ACORN Pros ution Investigation

[Yonivore]

I just wonder if that duo has any more tapes queued up. It will be interesting if they visited every major ACORN office in the U.S. and pulled this stunt...only to release them one at a time as ACORN officials dig themselves deeper and deeper by declarations such as was made after the first tape was released.

By the way, that's one smokin' hot pros ute. Should have been a clue...

[jack sommerset]

By the way, that's one smokin' hot pros ute. Should have been a clue...

yeah she is. I'm glad we live in a country where two black folks can give finacial advice to two white folks and we don't hear any jokes. America sure has advanced.

[ashbeeigh]

yeah she is. I'm glad we live in a country where two black folks can give finacial advice to two white folks and we don't hear any jokes. America sure has advanced.

just fyi, most ACORN employees are from an "ACORN" neighborhood...which is "low to moderate" income...and historically those are minority neighborhoods. Lots of members work at the office. Those girls could very well have been members and employees at the same time.

[Marcus Bryant]

AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.

CO 2005 Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.

2004 An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.

CT 2008 The New York Post reported that ACORN submitted a voter registration card for a 7-year-old Bridgeport girl. Another 8,000 cards from the same city will be scrutinized for possible fraud.

FL 2008 Election officials in Brevard County have given prosecutors more than 23 suspect registrations from ACORN. The state's Division of Elections is also investigating complaints in Orange and Broward Counties.

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.

IN 2008 Election officials in Indiana have thrown out more than 4,000 ACORN-submitted voter registrations after finding they had identical handwriting and included the names of many deceased Indianans, and even the name of a fast food restaurant.

MI 2008 Clerks in Detroit found a "sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent [voter] applications" from the Michigan branch of ACORN. Those applications have been turned over to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation.

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 2008 Nearly 400 ACORN-submitted registrations in Kansas City have been rejected due to duplication or fake information.

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.

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.

NC 2008 County elections officials have sent su ious voter registration applications to the state Board of Elections. Many of the applications had similar or identical names, but with different addresses or dates of birth.

2004 North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.

NM 2008 Prosecutors are investigating more than 1,100 ACORN-submitted voter registration cards after a county clerk found them to be fraudulent. Many of the cards included duplicate names and slightly altered personal information.

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.

NV 2009 Nevada authorities indicted ACORN on 26 counts of voter registration fraud and 13 counts of illegally compensating canvassers. ACORN provided a bonus compensation program called “Blackjack” or “21+” for any canvasser who registered more than 20 voters per shift, which is illegal under Nevada law.

2008 Nevada state authorities raided ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters as part of a task force investigation of election fraud. Fraudulent registrations included players from the Dallas Cowboys.

OH 2008 ACORN activists gave Ohio residents cash and cigarettes in exchange for filling out voter registration card, according to the New York Post. Some voters claim to have registered dozens of times, and one man says he signed up on 72 cards.

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.

PA 2009 Seven ACORN workers in the Pittsburgh area were indicted for submitting falsified voter registration forms. Six of the seven were also indicted for registering voters under an illegal quota system.

2008 State election officials have thrown out 57,435 voter registrations, the majority of which were submitted by ACORN. The registrations were thrown out after officials found "clearly fraudulent" signatures, vacant lots listed as addresses, and other signs of fraud.

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 2008 In Harris County, nearly 10,000 ACORN-submitted registrations were found to be invalid, including many with clearly fraudulent addresses or other personal information.

2008 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 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 2008 At least 33,000 ACORN-submitted registrations in Milwaukee have been called into question after it was found that the organizations had been using felons as registration workers, in violation of state election rules. Two people involved in the ongoing Wisconsin voter fraud investigation have been charged with felonies.

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.

Whatever it takes for the movement.

[ChumpDumper]

AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.

CO 2005 Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.

2004 An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.

CT 2008 The New York Post reported that ACORN submitted a voter registration card for a 7-year-old Bridgeport girl. Another 8,000 cards from the same city will be scrutinized for possible fraud.

FL 2008 Election officials in Brevard County have given prosecutors more than 23 suspect registrations from ACORN. The state's Division of Elections is also investigating complaints in Orange and Broward Counties.

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.

IN 2008 Election officials in Indiana have thrown out more than 4,000 ACORN-submitted voter registrations after finding they had identical handwriting and included the names of many deceased Indianans, and even the name of a fast food restaurant.

