Posted on 09/26/2008 1:33:36 PM PDT by cgk
ACORN Suspected of Voter Fraud
State Year Details
AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.
CO 2004 An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.
2005 Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.
FL 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 agencys fraud investigations.
MI 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 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.
NC 2004 North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.
NM 2005 Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the groups Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: Its 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.
OH 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.
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.
PA 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 Readings 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 2004 ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters The signature is not my signature. Its 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 2004 The district attorneys 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.
But, yeah, there's no pattern or anything. Just some misguided miscreants.
U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs (DC): Phone: (202) 224-7391. Fax: (202) 224-5137
House Committee on Financial Services (DC) - Democratic: Phone: 202-225-4247. Fax: 202-225-6952
House Committee on Financial Services (DC) - Republican: Phone: 202-225-7502. Fax: 202-226-0556
Senator John McCain: Phone: (202) 224-2235, Fax: (202) 228-2862
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Congressman John Boehner: DC: phone (202) 225-6205. fax (202) 225-0704
Senator Mitch McConnell: Phone: (202) 224-2541. Fax: (202) 224-2499
Congressman Mike Pence: DC: Phone: (202) 225-3021. Fax: (202) 225-3382
Congress.Org: Find and contact your federal, state, and local officials.
If anyone is feeling VERY able, here is the whole list of fax numbers for individual members of the House Committee on Financial Services:
Information on
House Committee on Financial Services
Majority (Democrats) | Minority (Republicans) | |
Committee Office: | Rayburn House Office Building 2129 | Rayburn House Office Building B-371A |
Committee Phone: | 202-225-4247 | 202-225-7502 |
Committee FAX: | 202-225-6952 | 202-226-0556 |
Committee Email: | Not Currently Available (Entire Committee) | |
Committee WWW Homepage: | http://financialservices.house.gov/ (Entire Committee) | |
Subcommittees: | Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee on Capital Markets Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy Trade and Technology Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations |
Majority Members (Democrats) | |||
Member Name | DC Phone | DC FAX | |
Barney Frank (D-MA) [Chairman] | 202-225-5931 | 202-225-0182 | |
Paul E. Kanjorski (D-PA) | 202-225-6511 | 202-225-0764 | |
Maxine Waters (D-CA) | 202-225-2201 | 202-225-7854 | |
Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) | 202-225-7944 | 202-225-4709 | |
Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) | 202-225-8203 | 202-225-7810 | |
Nydia M. Velazquez (D-NY) | 202-225-2361 | 202-226-0327 | |
Melvin L. Watt (D-NC) | 202-225-1510 | 202-225-1512 | |
Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY) | 202-225-2601 | 202-225-1589 | |
Brad Sherman (D-CA) | 202-225-5911 | 202-225-5879 | |
Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) | 202-225-3461 | 202-226-4169 | |
Dennis Moore (D-KS) | 202-225-2865 | 202-225-2807 | |
Michael Capuano (D-MA) | 202-225-5111 | 202-225-9322 | |
Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX) | 202-225-2531 | 202-225-5688 | |
William Lacy Clay, Jr. (D-MO) | 202-225-2406 | 202-226-3717 | |
Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) | 202-225-5516 | 202-225-5758 | |
Joe Baca (D-CA) | 202-225-6161 | 202-225-8671 | |
Stephen Lynch (D-MA) | 202-225-8273 | 202-225-3984 | |
Brad Miller (D-NC) | 202-225-3032 | 202-225-0181 | |
David Scott (D-GA) | 202-225-2939 | 202-225-4628 | |
Al Green (D-TX) | 202-225-7508 | 202-225-2947 | |
Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) | 202-225-4535 | 202-225-4403 | |
Melissa Bean (D-IL) | 202-225-3711 | 202-225-7830 | |
Gwen Moore (D-WI) | 202-225-4572 | 202-225-8135 | |
Lincoln Davis (D-TN) | 202-225-6831 | 202-226-5172 | |
Paul Hodes, II (D-NH) | 202-225-5206 | 202-225-2946 | |
Keith Ellison (D-MN) | 202-225-4755 | 202-225-4886 | |
