Posted on 10/25/2006 9:48:34 AM PDT by rface
CLAYTON, Mo. - St. Louis County Election officials claim hundreds of fraudulent voter address changes have been turned in by ACORN, a group that's been criticized for its voter sign-up work in Missouri.
St. Louis County's Republican elections director Joseph Goeke said if a county voter does not get a polling-place notification card in the mail right before the election, the address could have been changed behind their back.
Election Board employees estimate hundreds of fraudulent address changes were submitted.
The address changes included forged signatures and are among questionable or fraudulent voter registration cards submitted to the county within the past couple of months.
County officials told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that most of the suspicious registrations and address changes were submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Similar fraudulent voter registration cards have turned up this month in St. Louis city and this week in Kansas City, as well as other states, including Ohio.
The cases are often similar. Voter registration cards were forged for a dead person, had false signatures and change of addresses or incorrect and missing personal information, Goeke said.
ACORN has registered hundreds of thousands of legitimate voters across the country, paying workers about $8 an hour in some cases.
The group's leaders don't set quotas for the workers, but some may have turned in phony cards to make it look like they were working, ACORN's national spokesman Kevin Whelan said.
"Any workers who turned in fraudulent cards should be prosecuted," Whelan said.
In the city of St. Louis, the U.S. attorney's office has subpoenaed thousands of questionable voter registration cards that surfaced earlier this month, according to Republican elections director Scott Leiendecker.
ACORN officials say the group is cooperating with investigators.
I don't know - Jay Nixon (AG) is all but assured to be the Dem candidate running against Governor Blunt in '08. If he does nothing, wouldn't this be used as fodder against him in ads?
Time for every state to pass their own Prop200. Thank God the Supremes revoked the 9th circus's stay on voter ID in Arizona. People can't say they don't know about it, either, they have been advertising on all the stations that you have to show ID when you go vote.
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