More Acorn Voter Fraud Comes to Light [2009]

WSJ ^ | May 9, 2009 | John Fund

[libh8er]

On Monday, Nevada officials charged Acorn, its regional director and its Las Vegas field director with submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms last year. Larry Lomax, the registrar of voters in Las Vegas, says he believes 48% of Acorn's forms "are clearly fraudulent." On Thursday, prosecutors in Pittsburgh, Pa., also charged seven Acorn employees with filing hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations before last year's general election.

Acorn spokesman Scott Levenson calls the Nevada criminal complaint "political grandstanding" and says that any problems were the actions of an unnamed "bad employee." But Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada's Democratic Attorney General, told the Las Vegas Sun that Acorn itself is named in the criminal complaint. She says that Acorn's training manuals "clearly detail, condone and . . . require illegal acts," such as requiring its workers to meet strict voter-registration targets to keep their jobs.

Other Democrats on the ground have complaints. Fred Voight, deputy election commissioner in Philadelphia, protested after Acorn (according to the registrar of voters and his own investigation) submitted at least 1,500 fraudulent registrations last fall. "This has been going on for a number of years," he told CNN in October. St. Louis Democrat Matthew Potter, the city's deputy elections director, had similar complaints.

Elsewhere, Washington state prosecutors fined Acorn $25,000 after several employees were convicted of voter registration fraud in 2007. The group signed a consent decree with King County (Seattle), requiring it to beef up its oversight or face criminal prosecution. In the 2008 election, Acorn's practices led to investigations, some ongoing, in 14 other states.

[libh8er]

Election rigging is Community Organizing 101.

[Diogenesis]

mail this to ‘judge’ Roberts treasonously
hiding like a rat at his Malta mansion.

[volunbeer]

The GOP is the stupid party.

There were several of us in the first two years of the Trump administration when Paul Ryan was screwing us who were screaming for a national vote protection act. The media instantly responded if memory serves with the usual tripe about how ID requirements were up to the states and any suggestions otherwise were racists.

The republicrats in congress were more interested in protecting Mueller than they were in securing the vote.

Here we are. It has been a problem for decades and look no further than Palm Beach and Dade Counties in Florida. DeSantis came in and one of his first orders of business was to fix the mess in those two counties where fraud was rampant and the results were always in question. Compare the last 20 elections in those counties to this year.

Night and day difference.

My conclusion? DeSantis is wicked smart and he understood the problem. He talked about it when he was in congress. Had the GOP even acted with 25% of the energy DeSantis displayed in correcting an obvious problem with fraud we would be here having happy discussions today.

The GOP is the stupid party.

[Bob434]

And the spineless GOP back then kept saying “We must make sure this never happens again in the future (but not offering to do anything about it, really, in the present election back then- just like the spineless GOP is doing today- Even Rand Paul seems resigned to this election being stolen, but claiming he’s on the case so this ‘never happens again’ )

11 years later and we haven’t gained an inch=- infact we’ve lost a mile-

[pepsionice]

I think you are looking at two levels. The first being dead voter listings. Various clerks for districts are probably sliding five to ten dead folks a week over to a listing which they sell every four years.

There’s probably also a second list for just fake voters (names made up, leading to one address for 25 names).

You could probably sell such a list of 3k names for $50k.

[CAGOPgramma]

It seems like it’s only here at FR that I can actually find News truth!!

Other places where fearless truth is spoken.......Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills.......Amir Tsarfati’s Middle East Update .....both available on line (thank God).

[CAGOPgramma]

I felt so disappointed in Roberts (when I saw him secretly colluding with Obama when they turned their backs to the camera to whisper and smile at eachother). But now, even in more judges!!! Even Kavanaugh!!

And then Bill Barr, of all people...:..closet traitors.....is Dunham (Durham or whatever his name) next?

Betrayal is rampant!!

I’m just sick to my heart of it!!

[Texas resident]

Acorn, Organizing for America...

What person comes to mind with these organizations?

[drypowder]

ACORN and the Obozo are synonymous

[aquila48]

I thought ACORN was eliminated years ago.

These termites have a thousand lives!

[aquila48]

“The GOP is the stupid party.”

They prove it everyday.

[Eagle Forgotten]

I thought ACORN was eliminated years ago.

You're correct. The OP links to an article dated May 9, 2009.

Incidentally, IIRC, Acorn defended against these charges of fraudulent registrations by pointing to some law (state? federal? not sure). Organizations doing voter registration drives were required to submit all the completed forms they received. This makes sense, so that ACORN couldn't just shred the Republicans' forms. It meant, however, that if some comedian filled in a form as Mickey Mouse, ACORN was legally required to submit it.

Presumably, ACORN could still be charged if it encouraged fraudulent registrations. I don't recall whether anything of that sort was ever proved.