[Timeout]

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?

[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.

[snip]

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.

[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.

[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.

[relictele]

Dontcha hate it when your idealistic wingnut tanty ends up landing you in the clutches of the police?

[Common Tator]

Fast Buck

The Bush campaign in Ohio was well aware of the efforts to register voters who did not exist. And it was not just in Columbus.

It was perhaps 2 weeks before the election in 2004 that I got a call from the Columbus office of the Bush campaign. I was told there was a huge number of fake registrations in Ohio. There were none in my home county of Ross, but there were nearly a thousand in Pike County.

How did the campaign know? When a person registers in Ohio that person is sent a confirmation post card. And the post office returns those that can't be delivered. The Pike County board of elections had about a thousand returned post cards. What I did was go to the board of elections with a local attorney employed by the Bush campaign and asked to see the returned post cards. The attorney was there just in case anyone on the Board of Elections gave me a hard time.

I then made a copy of all the names and returned that list to the Bush Campaign headquarters in Ohio. On election day, observers were sent to all the effected precincts with instructions to challenge anyone who tried to vote the fake names. It was feared that the Democrats might send people to vote those fake names. But no one did.

From what I was told by the Bush staffers there were about a quarter million fake registrations in Ohio. Soros backed groups hired people to register new Democratic voters. They were paid 10 dollars for each persons registered. But there is no way to make a living registering voters at 10 dollars each. It takes an average of 3 to 4 hours of calling on people to find a single unregistered voter. A good days work is to register 2 voters. Twenty bucks a day is not much pay.

So the people hired to do the registration did the following. They would take a phone book and make up fake names to go with real addresses. Or they would make up both names and addresses.

You may recall that Kerry was absolutely convinced that he had 250 thousand more votes in Ohio. He even had the local boards of elections called. Finally he figured it out.. He and George Soros had been taken. Few if any of the people George Soros had paid 2.5 million dollars to register voted. They were fake names and or fake addresses.

On the other hand the Bush campaign used volunteers to register voters. No one was paid and state wide we registered 80,000 new voters. It was all double checked. Registrations were turned in to another volunteer staffer who called the new registrant and confirmed that they were a new voter and confirmed the address etc. It took almost 300,000 volunteer hours to register those 80,000 votes.

But they nearly all voted.

[Grampa Dave]

Voter fraud in the 2006 elections could be the ultimate Islamofascist/Rat stealth acts of terrorism in 2006 and 2008.

[Eva]

An old article for a little refresher course on ACORN.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- A Florida state attorney is
investigating thousands of potentially fraudulent voter registrations
associated with the leading organizer of Florida's Amendment 5 ballot
initiative. But this is just the tip of an iceberg of illegalities, fraud and
contradictions connected to the Association of Community Organizations for
Reform Now (ACORN). In recent days, ACORN has been at the epicenter of
reports on thousands of potentially fraudulent voter registrations across the
nation -- including many by ex-felons -- submitted by ACORN employees in the
presidential swing states of Ohio, Colorado, Missouri Pennsylvania, New Mexico
and Minnesota.
The Employment Policies Institute has updated and re-released its report,
"The Real ACORN: Anti-Employee, Anti-Union, Big Business" with the latest
details on ACORN's involvement in what appears to be widespread voter
registration fraud. The report includes statements from former ACORN
employees on the illegal nature of the organization's promotion of the ballot
initiative to raise Florida's minimum wage to $6.15 per hour.
"This report reveals ACORN's pattern and practice of deception and fraud,"
said EPI research director Craig Garthwaite. "The latest allegations of
widespread voter registration fraud should prove to be the last of ACORN's
nine political lives."
Former ACORN Miami-Dade field director Mac Stuart has declared an intent
to sue ACORN and has made charges of rampant voter fraud operations. Stuart
was employed and specifically tasked by ACORN to generate 103,000 new voter
registrations from Dade County. He reports that ACORN threw out Republican
registrations while paying for Democratic ones. Stuart also charges that
ACORN targeted ex-cons and that he personally set up registration tables
outside the Miami police department and Dade County jail. He went on to
state, "The voter registration project has been operating illegally since it
started."
ACORN has paid workers for every voter registration card collected -- a
felony in Florida and also illegal in Missouri and Pennsylvania. ACORN also
routinely accepted signatures for Amendment 5 from individuals who were not
currently registered to vote -- a requirement under Florida law.
Voter registration and petition fraud is just the latest chapter in
ACORN's long sordid history. The EPI report also reveals:

ACORN Involved in Union Embezzlement -- In the late 1990s, ACORN's Project
Vote was involved in an $850,000 embezzling scheme, where union funds and
kickbacks were used to illegally aid the 1996 re-election bid of then-
Teamsters President Ron Carey. A New York federal jury found the Teamsters
political director guilty of the conspiracy.

ACORN bilks AmeriCorps -- In 1996, the Inspector General of the AmeriCorps
program stripped a $1 million grant from the ACORN Housing Corporation (AHC).
When applying, AHC had denied any connections to ACORN, since the grant was
not intended for political advocacy organizations. Evidence later uncovered
by the Inspector General found that not only was AHC created by ACORN, engaged
in numerous transactions with one another, and sharing staff and office space
-- but it utilized the AmeriCorps grant to increase ACORN membership, a
violation of federal guidelines.

ACORN Union-Busts Own Workers -- On March 27, 2003 the National Labor
Relations Board (NLRB) found that ACORN had violated the National Labor
Relations Act and was required to rehire and pay restitution to employees
terminated for attempting to form a union. The NLRB ruling is just the latest
in a trend of ACORN's union-busting tactics. ACORN employees have
historically demanded higher wages, safer working conditions and more timely
contracted wages. These efforts have been repressed behind closed doors by
the hypocritical ACORN leadership, which publicly advocates higher pay and
better working conditions for private sector workers.

ACORN and Minimum Wage Hypocrisy -- Most egregiously, ACORN promotes
ballot initiatives and local ordinances to force businesses to pay higher
minimum wages, as they are currently doing with the minimum wage proposal in
Amendment 5. In 1995, however, ACORN sued the state of California to have its
employees exempted from the state minimum wage. ACORN argued that being
forced to pay higher wages would mean that they would hire fewer employees --
the very dilemma faced by businesses. Incredibly, ACORN stated that paying
its employees a lower wage would allow them to be more sympathetic to the low-
and moderate-income families they were attempting to help. ACORN argued that
abiding by the state minimum wage would limit their ability to promote their
agenda and would therefore be a violation of their First Amendment rights.
The trial court judge dismissed ACORN's suits, stating, "leaving aside the
latter argument's absurdity ... we find ACORN to be laboring under a
fundamental misconception of constitutional law."

"ACORN's history of voter registration fraud, hypocrisy, abuse of federal
grant programs, and disregard for sound economics should raise a red flag for
voters considering support for Amendment 5," Garthwaite said.
The full report is available online at http://www.EPIonline.org.

The Employment Policies Institute is a nonprofit research organization
dedicated to studying public policy issues surrounding entry-level employment.


SOURCE Employment Policies Institute