and the RATS, take another one in the.................................HA ha!!!
Posted on 10/14/2008 1:00:01 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
WASHINGTON— In the wake of numerous reports of widespread election fraud by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter today to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey requesting that the Department of Justice immediately launch a nationwide criminal probe into ACORN’s voter registration activities and investigate ACORN as a “criminal enterprise.”
In his letter, Sen. Cornyn, a former State Attorney General and Texas Supreme Court Justice, said, “Election fraud imposes a real cost on our system, beyond the obvious consequence of subverting a free and fair election. Fraudulent voter registration on this scale seriously strains state and local elections resources and distracts elections officials from preparing to conduct an orderly election. Of course, ACORN’s nationwide voter registration fraud provides an opportunity for individuals to vote who should not, or for some to vote more than once.”
Sen. Cornyn closed his letter highlighting the various aspects of federal law that may have been violated by ACORN and said “because the violations of federal voting laws by ACORN employees appear to be so widespread, ACORN and its affiliates should be investigated as a criminal enterprise.”
The full text of Senator Cornyn’s letter to the Attorney General today is below. In addition, a .pdf copy of the letter is available here: http://cornyn.senate.gov/doc_archive/Mukasey-ACORN-letter.pdf
The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Dear General Mukasey:
I am increasingly concerned by reports of widespread election fraud by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (“ACORN”), which seem to emerge on a daily basis.
Specifically, I call your attention to state and local investigations into potentially hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications filed by ACORN in North Carolina, Ohio, Nevada, Michigan, Florida, New Mexico, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Washington, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and my home state of Texas. In Harris County, Texas, which includes the City of Houston, election officials either rejected or discovered serious deficiencies with nearly 40 percent of the 27,000 registration cards filed by ACORN from January through July of this year.
Most recently, election officials in Lake County, Indiana, found more than 2,100 fraudulent voter registration applications that were filed at the deadline by ACORN. According to a CNN report, at least one of ACORN’s applications in Lake County attempted to register a dead man. In addition, The St. Petersburg Times (FL) reported today that Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote in Florida this summer. Although Orange County elections officials rejected his application, it is notable that Mickey Mouse’s application had an ACORN stamp on it. In addition, The [Raleigh, NC] News & Observer also reported today that ACORN conducted a voter drive that registered nearly 28,000 people in North Carolina. But according to local election officials some of the forms it filed had information that may have been copied from phone books.
Election fraud imposes a real cost on our system, beyond the obvious consequence of subverting a free and fair election. Fraudulent voter registration on this scale seriously strains state and local elections resources and distracts elections officials from preparing to conduct an orderly election. Of course, ACORN’s nationwide voter registration fraud provides an opportunity for individuals to vote who should not, or for some to vote more than once.
Given these allegations, as well as the well-documented fraud convictions in recent years of ACORN employees, I urge you to launch a nationwide criminal probe into ACORN’s voter registration activities. As you know, federal law prohibits an individual from (1) providing fraudulent voter registration information; (2) conspiring to encourage false registration or illegal voting; and (3) paying or offering to pay another individual for registering or voting. It is also a crime to knowingly procure or submit false, fictitious, or fraudulent voter registration applications. Finally, I must add that, because the violations of federal voting laws by ACORN employees appear to be so widespread, ACORN and its affiliates should be investigated as a criminal enterprise.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
JOHN CORNYN
United States Senator
Sen. Cornyn serves on the Armed Services, Judiciary and Budget Committees. In addition, he is Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. He serves as the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee’s Immigration, Border Security and Refugees subcommittee and the Armed Services Committee’s Airland subcommittee. He served previously as Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Justice, and Bexar County District Judge.
Correction to my own post: “Just because someone has passed away should deny NOT them the right to vote.”
Correction to my own post: “Just because someone has passed away should NOT deny them the right to vote.”
>>>>>A President McCain will be to busy reaching across out to his good friends at Acorn.
Pansy Graham is on the case.
Too bad the good guys couldn’t accidentally “hack into the ACORN system” and erase all data!!!
Agreed, he lost my vote.
Senator Cornyn for President.
And Mara Liasson tried to defelct the joke as the DNC lapdog she has shown herself to be. ... Last week she tried to squelch discussion of an Ayers-Obama connection by spweing David Axelrod’s first layer of lies, that their kids went to the same schools so they likely could have run into each other at school functions! Of course, Mara spittles such bilge because there are many viewers who haven’t a clue that Ayers recruited Obama while Barry was still in law school, using a five figure book advance then a nother when he produced zero pages for the first five figured $40,000. What frosts me the most is Brit knows better and also knows Mara Liasson knows she’s lying through her teeth for The One. Disgusting
The problem is, like in Ohio, some of those who registered voted the same day. Once the ballots are separated from the registrations, youcan’t tell which of the votes are fraudulent.
IMHO, we need an organization to file a suit asking the Federal Court to stay the election until the registration roles are verified. Since there is ample evidence of massive registration fraud and since it is impossible to sift through the registrations prior to the election, a stay would be the only logical course. The argument being that illegal votes disenfranchise those who vote legally.
It will never happen, but I see this as a potential Constitutional crisis in the making. And, since ACORN, has illegally offered consideration for registrations, every illegal registration should be a separate count on the indictment.
I wonder if Cornyn is trying to make up for his vote in support of the bailout - that did not work.
Excellent
I think he just secured his seat for the next term.
Excellent contact list. Thank you for your effort.
Yep, let’s do it.
John Cornyn: Thank you for finally doing something for us that did not involve a big concrete highway.
OTOH, the bright light shone on the voting fraud issue this year may reduce the fraud from its typical high values in Dem-run cities.
And if you think that's something, tiptoe across the border into Cook County, Obama's own little Acorn haven. Go get 'em!
My husband is a sales exec for a small business based in Yonkers NY and last week they initiated some limited layoffs and all execs, including owners and mgmt, went to a 4 day work week (except sales and customer service) due to recent lines of credit restraints.
You are absolutely right, however, once those ballots are removed from the registration information, there is NO WAY you can track them. If Ohio’s Sec of State has her way, they will be lumped into the mix prior to the verification of registration. That’s the problem. You can say there are X number of fraudulent registrations, but once separated, how can you redact the fraudulent votes?
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