http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/voterfraud/ en-us Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:20:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075424/posts The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) President Maude Hurd issued the following statement after presumptive Republican vice president pick Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuiliani made disparaging comments about community organizing during the Republican National Convention Wednesday night. “ACORN members, leaders and staff are extremely disappointed that Republican leaders would make such condescending remarks on the great work community organizers accomplish in cities throughout this country. The fact that they marginalize our success in empowering low- and moderate-income people to improve their communities further illustrates their out-of-touch with ordinary people. Through community... ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075424/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:20:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075051/posts Slowly, slowly, I am recovering from the extremely effective bilge festival staged by the Republicans last night. And while there is much to discuss, there was one item, in particular, that has to be considered infuriating: the attack on Barack Obama's service as a community organizer by the odious Rudy Giuliani--he's come to look like a villain in a Frank Capra movie, hasn't he?--and Sarah Palin....So here is what Giuliani and Palin didn't know: Obama was working for a group of churches that were concerned about their parishioners, many of whom had been laid off when the steel mills closed... Time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075051/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 02:30:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072299/posts Milwaukee has discovered some more voter fraud with 10 more voter registration workers are being investigated by Wisconsin authorities. Fittingly, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered the story in its paper on August 29. Unfittingly, the Journal Sentinel forgot one, tiny aspect of the story... that the voter fraud was perpetrated by Democrats. In fact, one of the organizations, ACORN, is intimately linked with Barack Obama. Milwaukee’s top election official said Thursday she plans to seek criminal investigations of 10 more voter registration workers, including two accused of offering gifts to sign up voters. So, what we have here is an... News Busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072299/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:27:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071124/posts Milwaukee’s top election official said Thursday she plans to seek criminal investigations of 10 more voter registration workers, including two accused of offering gifts to sign up voters. Most of the suspect workers appear to have falsified driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers or other information on voter registration cards, Election Commission Executive Director Sue Edman said. Counting the latest group, Edman will have referred 49 voter registration workers this month to Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf for possible prosecution. Milwaukee police are looking at the evidence to determine whether criminal charges are warranted against the workers, Landgraf... Milwaukee Journal Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071124/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:12:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070822/posts ......What do you get when you combine lax caucus rules with bare-knuckle Chicago politics? Caucus fraud – which was rampant, many of the pro-Hillary groups opposing Obama’s nomination allege. A 98-page report that documents and analyses the caucuses held in 14 states, including CO, HI, IA, KS and MN cites numerous examples of voter disenfranchisement, intimidation and fraud: Blogger News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070822/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:16:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070755/posts CLEVELAND -- A national organization that conducts voter registration drives for low-income people has curtailed its push in Cuyahoga County after the Board of Elections accused its workers of submitting fraudulent registration cards. The board is investigating the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Results of the inquiry could be turned over to the county prosecutor. Board employees said ACORN workers often handed in the same name on a number of voter registration cards, but showing that person living at different addresses. Other times, cards had the same name listed, but a different date of birth. Still another sign... The Plain Dealer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070755/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:27:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068464/posts Criminal charges were dismissed Monday against Jane Balogh, the Federal Way woman who registered her dog to vote — but not without a hiccup along the way. King County District Court Judge Mariane Spearman dropped a misdemeanor charge of making a false or misleading statement to a public servant, based on Balogh's completion of the terms of a plea agreement reached in September 2007. Balogh, 67, a grandmother and Army veteran, paid $240 in court costs and completed 10 hours of community service at the Tacoma Rescue Mission. Seattle-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068464/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:33:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068448/posts New Mexico Republicans are angry that Secretary of State Mary Herrera hired U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall's son-in-law to head the state Elections Bureau. The new director, Jim Noel, is married to Udall's wife's daughter, Amanda Cooper. Cooper is managing the Northern New Mexico congressman's campaign against Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce for the seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. Noel, currently executive director of the state Judicial Standards Commission, starts his new job Sept. 8. "The hiring of Tom Udall's son-in-law