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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on October 07, 2008, 03:42:16 PM
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Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud.
Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.
The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.
"Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications," Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev.
Secretary of State Ross Miller said the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
"Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4," Miller said.
Walsh said agents from both the secretary of state's office and Nevada attorney general's office conducted the raid at 9:30 a.m. local time, and "took a bunch of stuff."
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/07/acorn-vegas-office-raided-voter-fraud-investigation/
Wait til the DUmp sees this!
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With all the news today, it seems the MSM is (for now) on our side. Ratings whores all of them.
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Good.
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D'oooooohhhhhh
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Was my name on the list?
If I don't get to vote but once, I'm gonna be dis-in-fran-jized. :-)
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http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/story.asp?s=9139062
This is still ongoing, and voter fraud is rampant in any sawing state, Nevada's not the exception. I hope this spurs more investigating into ACORN's illegal activities in other states. If you really want to heighten their paranoia, tell them Karl Rove has been in Las Vegas all day, at the Mirage.
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http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/story.asp?s=9139062
This is still ongoing, and voter fraud is rampant in any sawing state, Nevada's not the exception. I hope this spurs more investigating into ACORN's illegal activities in other states. If you really want to heighten their paranoia, tell them Karl Rove has been in Las Vegas all day, at the Mirage.
from the story that Tess posted . . .
. . . a pat on the back to those who'd helped to sign up an astonishing 90,000 new voters over the past few months.
here are the results from 2004:
Republican Bush 418,690 51%
Democratic Kerry 397,190 48%
holy :censored:
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heh -- on FOX now - ACORN under investigation in <<ALL 10>> swing states. GOBAMA!!
Edited to add: -- This sounds to me to be the beginning of The October Surprise
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heh -- on FOX now - ACORN under investigation in <<ALL 10>> swing states. GOBAMA!!
Edited to add: -- This sounds to me to be the beginning of The October Surprise
I sure hope so. This coupled with the Ayers stuff has to have the Barakstar! folks sweating bullets.
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Fox is saying in Lake County, Indiana, over half of the registrations by Acorn are obviously fradulent. They said most of them are the same handwriting, illegible, obviously fradulent.
Obama must be so proud. :whatever:
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OMG, now the NAACP has filed a suit saying it's discrimination (the attempt in Ohio to disallow the same day registration/vote thing). Isn't that just special? I guess we can always depend on that group to yell racism when fraud is detected.
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OMG, now the NAACP has filed a suit saying it's discrimination (the attempt in Ohio to disallow the same day registration/vote thing). Isn't that just special? I guess we can always depend on that group to yell racism when fraud is detected.
vote fraud is a civil right? who knew? :uhsure: :whatever:
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official statement on the raid from ACORN. if this makes sense to anyone, could you please explain it to me?
because I am lost.
"Over the past year, ACORN has worked hard to help over 80,000 people in Clark County register to vote. As part of our nonpartisan voter registration program, we have reviewed all the applications submitted by our canvassers. When we have identified suspicious applications, we have separated them out and flagged them for election officials. We have zero tolerance for fraudulent registrations. We immediately dismiss employees we suspect of submitting fraudulent registrations.
"For the past 10 months, any time ACORN has identified a potentially fraudulent application, we turn that application in to election officials separately and offer to provide election officials with the information they would need to pursue an investigation or prosecution of the individual.
"Election officials routinely ignored this information and failed to act. In early July, ACORN asked to meet with election officials to express our concerns that they were not acting on information ACORN had presented to them. ACORN met with Clark County elections officials and a representative of the Secretary of State on July 17th. ACORN pleaded with them to take our concerns about fraudulent applications seriously. One week later, elections officials asked us to provide them with a second copy of what we had previously provided to them. ACORN responded by giving election officials copies of 46 'problem application packages,' which involved 33 former canvassers.
"On September 23, ACORN had received a subpoena dated September 19th requesting information on 15 employees, all of whom had been included in the packages we had previously submitted to election officials. ACORN provided our personnel records on these 15 employees on September 29.
