Posted on 10/19/2009 7:55:22 AM PDT by opentalk
ACORN,the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, faces still another high-stakes challenge — and more embarrassment — in Nevada, where it has been charged with 13 felony counts related to potential voter registration fraud during the 2008 campaign.
This is the only state where ACORN, as an organization, is accused of criminal wrongdoing. Similar investigations in Pennsylvania and Florida have resulted in charges against individual canvassers the group hired to register voters.
“With ACORN, one wonders how it could get worse for them,” said Tom Fitton, president of Washington-based Judicial Watch, a conservative government watchdog group that has been digging into ACORN’s activities. “But a criminal conviction of the organization itself — that would be worse.”
Essentially, the attorney general’s office accuses ACORN of unlawfully paying its canvassers based on the number of voter registration cards they turned in each day. Workers had to gather at least 20 completed cards a day to keep their jobs, and anyone who turned in 21 or more cards would be given an extra $5 under a bonus program known as “blackjack.”
After more than a year of investigating, authorities have been unable to document any case in which an individual was illegally registered to vote, or illegally cast a ballot because of ACORN’s actions. But they believe ACORN’s quota system created the climate for widespread fraud.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
Like I have said before these people acted as agents for their employer ACORN. Unless ACORN can show that they explicitly trained and reinforced proper behaviour and ethics in their attempt to register voters then they are complicit in the actions of their agents. The again if they can get the agents to show that the organisation actually encouraged voter fraud then the whole pack of cards should fall.
Mel
This is why a Republic works. Without States’ rights, ACORN would never be prosecuted.
Would be interesting if any leads pointed toward Dingy Harry.
County Election offices still had to work every one of those fraudulent registrations sent in. How is that any different than a bogus 911 call or a lie to the police? I understand the laws and that they claim no law was broken - I see a signed card, pushed by Acorn, to be a lie to a government official. I hope this suit goes somewhere but I won’t hold my breath.
RICO!
It only takes TWO illegal actions to qualify as an illegal enterprise. Threaten the ACORN persons with a RICO prosecution and they would sing like canaries to avoid RICO’s draconian penalties. Prosecutors threaten RICO prosecution all the time against legitimate business people, why not with this den of crooks?
RICO!
It only takes TWO illegal actions to qualify as an illegal enterprise. Threaten the ACORN persons with a RICO prosecution and they would sing like canaries to avoid RICO’s draconian penalties. Prosecutors threaten RICO prosecution all the time against legitimate business people, why not with this den of crooks?”
The county registrars cannot be looking very hard if they cannot match bad voter registration cards with the ballots used by absentees.
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