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Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN's Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees."There appears to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications," said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State's Office. "And it appears to be widespread."http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809140383
The city’s elections director, Scott Leiendecker, said some registration cards appeared to be signed by the same person, and some names appeared to be copied straight out of the phone book. For example, Robert S. Rothschild, Jr. and his wife are listed in the white pages as Sandy and Susan Rothschild. They received a letter from the county election board notifying them of their new voter registration as Sandy and Susan Rothschild—each female and each having the same birth date. “Is someone really going to go to our precinct and try to vote? I doubt it very much,†Rothschild told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Or is this just some sloppy way [for an ACORN worker] to make it appear that they’re really doing the work they’re hired to do?â€ACORN claims that the fraudulent registrations were perpetrated by some “temporary workers†whom ACORN caught and fired, and that it brought the matter to the attention of authorities. But Kansas City Board of Elections Chairman Melodie Powell, a Republican, says that these claims are “seriously misleading†and that ACORN helped identify the perpetrators only after her staff took the evidence to the FBI.
