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7 Pa. ACORN workers facing voter-form charges
Breitbart.com ^ | 5/7/09 | Joe Mandak

Posted on 05/08/2009 6:14:18 AM PDT by Born Conservative

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Authorities in western Pennsylvania have accused seven people who worked for the community group ACORN of falsifying voter-registration forms.

The seven have been charged with either forging, illegally soliciting or illegally filling out voter-registration cards in the lead-up to the 2008 election.

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. announced the charges at a news conference Thursday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: acorn; votefraud; voterfraud

1 posted on 05/08/2009 6:14:18 AM PDT by Born Conservative
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To: Born Conservative

But the president of ACORN said on the Glenn Beck Show that ACORN is pure as the driven snow. These must be trumped up charges by the evil right wing nuts.


2 posted on 05/08/2009 6:16:07 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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More details: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/09127/968466-100.stm


3 posted on 05/08/2009 6:16:07 AM PDT by Born Conservative (Bohicaville: http://bohicaville.wordpress.com/)
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To: Born Conservative

The MSM will never cover this beyond a token mention. It’s a non-story to them.


4 posted on 05/08/2009 6:20:11 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Born Conservative
This does not surprise me.

Everyone needs to watch Glenn Beck tonight on FOX at 5:00pm est. He is going to have some ACORN members who quit because of the crimes ACORN was committing.

5 posted on 05/08/2009 6:20:13 AM PDT by Dustbunny ("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. " Ronald Reagan)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"These must be trumped up charges by the evil right wing nuts."

You rang?

6 posted on 05/08/2009 6:20:42 AM PDT by DeaconRed (Three Things to know about torture: 1-.Red is Positive. 2-.Black is Negative. 3- Nuts must be wet..)
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To: Dustbunny

ping ping ping


7 posted on 05/08/2009 6:22:14 AM PDT by Ulysse
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To: Drango

Acorn seeded enough bogus voters to steal the last election. If you plant fake votes in heavily blue areas you do nothing to disrupt the local election but the national tally is way off for the left.


8 posted on 05/08/2009 6:24:57 AM PDT by x_plus_one ("Salvation comes about though change in individual lives, not through the ending of unjust society")
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To: Born Conservative
Authorities in western Pennsylvania have accused seven people who worked for the community group ACORN of falsifying voter-registration forms.

"Do I really have to say it?"
9 posted on 05/08/2009 6:29:14 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: Drango

Actually, our local media have been pretty good about covering the story. Philadelphia, which makes the fraud in Pittsburgh look penny-ante by comparison, is an entirely different story. I suspect they will eventually give a nice show trial in Pittsburgh, hand out some slaps on the wrist, and declare the problem solved.


10 posted on 05/08/2009 6:34:46 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Born Conservative

Another isolated event. /sarcasm


11 posted on 05/08/2009 6:48:43 AM PDT by bmwcyle (American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
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To: Born Conservative

big story locally in Pittsburgh. Guess it is not hitting elsewhere.


12 posted on 05/08/2009 6:51:50 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Just a few bad employees, that’s all.


13 posted on 05/08/2009 7:10:25 AM PDT by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; Born Conservative

I heard it on KDKA noon talk show yesterday as I was driving through the region. The talk show host was really pounding on it. I don’t remember his name, but was doing a good conservative bit.


14 posted on 05/08/2009 7:11:53 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

FRaudulent forms that were never used in the election.

I don’t think ACORN’s fraudulent activities overly affected elections. If anything, these just made the race close enough to get a recount.

The foot-soldiers make fraudulent forms to ^get paid^.


15 posted on 05/08/2009 7:37:13 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: Born Conservative

I am going to contact my state senator here in PA and see if there is any way that, as a state, we can ban ACORN from participating in the PA part of the Census


16 posted on 05/08/2009 8:06:43 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Bosco

You saw it too?


17 posted on 05/08/2009 5:58:25 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yep. Beck pwned the ACORN stooge.


18 posted on 05/08/2009 6:10:34 PM PDT by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: Born Conservative

ACORN = Ammerican Communists Organizing Revolutionary Nihilism!


19 posted on 05/10/2009 10:00:49 AM PDT by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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