as state elections director is a stunning conflict of interest," spokeswoman Shira Rawlinson said... Santa Fe New Mexican http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068448/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:05:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066293/posts Clovis native Rebecca Sitterly registered to vote soon after returning to her native state in 1979 and jumped right into Democratic politics about the same time. So the former Bernalillo County district judge was surprised to get a July 3 call from a community nonprofit that was checking on her new registration. When Sitterly said she hadn't filled out a registration form (indeed, she'd been regularly voting in the same place on Mountain Road NW in Albuquerque for nearly 20 years) a supervisor with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now promised to destroy the card, Sitterly said in... The Albuquerque Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066293/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:04:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066123/posts LAGOS - Nigeria's anti-corruption police were questioning the head of the stock exchange after she organised a gala dinner in support of Barack Obama's U.S. presidential campaign which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066123/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:44:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066097/posts 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. Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066097/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:57:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065414/posts Milwaukee’s election chief on Wednesday turned 32 more voter registration workers in to the district attorney’s office for possible prosecution, saying they tried to submit falsified registration cards. That brings to 39 the number of registration workers under scrutiny, and the number could grow, Election Commission Executive Director Sue Edman said. An organization warned the commission staff late Wednesday afternoon about some questionable cards in the latest batch collected by its workers, Edman said. Of the 32 ACORN workers referred Wednesday to Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf, Edman said: The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065414/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:30:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065181/posts WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20, 2008, 6:18 p.m. By Larry Sandler City refers 32 more to DA for voter fraud Milwaukee's election chief turned 32 more voter registration workers in to the district attorney's office for possible prosecution today, after they tried to submit falsified registration cards. That brings to 39 the number of registration workers under scrutiny, and the number could grow, Election Commission Executive Director Sue Edman said. An organization warned the commission staff late this afternoon about some questionable cards in the latest batch collected by its workers, Edman said. All of the workers targeted for investigation were paid... Milwaukee Journal Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065181/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:30:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064202/posts REST ASSURED, Philadelphia. Come Election Day, there will be street money. According to U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, the local Democratic Party chairman, Sen. Barack Obama's general-election presidential campaign in Philadelphia will be run different from his primary operation, which relied more on volunteers than on Democratic ward leaders and did not provide street money on Election Day. "We're not going to pay for votes or pay for turnout," Obama said before the Pennsylvania primary. Philadephia Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064202/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:15:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2062578/posts Irrefutable evidence indicates that Obama’s campaign has been doing business with CSI, which appears to have been operating fraudulently in the State of Maryland and Ohio, and ACORN, which has been associated with a laundry list of fraudulent business practices. The full nature of the relationship between ACORN and Citizens Services Inc is not known but this much is clear: both share the same address in New Orleans and officials with CSI refer folks to ACORN for questions about “political consulting” and Get-Out-The-Vote” activities. These are questions that mainstream media should examine. Texas Darlin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2062578/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:34:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062085/posts Lake County prosecutors have announced grand jury indictments against two campaign workers for Democratic state Senator Terry Link of Waukegan on charges of forgery and perjury. The indictments announced against Jerry D. Knight, 40, of Zion and Kenneth Davison, 50, of Waukegan allege the men included the names of dead voters on Link's nominating petitions. Knight faces 11 perjury counts and one forgery count. Davison is indicted on nine perjury counts and two forgery counts. All are felonies. WBBM News Radio 7880 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062085/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:49:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061316/posts Workers from a second activist organization have been implicated in falsifying Milwaukee voter registration forms, bringing to 15 the number of voter registration workers who could face scrutiny for trying to sign up dead, imprisoned or fictitious voters, according to the Milwaukee Election Commission and the organizations that paid the workers. For two of the workers, managers at the Community Voters Project caught much of the fraud, fired the workers and reported the problems before the registration cards were turned in, said Sue Edman, the election commission’s executive director, and Ayodele Carroo, the organization’s national director. That involved 15 or... JSOnline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061316/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:28:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061129/posts <p>COLUMBUS, Ohio- Ohio is considered a must-win state for both Barack Obama and John McCain. And the highpoint of the presidential campaign in the state could come a month before Election Day.