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Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama's campaign distanced itself Thursday from its $800,000 payment linked to the liberal ACORN organization, which is under investigation in several states where it is suspected of filing fraudulent voter registrations. Federal Election Commission reports show ACORN-affiliated Citizens Services Inc. got $832,598 from the Obama campaign for get-out-the-vote work during the primaries. But those payments stopped in May and the Obama campaign says they should not be an election issue. "This is going to be an historic election with unprecedented voter participation, and we are committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process," Obama...

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is breaking federal law by not giving county elections boards the chance to determine whether new voter registrations are fraudulent, a federal judge ruled tonight. It is hard to imagine a public interest more compelling than safeguarding the legitimacy of the election of the president of the United States,” said Judge George C. Smith of U.S. District Court in Columbus, in upholding the Ohio Republican Party’s request for a court order. Smith, appointed by President Reagan, said the Help America Vote Act requires states not only to verify the identity of newly registered voters...

Let every vote count, is the Democratic Party's mantra these days. That slogan might better be: Let every vote count as often as we need to win. Such, at any rate, are the tactics of ACORN, Barack Obama's favorite "community organizers," and its Project Vote - of which, the Democratic presidential candidate has boasted, "I started working as the director . . . here in Chicago." ACORN has been implicated in voter-fraud schemes in 15 states - including Ohio, from where The Post's Jeane MacIntosh reports today that a Board of Elections investigation has unearthed evidence of widespread voter fraud....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 4, 2008 CONTACT:Press Office: 202-863-8614         OBAMA & ACORN FACT SHEETTHE ACORN/OBAMA RHETORICObama Campaign Tries To Downplay “Supposed” Connections Between Their Candidate And ACORN:“Barack Obama Never Organized With ACORN” (Barack Obama For President Website, http://fightthesmears.com/articles/20/acornrumor, Accessed 10/4/08) “[L]ies About His Supposed Connection To ACORN.” (Barack Obama For President Website, http://fightthesmears.com/articles/20/acornrumor, Accessed 10/4/08)THE ACORN/OBAMA RECORDObama Formerly Represented ACORN, Taught Classes For Future Leaders Of ACORN, And They Endorsed His 2008 Presidential Campaign: Obama Directed Project Vote And Later Taught Classes For “Future Leaders Identified By ACORN And The Centers For New Horizons.” “He [Obama] says he is drawn...

In 1992, Barack Obama led Project Vote, a masive voter registration drive in Chicago...

Federal authorities are investigating the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, otherwise known as ACORN, in at least ten states including Missouri. Thousands of fraudulent voter registrations have surfaced after having been submitted by ACORN. In some parts of Ohio, over half of the registrations submitted by ACORN are at least questionable. ACORN even admits that it is unable to insure there is no fraud. In the Kansas City area, one name, Monica Ray, registered 20 times. It is time to put a stop to ACORN and restore some integrity to the election process. So now we know what...

Jim Geraghty points to a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer about the voter-registration group ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. It seems that in the process of soliciting, collecting, reviewing and turning in registration applications, it really can't do much about fraud: A national voter-registration group admitted to Cuyahoga County election officials Tuesday that it cannot eliminate fraud from its operation. The group blamed inefficiency and lack of resources for problems such as being unable to spot duplicate voter-registration cards or cards that may have been filled out by workers to make quotas. The Association of...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is the first national candidate ever to hire ACORN, a controversial non-profit accused of voter fraud across the country, for get out the vote activities. Obama’s campaign paid $800,000 to a subsidiary of the liberally-leaning non-profit Association of Community Organizers for Reform called Citizens Services Incorporated campaign to increase voter turnout. This information, however, was not properly disclosed to the Federal Election Commission. The Obama campaign said it hired CSI to do “polling, advance work and staging events” according to reports submitted to the FEC during the Democratic primary. The FEC said the Obama campaign...

Quinn & Rose this morning announced that US Attorney Peter Fitzgerald (yes, THAT Peter Fitzgerald) is bringing a RICO case against ACORN. Accusations involve mass voter fraud and allegations brought by the Clinton Campaign against them as well.

WASHINGTON--In 1992, Barack Obama worked for Project Vote for about seven months; now Project Vote and ACORN--a coalition of community organizations serving low income families--just wrapped up a voter registration drive targeting battleground states Obama needs to win the White House.

Nevada state authorities seized records & computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud. Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN. The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote. "Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were...

