Posted on 10/13/2008 11:02:38 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
Amen
....And a man named Al Capone,
Tried to make that town his own,
And he called his gang to war,
‘gainst the forces of the law!
I heard my momma cry!
I heard her pray the night Chicago died...
Brother what a night it really was!
Brother what a sight it really was
Glory be!
Then there was no sound at all,
But the clock upon the wall...
LOL, TR. Good one.
I do. Now is the perfect time. This will get the voters to DEMAND ID the same way they demanded the amnesty bill be defeated. No one, not even a lot of democrat voters want their votes belittled by ACORN (and ACORN is without a doubt a powerful LEFT wing group). If the left can cheat, so can the right someday.
People don't like thieves stealing their voice and choosing for them. Something like that is taken personally by both bases.
okay...lets see what happens! It’s Tuesday.
He's got until the end of January.
Voter fraud is usually an individual state low class criminal offense. Plea bargain, misdemeanor, fine, probation.
RICO is a Federal Offense. Mandatory 1 year for each offense.
This is a big deal.
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“I have a question about the ACORN registrations. When the Dims get there numbers padded by fake registrations, do the pollsters then start changing their sampling percentages based one those false numbers? If so, then the actual percentages between the Pubs and the Dims are not accurate and the Dims are being over polled, and therefore are the polls are WRONG, right????”
Yes...that’s what does happen. That’s why it feels like we’re doing better than we’re being told that we’re doing.
True. It’s Tuesday morning, lets see if this story pans out. I’ll give it until noon today Central Standard Time.
the new president will be replacing the entire DOJ.
the Dinosaurs will say this is normal.
Where is the BREAKING NEWS story????
....................I want the FEC to come out and state that no vote will be counted for any national office unless the voting precinct requires and enforces voter photo ID.
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????Could Pres. Bush do this by Executive Order before November???
Maybe that ACORN press conference a few minutes ago was damage control because they know it’s coming.
Ace has updated the story- first- it’s not RICO charges- and while it’s a good thing they’re getting caught and held accountable- it’s not as big as the tip that Ace was given- bad tip :(
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Final Word on "RICO" Suit? BUMP & UPDATE |
I hope. To be posting later on AP. (I hope.) I'd've waited for it to post but I gotta knock off soon. I'll roll the dice that this is accurate.
Not a RICO suit -- a similar but not equivalent suit under Ohio's Corrupt Activity Act, seeking dissolution of ACORN. Figure it has to be ACORN Ohio only.
To be filed Tuesday morning in in the Court of Common Pleas, Warren
County, Ohio
A suit on behalf of citizens asking for, among other things, the
dissolution of ACORN.For violation of the Ohio Corrupt Activity Act
The suit lists 19 predicate acts in Ohio and 40 out-of-state predicate
acts.The suit demands a trial by jury.
Hardly the blockbuster I promised, I know. And the "RICO" thing was wrong as well.
Bear in mind this is a private, third-party suit, probably brought by a conservative organization, or just a few citizens. Not really the imprimatur of the DoJ here.
Not saying it couldn't lead to something. But there's not going to be any big splash about it.
Bump [Gabe]: The complaint, filed by the Buckeye Institute (a think tank), is available here (PDF). If nothing else, it is a useful catalogue of ACORN's most recent misdeeds.
I don't know enough about Ohio's Corrupt Activity Act to say whether they've got a good case, but this gives me pause: Under the Ohio Corrupt Activity Act, the core violations being alleged are forgery, uttering forged documents, tampering with writings and records, and uttering tampered writings or records. I'd have to check the statutes and find the definitions, but Acorn's practice of obtaining multiple registrations from individuals does not, at first blush, appear to be any of these things.
Obtaining voter registrations for Mickey Mouse might fall into one of those categories, but that type of activity isn't listed in the complaint. They seem to focus on the multiple fraudulent registrations instead.
Somebody shoot me some knowledge. Does that sound like forgery or tampering with writings and records to you?