</p> <p>Ohio has created a window in the election calendar, from September 30th to October 6th, that allows residents to both register one minute and vote the next.</p> OneNewsNow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061129/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:23:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061086/posts Workers from a second activist organization have been implicated in falsifying Milwaukee voter registration forms, bringing to 15 the number of voter registration workers who could face scrutiny for trying to sign up dead, imprisoned or fictitious voters, according to the Milwaukee Election Commission and the organizations that paid the workers. For two of the workers, managers at the Community Voters Project caught much of the fraud, fired the workers and reported the problems before the registration cards were turned in, said Sue Edman, the election commission’s executive director, and Ayodele Carroo, the organization’s national director. That involved 15 or... The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061086/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:57:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059485/posts A new study released by the conservative think-tank the Heritage Foundation provides proof that illegal aliens and immigrants with green cards are committing rampant voter fraud in the United States. Reports of ineligible persons registering to vote have raised concerns about state processes for verifying voter registration lists. States usually base voter eligibility on the voter’s age, US citizenship, mental competence, and felon status. Although individual states run elections, Congress has authority to affect the administration of the elections. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) had set a deadline for states to have a statewide voter registration... MensNewsDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059485/posts#comment Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:20:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058939/posts ACORN Cracks Wide Open Carl Horowitz Saturday, August 09, 2008 The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, is a network of nonprofit community groups formed nearly 40 years ago on the premise that banks, corporations and insurance companies, immersed in greed, have kept poor and predominantly minority neighborhoods desperate. Within the past couple months, however, its leaders have been engaged in the more mundane task of spinning a scandal that already has claimed its most visible leader. To longtime ACORN critics, it’s a case of belated just deserts. At the center of this storm are ACORN co-founder... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058939/posts#comment Sat, 9 Aug 2008 07:22:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058699/posts Some of the nation's largest labor organizations are calling for legalization of all the nation's undocumented workers and have conceded the guest worker issue. "There is no good reason why any immigrant who comes to this country prepared to work, to pay taxes, and to abide by our laws and rules should be denied what has been offered to immigrants throughout our country's history -- a path to legal citizenship," said Ana Avendano, assistant general counsel for the AFL-CIO, which represents 53 unions nationally. The AFL-CIO and the Change to Win coalition, collectively representing about 15 million workers, or about... http://www.heraldtribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058699/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 18:30:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058324/posts ACORN Watch: Voter fraud and mortgage scams on your dime By Michelle Malkin  •  August 7, 2008 12:41 PM Barack Obama’s taxpayer-subsidized old friends at ACORN have been very, very busy lately. And ACORN Watch is here to give you the rundown on all the latest shenanigans on your dime. * In Milwaukee, election officials are investigating fake names registered by ACORN workers– a favorite voter fraud 101 ploy of ACORN workers. No word on whether anyone used “Fruto Boy Crispila:” Criminal investigations could be launched against at least six voter registration workers who tried to add dead, imprisoned or imaginary people... michellemalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058324/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:56:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058233/posts Arguing that the current electronic voting systems across the U.S. are fundamentally flawed and, worse, being gamed for political gain, "Stealing America: Vote by Vote" functions as an organizing tool for people worked up about the important issue, but is hardly suitable as a commercial doc release. Pic's classroom-style presentation and wooden filmmaking can be ignored by eager activists, but will surely bore audiences in theaters (a limited rollout began Aug. 1). Homevid sales, though, look to enjoy a boomlet close to election season. Director-producer Dorothy Fadiman summons a large group of experts, observers and activists (and no less a... Variety http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058233/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:14:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057785/posts MADISON, Wis. -- Workers registering voters for a liberal group in Milwaukee turned in hundreds of fabricated registration forms and many more that were incomplete. That's raised fears among Republican Party leaders of an election fraud repeat. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has fired about a dozen canvassers and alerted the state election commission to most of the problem forms. Commission director Sue Edman said they'll make sure no fabricated or incomplete forms are entered into the voter database. Six of the former ACORN workers have been referred to the Milwaukee County district attorney's office... ch3000.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057785/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 01:25:05 GMT