Posted on 09/28/2008 1:36:03 AM PDT by Red Steel
TALLAHASSEE (Bay News 9) -- A national advocacy group is facing accusations of election fraud, and as Florida is one of several states that could go either way on Nov. 4, elections officials are concerned.
Over the past four years, ACORN has registered more than 380,000 new voters in Florida, but critics are accusing the organization of election fraud, saying they believe many of those new voters have no idea they've been registered.
Officials in Orange and Seminole counties have questions about voter registration cards submitted by ACORN. The Seminole County Supervisor of Elections agrees that at least a couple of the applications may have been forged.
ACORN representative Leroy Bell said he's confident that that's not the case.
"That's false, fabricated info. Just for voter suppression. That's all," he said.
So far, ACORN directors have disciplined some staff members following accusations in Orange County. In Seminole County, one registration card collector was fired.
However, top U.S. House Republicans are attacking ACORN, calling the organization a "leftist political advocacy group" that could be trying to rig the election. They say that, in the past ACORN workers have already been convicted of fraud, and now they are calling for a federal investigation.
The state would also be involved with any investigation into widespread election fraud on the part of ACORN. The problem is, most registration cards have no markings to show who submitted them. The most that can be done to track the registrations is calling a phone number to confirm that a person did in fact register.
Jennifer Krell Davis, a spokeswoman for Florida's Division of Elections, said that the state wanted to require third-party groups like ACORN to mark their cards, but the law is currently being held up in the courts.
"Sometimes we can ascertain if the form has some kind of marking or has the organization's name, but that is completely not required, and there isn't a way within our larger database system to tag these," she said.
State officials say that if there are questionable cards with third-party markings, they turn them over to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for investigation.
Throw out all acorn registrations NOW!!
“They can’t win if they don’t cheat.
They can’t cheat if it’s not even close.” —Rush Limbaugh.
The obami camp is so overt and stalinistic. Everyday when I read this stuff, I am left speechless and very angry at the same time. I also feel that if this man is “elected-anointed” the damage may be too great to overcome. With a democrat controlled congress, there would be no stopping him.
"They (the Republicans) say" that Acorn workers have already been convicted of fraud? You'd think that a crack news organization like "BayNews 9" could independently verify whether any "Acorns" had been convicted of vote fraud, wouldn't you? Of course, then the statement might sound more like a fact, and not a Republican's opinion.
And when exactly is the McCain camp going to start making this connection explicitly?
The problem is that Acorn registrations, according to the article, cannot be identified.
This is why he is so strong for gun control.
Crush ACORN. It is a marxist organizations based on extortion. Destroy it and toss its shattered remains onto the ash heap of history.
Barack Obama, the self-professed community organizer, was a lead trainer for ACORN in how to invent voters and votes to subvert elections. These ACORN vote registrations often included fictitious names and addresses or those of dead people because ACORN workers were paid by the registration so many dollars apiece, and the motivation to just invent hundreds of them was rife. Clearly the organization did not frown on such illegal actions as long as the workers didn't get caught, in which case it was understood the worker would be "fired".
I believe there’s a very simple action that would stop voter fraud...the same as what they did in Iraq.
A surprise bottle of permanant ink on the desk when you go to vote. Your vote...your fingerprint.
Just don’t announce it ahead of time.
I like your idea.
yep. i’m waiting for his “can i get one of these?” statements from barack (echo john f-ing kerry) inquiring about a gun license.
which reminds me, being in chicago, he can’t have a handgun, is that right?
Pittsburgh Tribune Review Aug 22, 2008 U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat’s campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.
An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. — a subsidiary of ACORN — worked in “get-out-the-vote” projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary.
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