Ex-ACORN Organizer Describes Voter Signup Bonuses

cbs2.com ^ | 9/29/09 | KEN RITTER

[Nachum]

LAS VEGAS (AP) ― A former Nevada director for the political advocacy group ACORN testified Tuesday that quotas were common and that no one told him he couldn't pay bonuses to encourage voter registration canvassers to work a little harder during last year's presidential campaign.

"No one in ACORN knew that this was illegal, up until December," Christopher Howell Edwards testified during an evidentiary hearing before a judge set to decide Wednesday whether the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and a former regional supervisor will stand trial in state court on felony charges.

[the_Watchman]

“No one in ACORN knew that this was illegal, up until December,”

This is something he could not possibly know! He could testify that nobody in Acorn told him that the practice was illegal, but he cannot possibly know what special knowledge others might have had, but withheld from him.

BTW: It is very hard to believe that anybody in Acorn in a management position was not aware of the ban on paying these bonuses. When I was at the lowest organizational level going door to door for GOP candidates I knew better.

[LaineyDee]

Ignorance of the law does not protect you from its consequences. Or so I was told.

[CaspersGh0sts]

On the witness stand, Edwards testified that ACORN's national goal was to sign up 1.7 million voters in cities including Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Denver, Cleveland and Albuquerque, N.M."

And this had nothing to do with the fact that these were swing states... ACORN at work for Dear Leader.

The state's top election official also stressed that the case involved "registration fraud, not voter fraud," and insisted that no voters in Nevada were paid for votes and no unqualified voters cast ballots.

Yeah, freaking, right. Wonder if these guys would agree to immediately resign if evidence were found to the contrary.

[BobbyT]

I suppose no one at the very bottom knew, or cared...they probably can’t spell illegal.

But the ones giving them marching orders, and telling them to only gather registrations for The Party, most certainly knew.

[swheats]

“No one in ACORN knew that this was illegal, up until December,”

Somebody’s lying.

“We came across policy manuals that outline their policy of creating a quota system, which is against the law,” Miller told FOX News in an interview. “This, in fact, was something that was widespread and something the organization itself knew about, and it’s important to hold the organization criminally accountable as opposed to the individual field directors.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,557461,00.html

[GOP Poet]

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