Posted on 10/09/2008 12:48:00 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
US election officials believe they have uncovered massive attempted voter fraud less than a month before the country goes to the polls to choose its new president.
Eleven separate investigations have now been launched into a voter registration group called the Association of Community Organisations for Reform – or Acorn.
The authorities believe they may have duplicated voter forms, employed convicts to register people and even stolen the names of the American football team the Dallas Cowboys in order to create fake voters.
The suspicions started when authorities in Las Vegas raided the organisation's offices, removing eight computer hard drives and several boxes of documents.
Acorn called the raid "a stunt that serves no useful purpose other than discredit our work".
They suggested the investigations into them were politically motivated.
But the concerns about dodgy election papers started to spread to other states.
Authorities in Indiana said they had concerns about roughly a thousand voters registered by the group there.
And Fox News reporters in the state of Missouri found 10 registration documents with the same name and signature.
Acorn has registered up to 1.3 million voters across the US so far.
They have offices in 41 states and Washington DC and focus on low income, African American and Latino communities.
They claim to be a politically neutral organisation but many commentators describe them as left wing.
And their workers have been found guilty of voter fraud in the past.
Last year five Acorn employees were sent to prison in Washington State after they went into the Seattle public library and used records to create 1,800 fake registration documents.
Before the raid in Las Vegas, lawyers acting for the state authorities tracked down former Acorn workers.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Please God, let this story and investigation get legs. We could wipe out a real big nest of commies with this one.
Hopefully, this thread is true:
BREAKING: Word in Chicago: Patrick Fitzgerald heading RICO investigation of ACORN and BHO campaign
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101148/posts
Shouldn’t voter fraud be treated as seriously as any denial of civil rights? Where is the National Guard?
Why is ACORN even allowed to register voters after being found to have been guilty of fraud?
I’m guessing because they cry “racism” and everyone backs down.
Good question. Didn’t ACORN receive millions in the recent bailout package?
The integrity of our union is predicated on fair elections. The fed gov has to take this seriously and investigate, per the Constitution (they guarantee a republican form of government to each state). If they blow this off, the whole deal is broken.
1500 quatloos that it’s blown off.
Nerd. :)
I think that we're dealing with a massive criminal organization here that crosses state lines. There have been numerous criminal convictions all over the country over the years, and there are ongoing investigations in 11 states at this time... I think that it's way past time to bring in the justice department and file RICO charges.
Mark
Yep! A GUGE nest. Acorn is behind the sub prime mortgage scam as well. They are directly responsible (along with Obama) for attempting to destroy our financial markets. Destroying Capitalism. Or at least they tried. With Obama, they figured they could rebuild a new marxist America.
Obama wasn’t kidding when he said he was going to cut taxes for 95% of Americans.....
Unemployed people don’t pay taxes.
I've long stated to anyone who will listen that voter fraud should carry the death penalty. No, I'm not kidding. Voter fraud strikes at the very heart of our form of government, every bit as much, if not more so, that treason during wartime.
Mark
Apparently Acorn thugs broke into bank managers homes and threatened them if they didn’t give loans to unqualified minorities as well. At least thats what they said on FOX.
ACORN is about as politically neutral as the NAACP. ....and about as far left as CPUSA.
Fears of racism charges will prevent any real investigation into their criminal activities. They have the Beltway Bunglers by the short and curlies.
bump!
See my post #3.
Make it 1800 with a pic of Seven of Nine...
My rule: any organization who claims to be non-partisan is extreme left-wing.
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