"Today's raid by the Secretary of State's Office is a stunt that serves no useful purpose other than to discredit our work registering Nevadans and distracting us from the important work ahead of getting every eligible voter to the polls."
Link (http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12346)
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official statement on the raid from ACORN. if this makes sense to anyone, could you please explain it to me?
because I am lost.
Translation:
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k240/churrs27/dude_wait_what_SMALL.jpg)
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As I wondered in the other thread here about this, "Betcha CNN won't touch this!"
So I decided to let google be my friend. I entered "ACORN" as my search term in google news and found it buried halfway down the list.....note THEIR headline:
Grassroots group's office raided in voter fraud investigation
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As I wondered in the other thread here about this, "Betcha CNN won't touch this!"
So I decided to let google be my friend. I entered "ACORN" as my search term in google news and found it buried halfway down the list.....note THEIR headline:
at least we know what community organizers do now. :whatever:
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As part of our nonpartisan voter registration program, we have reviewed all the applications submitted by our canvassers.
I wonder how many new registered voters are republicans? ::)
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official statement on the raid from ACORN. if this makes sense to anyone, could you please explain it to me?
because I am lost.
TRANSLATION: It ain't our fault! It's the fault of the:
A) canvasser
B) SecState/election officials
C) the guy that accidently misapplied the "Legitimate / Zombie" Post-its
Plausible Deniability FTW!
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TRANSLATION: It ain't our fault! It's the fault of the:
A) canvasser
B) SecState/election officials
C) the guy that accidently misapplied the "Legitimate / Zombie" Post-its
Plausible Deniability FTW!
That right there is the liberal motto.
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I wonder how many new registered voters are republicans? ::)
just one; tom brady. but he was registered twice. :whatever: :-)
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TRANSLATION: It ain't our fault! It's the fault of the:
A) canvasser
B) SecState/election officials
C) the guy that accidently misapplied the "Legitimate / Zombie" Post-its
Plausible Deniability FTW!
I don't understand why you would submit a suspicious application to begin with. especially if you "immediately dismiss employees we suspect of submitting fraudulent registrations". you fire the employee, but submit his registrations anyway?
how much sense does that make?
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I don't understand why you would submit a suspicious application to begin with. especially if you "immediately dismiss employees we suspect of submitting fraudulent registrations". you fire the employee, but submit his registrations anyway?
how much sense does that make?
"It's-er-uh--in the interests of full disclosure.
"Yeah! Yeah!
"We wanted to be upfront and show the election officials what we found and defer to their judgment.
"Hey! Maybe there really are voters named Mike Hunt, Jack Mehoff and I. P. Frehley!"
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just one; tom brady. but he was registered twice. :whatever: :-)
Don't forget that ACORN signed up Tony Romo too.
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They signed up all of the Dallas Cowboys players.
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official statement on the raid from ACORN. if this makes sense to anyone, could you please explain it to me?
because I am lost.
It means "If there is fraud, we didn't do it. Cuz its wrong. And we know it. And Obama would get angry if we got caught. And its un-American"
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Michelle Malakin wrote about ACORN here (http://www.nypost.com/seven/10082008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_pro_barack_vote_fraud_drive_132618.htm?page=0)
As I wondered in the other thread here about this, "Betcha CNN won't touch this!"
So I decided to let google be my friend. I entered "ACORN" as my search term in google news and found it buried halfway down the list.....note THEIR headline:
I never could get that far. On the AOL political page, there's a link to CNN, one of their *trusted* parteners, here are the CNN headlines of the day:
Reporters call it for Obama
Analysis: Debate no game changer for McCain
Report Card: How did they rate?
Martin: McCain-Palin's risky move
Age, health questions continue for McCain
More Stories
:whatever:
This bias and ACORN-driven voter fraud are what were the key ingredients for a Barack Hussein Obama win.
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official statement on the raid from ACORN. if this makes sense to anyone, could you please explain it to me?
because I am lost.
We can haz xtra votes plz? Kthxbai.
