500 new voters might not exist ([Ohio Vote Fraud Alert----ACORN!!!)

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH ^ | August 11, 2006 | Robert Vitale and Mark Niquette

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Workers paid by a liberal group to register voters in Franklin County have turned in more than 500 forms with nonexistent addresses and potentially fake signatures, elections officials said yesterday.

Board of Elections Director Matthew Damschroder said he has forwarded the cards to county authorities for possible criminal charges.

Elections workers verifying new-voter forms discovered signatures with the same handwriting, addresses that were for vacant lots and incorrect information for voters who already were registered, Damschroder said. One card had the name of an East Side man who’s dead.

All the questionable cards were turned in by workers for Ohio ACORN, a group that’s also paying people to gather signatures for a proposed November ballot initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage.

Katy Gall, the group’s head organizer, said ACORN is cooperating with the investigation and already has fired some of its paid circulators.

"We are interested in seeing people who are gaming the system prosecuted," she said.

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, faced similar problems in 2004 during a drive that added 189,000 new voters to Ohio’s rolls. Prosecutors were unable to trace the originators of some falsified forms, but one ACORN worker was indicted by a Franklin County grand jury.

State law now requires people paid for registering voters to add their own names to the forms. James Lee, a spokesman for Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, said the new provisions make it easier to investigate problems.

Lee said Blackwell’s office also has had inquiries recently about potential voter-registration fraud in Cuyahoga and Summit counties.

In its six Ohio offices, ACORN has about 50 circulators who are paid between $8 and $11 an hour, Gall said. The group has eight circulators in Columbus.

Gall complained that the state’s election-law changes make it harder for groups to catch problems because circulators must submit forms directly to elections offices in person or by mail.

In 2004, ACORN began running its own checks on voter forms before submitting them to the Franklin County Board of Elections.

Lee, however, said internal checks are still possible.

It’s a felony in Ohio to submit voter-registration forms with false information. The penalty is up to 18 months in jail.

Damschroder [the Board of Elections Director ]said he doesn’t think the fake forms were submitted by people intending to cast fake ballots in November.

"I think it’s just somebody out there trying to make a fast buck," he said.

ACORN is helping lead the coalition that collected more than 765,000 signatures to put the minimum-wage issue on the Nov. 7 ballot, but Gall said the group has no concerns about the signatures its circulators obtained.

Franklin County elections workers will verify those collected locally, Damschroder said.

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Damschroder [the Board of Elections Director ]said he doesn’t think the fake forms were submitted by people intending to cast fake ballots in November.

"I think it’s just somebody out there trying to make a fast buck," he said.

Yeah, people who BREAK THE LAW often just want to make a fast buck....so what?!!

ACORN has been investigated, implicated and found guilty in several states of voter registration fraud. It's time for the Atty General to consider RICO charges. I'd love to see what a raid of their offices turns up.

[My2Cents]

Is Cindy Sheehan registered there too?

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Don't you have a vote fraud ping list? Mine is on another computer.

[Calpernia]

Voter Fraud Bump List

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1518679/posts

[Tijeras_Slim]

ACORN pulled this crap in New Mexico too.

[FormerACLUmember]

ACORN is a thug-for-hire democrat party criminal entity. There is NOTHING they do that is ever legal.

[ExpatCanuck]

Gall complained that the state’s election-law changes make it harder for groups to catch problems because circulators must submit forms directly to elections offices in person or by mail.

More like, ACORN hires idiots and no longer gets the opportunity to fix up or doctor the forms that are obviously bogus.

[Calpernia]

ping

[KarlInOhio]

"We are interested in seeing people who are gaming the system prosecuted," she said.

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It’s a felony in Ohio to submit voter-registration forms with false information. The penalty is up to 18 months in jail.

"Gaming" the system implies following the rules, but doing so in a way that violates the spirit of those rules. Just making up names isn't "gaming" the system. It's committing fraud in the electoral system. People shouldn't just be fired for turning in those names - they should be imprisoned.

[Just A Nobody]

Workers paid by a liberal group to register voters in Franklin County have turned in more than 500 forms with nonexistent addresses and potentially fake signatures, elections officials said yesterday.

This is just for Franklin County! Those 60,000 votes that the '04 Loser keeps harping about are disappearing. LOL!

[traditional1]

"ACORN has about 50 circulators who are paid between $8 and $11 an hour"

Interesting; these are the ones who support raising the minimum wage to $7.00?

[Calpernia]

ACORN, MoveOn.org And Mac Stuart

ACORN hired Mac Stuart as coordinator for minority voter outreach for its voter registration effort in Miami-Dade County. In this position, Stuart supervised the voter registration forms that were collected, copied and sent to ACORN’s voter registration arm Project Vote in New York and also filed with the election officials for registration. Mr. Stuart became increasingly concerned about the operation ACORN conducted, especially after he was told by an election official that it was illegal to copy voter registration forms. He told his supervisor of this concern about illegal activity and was told not to talk about it. Stuart also learned that 1,200 Republican voter registration forms had been segregated from the other voter registrations into a separate box and understood that ACORN was not going to turn them in. He secretly spoke with an official at the Florida Chamber of Commerce, which was opposing ACORN’s minimum wage initiative in 2004, and this individual said that he should turn in the 1,200 Republican voter registrations before the deadline. Stuart did turn them in. However, Mr. Stuart found another box of 181 forms that he was told would be destroyed. He took these and reported ACORN’s activities to election officials and the press. ACORN then fired Stuart. After being fired, Stuart filed suit against ACORN alleging that he was wrongly terminated because he reported its illegal acts. ACORN has countersued for libel and slander. (186) (Exhibit Q, Q1, Q2, Q3)

Various e-mails document that MoveOn.org, Project Vote and American Families United were assisting in the funding of this effort. ACORN would send Project Vote and American Families United (to their Brooklyn NY office) copies of completed voter registration cards. It is illegal under Florida law to copy and sell voter registrations cards. MoveOn.org, Project Vote and American Families would then pay ACORN $4.00 per registration card (payment for registrations is illegal under Florida law). The payment for the voter registration cards was sent to the ACORN subsidiary Citizens Consulting, Inc, (CCI) a 501(c)(3) Louisiana corporation. There is also evidence of cash transfers of at least $25,000 by MoveOn.org to Florida ACORN to fund this effort. Under this campaign, which was coordinated with Project Vote/Voting for America, Inc., ACORN was to provide the staffing for the field canvassers involved in the voter registration and get-out-the-vote effort, who would be paid by CCI. (187) (Exhibit R)

Source with LINKED footnotes:

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now

It should be called:
ACROC, the Association for Communist Resgistration of Cadavers.

[Calpernia]

:::splats coffee on monitor....collapses to floor laughing....forces control overself so not to be drafted as a democratic voter:::

[strange1]

"I think it’s just somebody out there trying to make a fast buck,"

Not much to go on here, that just described about half the Senate as well as the Congress.

[OldFriend]

David Horowitz mentions ACORN in his new book of groups bought and paid for by SOROS.

[OldFriend]

Pennsylvania, every inner city in America

[rod1]

Katy Gall, the group’s head organizer, said ACORN is cooperating with the investigation and already has fired some of its paid circulators.

"We are interested in seeing people who are gaming the system prosecuted," she said.


Good! So Katy will not object when they bring charges against her I presume.

[D-Chivas]

Paging Hillary Clinton. Paging Ms Hillary Rodman Clintoon!

[GeronL]

This is their strategy. This is STANDARD for ACORN.