On CNN today: Acorn engaging in massive vote fraud.
by BurnTheShips 45 Replies latest social current
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snowbird
A la 2000/2004?
Sylvia
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BurnTheShips
A la 2000/2004?
Despite the fact that ACORN has been sued over illegal activities in both those year's elections, to me this looks even worse right now.
BTS
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leavingwt
"Vote early and vote often."
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zeroday
The only way dems can win an election is thru fraud and theft just ask Al Gore 2000...he tried in florida to steal the presidency but the wheels of justice ran him over...(flame on angry dems...)
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Big Tex
Here is an article from CNN.com about the fraud:
Thousands of voter registration forms faked, officials say
- Story Highlights
- Liberal activist group filed 2,000 fraudulent voter forms, Indiana officials say
- They included names of the dead and Jimmy Johns, a restaurant
- Elections Board in northern Indiana has stopped processing 5,000 forms
CNN Special Investigations UnitCROWN POINT, Indiana (CNN) -- More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana's Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.
The group -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN -- already faces allegations of filing fraudulent voter registrations in Nevada and faces investigations in other states.
And in Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.
"All the signatures looked exactly the same," Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. "Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same."
The forms included registrations submitted in the names of the dead -- and in one case, the name of a fast-food restaurant, Jimmy Johns. Sally LaSota, a Democrat on the board, called the forms fraudulent and said whoever filed them broke the law.
"ACORN, with its intent, perhaps was good in the beginning, but went awry somewhere," LaSota said.
Over the past four years, a dozen states have investigated complaints of fraudulent registrations filed by ACORN. On Tuesday, Nevada authorities raided an ACORN office in Las Vegas, Nevada, where workers are accused of registering members of the Dallas Cowboys football team. And the group has become the target of Republican attacks on voter fraud, a perennial GOP issue.
A subsidiary of the group was paid $800,000 by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign to register voters for the 2008 primaries, and ACORN's political wing endorsed Obama back in February. But Obama's campaign told CNN that it "is committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process," and said it has not worked with ACORN during the general election.
Brian Mellor, an ACORN attorney in Boston, said the group has its own quality-control process and has fired workers in the past -- including workers in Gary. But he said allegations that his organization committed fraud is a government attempt to keep people disenfranchised.
"We believe their purpose is to attack ACORN and suppress votes," Mellor said. "We believe that by attacking ACORN, they are going to discourage people that have registered to vote with ACORN from voting."
CNN was unable to reach ACORN officials in Gary and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the group's Indiana operation is based. Offices in both cities were empty when reporters visited.
Lake County elections officials have set aside all 5,000 of the ACORN-submitted applications in what Hoagland called the "fake pile" for later review. But she said every one will be reviewed before the election to make sure no legitimate voters are skipped.
There has been no evidence of voter fraud yet, because voters have yet to go to the polls. But elections officials say they will be sending their information to prosecutors, who will determine whether any investigation will begin.
"We have no idea what the motive behind it is," she said. "It's just overwhelming to us."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/09/acorn.fraud.claims/index.html?iref=newssearch#cnnSTCText
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BurnTheShips
Am I the only one that sees the contradiction in this paragraph?
A subsidiary of the group was paid $800,000 by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign to register voters for the 2008 primaries, and ACORN's political wing endorsed Obama back in February. But Obama's campaign told CNN that it "is committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process," and said it has not worked with ACORN during the general election.
ACORN has been the subject of voter fraud allegations and lawsuits for many years.
BTS
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inkling
Why??? With the strong lead that Obama has in the polls, why on earth would they also try fraud?
this makes no sense
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ex-nj-jw
Maybe it's different in my state, but when you go to the polls (you are assigned to a specific place to vote), they check your voter reg card, driver license or picture ID and cross your name off the list. How could anyone using the same name and address possibly vote in different locations in the same state.
So what if it's a duplicate registration you can only vote one time! The person would be caught prior to voting multiple times. This sounds to me like more BS the repubs are digging up to blame on Obama everything is all his fault. Woke up today with a headache, blame Obama. Flat tire - blame Obama. Ran out of gas - Obama's fault
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snowbird
Maybe it's different in my state, but when you go to the polls (you are assigned to a specific place to vote), they check your voter reg card, driver license or picture ID and cross your name off the list.
That's how it's done down here. And we're supposed the most backward!
I think it's a smear tactic to scare undecideds into McCain's camp.
LOL.
Sylvia