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This fraud is interstate and has gone on for YEARS and YEARS. Interstate, criminal activity, ongoing, organized????Racketering, anyone?
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We can haz xtra votes plz? Kthxbai.
:rofl: H5
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This fraud is interstate and has gone on for YEARS and YEARS. Interstate, criminal activity, ongoing, organized????Racketering, anyone?
There's definately enough probable cause IMHO for a RICO case.
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at least we know what community organizers do now. :whatever:
:lmao: :lmao:
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Fox News was covering the ACORN story this morning and even covered Obama's early group "Project Vote", and his acting as a lawyer for ACORN years ago.
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Fox News was covering the ACORN story this morning and even covered Obama's early group "Project Vote", and his acting as a lawyer for ACORN years ago.
Thank God someone has the guts to connect all of the dots in this one.
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Barry does not have the best interests of this nation in mind. He wants a socialist workers "paradice" with a government planned econiomy. Well, we see what happens with a planned economy such as the one we hav e today. I say this because the very rapid growth was spurred by the mortgage market as was directed by the idiots in the Congress. Indeed, it was the WRONG over regulation by the Congress and American inventiveness that "gamed" the system AGAIN and made the prices go crazy until there was a market surplus. At which time, the deflation started.
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Barry does not have the best interests of this nation in mind. He wants a socialist workers "paradice" with a government planned econiomy. Well, we see what happens with a planned economy such as the one we hav e today. I say this because the very rapid growth was spurred by the mortgage market as was directed by the idiots in the Congress. Indeed, it was the WRONG over regulation by the Congress and American inventiveness that "gamed" the system AGAIN and made the prices go crazy until there was a market surplus. At which time, the deflation started.
Maybe we can have a socialist paradise like Cuba, but you can bet with Barry in there and a larger majority of dems in Congress, Acorn will indeed get their 20% of everything. Maybe this time the percentage will be even higher. I'm getting more and more distressed with this.
The fear is finally starting to set in. The problem is, none of the old rules even apply. The markets should be rebounding, but they aren't. I've been watching a couple stocks in the hopes of buying low, but things just keep sinking and sinking.
I think the real fear is the fear of Obama and what our lives will be like with him and the dems in power.
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St. Louie Woman,
So dollar cost average in the market by buying the stock in small lots, say under $1,000 each buy. If the drop continues, you still have a low average, like in Ford or GM, and if you get too worried, you can stop buying and move to another stock, don't like 3M, switch to Rubbermaid or General Mills.
Regatdless, you've got to be reaDY TO SIT ON THE STOCK FOR AT LEAST 5 YEARS IN THIS MARKET.
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Fox reported earlier that Boehner (sp?) was calling for rescinding fed funding to ACORN.
There are discrepancies showing up all over the place.
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Fox reported earlier that Boehner (sp?) was calling for rescinding fed funding to ACORN.
There are discrepancies showing up all over the place.
I hope he has the guts to stick with it. The idea of the feds subsiding that group of thugs gets me even sicker than those execs from AIG at the spa. :banghead:
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Fox reported earlier that Boehner (sp?) was calling for rescinding fed funding to ACORN.
There are discrepancies showing up all over the place.
ACORN is federally funded? I probably should have known that, but it did come as something of a shock to me.
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ACORN is federally funded? I probably should have known that, but it did come as something of a shock to me.
They receive tax dollars.....how much I haven't been able to figure out.
I'm kind of working and though it's been on a lot this afternoon....seems like every time I'm on the phone is when it's being discussed.
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ACORN is federally funded and is supposed to be non-partizan! :banghead:
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look at the voters they have registered in the swing states . . . 250,000 in ohio?!?!?!
(http://www.acorn.org/typo3temp/pics/baea967b85.jpg)
on edit : LOL!!! ACORN took down the jpg that I hotlinked to. :-)
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From its fiscal years 2004-2006, ACORN Housing Corp obtained 40% of its funding from the government, totaling more than $7 million.
http://www.consumersrightsleague.org/uploadedfiles/Latest%20Million%20Dollar%20ACORN%20Scandal.pdf
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look at the voters they have registered in the swing states . . . 250,000 in ohio?!?!?!
