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ACORN Pleads Guilty to Voter Registration Fraud in Nevada

Re: ACORN Pleads Guilty to Voter Fraud

Has anyone commented on the ACTUAL news item? Talk about jumping the shark.

ACORN hasn't gone away unfortunately.

Community organizers never go away, they just transmogrify like Dracula turning into a swarm of rats.

So, you don't liek communities to organize? Why not?
 
Re: ACORN Pleads Guilty to Voter Fraud

Let me google that for you

They weren't "convicted of turning in false registrations." (Thanks Fox News) The organization ACORN was legally required to turn in registrations, even the ones they know to be false. They did so, flagging those registrations and turned over the responsible employees to the election board and police.

I'm sorry to burst your bubble. ACORN has been convicted all over the country.

No other organization who is involved in voter registration is having these troubles and convictions for submitting false registration forms.

Why is it always ACORN and their sub-groups? Bad advice from their lawyer?

You're basically stating that ACORN is being convicted for following the law.

Here is a list of ACORN's illegal activity over the years in 17 states.
Fraud Map :: Rotten Acorn ::
 
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Since none of you will look into this I'll print it for all to see:
Fraud Map :: Rotten Acorn ::


AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.

CO 2005 Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.

2004 An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.

CT 2008 The New York Post reported that ACORN submitted a voter registration card for a 7-year-old Bridgeport girl. Another 8,000 cards from the same city will be scrutinized for possible fraud.

FL 2009 In September, 11 ACORN workers were accused of forging voter registration applications in Miami-Dade County during the last election. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the state attorney’s office scoured hundreds of suspicious applications provided by ACORN and found 197 of 260 contained personal ID information that did not match any living person.
2008 Election officials in Brevard County have given prosecutors more than 23 suspect registrations from ACORN. The state's Division of Elections is also investigating complaints in Orange and Broward Counties.
2004 A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.

IN 2008 Election officials in Indiana have thrown out more than 4,000 ACORN-submitted voter registrations after finding they had identical handwriting and included the names of many deceased Indianans, and even the name of a fast food restaurant.

MI 2008 Clerks in Detroit found a "sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent [voter] applications" from the Michigan branch of ACORN. Those applications have been turned over to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation.
2004 The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.

MO 2008 Nearly 400 ACORN-submitted registrations in Kansas City have been rejected due to duplication or fake information.
2007 Four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election.
2006 Eight ACORN employees in St. Louis were indicted on federal election fraud charges. Each of the eight faces up to five years in prison for forging signatures and submitting false information.
2003 Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.

MN 2004 During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.

NC 2008 County elections officials have sent suspicious voter registration applications to the state Board of Elections. Many of the applications had similar or identical names, but with different addresses or dates of birth.
2004 North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.

NM 2008 Prosecutors are investigating more than 1,100 ACORN-submitted voter registration cards after a county clerk found them to be fraudulent. Many of the cards included duplicate names and slightly altered personal information.
2005 Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”
2004 An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.

NV 2009 Nevada authorities indicted ACORN on 26 counts of voter registration fraud and 13 counts of illegally compensating canvassers. ACORN provided a bonus compensation program called “Blackjack” or “21+” for any canvasser who registered more than 20 voters per shift, which is illegal under Nevada law.
2008 Nevada state authorities raided ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters as part of a task force investigation of election fraud. Fraudulent registrations included players from the Dallas Cowboys.

OH 2008 ACORN activists gave Ohio residents cash and cigarettes in exchange for filling out voter registration card, according to the New York Post. Some voters claim to have registered dozens of times, and one man says he signed up on 72 cards.
2007 A man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties.
2004 A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.

PA 2009 Seven ACORN workers in the Pittsburgh area were indicted for submitting falsified voter registration forms. Six of the seven were also indicted for registering voters under an illegal quota system.
2008 State election officials have thrown out 57,435 voter registrations, the majority of which were submitted by ACORN. The registrations were thrown out after officials found "clearly fraudulent" signatures, vacant lots listed as addresses, and other signs of fraud.
2008 An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.
2004 Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.

TX 2008 In Harris County, nearly 10,000 ACORN-submitted registrations were found to be invalid, including many with clearly fraudulent addresses or other personal information.
2008 ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.

VA 2005 In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.

In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."

WA 2007 Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.

WI 2008 At least 33,000 ACORN-submitted registrations in Milwaukee have been called into question after it was found that the organizations had been using felons as registration workers, in violation of state election rules. Two people involved in the ongoing Wisconsin voter fraud investigation have been charged with felonies.
2004 The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.
 
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In October of 2008 I had to got to the DMV in Chester, VA to get a temp handicap sticker for my vehicle.

Project Vote had about a dozen "workers" outside registering people to vote.

I watched them for about an hour while waiting to be called to the window.

The approached only blacks and minorities and avoided white people.
 
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Re: ACORN Pleads Guilty to Voter Fraud

I'm sorry to burst your bubble. ACORN has been convicted all over the country.

No other organization who is involved in voter registration is having these troubles and convictions for submitting false registration forms.

