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ACORN Turns in Florida Workers on Voter Fraud Charges
FOXNEWS.COM ^ | 09/09/09 | FOXNEWS

Posted on 09/09/2009 7:51:22 AM PDT by VMIPubby36

Arrest warrants have been issued in Miami for 11 people suspected of falsifying information on hundreds of voter registration cards last year. The FBI and state authorities were making arrests Wednesday. The workers being sought were hired to register voters by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. Prosecutors say they were first notified by ACORN about problems with workers in June 2008. Republicans and conservative activists have accused ACORN of fraud in voter registration drives around the country. ACORN officials say the Florida case proves the organization is committed to an honest process. The case involved nearly 900 fraudulent voter cards in the Homestead area.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2008votefraud; acorn; alteredtitle; coi; cultureofcorruption; democrats; democratscandals; florida; floriduh; fraud; howtostealanelection; obama; sedition; thugthevote; unamerican; underthebus; voterfraud; voterregistration
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To: VMIPubby36

I wonder if the public will ever figure out that the only way Democrats can win is if they cheat. The past month shows it’s obvious the public doesn’t support their left wing policies.


81 posted on 09/09/2009 8:49:02 AM PDT by kempster
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To: VMIPubby36

If you google this threads title Fox and The Miami Herald are the only ones reporting it.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1224631.html

The MSM don’t like reporting bad things about they’re false messiah.


82 posted on 09/09/2009 8:49:39 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: Sig Sauer P220
Only 11?

They needed a few human sacrifices for the cleansing. The Marxist Messiah is getting bad PR.

83 posted on 09/09/2009 8:50:06 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: VMIPubby36

“ACORN officials say the Florida case proves the organization is committed to an honest process. The case involved nearly 900 fraudulent voter cards in the Homestead area.”

Newspeak. Lies are truth and the truth is a lie.


84 posted on 09/09/2009 8:50:59 AM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: VMIPubby36

If there’s voter fraud around the country, they’re not committed to an honest process.


85 posted on 09/09/2009 8:51:08 AM PDT by wastedyears (The best aid we could ever give Africa would be thousands of rifles to throw out their own dictators)
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To: Grampa Dave; All

"Oh crap, Joe. We need to order another ACORN 'break-in,' just like the one in Boston last October. Make sure they get the computers with donor & voter lists this time, too."

86 posted on 09/09/2009 8:51:33 AM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: Ev Reeman
Blonde hair included in fact necessary.

Yeah. That's what I said. He tried to eliminate anyone without blond hair and blue eyes, but he had black hair and brown eyes himself.

87 posted on 09/09/2009 8:56:46 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: VMIPubby36
But ACORN officials said they had alerted authorities about the alleged illegal activity among some canvassers in Miami-Dade after finding ``numerous discrepancies'' on voter cards collected from the Homestead area.

The arrests are ``further evidence we've been policing our own folks and report people attempting to commit voter registration fraud,'' said ACORN spokesman Brian Kettenring. ``This was really some individuals who were trying to defraud their employer.''

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle praised ACORN.

``We've been very aggressive about a lot of these cases,'' she said. ``But we would not have known about these workers unless ACORN brought it to us


88 posted on 09/09/2009 8:57:34 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: VMIPubby36
Prosecutors say they were first notified by ACORN about problems with workers in June 2008. Republicans and conservative activists have accused ACORN of fraud in voter registration drives around the country. ACORN officials say the Florida case proves the organization is committed to an honest process.

Acorn throwing the lower level workers under the bus to prove they are an "honest, upright org."! What a bunch of losers. If they were so great why didn't they catch these people while it was happening? The whole org is shot full of communists and criminals.

89 posted on 09/09/2009 8:58:25 AM PDT by calex59 (Hope for a new job counts for creating a job! The dimwits are truly insane.)
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To: Lancey Howard
That corrupt scumbag Eric Holder will “decline to prosecute”. Or, at the most, these Ubama animals will get a wrist slap. Watch.

I think you are wrong. These workers are sacrificial lambs and will be offered up for slaughter. Acorn is trying to shift the blame to the lower workers, they have turned these people in for the express purpose of taking the heat off of the top of the organization. I hope it doesn't work, but in the meantime these workers will be prosecuted to fake a purge of Acorn.

90 posted on 09/09/2009 9:02:31 AM PDT by calex59 (Hope for a new job counts for creating a job! The dimwits are truly insane.)
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To: calex59

It has been reported that ACORN over many years has been warned/arrested/ and they keep doing the same crimes over and over and over. When thye get cought they say, “oh we will fire them, we did not know what was going on.”

Alinsky tactic 101

Now....they throw a few under the bus to deflect and hide.

Alinsky tactic 102

AG Eric Holder throws all the ACORN crime investigations out and no one dares notice

Alinsky tactic 103 dash 666


91 posted on 09/09/2009 9:03:08 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: calex59

If they knowingly hired known criminals or ex cons with the express purpose of getting them, bribing them or intimidating them to perform illegal acts or engage in illegal conduct, that is aiding and abetting (minimally) and as such can be used to prosecute ACORN chapter leaders.


92 posted on 09/09/2009 9:06:54 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: calex59
Acorn throwing the lower level workers under the bus to prove they are an "honest, upright org."!

If they were honest, they'd turn in the Marxist big wigs in charge and leave the homeless people out of it.

93 posted on 09/09/2009 9:07:39 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: VMIPubby36

94 posted on 09/09/2009 9:09:29 AM PDT by mentor2k
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To: VMIPubby36

Hopefully not on the wrist. The question is whether or not more arrests will be forthcoming and whether or not the charges against them will get past Eric Holder.


95 posted on 09/09/2009 9:12:48 AM PDT by dr_who
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To: RetroSexual
"Could this be what Beck was talking about? He’s certainly been investigating ACORN for at least a year."

I don't think so because Glenn said it "Would blow our minds." and we all know ACORN is crooked as all get out.

96 posted on 09/09/2009 9:14:40 AM PDT by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences.)
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To: VMIPubby36

I sense a pardon on the way. :)


97 posted on 09/09/2009 9:17:10 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I say it is not the severity of the offense that deters, but the likelihood of getting caught. They are all so used to not having to be accountable that chasing them now would be like shooting fish in a barrel.


98 posted on 09/09/2009 9:24:52 AM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: RetroSexual

This doesn’t seem that big, Glenn said it was big, possibly the big story ever in American politics.


99 posted on 09/09/2009 9:37:27 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: VMIPubby36

PING


100 posted on 09/09/2009 9:39:14 AM PDT by Ulysse
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