(http://www.acorn.org/typo3temp/pics/baea967b85.jpg)
Amazingly, the Marion County, Indiana registration is 470,000 out of 440,000 eligible voters... (+30,000)
just about what ACORN was able to register in Indiana!
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Fox just had someone on who said they were registered by ACORN 72 times!!!!
Who is going to find all these fake registrations.....and in 3 weeks?
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It seems that ACORN has a quota system to get paid. Works out to 20 an hour, 160 per fday. That gives you 3 min to find, complete the form and get a signature. No bathroom breaks, lunch, coffee etc etc. It is IMPOSSIBLE to do this legitimately, impossible. PLUS, they travel in groups. So, extortion plays a part.
But the "bosses" blame the "workers".
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It seems that ACORN has a quota system to get paid. Works out to 20 an hour, 160 per fday. That gives you 3 min to find, complete the form and get a signature. No bathroom breaks, lunch, coffee etc etc. It is IMPOSSIBLE to do this legitimately, impossible. PLUS, they travel in groups. So, extortion plays a part.
But the "bosses" blame the "workers".
I heard on the radio some of the "bosses" are felons too. Some guy, also a felon, quit working for them and said something like, "I may be a felon but these guys are crack heads" or something like that.
Or here is something more like a proper quote:
Jason Anderson rose to the rank of supervisor in ACORN even though he was a convicted felon. Other employees had served time for identity theft. Another former inmate who worked for ACORN told authorities his co-workers were "lazy crack heads."
Linky (http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?6ff15fe8-8538-4dd4-aae0-841adf78f753)
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As I wondered in the other thread here about this, "Betcha CNN won't touch this!"
So I decided to let goggle be my friend. I entered "ACORN" as my search term in goggle news and found it buried halfway down the list.....note THEIR headline:
That doesn't suprise me a bit that goggle has done that! Figure's they are part of the leftist pack. CNN tell the truth! NEVER! Especially if it might hurt there shining star Nobama! :bird:
I'm just glad that the raids have happened and it's about time. I was shocked today to hear NBC actually say something good about McCain and said the Nobama was lying about one of his statements from the debates. :o
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the vegas story keeps getting weirder and weirder. I love the last sentence; "we didn't break the law that we broke, THEY broke the law that we broke" :whatever:
Inmates Helped ACORN Gather Voter Registrations
The governor's office says it got a lot of calls following allegations of voter fraud with a group called ACORN. People were worried about the integrity of the registration process. Governor Gibbons has now requested an outline of how poll workers are trained.
Meanwhile, Eyewitness News has learned convicted prisoners were working for the community organization.
At Casa Grande, inmates who have demonstrated good behavior are allowed to leave the premises for work. The Department of Corrections outsources job placement to a private group called Choices, based on Valley View.
According to the affidavit in support of Tuesday's search warrant, it was Choices which first contacted ACORN to discuss inmate placement.
"What happened was Casa Grande, which is a rehabilitation program that is part of the Nevada Department of Corrections, approached us this summer and said, 'Hey, we've got this rehab program we would like to offer these inmates to work with you as your employees,'" said Matthew Henderson with ACORN.
But state law appears to bar inmates from such work. It says inmates may not "have control over or access to personal information" such as what is contained in a voter registration form.
ACORN denies they approached Casa Grande for workers and say it was state officials that broke the law by coming to them.
More (http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=9156458&nav=menu102_2)
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The graphic I hotlinked to from the ACORN site no longer works. It looks like either the site has problems, or they took it down. but here (http://acorn.org/fileadmin/Vote/Voter_chart_page.pdf) is a link to a pdf displaying the numbers of voters that they are claiming to have registered nationwide. it's alarming, to say the least.
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the investigation is well underway in PA. they don't talk about numbers, but the allegheny county DA says that they have uncovered a crime. Zappala is a democrat, though, and has been mentioned in the past as a possible candidate for PA Atty Gen. I think that would make him less likely to want to turn the ACORN fraud into a huge scandal, and piss off the state democrat party.
