ACORN INSTILLED FEAR: WORKERS

New York Post ^ | October 20, 2008 | ADAM NICHOLS and JEANE MacINTOSH

[vietvet67]

Pushed to meet daily quotas and bullied by bosses if they didn't, Ohio ACORN workers faked voter registrations, signed up people more than once, and even paid off registrants to keep from being fired, its canvassers told The Post.

"Every day, there was pressure on us. Every single day," said Teshika Elder, a Cleveland single mom of three who worked for ACORN this summer.

"We had meetings every morning where they'd go over your quota; they'd yell at you if you were low," said Elder, 21. "They'd sit us down and say if you didn't do better, they'd suspend you. They'd say, 'Try harder next time,' [and] if you didn't get it, you'd be fired."

Desperate canvassers sometimes resorted to trading cigarettes, cash and food in exchange for registrations, according to Elder and two other former ACORN workers, Jaymes Sanford, 18, and Selvin Cunningham, 23.

Some voters were signed up more than once, and said that worried - or lazy - canvassers sometimes filled out bogus cards.

The three workers were all fired after they and a dozen other canvassers were identified in a Cuyahoga County Election Board probe as having turned in multiple registrations for the same voters.

The board, which estimates it got more than 8,700 suspect cards - with multiple registrations, bad addresses or phony information - from ACORN has turned the matter over to local prosecutors.

"It was just little stuff - a dollar, a cigarette - given to people so that they'd register," said Sanford, a former team leader.

"People are scared of not making their quotas," he said. "I didn't do it, but it's the way it worked."

[jwparkerjr]

I'm headed out the door to work and don't have time to peruse all the responses to this so I apologize in advance if I'm duplicating someone else's opinion. BTW, I work at one of the major theme parks in Florida and you would not know by looking at out attendance and spending by the guests that times are tough.

There are just so many hints and indications as to the type of people Obama supporters are. Just like there were so many warnings swirling around the Clintons before his election.

Obama might well win in two weeks, but it won't be the end of America as we know it. For the most part, even those who can't learn from the experience of others will know the difference when it starts happening to them in real time.

I pray that Obama will be defeated, hopefully resoundingly, but I am prepared to lead the charge of the I-Told-You-So’s!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The FBI is on the case. Expect arrests in about 20 years.