Posted on 10/07/2008 12:20:45 PM PDT by Smogger
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. He said some registrations used the names of Dallas Cowboys football players.
Walsh said agents from both the secretary of state's office and Nevada attorney general's office conducted the raid, and "took a bunch of stuff."
ACORN spokesman Charles Jackson confirmed the group's Nevada office was raided.
It's not the first time ACORN's been under investigation for irregularities in registration records.
In 2006, ACORN committed what Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed called the "worse case of election fraud" in the state's history.
(Excerpt) Read more at elections.foxnews.com ...
GET
THAT
POPCORN!!!!
Sounds like the left knows a bit more about correct poll numbers than the MSM is willing to share.
Awesome!! I really hope McCain raises Obama’s involvement with ACORN and ACORN’s role in voter fraud and the sub-prime meltdown tonight.
This outfit is a total joke!
you should try mixing the chocolate rasins w/ it, taste GREAT!!
I’m praying hard that they hit the motherload of memos, plans, collusion with Obama, etc...
I’d say that’s worth a point or two for McCain/Palin in Nevada. :-)
If you find a coordinated effort to deprive someone of their civil rights, can’t they be taken down under the same laws that have been used against the KKK and other hate groups?
Exactly WHAT does this group have to DO to be forced to disband?
We are still giving them taxpayer money AND raiding them at the same time?
Good point. For all the talk about Obama’s leads in polls in the drive-by media, the Obama people sure are VERY defensive about Ayers and Fannie/Freddie, and groups like ACORN are on the warpath, trying to get fraudulent votes. It doesn’t sound like they’re confident.
Personally, I believe the polls, and think Obama is ahead, however the behavior of the Left suggests that they know better. We’ll see....
I'm sure he'll try, though.
This is not the ACORN that I knew....
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-—Wikipedia
A major part of ACORN’s sordid history is vote fraud. ACORN has been implicated in voter fraud and bogus registration schemes in Missouri, Ohio and at least 12 other states. Last July, ACORN settled the largest case of voter fraud in Washington state history, involving nearly 2,000 bogus voter forms.
In Ohio in 2004, ACORN submitted forms for the likes of Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and someone named Jive Turkey.
Bet they found a lot of useless nuts...
JiveTurkey is my 5th cousin, twice removed ...
Exposing Acorn and Obama!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Ep1tkNOUU
Acorn Voter fraud!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl71dL5no_0
Bring it up tonight to demonstrate the consistent association obama has with corruption.
LOL! Exactly! And his accomplices in the media let him get away with it and never call him on it.
It's getting awfully crowded under that bus...
“ACORN settled the largest case of voter fraud in Washington state history, involving nearly 2,000 bogus voter forms.”
And Governor Christine Gregoire (D-Soros) remains in office...lauging herself silly.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Has nothing to do with us posting this article yesterday: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099029/posts
*grin*
The Libs always cry out that ACORN itself hasn’t been indicted for Voter Fraud or fraudulent registrations. But their individual employees & volunteers have, and plenty of them. Four ACORN registrants were indicted in Ohio during the 2004 campaign, and five were indicted in the Washington State Gubernatorial fisaco in 2006, and in that Washington case ACORN settled for $25,000 to cover investigative costs of the prosecution with the “understanding that they could face criminal charges if they were to be indicted for something like this again” LOL. The more exposure theyget like this ought to make the Obama campaign EXTREMELY nervous.
Corruption is right! Ol’ Jive lives in South Carolina ... why dey registering him in Ohio?
Uh oh. When Harry Reid hears about that raid, we’re in for another of his stirring orations from the Senate floor (or the bar up the street).
post #21 LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This ACORN needs to be shut down. Why can’t FBI go after them under RICO?
Only good thing is they are past masters at getting paid for all these fake registrations by lefty foundations. ACORN is sort of the “african culture” way, FAKE and STEAL.
How do you "settle" a case of voter fraud? It is the voters who are injured, not the government. The only possible "settlement" is a consent decree disbanding the organization and agreeing to a suspended sentence, for 5 years conditioned upon never again engaging in voter registration or get out the vote activities.
McCain should constantly connect Obama to ACORN and Ayers the way Obama always ties McCain and Bush together.