County Police Investigate ACORN Over Voter Fraud Allegations
PITTSBURGH -- Allegheny County police are sifting through voter registration forms in an effort affiliated with a national investigation that has turned up thousands of allegedly fraudulent voter registration forms.
Regulators are paying close scrutiny to registrations submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, a group dedicated to assisting the less fortunate across the country.
“There appears to be a crime,†said Steve Zappala, Allegheny County District Attorney. “Clearly there are people on these applications who have not been solicited or may not exist. They’re forgeries.â€
On Wednesday, authorities in Las Vegas raided an ACORN office and confiscated recent voter registration documents.
Distancing itself from the controversy, ACORN said at that time it has zero tolerance for fraudulent registration and will immediately fire anyone engaged in such activity.
Link (http://www.wpxi.com/news/17680532/detail.html)
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Good gravy!! It's time for this house of cards to get blown over. Fast.
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and now in indiana. this story doesn't specifically mention whether or not the FBI is involved or not, but
you would have to assume that if they weren't, they are now. and CNN mentions a story from august
which reported that the obama campaign misreported 800,000 paid to ACORN for what was originally
described as polling, & etc., but turns out to be for voter registration.
if that doesn't tie The BarackStar! to ACORN, then nothing will.
Thousands of voter registration forms faked, officials say
CROWN 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.
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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.
More (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/09/acorn.fraud.claims/index.html)
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I have slightly modified the title of this thread to cover all of the ACORN voter fraud investigations that are popping up around the country.
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Sent in to Fox News, although, it makes me happy to see CNN doing this story as well.
Hopefully, it won't get swept under the rug by the MSM.
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"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."
"We didn't do anything wrong!"
****ers need to be shot.
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.
They need to throw out all ACORN registrations.
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Sent in to Fox News, although, it makes me happy to see CNN doing this story as well.
Hopefully, it won't get swept under the rug by the MSM.
I was sort of surprised to see CNN report that $800K, too. maybe this is the start of the MSM acting responsibly.
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I was sort of surprised to see CNN report that $800K, too. maybe this is the start of the MSM acting responsibly.
I disagree. I think its one of two driving factors, or maybe a combination of both. Either the MSM is (finally) capitulating to the growing landslide of fraud surrounding the Barackstar! or they are going for ratings by tearing down the person they helped create.
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I disagree. I think its one of two driving factors, or maybe a combination of both. Either the MSM is (finally) capitulating to the growing landslide of fraud surrounding the Barackstar! or they are going for ratings by tearing down the person they helped create.
wishful thinking. I had a non-cynical, partially optimistic moment. lock me up. :whatever:
(jeeez. I said "maybe")
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the MSM is virtually ignoring the organized attempt to steal a nationwide election. but this morning they are all over a report regarding Sarah Palin and troopergate that hasn't even been released yet, and may not ever be.
I won't bore you by posting it. it looks and reads exactly how you would expect it to.
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The Crown Point, IN story just broke on Fox News. They had a local reporter on the scene with the fraudulent forms turned in by ACORN.
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The Crown Point, IN story just broke on Fox News. They had a local reporter on the scene with the fraudulent forms turned in by ACORN.
to believe ACORN's explanation, that it is the canvassers' fault, you would expect to only find fraud in a few isolated places. but that fact that they are finding rampant voter fraud every place that ACORN is in operation SCREAMS OUT that it is an ORGANIZED attempt to steal the election.
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OK, so CNN is finally giving this ACORN business some coverage. But with their very special spin, of course.....
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.
Their intent all along has been fraudulent you idiot.
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."
No idea? REALLY?
Do they really think we sit and read this $hit and swallow it with a smile?
McCain needs to move away from Ayers and beat Obama about the head with ACORN. (Uh, lurking DUmmies - that's a metaphor, not a rethuglican threat of violence)
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"It went awry...somewhere...."