MI 2008 Clerks in Detroit found a "sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent [voter] applications" from the Michigan branch of ACORN. Those applications have been turned over to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation.

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 2008 Nearly 400 ACORN-submitted registrations in Kansas City have been rejected due to duplication or fake information.

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.

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.

NC 2008 County elections officials have sent su ious voter registration applications to the state Board of Elections. Many of the applications had similar or identical names, but with different addresses or dates of birth.

2004 North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.

NM 2008 Prosecutors are investigating more than 1,100 ACORN-submitted voter registration cards after a county clerk found them to be fraudulent. Many of the cards included duplicate names and slightly altered personal information.

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.

NV 2009 Nevada authorities indicted ACORN on 26 counts of voter registration fraud and 13 counts of illegally compensating canvassers. ACORN provided a bonus compensation program called “Blackjack” or “21+” for any canvasser who registered more than 20 voters per shift, which is illegal under Nevada law.

2008 Nevada state authorities raided ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters as part of a task force investigation of election fraud. Fraudulent registrations included players from the Dallas Cowboys.

OH 2008 ACORN activists gave Ohio residents cash and cigarettes in exchange for filling out voter registration card, according to the New York Post. Some voters claim to have registered dozens of times, and one man says he signed up on 72 cards.

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.

PA 2009 Seven ACORN workers in the Pittsburgh area were indicted for submitting falsified voter registration forms. Six of the seven were also indicted for registering voters under an illegal quota system.

2008 State election officials have thrown out 57,435 voter registrations, the majority of which were submitted by ACORN. The registrations were thrown out after officials found "clearly fraudulent" signatures, vacant lots listed as addresses, and other signs of fraud.

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 2008 In Harris County, nearly 10,000 ACORN-submitted registrations were found to be invalid, including many with clearly fraudulent addresses or other personal information.

2008 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 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 2008 At least 33,000 ACORN-submitted registrations in Milwaukee have been called into question after it was found that the organizations had been using felons as registration workers, in violation of state election rules. Two people involved in the ongoing Wisconsin voter fraud investigation have been charged with felonies.

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.

So out of all of this, there are two illegal votes that can be attributed to the actions of ACORN?

I agree their methods of registration suck, but this has been blown way out of proportion.

[Yonivore]

So out of all of this, there are two illegal votes that can be attributed to the actions of ACORN?

I agree their methods of registration suck, but this has been blown way out of proportion.

Their effectiveness aside, what do you see as their motivation for the way they approach voter registration?

[ChumpDumper]

Their effectiveness aside, what do you see as their motivation for the way they approach voter registration?

For the ACORN employees?

Usually money, from what I've heard -- and not a lot of money either.

[Yonivore]

For the ACORN employees?

Usually money, from what I've heard -- and not a lot of money either.

What is the motivation for someone to pay them to do it? And, to do it with little regard for how they approach the task?

[ChumpDumper]

What is the motivation for someone to pay them to do it? And, to do it with little regard for how they approach the task?

To get people to vote.

I have no doubt that there is self-interest in ACORN's voter-registration drives, but the fact that there has been no massive vote fraud, added to the fact that ACORN flags questionable registration cards before they turn them in (which they are required by law to do) lead me to conclude that it's not the big deal some want it to be.

[Yonivore]

To get people to vote.

I have no doubt that there is self-interest in ACORN's voter-registration drives, but the fact that there has been no massive vote fraud, added to the fact that ACORN flags questionable registration cards before they turn them in (which they are required by law to do) lead me to conclude that it's not the big deal some want it to be.

Just because there are no convictions doesn't mean there isn't fraud. Some schemes are well-crafted.

There is little doubt that voter fraud handed the 1960 election was handed to JFK because of voter fraud. I don't think anyone was ever prosecuted.

The point being, you can't base your conclusion on whether or not something happened because no one went to jail. And, taken in the context of Democrat resistance to every measure to ensure voter eligibility that ever gets raised, this paints them as possibly complicit in the fraud.

[ChumpDumper]

Just because there are no convictions doesn't mean there isn't fraud. Some schemes are well-crafted.

Truthers work very much the same way. Your belief in massive vote fraud is faith-based. I guess we can call you frauders or 'CORNers.

The point being, you can't base your conclusion on whether or not something happened because no one went to jail. And, taken in the context of Democrat resistance to every measure to ensure voter eligibility that ever gets raised, this paints them as possibly complicit in the fraud.