Ron J. Klein (D-FL) | 202-225-3026 | 202-225-8398 | |
Tim Edward Mahoney (D-FL) | 202-225-5792 | 202-225-3132 | |
Charles Wilson (D-OH) | 202-225-5705 | 202-225-5907 | |
Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) | 202-225-2645 | 202-225-5278 | |
Christopher Murphy (D-CT) | 202-225-4476 | 202-225-5933 | |
Joe Donnelly (D-IN) | 202-225-3915 | 202-225-6798 | |
Bill Foster (D-IL) | 202-225-2976 | 202-225-0697 | |
Andre Carson (D-IN) | 202-225-4011 | 202-225-5633 | |
Jackie Speier (D-CA) | 202-225-3531 | 202-226-4183 | |
Don Cazayoux (D-LA) | 202-225-3901 | 202-225-7313 | |
Travis Childers (D-MS) | 202-225-4306 | 202-225-3549 | |
Minority Members (Republicans) | |||
Member Name | DC Phone | DC FAX | |
Spencer Bachus (R-AL) [Ranking Member] | 202-225-4921 | 202-225-2082 | |
Deborah Pryce (R-OH) | 202-225-2015 | 202-225-3529 | |
Michael N. Castle (R-DE) | 202-225-4165 | 202-225-2291 | |
Peter T. King (R-NY) | 202-225-7896 | 202-226-2279 | |
Edward R. Royce (R-CA) | 202-225-4111 | 202-226-0335 | |
Frank D. Lucas (R-OK) | 202-225-5565 | 202-225-8698 | |
Ron Paul (R-TX) | 202-225-2831 | Not Available | |
Steve C. LaTourette (R-OH) | 202-225-5731 | 202-225-3307 | |
Donald A. Manzullo (R-IL) | 202-225-5676 | 202-225-5284 | |
Walter B. Jones, Jr. (R-NC) | 202-225-3415 | 202-225-3286 | |
Judy Biggert (R-IL) | 202-225-3515 | 202-225-9420 | |
Christopher Shays (R-CT) | 202-225-5541 | 202-225-9629 | |
Gary Miller (R-CA) | 202-225-3201 | 202-226-6962 | |
Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) | 202-225-2711 | 202-225-7856 | |
Tom Feeney (R-FL) | 202-225-2706 | 202-226-6299 | |
Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) | 202-225-3484 | 202-226-4888 | |
E. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) | 202-225-4465 | 202-225-9048 | |
Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL) | 202-225-1002 | 202-226-6559 | |
Gresham Barrett (R-SC) | 202-225-5301 | 202-225-3216 | |
Jim Gerlach (R-PA) | 202-225-4315 | 202-225-8440 | |
Steve Pearce (R-NM) | 202-225-2365 | 202-225-9599 | |
Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) | 202-225-4005 | 202-225-9615 | |
Tom Price (R-GA) | 202-225-4501 | 202-225-4656 | |
Geoff Davis (R-KY) | 202-225-3465 | 202-225-0003 | |
Patrick McHenry (R-NC) | 202-225-2576 | 202-225-0316 | |
John Campbell (R-CA) | 202-225-5611 | 202-225-9177 | |
Adam Putnam (R-FL) | 202-225-1252 | 202-226-0585 | |
Michele Bachmann (R-MN) | 202-225-2331 | 202-225-6475 | |
Peter Roskam (R-IL) | 202-225-4561 | 202-225-1166 | |
Kenny Marchant (R-TX) | 202-225-6605 | 202-225-0074 | |
Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) | 202-225-8171 | 202-225-2667 | |
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) | 202-225-2915 | 202-225-2908 | |
Dean Heller (R-NV) | 202-225-6155 | 202-225-5679 |
BTTT
Not one penny period. I didn’t make the mess.
Done
Ping
/Bump
A simple fax reading “Not one cent for ACORN” with my name and city sent to my congressman and to the minority house.
YOur message is the wrong message and it may just work to confuse the congress to think we want the bailout but no money for this group.
When in fact we do not want the bailout.
So anyone calling or faxing needs to make that the point.
I don’t know this poster but it could in affect shift the debate from we don’t want it to no ACORN money.
thank you for posting this.
Faxes sent. BTTT
Beatles paraphrase - “I’ve got blisters on my fingers!!” BUMP!
Tatt
We are know all too well about ACORN here in Washington state from out last governor’s election. This group is corrupt and Obama is a part of this outfit! No money for them!!
WTF????????????????
I MEAN REALLY~!!!!!!!!!!!!
W. T. F.??????????????????????????????????????????
IF THIS IS A ‘BAILOUT’ THEN WHAT THE HELL IS ACORN GETTING BAILED OUT FOR????????????????
Obama’s $100 million earmark for ACORN is especially
egregious in this more-than-troublesome plan IMO. I’ve also heard/read that the earmark includes the racist organization La Raza in its language, but am trying to find a confirmed source link.
ACORN = Association of Communists ORganizing Nuts!! I just called my congressman. Acorn needs to be STOPPED!!
Senator Cantor (R-Va) is the Republican negotiator (Senate Side) and he said on Fox News a few hours ago that Dodd's provision that include ACORN and the other criminal socialistic organizations would not be in the bill.
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Good for them.
Nice to see our reps getting some STONES
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