Did someone say PROJECT VOTE???? Third time’s a charm, LOL!
Project Vote’ Brings Power to the People
Chicago Sun-Times - August 11, 1992
Author: Vernon Jarrett
Good news! Good news!
Project Vote, a collectivity of 10 church-based community organizations dedicated to black voter registration, is off and running.
Project Vote is increasing its rolls at a 7,000-per-week clip. Just last Saturday it registered 2,000 during the Chicago Defender’s annual Bud Billiken Parade.
But now, the not-so-good news:
If Project Vote is to reach its goal of registering 150,000 out of an estimated 400,000 unregistered blacks statewide, “it must average 10,000 rather than 7,000 every week,” says Barack Obama , the program’s executive director.
(excerpt)
HF
HF
- Arrest and Jail offenders
- Cut off all public tax dollars from ACORN
- Refuse to accept ALL submissions until they can be VERIFIED in advance of an election as VALID.
None of this will happen -- because LEFTISTS now have sufficient control of the Legislatures and the Courts.....
Someone needs to go after them in Ohio. Virginia. PA. NM. Colorado. Wisconsin.
This is the perfect opportunity. Obama can try to dodge the ACORN connection because it is not on most people’s radar. It does not compute.
This can.
Project Vote = Project Vote
Obama was executive director
He wanted to up the registrations to 10,000 per week. HOW?
I hope someone shows the connection Obama has to PROJECT VOTE (ACORN sponsored)
How many state charges before a federal RICO indictment ?
I was going to make a comparison with the feds going after Michael Vick, but I didn’t want to have to spend the rest of the evening trying to convince people I love dogs and in no way am I defending dog fighting (nor would I ever).
:-)
More serious information on ACORN......
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
The sentence for election fraud should be swift death. The federal trial should go as quickly as that of McVeigh with execution quickly following conviction.
October 07, 2008 - Yesterday, as voter registration deadlines passed in most states, Project Vote, the nation’s leading nonpartisan voter participation organization, and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the country’s largest community organization, announced the completion of a joint nonpartisan voter registration drive, which has succeeded in helping over 1.3 million Americans register to vote.
ACORN will do to our electoral system what they’ve already
done to our housing market and lending institutions.
Democrats’ Vote Drive in Louisiana Stirs Concern
June 15, 2008
A Democratic voter registration drive in largely black neighborhoods of Louisiana has swamped the state’s voter registrar offices, forcing them to hire new staff members and work 12-hour days to process thousands of applications.
Election officials have expressed concern that large numbers of people who believe they are registered will show up at the polls in November, only to find that they cannot vote because their application had been improperly submitted.
Project Vote and Acorn, a left-wing national organizing group, have teamed up to conduct large voter drives across the country, with the goal of registering 1.2 million people by Labor Day. They have already submitted 600,000 applications, said Michael Slater, the deputy director of Project Vote. Acorn is among several groups registering voters in Louisiana.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/us/politics/15vote.html?fta=y
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Project Vote www.projectvote.org is a 501(c)3 non-partisan, non-profit organization
*These toll-free phone lines are provided and operated by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law as part of its Voting Rights Project
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Project Vote, one of the ACORN “family of organizations”
One of Project Vote’s most successful voter registration drives was directed by United States presidential candidate Barack Obama in Chicago during 1992. According to Chicago Magazine, “More than 150,000 new African-American voters were added to the city’s rolls” during this drive
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Sep 28, 2007
Project Vote Report Accuses GOP of Decades of Voter Suppression ...
Bookmarked. Again.
ACORN. Again.
Corrupt Democrats in largest city in the state assisting. Again.
Democrat voter fraud. Again.
MSM ignoring it. Again.
.....
yeah - do you think that info will ever see the light of day?
Found on ACORN’s home page
http://www.acorn.org/fileadmin/Letters/Wall_Street_Bailout_Letter.pdf
Check out the signatures at the bottom.
Seems to me that, at this point, with the evidence of repeated violations and consistent techniques of fraud, RICO could be invoked against ACORN.
Of course, since they are not peaceful pro-life protesters, RICO doesn’t apply to them. /sarc
*grin*
I did not see this one yesterday. IMHO, this can not be posted enough ;)
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