Actually there are simply more potential Democratic voters than Republican voters, so just about any voter registration drive in those areas will end in a net gain for Democrats. I can understand why Republicans would be against that and try with all their might to distort known voter registration fraud into massive vote fraud like you just did.

Hey, if you want to believe that people were going to vote in Nevada posing as members of the Dallas Cowboys, you are free to do so. What a well-crafted scheme....

[Yonivore]

Census Bureau severs ties with ACORN in 2010 count
Good.

[hope4dopes]

This is amazing .not the story I expect as much from Obama's brown shirts in acorn And I understand that the DNC has been co opted by soros and he is using mentally unstable fringe radicals to do his dirty work.
The larger question to me...... is the totally flippant at ude towards a hienious conspiracy to force children into pros ution.To take defenseless childeren and throw them into an abyss of pain that no human can expect to come through without serious damage, and to have Obama's supporters and acorn apologists pretend these children are expendable for the glourios revolution.It is revolting, and it is a movement that must be destroyed.
The other crime that is revolting is that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who go to low paying jobs pay their taxes try and shore up civilization by living an honorable life, and they can't afford to buy a house....and nobody gives a if they can or not,meanwhile the wealth they create through their labor is taken from them ,and given to this ghetto trash to promote human slavery and suffering.



hope and change.

[Shastafarian]

I do enjoy your meltdowns.

[Yonivore]

I do enjoy your meltdowns.

C'mon, at least you will admit the ACORN workers seemed less than shocked -- unfazed even -- by what was being proposed and in what they engaged to accommodate the "pimp" and the "hooker."

[hope4dopes]

I do enjoy your meltdowns.

What happened did "dog" die did you forget to feed him did you play to rough with him? why don't you go back and tell your mom what happened and I'm sure she can fix it up for you......run along now.

[Shastafarian]

C'mon, at least you will admit the ACORN workers seemed less than shocked -- unfazed even -- by what was being proposed and in what they engaged to accommodate the "pimp" and the "hooker."

I'll admit people who work for ACORN did such yes.

What happened did "dog" die did you forget to feed him did you play to rough with him? why don't you go back and tell your mom what happened and I'm sure she can fix it up for you......run along now.

Sweet a double bonus! Incoherent Meltdown.

[Yonivore]

I'll admit people who work for ACORN did such yes.

It's almost as if they were comfortable, at ease, and experienced at handling such "odd" requests...wouldn't you say?

Dare I say it...trained; as in, they received ins utional training from an organization on how to accommodate people who may want to disguise illegal behavior?

[Shastafarian]

It's almost as if they were comfortable, at ease, and experienced at handling such "odd" requests...wouldn't you say?
Dare I say it...trained; as in, they received ins utional training from an organization on how to accommodate people who may want to disguise illegal behavior?

Nice accusation. Have any proof whatsoever to back up your claims? Of course you don't. Why? Because it's ridiculous. And no, they didn't seem "comfortable, at ease, and experienced". They seemed to be making up as they went along.

[Yonivore]

Nice accusation. Have any proof whatsoever to back up your claims? Of course you don't. Why? Because it's ridiculous.

Nope. But, I don't have any proof Jimmy Hoffa was murdered, either. It's just a supposition based on observation. Why are you being so defensive on their behalf? Are you a member of ACORN? Just curious.

And no, they didn't seem "comfortable, at ease, and experienced". They seemed to be making up as they went along.

Well, that's one characterization...

[Shastafarian]

Nope. But, I don't have any proof Jimmy Hoffa was murdered, either. It's just a supposition based on observation.

Why speculate?

Well, that's one characterization...

I figured you were biased. But I am actually a little surprised you really believe they trained these people to advise others on illegal activity.

[Shastafarian]

Why are you being so defensive on their behalf? Are you a member of ACORN? Just curious.

Nope. I just can't stand some of the stupid things being said in this thread. Like some people not knowing the difference between voter fraud and voter registration fraud.

[hope4dopes]

Nope. I just can't stand some of the stupid things being said in this thread. Like some people not knowing the difference between voter fraud and voter registration fraud.

Why are you side stepping the issue of child pros ution, or is inconsequental to you, does it not sicken you?

[Shastafarian]

Why are you side stepping the issue of child pros ution, or is inconsequental to you, does it not sicken you?

There was a case of child pros ution?

[jack sommerset]

There was a case of child pros ution?

Watch the video stupid. Illegal child pros ion is written all over it.