 Florida Coordinated Campaign Plan, “Florida Victory 2004,” September 3, 2004
S. The Center For Ethics And The Free Market, Laying The Groundwork: A Study Of Voter Registration In Missouri, www.centerforethics.org, June 2004
T. State v. Staton, Defiance County Court Case No. 04-CR-09070.
U. Preliminary Findings Of Joint Task Force Investigating Possible Election Fraud, May 10, 2005
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