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1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS-'ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS'
NYPOST ^ | 10-10-08 | JEANE MacINTOSH

Posted on 10/10/2008 7:16:58 AM PDT by tcrlaf

CLEVELAND - A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.

"Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they'll give me a dollar to sign up," said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

"The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I am already registered. The girl said, 'You are?' I say, 'Yup,' and then they say, 'Can you just sign up again?' " he said.

Johnson used the same information on all of his registration cards, and officials say they usually catch and toss out duplicate registrations. But the practice sparks fear that some multiple registrants could provide different information and vote more than once by absentee ballot.

ACORN is under investigation in Ohio and at least eight other states - including Missouri, where the FBI said it's planning to look into potential voter fraud - for over-the-top efforts to get as many names as possible on the voter rolls regardless of whether a person is registered or eligible

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; acorn; democrats; election; elections; fraud; gotv; nobama08; obama; pufflist; voterfraud; voterregistration
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To: Let's Roll

I would like to add or spell out for the naive or those who haven’t thought about this before ...

Of course, the dims/ACORN don’t expect this guy to actually vote 72 times. They will have others or a machine to do that for him. They just don’t want to end up with 10,000 votes when only 5,700 people are even registered in that town or county or whatever.


41 posted on 10/10/2008 7:47:34 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Drill HERE! Drill NOW! MORE refineries! Pay LESS!)
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To: Buchal
Wouldn’t the Republican Justice Department be prosecuting ACORN all over the country?

Guess you've been missing all the news.

42 posted on 10/10/2008 7:49:06 AM PDT by impeachedrapist (Bill Clinton, as Arkansas Attorney General did you make Juanita Broaddrick pay for her rape kit?)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Virginia ACORN Offices...

Norfolk only.


43 posted on 10/10/2008 7:50:01 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (General George Patton had it right.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
so bring your flak jackets,

I'd have to go to South Chicago....Thanks, but no thanks.

44 posted on 10/10/2008 7:53:49 AM PDT by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98...Ain't no Newbie!)
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To: tcrlaf

And I thought the DUmocrats couldn’t afford to buy the “homeless” off with CRACK FOR VOTES, BOOZE FOR VOTES or SMOKES FOR VOTES schemes like they’ve done the last few election cycles.


45 posted on 10/10/2008 7:53:53 AM PDT by RasterMaster (CHANGE is not a destination - HOPE is not a strategy!)
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To: tcrlaf

Bush and John Ashcroft should have done something about this in 2001. There was mass fraud in 2000 and nothing was done because Bush barely won. There was mass fraud in 2004 and nothing was done because Bush barely won. Now it’s too late to do anything about it. Obama will be allowed to steal the election.


46 posted on 10/10/2008 7:59:47 AM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: RasterMaster

Why isnt ACORN being dismantaled as we speak?!


47 posted on 10/10/2008 7:59:52 AM PDT by Edizzl79
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To: tcrlaf

Pull those who are registering (and presenting false documents into court!

Would that stop ACOEN?


48 posted on 10/10/2008 8:02:34 AM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: A_Tradition_Continues
To each his own.

There are some Patrick Henry's among us. And maybe many others are not.

At any rate, do what you can. Nice, kind, polite, phone harassment or tying up their phone lines on election day with stupid questions will work just as well, from the warm safety and comfort of your very own living room--to keep them from turning out masses of phony voters for Obama on election day. There are ways to undermine them, if we all take and execute a role. WE CAN CHANGE HISTORY. WE CAN TURN THE TIDE.

49 posted on 10/10/2008 8:02:46 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Silver Lining to McCain's Defeat: We can, at once, seize the GOP from RINO leadership & clean house.)
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To: tcrlaf

Pull those who are registering (and presenting false documents into court!

Would that stop ACORN?


50 posted on 10/10/2008 8:02:49 AM PDT by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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To: tcrlaf
Hasn't this guy just confessed to committing a crime?
51 posted on 10/10/2008 8:09:03 AM PDT by smokingfrog (no more Mother's Cookies...)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I take it you’ve never been to or thru South Chicago. 95% of all Chicago murders take place in South Chicago. South Chicago is not safe for either blacks or whitey. (Tale-tail tagging on mailboxes and bus stop benches spelling out “Kill Whitey”.


52 posted on 10/10/2008 8:10:57 AM PDT by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98...Ain't no Newbie!)
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To: A_Tradition_Continues

I do have a plan B, you know.


53 posted on 10/10/2008 8:13:13 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Silver Lining to McCain's Defeat: We can, at once, seize the GOP from RINO leadership & clean house.)
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To: tcrlaf

Notice how the DEMS don’t readily speak of ACORN?


54 posted on 10/10/2008 8:13:41 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: AmericanInTokyo

BTW...South Chicago is where a certain Community Organizer got his start in politics...also the home of Rev Wright’s “gospel.” Need I say more?


55 posted on 10/10/2008 8:21:13 AM PDT by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98...Ain't no Newbie!)
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To: tcrlaf
Is there any doubt that the RAT party is now the Communists party, with their leader Obama. If he is elected, we are on the verge of a civil war. Please don't doubt me. How much more can Americans take with this corrupt ACORN being rewarded with out tax money to rip us off. Just one small example of what we are up against.
56 posted on 10/10/2008 8:24:24 AM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: tcrlaf

We’re getting perilously close to the time when these people simply won’t give up power - no matter what happens in an election.


57 posted on 10/10/2008 8:25:33 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: RasterMaster

Watching this election process is similar to viewing a train wreck. I wonder if this feeling I am getting is akin to the way the Germans felt when Hitler was coming into power? I used to naively believe they all agreed with his policies, now I wonder if they were not in agreement but just blinded.

God save our Country.

Yesterday, for the 2nd time in my 60+ years of life, I wrote to Congressmen and Senators. The 1st time was for Terri Shivo.


58 posted on 10/10/2008 8:27:56 AM PDT by Tomato lover (McCain/Palin NO 0bama/Biden)
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To: tcrlaf
for over-the-top efforts to get as many names as possible on the voter rolls regardless of whether a person is registered or eligible

IMO, the ONLY way Obama can win....
59 posted on 10/10/2008 8:28:51 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Do as I say, not as I panic.)
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To: tcrlaf

Can the Dhiminicrats point to an instance in which a deibold machine has allowed a vote to be duplicated 72 times?


60 posted on 10/10/2008 8:30:32 AM PDT by NoLibZone (As insane as McCain is , my principles can't allow someone like Huessein to be president.)
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