Posted on 09/15/2008 12:41:34 PM PDT by pissant
Election officials, election watch groups, and Republicans: GUARD voter registration, absentee ballot voting, and ALL other voting practices in battleground states. If ACORN is there, watch them.
*Breaking*ACORN has been caught in the battleground state of Michigan.
This comes as no surprise to anyone following ACORN’s trail of voter fraud.
Via Freep.com (h/t to Count Us Out):
Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.
And who might that “community activist group” be?
The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN’s Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.
“There appears to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications,” said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office. “And it appears to be widespread.”
As the article points out, ACORN is a repeat offender:
In recent years, ACORN’s voter registration programs have come under investigation in Ohio, Colorado, Missouri and Washington, with some employees convicted of voter fraud.
They left out recent investigations in Wisconsin, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere.
Obama has ties to ACORN. Deep ties. Read our August report:
ACORN has received payments of nearly a million dollars from the Barack Obama Campaign in 2008… Apparently the payments were funneled through Citizens Services Inc., and may have been falsely reported to the FEC.
The Senator has been working with ACORN since his first days as a Community Organizer in Chicago:
“In 1992, Acorn Hired Mr. Obama To Run A Voter Registration Effort. He Later Became A Trainer For The Group, As Well As Its Lawyer In Election Law Cases.” (John Fund, Op-Ed, “Obama’s Liberal Shock Troops,” “The Wall Street Journal”, 7/12/08 )
and
“Representing ACORN, Obama And Other Attorneys Sued The State Of Illinois, Forcing It To Implement Federal “Motor Voter” Legislation That Makes It Easier For The Poor And Minorities To Register To Vote.” (”Some Cases Obama Worked On In His Career As An Attorney,” “The Associated Press”, 2/20/07). Hence again impartiality is not possible.
More Press Quotes on ACORN:
ACORN Used “In Your Face” Tactics Like Disrupting Hearings, Bursting Into City Council Meetings, And Protesting Mayor’s Homes. (Stanley Kurtz, Op-Ed, “Inside Obama’s Acorn,” “National Review”, 5/29/08 )
“ACORN Has Been Accused Of Voter Fraud In 13 StatesSince 2004 And Was Convicted Of Falsifying Signatures In A Voter Registration Drive Last July, Drawing A Fine Of $25,000 In Washington State.” (Editorial, “George Soros: The Man, The Mind And The Money Behind MoveOn,” “Investor’s Business Daily”, 9/21/07)
“ACORN Has Been Implicated In Similar Schemes In 14 Other States - Including Ohio, Where A Worker Traded Crack Cocaine For Fraudulent Registrations.” (Editorial, “Another ACORN Scandal,” “New York Post”, 7/13/08 )
Meanwhile, keep in mind: ACORN has been a beneficiary of grants from the Chicago-based Woods Fund, which has a history of issuing controversial grants. Ayres and Obama served together on the Fund’s board (and are still listed). [Other grantees during their tenure included PLO employee Rashid Khalidi and the Obamas' church, Trinity United.]
And we concluded:
…Obama has been directly involved in funding ACORN, has worked for ACORN, and is now PAYING ACORN in exchange for assistance to his campaign.
What kind of assistance is ACORN providing the campaign? When we read about ACORN’s expertise in “voter fraud” and “in-your-face” tactics, it instantly reminded us of Obama’s caucus fraud tricks.
And this: ACORN’s roots go back to the 60’s, when its founder Wade Rathke was a member of the radical group, SDS. As we reported recently, Barack Obama was involved with the SDS at Occidental College in the 80s. And guess who else has connections to both the SDS and ACORN? That’s right! Bill “the bomber” Ayers.
As they say, follow the money or, in this case, the Marxist Revolutionary Handbook.
Atlas Shrugs asked in August: Why Hasn’t ACORN Been Stripped of Its Eligibility?
Good question. Why is ACORN still in the voter registration business?
**FRAUD ALERT**ALL BATTLEGROUND STATES**FRAUD ALERT** Oh, by the way. In Michigan, ACORN is all innocent-acting, as usual:
ACORN officials said they were looking into the problem.
“We’ll do an investigation to see what’s happening,” said David Lagstein, a spokesman for the Detroit office. “If it’s really as many as that, it warrants further investigation.”
~snip~
“We’re proud of our efforts to increase voter registration, and we have aggressive training for our staff to make sure the cards are filled out appropriately,” he said.
ACORN has a method to track the workers who filled out individual registration cards, which will allow investigators to question the workers, Lagstein said.
“We certainly do our best to keep the duplications as low as possible, so we’ll have to evaluate what’s happening here,” he said.
Oh yeah. I’ll bet ACORN is lovey-dovey cooperative when they get caught. It’s the cost of doing business, right? You win some, you lose some. You keep on truckin’.
STOP ACORN NOW!!
I’m gonna ask for ten ballots at my polling place this November, cause I’m ten times as awesome as you.
“....nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families”
Help them do what?
- Commit voting crimes?
- Steal from their fellow citizens because they are too lazy to work?
- Or just randomly $hit-disturb?
ACORN = virtually worthless nut.
Another one of the Bush Administration’s incredible failures, neglecting to tighten up the voting process after the 2000 election. Similar to blowing the political capital available for stemming illegal immigration after 9-11, there was significant interest nationally to get a grip on voter fraud after 2000. But Bush and that numbnuts Rove left it be, and here we are. Congratulations to the Republican Party leaders, walking on eggshells on virtually every issue, while the country drifts further into the toilet.
Kristallnacht was the product of community organizers.
As much as I’d like to see ACORN nailed, I don’t have any confidence it will happen. All of the poll officials are either in cahoots or just don’t care. This has been going on for years.
You are so right, and I will NEVER understand Republican officials' pathetic response to voter fraud. You lose the vote and you lose EVERYTHING. Nothing else matters. Kerry came darn near close to winning the election in 2004 because of voter fraud -- and yet nothing has been done to combat it.
Yep.
you know what they say,
“You can take the boy out of ACORN but you can’t take the ACORN out of the boy”
I remember that post. I was hoping someone would get nailed for that incident, but as you said, all the GOP cared about was winning that one election. I've become discouraged about anyone in power actually looking farther ahead than the next election.
I don’t think any intermediaries should be permitted to be directly involved in voter registration. If organizations and individuals want to exercise their free speech rights adn *encourage* people to register, that’s great. But to actually register, a prospective voter should have to get their own butt to the county courthouse or to an off-site registration event operated and staffed only by county employees. No registration by mail or “motor voter” either.
We need to have poll watchers at every single precinct in these targeted areas.
What these elections officials are doing borders on treason.
Trail my ass.
It's a super highway of fraud that the Democrats have been able to get away with for too long.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/09/01/more-milwaukee-voter-fraud-name-party
Also in Wisconsin
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