ACORN Turns in Florida Workers on Voter Fraud Charges

Fox News ^ | 9/9/2009 | Cristina Corbin

[IbJensen]

Arrest warrants have been issued in Miami for 11 people suspected of falsifying information on hundreds of voter registration cards -- including registering the name of the late actor Paul Newman -- the Florida state attorney's office told FOXNews.com.

The FBI and state authorities took six people into custody Wednesday as it issued 11 arrest warrants for voter registration fraud in Homestead, Fla., in June 2008.

"Names were filled out on the registration forms that were not actual voters," said Ed Griffith, a spokesperson for the state attorney's office. Griffith said the names included people who were already registered voters, fictitious names, and the name of the late actor Paul Newman, who died in Sept. 2008.

Griffith said the workers being sought were hired to register voters by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. He said ACORN alerted the state attorney's office after it reviewed hundreds of voter registration cards it suspected were fraudulent. Griffith said that none of the names in question actually voted.

In a statement sent to FOXNews.com. on Wednesday, Florida ACORN board member Leroy Bell said, "We want to commend the state attorney for taking decisive action. Today's action demonstrates the seriousness we brought to the task of not only expanding the electorate, but also of protecting the integrity of the voting process. "

[IbJensen]

Give them some more money.

[The Unknown Republican]

They are sacrificing these people. It’s purely a tactic to divert the public from the massive scale of the fraud they produce. This proves nothing accept that ACORN knows the cat is out of the bag and they need to run interference.

[IYAS9YAS]

I wonder if any of the Acorn-11 will take it to the big wigs and point the finger up the chain.

[caver]

ACORN throwing it’s own people under the bus.

[Digger]

So ya think elections aren’t a shame. It’s bad enough to have to vote for the candidate that the elites have fostered & brought to power (always compromised so they own them) and then elect the worst lib/commie of the two.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Certainly odd (ie, legal) behavior for ACORN.
They've NEVER done this before.

(I wonder who was threatened, or how - other than as pointed out, this will be used as a “moral cover” for their national vote fraud and census fraud efforts.)

[oyez]

ACORN throwing it’s own people under the bus.

ACORN will announce that they these guys were some bad apples that they had uncovered and had to be separated from the bad oranges that make up the rest of the organization.

[xcamel]

Many variants... all day.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=ACORN

[Waryone]

I wonder if there is any way states can ban certain organization from operating in their state. In other words, could Florida ban ACORN? I think I’m going to contact my state senator and see what he has to say.