Court documents reveal ACORN's troubled history

MSNBC ^ | 10/14/08 | Staff

[Dawnsblood]

Move over, Bill Ayers. This week, Republican activists have a new Public Enemy #1. It’s ACORN, the once-obscure community-organizing group that boasts of having registered 1.3 million new voters. Republican officials and advisers to Sen. John McCain have accused ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) of rampant voter-registration fraud. Indeed, officials in states including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Indiana and Connecticut now are looking into accusations that ACORN workers turned in thousands of fraudulent or duplicate voter-registration applications. (The Dallas Cowboys magically filled out voter registration forms in Nevada, for example.)

So what exactly is ACORN’s track record in registering new voters? It hasn’t always been pretty. Here are some highlights (lowlights?) from recent court documents and public testimony in three states that have examined ACORN’s hiring practices over the past two years.

Nevada 2008 On October 6, a criminal investigator with the Nevada Secretary of State filed a search-warrant affidavit stating that ACORN workers used “fictitious and false information” on voter registration applications. Among the allegations:

--ACORN hired 59 state prison inmates to collect voter-registration forms. One was Jason Anderson, who currently is imprisoned for burglary and firearms violations at the state’s Casa Grande halfway house in Las Vegas, court records show. Anderson, who became a supervisory “team leader” for ACORN, told state investigators that some of his co-workers “hired by ACORN were ‘lazy crack-heads’ who were not interested in working and just wanted the money.” Anderson is the whistleblower who told state investigators that his inmate colleagues had registered the Dallas Cowboys to vote in Nevada, along with “large numbers” of other fictitious applications.

[Dawnsblood]

List of lots of court cases at the link.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

"Court documents reveal ACORN's troubled criminal history"

All fixed....

[cherry]

“troubled”....”TROUBLED”.....???......don’t they mean CRIMINAL AND TREASONOUS?

[Loud Mime]

President Bush! Stop this corrupt election NOW. Order the FEC to review all voting registrations and demand Identification.

That will drive the moonbats batty!

[elpadre]

and with all of that history of corruption and criminality, Congress continues to funnel millions of dollars to them.

Shame, shame, shame!!

[manc]

I would like to know why Bush has not looked into obamas biorth certificate , why obama violated the Logan law and why isnt every ACORN registration threw away and ACORN closed down

as for MSNBC
could they be any more biased on this
supposed, allegations, republicans charging, move over AYERS

My God MSNBC and the other media are just complete idiots now.

they even have the gaul to call themselves reporters

PATHETIC

They really have got their heads up their arses and really think all of America are so stupid about this

[Cicero]

It’s not accusations, it’s documented FACTS, confirmed by news organizations in many parts of the country.

You can use the words “accused,” or “alleged,” MSNBC, if those who are guilty of these criminal acts are indicted.