I KNEW this sounded like a pipe-dream and guess what, it was.
Color me not-shocked. If anything this should show how desperate the McCain supporters are now.....
WASHINGTON— In the wake of numerous reports of widespread election fraud by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter today to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey requesting that the Department of Justice immediately launch a nationwide criminal probe into ACORN’s voter registration activities and investigate ACORN as a “criminal enterprise.”
In his letter, Sen. Cornyn, a former State Attorney General and Texas Supreme Court Justice, said, “Election fraud imposes a real cost on our system, beyond the obvious consequence of subverting a free and fair election. Fraudulent voter registration on this scale seriously strains state and local elections resources and distracts elections officials from preparing to conduct an orderly election. Of course, ACORN’s nationwide voter registration fraud provides an opportunity for individuals to vote who should not, or for some to vote more than once.”
Sen. Cornyn closed his letter highlighting the various aspects of federal law that may have been violated by ACORN and said “because the violations of federal voting laws by ACORN employees appear to be so widespread, ACORN and its affiliates should be investigated as a criminal enterprise.”
The full text of Senator Cornyn’s letter to the Attorney General today is below. In addition, a .pdf copy of the letter is available here: http://cornyn.senate.gov/doc_archive/Mukasey-ACORN-letter.pdf
The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey
Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Dear General Mukasey:
I am increasingly concerned by reports of widespread election fraud by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (“ACORN”), which seem to emerge on a daily basis.
Specifically, I call your attention to state and local investigations into potentially hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voter registration applications filed by ACORN in North Carolina, Ohio, Nevada, Michigan, Florida, New Mexico, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Washington, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and my home state of Texas. In Harris County, Texas, which includes the City of Houston, election officials either rejected or discovered serious deficiencies with nearly 40 percent of the 27,000 registration cards filed by ACORN from January through July of this year.
Most recently, election officials in Lake County, Indiana, found more than 2,100 fraudulent voter registration applications that were filed at the deadline by ACORN. According to a CNN report, at least one of ACORN’s applications in Lake County attempted to register a dead man. In addition, The St. Petersburg Times (FL) reported today that Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote in Florida this summer. Although Orange County elections officials rejected his application, it is notable that Mickey Mouse’s application had an ACORN stamp on it. In addition, The [Raleigh, NC] News & Observer also reported today that ACORN conducted a voter drive that registered nearly 28,000 people in North Carolina. But according to local election officials some of the forms it filed had information that may have been copied from phone books.
Election fraud imposes a real cost on our system, beyond the obvious consequence of subverting a free and fair election. Fraudulent voter registration on this scale seriously strains state and local elections resources and distracts elections officials from preparing to conduct an orderly election. Of course, ACORN’s nationwide voter registration fraud provides an opportunity for individuals to vote who should not, or for some to vote more than once.
Given these allegations, as well as the well-documented fraud convictions in recent years of ACORN employees, I urge you to launch a nationwide criminal probe into ACORN’s voter registration activities. As you know, federal law prohibits an individual from (1) providing fraudulent voter registration information; (2) conspiring to encourage false registration or illegal voting; and (3) paying or offering to pay another individual for registering or voting. It is also a crime to knowingly procure or submit false, fictitious, or fraudulent voter registration applications. Finally, I must add that, because the violations of federal voting laws by ACORN employees appear to be so widespread, ACORN and its affiliates should be investigated as a criminal enterprise.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
JOHN CORNYN
United States Senator
Sen. Cornyn serves on the Armed Services, Judiciary and Budget Committees. In addition, he is Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. He serves as the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee’s Immigration, Border Security and Refugees subcommittee and the Armed Services Committee’s Airland subcommittee. He served previously as Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Justice, and Bexar County District Judge.
Yeah, I know how you feel, what a bummer that someone would stand up to protest the treasonous vote fraud the democrats use to win elections. You must be feeling more comfy, now that only 10% of the faux votes are getting flagged.
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