Posted on 10/23/2008 4:54:51 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Project Vote claims it is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is also a nonprofit corporation organized under Louisiana law but, since it actively “carries out multiple issue campaigns,” it is a partisan organization that is subject to federal taxation. This election year Project Vote and ACORN partnered to file 1.3 million new voter registrations, many of which have been proven to be utterly fraudulent. Project Vote proudly claims to have added large numbers of new voters to the rolls in 16 states. ACORN is now currently under investigation for encouraging vote fraud in 12 of them. Now the New York Times is reporting the Project Vote/ACORN partnership “may have led to violations of federal law.” Apparently, Project Vote isn’t exactly nonpartisan.
The Times has obtained an internal report by a lawyer representing ACORN detailing “potentially improper use of charitable dollars for political purposes; money transfers among the affiliates; and potential conflicts created by employees working for multiple affiliates, among other things.” It turns out that while Project Vote is supposed to have an independent board, only one board member has not been either an ACORN staff member or ACORN dues contributor. Contacted about his listed membership on the board, ACORN member George Hampton told the Times: “I don’t know anything about this.” The Times reports that “the same people appeared to be deciding which regions to focus on for increased voter engagement for Acorn and Project Vote” and notes the internal report concludes “the tight relationship between Project Vote and Acorn made it impossible to document that Project Vote’s money had been used in a strictly nonpartisan manner.”
ACORN is just the tip of the left’s vote fraud efforts.
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Are any of these new voters republicans? If not defund them.
In a nonpartisan manner. Ya think?
If they are advocating one party over another, they are engaging in advocacy that violates their 501c3 tax status. Audit them and seize their assets under RICO. They engage in interstate criminal conspiracy.
Eight years. We had eight years. But to do anything about it would have disturbed the New Tone in Washington.
Why isn’t the video of Obama saying Acorn will help shape his agenda enough? has this video been on TEE VEE - Fox even?
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