Well, :thatsright:
Since it's awry in several different states....awry is not quite the right word.
Perhaps......"busted" would be better.
If it wasn't such a serious situation.....it would be hilarious.
I would say a lot of people are needing some diapers to catch the "flow"....cause the poop's gone liquid at this point. :loser:
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I would say a lot of people are needing some diapers to catch the "flow"....cause the poop's gone liquid at this point. :loser:
LMAO -- H5 for you - though that comment almost earned a BS as well, since I need to utilize the VRWC Mindspork now.. Which almost always leaves collateral damage. Oh well, goodbye to memories of my 5th bithday party.
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Heh - just heard on FOX that the ACORN investigation is now twelve states wide, up from ten as of yesterday.
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Here's a story from September I found on Free Republic
Lawsuit Adds to Turmoil for Community Group
By STEPHANIE STROM
Published: September 9, 2008
Correction Appended
In the wake of an embezzlement scandal that rocked the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or Acorn, two of its board members are seeking a court order to force it to hand over financial documents.
They also are seeking to sever what they describe as continuing ties between Acorn and its founder, Wade Rathke, who resigned after it became public this summer that his brother had embezzled almost $1 million from the organization eight years ago. They contend that Mr. Rathke continues to direct the staff and expenditures.
“Acorn will suffer irreparable harm if the defendants are not restrained from contact with employees, expending and receiving, destroying or prohibiting the review of accounting and other data necessary to fulfill the fiduciary responsibility of the interim management committee,†the board members, Marcel Reid and Karen Inman, stated in the petition. Both serve on a committee established to lead Acorn.
The suit cites their concerns that money is being spent improperly and that important documents are being destroyed. It was filed on behalf of the entire 51-member board, but Acorn executives and some board members say Ms. Reid and Ms. Inman had no authority to file the suit or to claim to represent the board.
Acorn contends that Ms. Reid and Ms. Inman are trying to engineer a takeover, and on Tuesday, it demanded that the petition be withdrawn.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/us/10acorn.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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Well, there is one positive for Obama after this whole ACORN thing... We now know what a Community Organizer does.
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Well, there is one positive for Obama after this whole ACORN thing... We now know what a Community Organizer does.
I sooooooooooo already said that. :-)
(but it was still witty :wink: )
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But only half as much the second time around. :evillaugh:
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I sooooooooooo already said that. :-)
(but it was still witty :wink: )
I must have missed it - I realized it earlier when I read the text around the ACORN logo that the volunteers wear - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.. Full of funny it is :-)
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O'jahnae Smith is ready and registered to vote this November.
There's only one problem: She's 7 years old.
The Connecticut girl is 11 years too young - and nobody in her family knows how she ended up on a voter registration form submitted by ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
"She's registered to vote?" said a surprised Jerome Smith, O'jahnae's teenage brother. "She's too young to vote."
But that didn't stop someone from forging the child's signature on a voter registration card and giving her a fake birth date that upped her age to 27. The family told The Post a drug-addicted relative may have given the bogus card to ACORN.
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/10122008/news/politics/7_yr__old_gets_an_acorn_vote_133207.htm
How stupid would you have to be to falsely register a child with a name so unusual that I'm betting it is unique?
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Perhaps you missed the Ohio Restaurant that ACORN registered, and included the 's on the registration form? Or the Mouse family? Mickey and Minnie? Or the Dallas Cowboys? Or Stormi Bays, Fruto Boy or 1800 more made up names in Las VEGAS? Or 27,000 fraudulent registration forms in another city?
I hear that the only reason rthe Duck family was not registered is because Scrooge McDuck is an infamous conservative/neocon. :o :thatsright: :whatever:
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Fox just had someone on who said they were registered by ACORN 72 times!!!!
Who is going to find all these fake registrations.....and in 3 weeks?
it's even worse than we imagined . . . here's the guy with 72 registrations.
1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS
'ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS'
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.
More (http://www.nypost.com/seven/10102008/news/politics/1_voter__72_registrations_132965.htm)
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Would a person have enough time to vote 72 times?
