Stash of voter cards probed

pioneer press ^ | 10-9-04 | PATRICK SWEENEY

[Rakkasan1]

When police at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport stopped a man for running a stop sign late last month, they found an unusual stash in his car trunk: More than 300 voter registration cards that had been filled out but never submitted to the Minnesota secretary of state.

The motorist allegedly told police that he was an ex-employee of ACORN

[Rakkasan1]

more of the usual suspects

[6SJ7]

Sounds like one of those "motor voters"!

[Tax-chick]

Moral - put a stamp on your Voter Registration card, and put it in a U.S. Mail receptacle.

[sauropod]

It's gonna be Election 2000 all over again. Be prepared to hit the streets Nov. 3rd.

[Nathan Zachary]

I'll bet they were all voter registration cards for republicans.
Republicans should double check to make sure they are registered especially if they filed out a card with one of those doorbell ringers.

[tbpiper]

Should've shot the scum.

[backhoe]

Click the picture & goto "last" for the latest on Vote Fraud:

There's info about Project Vote, ACORN, and other "non-partisan" special-interest groups as well.

We all need to be clear about the danger this issue poses-- this is the October Surprise from the Left, and they are not even being subtle about it- why should they, with the compliant media, news & entertainment divisions, on their side.

Besides the obvious goal of throwing the election to Kerry, if that fails, the results will be so contested, so dubious, that President Bush will be vulnerable to all sorts of attacks, marginalizing, and stigma- including impeachment. 

[Tax-chick]

Excellent point!

[An.American.Expatriate]

And just how many of these registration cards were for Republicans??

[savedbygrace]

They should be charged with Sedition.

[silverleaf]

ACORN is the same group whose ex-employee has confessed to disposing of boxes of GOP registration cards in Dade County FL while setting up voter registration tables outside police offices and jails to register the felon vote.

[Tijeras_Slim]

ACORN has registered over 20,000 people in New Mexico, including a 13 year old. Many of the forms they turned in were photocopies, illegible, or incomplete (not that the NM Dims give a $hit)

[silverleaf]

That is a terrible tragedy for the people of New Mexico, to have their vote so corrupted. Bush lost the State to Gore in 2000 by less than 500 votes.

[Tijeras_Slim]

500 "miracle votes" were found in Dona Ana county when a county clerk changed a 1 to a 6 on a tally sheet.

Since the 5 electoral votes here would not have changed the result without Florida, we never got to challenge it.

I'm looking for payback. I think the vet's vote will tell this time.

[mtbopfuyn]

Republican, no doubt.

[Zeppo]

Just wondering - what does the contents of his trunk have to do with the alleged offense of running a stop sign? Why was his car searched? Was it due to his having outstanding warrants, or something else?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Since ACORN is pulling this crap nationwide, I wonder if a RICO prosecution would get any traction.

[steve8714]

Note he was not fired for the felony drug beef..

[BluH2o]

What follows is a related article from today's (Friday) Cincinnati Enquirer.

Alleged fraudulent voter cards scrutinized

By Cindi Andrews
Enquirer staff writer

Hamilton County election officials will meet this morning to discuss 19 voter registrations for people who may not exist, which would be a rare case of election fraud.

Board of Elections Director John Williams subpoenaed those named on the voter registration cards after similar handwriting and false addresses raised election workers' suspicions. The sheriff's department could not find them, he said.

The cards were turned in, Williams said, by someone affiliated with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a group that represents low-income people.

"We have a very extensive fraud detecting process," said Dierdre Murch of ACORN. "If this is true, I don't know how they got there."

Officials in Columbus are also investigating possible improprieties by an ACORN worker there.

ACORN has registered more than 1 million new voters nationwide, including 158,036 in Ohio, according to its Web site, www.acorn.org.

Murch said she took 526 new voter registrations to the board of elections late Thursday that the group found in a mismarked box and are asking the board to accept even though the deadline was Monday.

Ohio is under unprecedented scrutiny over its election process this year as a battleground state in what is expected to be a close presidential election. Unprecedented levels of voter interest also resulted in record numbers of new voter registrations.

State and local officials say those factors contributed to an unusually high number of potential election fraud cases. Lake and Summit counties are investigating over 1,000 potential instances of voter registration fraud.

By comparison, Hamilton County's 19 potential fraud cases out of the 68,728 new voter registrations tallied so far appear to be a pretty small number, Board of Elections Chairman Tim Burke said.

The Board of Elections can refer election fraud for prosecution if it decides there was malicious intent. It's a felony and carries a possible sentence of up to one year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

The only other incidents Burke could remember in his dozen years on the board involved candidate petitions. In 2001, four women were sentenced to 30 days in jail each for signing fake names on petitions they were supposed to be circulating for would-be congressional candidate Jim Condit Jr.

[SpookBrat]

Bump in agreement. It's gonna be bad.