Why is it always ACORN and their sub-groups? Bad advice from their lawyer?

You're basically stating that ACORN is being convicted for following the law.

Here is a list of ACORN's illegal activity over the years in 17 states.
Fraud Map :: Rotten Acorn ::

No, that's not what I'm stating.

What you don't seem to grasp is that ACORN is not a single creature. ACORN employees have committed voter registration fraud, and virtually all of the instances on your list are people who were turned over to the authorities by ACORN management. Convicting an employee of an organization is not the same thing as convicting the entire organization.

Unless you think Christianity is a whole is guilty of child molestation?
 
Re: ACORN Pleads Guilty to Voter Fraud

No, that's not what I'm stating.

What you don't seem to grasp is that ACORN is not a single creature. ACORN employees have committed voter registration fraud, and virtually all of the instances on your list are people who were turned over to the authorities by ACORN management. Convicting an employee of an organization is not the same thing as convicting the entire organization.

Unless you think Christianity is a whole is guilty of child molestation?

The chances of so many employees in so many states having the exact same idea to commit fraud has to be millions to 1.

This shows that it was systemic in ACORN to tell employees to do this and, as you say, when they got caught they turned in the employees. What about the ones that did not get caught?
 
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The chances of so many employees in so many states having the exact same idea to commit fraud has to be millions to 1.

This shows that it was systemic in ACORN to tell employees to do this and, as you say, when they got caught they turned in the employees. What about the ones that did not get caught?

Complete nonsense. A combination of temporary low-wage workers and a bonus ($5) for meeting a specific quota is practically guaranteed to end up with a few bad apples taking the lazy option. The bonus, by the way, is legal in most states, but not Nevada. Hence this thread. Claiming this is a systemic problem created by directives from ACORN is just plain unfounded. If you have any evidence of this claim of yours, I'm all ears.

By the way, ACORN is hardly the only organization with this problem.
 
Re: ACORN Pleads Guilty to Voter Fraud

The chances of so many employees in so many states having the exact same idea to commit fraud has to be millions to 1.

This shows that it was systemic in ACORN to tell employees to do this and, as you say, when they got caught they turned in the employees. What about the ones that did not get caught?

By what logic would ACORN tell temporary employees to defraud them of money by making up false voters? Would a company tell its staff to file fake expenses claims?
 
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By what logic would ACORN tell temporary employees to defraud them of money by making up false voters? Would a company tell its staff to file fake expenses claims?

Conservative logic. ACORN is liberal. Liberals are bad. Therefore, bad things said about ACORN must be true. Because ACORN is bad.
 
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What's sad is that people who watch Fox News think that Voter REGISTRATION Fraud could actually effect the outcome of a national election.

They read this story and repeat it to their friends leaving out the word Registration -- Voter Fraud is a serious crime. Voter Registration Fraud is not.

If Voter Registration Fraud is not a crime, why do they call it "Fraud"?

Or is your point that it is not a 'serious' crime by Democratic standards and should therefore be overlooked?
 
Re: ACORN Pleads Guilty to Voter Fraud

No, that's not what I'm stating.

What you don't seem to grasp is that ACORN is not a single creature. ACORN employees have committed voter registration fraud, and virtually all of the instances on your list are people who were turned over to the authorities by ACORN management. Convicting an employee of an organization is not the same thing as convicting the entire organization.

Unless you think Christianity is a whole is guilty of child molestation?

You didn't read the OP article:

The defunct political advocacy group ACORN has pleaded guilty to one count of an election law violation in Las Vegas, Nevada.

I'll ask again:

Why is it always ACORN and their sub-groups? Bad advice from their lawyer?
 
What's sad is that people who watch Fox News think that Voter REGISTRATION Fraud could actually effect the outcome of a national election.

They read this story and repeat it to their friends leaving out the word Registration -- Voter Fraud is a serious crime. Voter Registration Fraud is not.

What's sad is that so many lefties could care less an organization like ACORN is receiving federal money.

My concern is the nationwide effort by ACORN to register fake and dead people and the false registration forms that are approved.

Also the prostitution houses ACORN obviously help people start.
 
Is there no end to the stupid? How does a defunct entity do anything? How does it plead guilty to something it did not do, but reported its staff for doing, before it went defunct? how often will debunked lies be repeated ad nauseam? Where did this far-right subculture slither from, and where will it end?
 
Is there no end to the stupid? How does a defunct entity do anything? How does it plead guilty to something it did not do, but reported its staff for doing, before it went defunct? how often will debunked lies be repeated ad nauseam? Where did this far-right subculture slither from, and where will it end?

ACORN is not gone. It's alive and well under a different name.

Project Vote still exists as well as many of ACORN's sub-groups.

"debunked lies repeated ad nauseam" ...... indeed.

Guess you missed this when it was posted.



In fact, the process has already begun, she noted. Wade Rathke, who founded the organization, announced on his blog that ACORN International has officially changed its name to “Community Organizations International.”

ACORN drops tarnished name and moves to silence critics | Kevin Mooney | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner
 
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