Posted on 10/12/2006 3:26:16 PM PDT by Nasty McPhilthy
Election officials say hundreds of potentially bogus registration cards, including ones for dead and underage people, were submitted by a branch of a national group that has been criticized in the past for similar offenses.
At least 1,500 potentially fraudulent registration cards were turned in by the St. Louis branch of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, leading up to Wednesday’s registration deadline for the Nov. 7 election, said Kim Mathis, chairwoman of the St. Louis City Board of Election Commissioners.
Invalid registrations solicited by ACORN workers included duplicate or incomplete ones, a 16-year-old voter, dead people registering, and forged signatures, Mathis said.
“Fifteen hundred may not sound like a lot, but it is a big deal and it disenfranchises the election process,” she said. “It’s time someone be prosecuted. There’s a lot of taxpayer dollars being wasted on this.”
Scott Liendecker, director of Republican elections for St. Louis, said his office will turn the matter over to the U.S. attorney’s office for possible prosecution once a final count of potentially fraudulent submissions is finished next week.
Mary Wheeler-Jones, the Democratic elections director, said she does not dispute the accusations against ACORN.
ACORN spokesman Brian Mellor told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which first reported the potential fraud, that prosecution could be warranted.
“We try very hard to monitor the employees, but there are chances of things slipping through,” Mellor said. He did not return calls from The Associated Press.
ACORN, founded in 1970, sends paid and volunteer workers around cities to sign up new voters. The group ran voter registration drives in Missouri and 16 other states this year. Similar allegations have been made in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado, though no charges have been filed.
This year in Missouri, ACORN has turned in about 40,000 new voter registrations. Half of those were in St. Louis. The other 20,000 were collected in the Kansas City area, according to election officials.
Four ACORN workers were fired over a September 2003 incident after the St. Louis board pointed out more than 1,000 questionable new voter registration forms collected by ACORN.
ACORN registered more than a million U.S. voters in 2004, when it also had to defend itself against fraud allegations. That year, unreadable cards, duplicate registrations and other invalid or potentially fraudulent registrations turned up in Ohio, Minnesota, North Carolina and Virginia.
Just another reason why some sort of photo ID needs to be required to vote. But, don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen, as the liberals will claim that any such regulation is racist and “disenfranchises” minority groups. And it’s true. Dead blacks and Hispanics would no longer be permitted to cast ballots on Election Day!
It does to me. It sounds like a hell of a lot. And that's just the ones we know about.
Have them check for my dad's name, he died in 2001 and lived in Michigan.......
It's time for some conspiracy charges against the higher ups.
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Perhaps states need to simply reject ALL voter registrations from ACORN. If these guys have this kind of track record, there is no reason to trust them.
Eventually we will manufacture a Democrat majority.
ACORN is a left wing extortion operation with a very shaky record in terms of financial transparency
Is ACORN partisan?
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Schundler's reality tour
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Onward fellow Marxists!
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(Illegal) Immigrant Activists Renew Efforts
Posted on 02/20/2002 11:51 PM PST by sarcasm Immigration advocates were nearly silent for months following Sept. 11, but now they are renewing their efforts to gain legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States.
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WHAT'S BECOME OF LABOR?
... alliances with a range of left-wing groups---from Acorn, which agitates for tenant rights, to the Democratic Socialists ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a15844.htm - September 19, 2002 - 12 KB
Study cool to 'living wage' (Sacramento,CA)
... I once dated a guy who works for ACORN in Sacramento. ...
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'A Fair and Just Amnesty' [Free Republic]
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. ... was the product of years of coalition-building. ACORN and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights are ...
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NJ Democrat "Brownshirts" Harass Schundler, Spit on Campaign Worker
Posted on 09/05/2001 9:16 PM PDT by Antoninus Folks, this is unbelievable. Please read the following posts from the "Freepers in New Jersey" website. There are two disturbing trends going on here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/517490/posts - January 26, 2003 - 104 KB
Notices to Vacate Stun Area Renters
... said Brian Kettenring, head organizer of Sacramento ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/626500/posts - January 21, 2003 - 71 KB
N.O. voters approve minimum wage increase
Posted on 02/03/2002 7:10 PM PST by mikenola ... Orleans Hospitality, Hotels & Restaurants Organizing Council, or HOTROC, an ACORN ally that has tried to unionize hotels. ...
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Governor Puts Philadelphia School Plan on Hold
... the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as Acorn. "One of the things that we've been fighting ...
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Penalties need to be much stiffer for election fraud. If an election can be turned by fraud (as it was in my state), then the rights of LEGAL voters have been taken away. That means races are up to special interests or communists....take your pick, but NOT decided by the people. You remember the people? The ones who pay the bills? The ones who keep this nation moving forward? Yeah, THOSE PEOPLE! The rights of those people have been stomped on, trampled, burnt to a cinder, and shredded. Don't hear much from the ACLU about that, though...
MAKE PENALTY VERY HARSH FOR ELECTION/VOTER FRAUD!
"Is ACORN partisan?"
Partisan through and through.
For elections won by 1-500 votes it is immense.
Voter Fraud: A Democrat Tactic since Kennedy
Pray for W and Our Troops
If you don't believe that the dead can come back to life go to Chicago or Phillie on election night.
As I have said before on FR threads, my dad voted republican in every election he could from the time he was 21, 'til the day he died......... then he voted democrat.
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Partisan through and through.
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Thanks for the reply. I went and looked them up and boy are they ever!
ACORN: The Reagan Era (1980-1985)
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2752
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