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Would a person have enough time to vote 72 times?
Who said it would be the same person voting?
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Exactly, you spread the cards around to your partizans, and be sure all are in different districts, and go from district to district voting. Very simple.
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now we are getting someplace. although it's too late to help john mccain, perhaps it will help Sarah Palin in 2012. that is,
if (hypothetically speaking) it doesn't get swept under the rug by the Obama Administration.
Officials: FBI investigates ACORN for voter fraud
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election.
A senior law enforcement official confirmed the investigation to The Associated Press on Thursday. A second senior law enforcement official says the FBI was looking at results of recent raids on ACORN offices in several states for any evidence of a coordinated national scam.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because regulatons forbid discussing ongoing investigations particularly so close to an election.
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, says it has registered 1.3 million young people, minorities and poor and working-class voters—most of whom tend to be Democrats.
Link (http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93RN9IG0&show_article=1)
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That same day register and vote crap that went on in Ohio was ridiculous and set the stage for fraud.
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Finally! Thank you!
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Finally! Thank you!
this is almost de facto a RICO investigation.
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this is almost de facto a RICO investigation.
Finally - its a bit late, but we can hope for a backlash now that it seems ACORN is on the edge of a RICO investigation and ACORN has become 'newsworthy' (grudgingly by most of the MSM, but its better than nothing.)
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This is one of the areas that I talked about that should be tighter with registrations. Make people drag their lazy asses to register to vote and present proof of who they are. Why should the rest of us worry about you being disenfranchised if voting is so unimportant to someone that they have to be hounded outside of a Goodwill by ACORN to be registered to begin with? If it matters that much, then get your happy ass to a registration office and get on with it. I never understood the willy nilly register in the street crap anyway. And surely getting identification should not be an issue if voting is so very important to you that you worry about being disenfranchised to begin with, but let's face it, that was never the issue. It's all a bunch of smoke and mirrors to find ways to fabricate votes. I'll await Michelle Obama's "ashamed to be an American today" speech in reference to ACORN's blatent attempt to DISENFRANCHISE republicans and independents.
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frankly, beyond pushing a political ideology, I see no reason for all the voter registration groups.
Go to your town hall.
Present valid ID.
Fill out a one page form. (in Massachusetts its not much bigger than a postcard)
Go home.
Its magic. Taa-freakin'-daa.
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frankly, beyond pushing a political ideology, I see no reason for all the voter registration groups.
Go to your town hall.
Present valid ID.
Fill out a one page form. (in Massachusetts its not much bigger than a postcard)
Go home.
Its magic. Taa-freakin'-daa.
And there you have it in a nutshell . It is all about pushing ideology.
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another day, another state in crisis thanks to ACORN.
Republicans, ACORN battle over Pa. registration drive
HARRISBURG -- Controversy erupted at the state Capitol today between the state Republican Party and a group of community organizers called ACORN over the group's efforts to register 140,000 new voters in Pennsylvania over the past 18 months.
State GOP Chairman Bob Gleason and former Republican state Supreme Court Justice Sandra Newman charged that ACORN has tried to "fraudulently'' register many voters so they can vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Nov. 4.
They claimed that ACORN has close ties to Mr. Obama from his days as a community organizer in Chicago and said he's helped the group get funding for get-out-the-vote efforts in the past.
ACORN officials Ali Kronley, Krista Holub and others strongly denied making any effort to register new voters by using fake names and addresses. Ms. Holub said critics of ACORN are using "voter suppression'' efforts to hold down the vote on Nov. 4 of poorer people and those "of color,'' including African Americans and Latinos.
"We believe everyone should have a say in elections, not just the wealthy and well-connected,'' said Olivia Dorsey, an ACORN organizer from Philadelphia. She said she's proud of her part in registering 140,000 new voters in Pennsylvania, part of the 1.3 million new voters ACORN has registered nationwide.
Mr. Gleason said he is filing a lawsuit today against the state Department of State and ACORN aimed at "ensuring a fair election.''
More (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08291/920724-100.stm)