Presidential candidate Barack Obama has extensive experience in community organizing. In the 1980s, Obama was lead organizer for a campaign funded by the Catholic Church in Chicago that was formed on the principles of radical Saul Alinsky. Senator Barack Obama’s political ambitions stirred Jackie Kendall, executive director of the Midwest Academy, a Chicago-based training center for community organizers, to crow, “He’s given community organizing a good name.” This remark was sparked by the fact that Obama entered politics through community organizing. In 1995, one analyst wrote, “He says he is drawn to politics, despite its superficialities, as a means to...

I ask again: Hello, GOP? Hello? Earth to GOP. Do something about this. Taxpayers continue to fund ACORN and its corrupt ways. We’re subsidizing their voter fraud, lining the pockets of their left-wing leaders, helping them profit off of the mortgage counseling racket, and now…funding them while they covered up massive embezzlement. CrikeyTwo prominent national nonprofit groups are reeling from public disclosures that large sums of money were misappropriated in unrelated incidents by an employee and a former employee.The groups, Acorn, one of the country’s largest community organizing groups, and the Points of Light Institute, which works to encourage civic...

Two arrest warrants were issued Wednesday alleging election fraud by two voter-registration workers employed last year to sign up new voters. According to warrants filed by the Milwaukee County district attorney's office, Urelene Lilly, 48, and Marcus L. Lewis, 23, both admitted to authorities that they filled out multiple voter-registration cards using fictitious information to earn money from Project Vote, which paid workers such as them $40 per day plus $1.75 for each registration above the daily quota of 24 new voters.... Lilly and Lewis were charged with five felonies each: three counts of forgery, one count of election fraud...

Racine, Kenosha voter application fraud alleged 2 charged, including a candidate By TOM KERTSCHER tkertscher@journalsentinel.com Posted: Oct. 28, 2004 Racine - Authorities Thursday filed felony election fraud charges against two Milwaukee men accused of falsifying voter applications in Racine and Kenosha. With fears of voter fraud on the rise, the charges are the first in the area filed in connection with Tuesday's election, but prosecutors are also probing voter registration irregularities in Milwaukee. Michael Nieskes, the deputy district attorney in Racine County, said his investigation of the work of Project Vote in Racine did not indicate a coordinated effort to...

Two men deputized by the City of Milwaukee to register voters are convicted felons who are on probation and are therefore not eligible to register people to vote, court records show. Both felons became so-called deputy registrars through Project Vote, whose voter registration activities are being investigated by the Racine County district attorney's office. Told Friday about the probation status of the two Milwaukee men, Milwaukee Election Commissioner Lisa Artison could not say how many voter registration applications they had submitted. But she said in an e-mail that a voter "cannot be disenfranchised" because of errors by election officials or...

Deputy registrar system, intended for accountability, seen as a loophole A program that should make the state's voter registration system more secure might be partly to blame for possible fraud problems that have surfaced in Racine. Irregularities with voter registration applications appear to be isolated. But because of the way the deputy registrar program works in Wisconsin, the problems may simply be hidden. In Racine, the district attorney's office is investigating seven voter registration applications filed by Project Vote in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. The applications had been filed by Project Vote workers...

Allegations include: * Project Vote turned in 1,389 voter registration forms as of Sept. 1. * 59 were for voters already registered, city officials said. * Of 96 letters the city sent out to the addresses on suspicious forms, 16 have so far been returned by the post office as unable to be delivered, city officials said. * Two forms were filled out by non-citizens, city officials said. * One form was filled out with two different first names, city officials said. * Two or three registration forms were turned in for one person on several occasions, city officials...

RACINE - Project Vote, a voter registration group, is under investigation amid allegations of illegally signing up people in Racine and Milwaukee to vote. The organization's actions have outraged Republicans who accuse the group, which targets Democratic areas, of attempting to influence the Nov. 2 presidential election. Organizers from Project Vote have responded that a few employees, who are paid per person they register to vote, attempted to make a few extra dollars by signing up without their knowledge. The employees have been fired, and Project Vote said they would cooperate with any criminal investigations. But their actions may reach...

Vote fraud Will the GOP let the Democrats take down a sitting President through voter fraud alone? It's apparent to me, one who follows the news but not the "mainstream media", that there is an enormous effort on the Left to steal this election through pure vote fraud. Much of it stems from left-wing 527 organizations, especially the ones dedicated to registering new voters. Here's some of what they're doing: Today, October 1, 2004, Franklin County, Ohio discovers it has more voters registered than live in the county - 90,000 this year for a county which has grown by...