ACORN Drumming Up Fraudulent Voter Registrations Again

“I only got to vote once!”
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Poor ACORN.  Opinion of their good deeds falling into disrepute as time goes on, and more reports surface of voter registration fraud at their hand.

New York Post.  October 9, 2008.

Two [Cleveland] Ohio voters, including Domino’s pizza worker Christopher Barkley , claimed yesterday that they were hounded by the community-activist group ACORN to register to vote several times, even though they made it clear they’d already signed up.

Barkley estimated he’d registered to vote “10 to 15″ times after canvassers for ACORN, whose political wing has endorsed Barack Obama, relentlessly pursued him and others.

“Some of them were getting paid to collect names. That was their sob story, and I bought it,” he said.

“They will follow you to the buses, they will follow you home, it does not matter,” she told The Post.

“Running Away”
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She added that she never put down an address on any of the registration forms, just her name.

The major risk of fraud growing out of mass canvassing involves the possibility of ineligible voters filing absentee ballots, and thus avoiding checks at polling places, said Republican National Committee chief counsel Sean Cairncross.

The subpoenas come as Republicans have ramped up criticism of ACORN. Officials in Nevada raided ACORN’s Las Vegas office Tuesday, accusing the group of signing people up multiple times – in some cases under phony names, like those of Dallas Cowboys.

Doug Ross August 24, 2008, Michelle Malkin August 22, 2008, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel August 20, 2008.

All of the workers targeted for investigation were paid employees of two liberal groups running voter registration drives, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and the Community Voters Project…

…Of the 32 ACORN workers referred Wednesday to Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, Edman said:

• Seventeen apparently filled out voter applications and then signed the cards themselves. That involved two to four cards in each case.
• Twelve submitted cards for individuals who later told ACORN they never filled out an application. That involved one card in each case.
• One submitted a card for a dead voter. That was the second such case; a Voters Project worker previously submitted a card for a deceased voter.
• One was apparently making up driver’s license numbers for an unknown number of voters.
• One submitted about a half-dozen applications for already-registered voters.

“Whenever Democrats need to win elections, the DEAD will walk the EARTH and Vote.”
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History.  Wall Street Journal November 3, 2008.

Acorn and its affiliates have pulled some real stunts in recent years. In Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a Congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials from several counties in the state explained Acorn’s practice of dumping thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even though the forms had been collected months earlier.

“You have to wonder what’s the point of that, if not to overwhelm the system and get phony registrations on the voter rolls,” says Thor Hearne of the American Center for Voting Rights, who also testified at the hearing. “These were Democratic officials saying that they felt their election system in Ohio was under assault by these kinds of efforts to game the system.”

Given this history, it’s not surprising that Acorn is so hostile to voter identification laws and other efforts to ensure fairness and accuracy at the polls. In Missouri last month, the state Supreme Court held that a photo ID requirement to vote was overly burdensome and a violation of the state constitution. Acorn was behind the original suit challenging the statute, and it has brought similar challenges in several other states, including Ohio.

History.  Soda Head September 27, 2008.  From Fox News May 2, 2008, regarding the Washington State voter fraud case 2006.

Two years ago ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, but there was a problem. The names were made up — all but six of the 1,800 submissions were fakes. Reed said he was appalled.

The ACORN workers told state investigators that they went to the Seattle public library, sat at a table and filled out the voter registration forms. They made up names, addresses, and Social Security numbers and in some cases plucked names from the phone book. One worker said it was a lot of hard work making up all those names and another said he would sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out the forms.

ACORN paid a $25,000 settlement and agreed to monitoring of its voter registration efforts.

“No Integrity”
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See:

• http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092008/news/politics/nuts__132771.htm.  NUTS!  HOW ACORN GOT ME INTO VOTE SCAM.  October 9, 2008.
• http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/08/acorn-soros-funded-vote-fraud.html.  ACORN, the Soros-funded Vote-Fraud Consortium, is at it again.  August 24, 2008.
• http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/22/acorn-watch-pt-i-of-the-day-more-voter-fraudsters-in-milwaukee/.  ACORN Watch, Pt I of the day: More voter fraudsters in Milwaukee August 22, 2008.
• http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=785773. More voter registration workers under scrutiny.  May 2, 2008.
• http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009189.  The Acorn Indictments.  A union-backed outfit faces charges of election fraud. Friday, November 3, 2006.
• http://www.sodahead.com/blog/17434/”>http://www.sodahead.com/blog/17434/.  Voter Fraud Watch: ACORN .  September 27, 2008.