Posted on 10/13/2008 3:51:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Central Florida Republicans are accusing the left-leaning group ACORN of trying to hijack the upcoming election.
ACORN has been working to register voters but some of the forms it has brought to elections offices have been filled with problems. Complaints include everything from voter registration forms that were filled out with illegible handwriting, to forms that were completely made up.
With the help of ACORN, someone named Davonte Rogers filled out 21 different voter registration forms. Some had wrong phone numbers, others phony addresses. In fact, it's questionable whether Davonte Rogers even exists. Some say he may have been made up by Orange County ACORN workers who were paid to collect registration forms.
Problems such as this prompted Orange County's Supervisor of Elections to send the group a letter saying its workers are "hurting the very people ACORN intends to help."
In Seminole County, a man's party registration was changed without him knowing.
Local Republicans are crying foul.
"I think ACORN is an apologetic, quasi-criminal group full of folks who are really trying to hijack the election," said Jason Brodeur, the McCain/Palin '08 Seminole County Chairman.
But ACORN says out of the more 15,000 new Florida voters it registered this year, there have been few errors. The group says it goes to extensive lengths to check the validity of paperwork and workers even flag registration forms found with problems for election offices. If the group finds a bad form, it is still legally obligated to turn it in.
"This is just a ploy of the right wing, the RNC, the Republicans and John McCain to suppress the vote," said LeRoy Bell of ACORN.
ACORN says it does require its workers to reach certain goals. However, in the cases locally where it appears that phony forms have been turned in ACORN said it fired or disciplined the employees involved. It has more than 13,000 paid people who canvass.
No wonder Seagrams and RJ Reynolds stocks were down...
“This is just a ploy of the right wing, the RNC, the Republicans and John McCain to suppress the vote,” said LeRoy Bell of ACORN.
Somehow I think the above excuse is going to wear thin as abuses/fraud are uncovered. Unlike the all the other Obama criticisms, no one (at least in the mainstream) supports vote fraud. It’s gonna be real hard for the clowns in the media to not cover/apologize for this.
I hope they continue this line. For one thing when you are being busted in mulitple states nobody will buy this line and two by whining about the evil RNC they are making it clear they are a left wing organization.
With 10 states finding fraudulent forms, why isn't
ACORN just shut down. Let'em all riot and arrest'em all.
ping...
....in the spirit of bipartisanship, of course.
LOL. You would think so, but you know how libs are. Once they get stuck on a sound bite they just repeat it over and over and over...even if it easily be refuted with solid facts. They start sounding like a bunch of programmed robots. LibBots.
A ploy to suppress the vote?! How about making sure that only voters who are legitimate residents are given their constitutional right to do so, Mr. Bell?
'ACORN says it does require its workers to reach certain goals. However, in the cases locally where it appears that phony forms have been turned in ACORN said it fired or disciplined the employees involved. It has more than 13,000 paid people who canvass.'
Really? If that's the case, why are the ACORN Bots raising so much er, uh Cain on being investigated? If you run a clean operation, that's one thing. But in the case of ACORN, "clean operation" is an oxymoron.
Wasn't 0bama a "community organizer"?
No candidate or party (or supporter) should accept this crap. Next time, it might not be *your* guy or party that is in the fix to win.
RICO!
RICO!
PRONTO!
Leni
Yes, that has been the entire point of his involvement. He trained them, even though he claimed he didn’t.
Did Acorn sign Barry Soetoro up to vote also?
We should verify that Barack Obama only steps into the
voting both once.
ACORN has been doing this for many years. It’s just that now, maybe, people are finally starting to wise up. I hope that there’s massive arrests for these communist bustards.
guess i should have put the /s after the post
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