OBAMA restores ACORN funding while everyone is distracted by the health bill

[Anvilbrother 0]

Countless former employees are in prison for voter fraud.

The organization itself is under indictment for the same in Nevada and Louisiana.

We know that employees registered fake names back during the campaign.

And a single Clinton hack judge issued a clearly ridiculous ruling that even Eric Holder's department is appealing.

http://www.thefoxnation.com/acorn/2010/03/19/obama-restores-acorn-funding

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[billvon 3,120]

>OBAMA restores ACORN funding

You mean the same ACORN that was recently cleared of charges after conservative activists tried to frame them? The same ACORN that was punished illegally by Congress by cutting off their funding? That one?

[futuredivot 0]

That was a court thing, not an Obama thing-I guess the judge goes by the adage that thousands of bad apples don't spoil the barrel

You are only as strong as the prey you devour

[Anvilbrother 0]

http://www.rottenacorn.com/activityMap.html

I could see a few bad apples rule applying to something, but not this!

State Year Details
AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.

CO 2005 Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.
2004 An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.

CT 2008 The New York Post reported that ACORN submitted a voter registration card for a 7-year-old Bridgeport girl. Another 8,000 cards from the same city will be scrutinized for possible fraud.

FL 2009 In September, 11 ACORN workers were accused of forging voter registration applications in Miami-Dade County during the last election. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the state attorney’s office scoured hundreds of suspicious applications provided by ACORN and found 197 of 260 contained personal ID information that did not match any living person.
2008 Election officials in Brevard County have given prosecutors more than 23 suspect registrations from ACORN. The state's Division of Elections is also investigating complaints in Orange and Broward Counties.
2004 A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.

IN 2008 Election officials in Indiana have thrown out more than 4,000 ACORN-submitted voter registrations after finding they had identical handwriting and included the names of many deceased Indianans, and even the name of a fast food restaurant.

MI 2008 Clerks in Detroit found a "sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent [voter] applications" from the Michigan branch of ACORN. Those applications have been turned over to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation.
2004 The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.

MO 2008 Nearly 400 ACORN-submitted registrations in Kansas City have been rejected due to duplication or fake information.

2007 Four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election.
2006 Eight ACORN employees in St. Louis were indicted on federal election fraud charges. Each of the eight faces up to five years in prison for forging signatures and submitting false information.
2003 Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.

MN 2004 During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.

NC 2008 County elections officials have sent suspicious voter registration applications to the state Board of Elections. Many of the applications had similar or identical names, but with different addresses or dates of birth.
2004 North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.

NM 2008 Prosecutors are investigating more than 1,100 ACORN-submitted voter registration cards after a county clerk found them to be fraudulent. Many of the cards included duplicate names and slightly altered personal information.
2005 Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”
2004 An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.

NV 2009 Nevada authorities indicted ACORN on 26 counts of voter registration fraud and 13 counts of illegally compensating canvassers. ACORN provided a bonus compensation program called “Blackjack” or “21+” for any canvasser who registered more than 20 voters per shift, which is illegal under Nevada law.
2008 Nevada state authorities raided ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters as part of a task force investigation of election fraud. Fraudulent registrations included players from the Dallas Cowboys.

OH 2008 ACORN activists gave Ohio residents cash and cigarettes in exchange for filling out voter registration card, according to the New York Post. Some voters claim to have registered dozens of times, and one man says he signed up on 72 cards.
2007 A man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties.
2004 A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.

PA 2009 Seven ACORN workers in the Pittsburgh area were indicted for submitting falsified voter registration forms. Six of the seven were also indicted for registering voters under an illegal quota system.
2008 State election officials have thrown out 57,435 voter registrations, the majority of which were submitted by ACORN. The registrations were thrown out after officials found "clearly fraudulent" signatures, vacant lots listed as addresses, and other signs of fraud.
2008 An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.
2004 Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.

TX 2008 In Harris County, nearly 10,000 ACORN-submitted registrations were found to be invalid, including many with clearly fraudulent addresses or other personal information.
2008 ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.

VA 2005 In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.

In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."

WA 2007 Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.

WI 2008 At least 33,000 ACORN-submitted registrations in Milwaukee have been called into question after it was found that the organizations had been using felons as registration workers, in violation of state election rules. Two people involved in the ongoing Wisconsin voter fraud investigation have been charged with felonies.
2004 The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.

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[airdvr 210]

Oh man! It's just a few of their workers who are bad, can't you see that?

Please don't dent the planet.

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OBAMA restores ACORN funding while everyone is distracted by the health bill.

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[Anvilbrother 0]

Awesome the AP just broke that come April 1 acon is closing doors. I bet they will change their name but not their game. Just like blackwater security went to xe services after their scandal

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The Republican Party's ongoing war against ACORN began in 2004 and accelerated during the 2008 presidential campaign. Karl Rove (President Bush's top political adviser) and conservative Republicans orchestrated an attack on Acorn for alleged "voter fraud," as part of a campaign to suppress the voting of minorities and the poor. As part of this effort, a U.S. Attorney was asked to investigate ACORN. The investigation came up empty-handed, but the GOP operatives persisted. The allegations of "voter fraud" hit a peak in October 2008, aided by Arizona Sen. John McCain's charge in a presidential debate with Barack Obama that Acorn "is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy." He demanded that Mr. Obama disclose his ties to ACORN. McCain frequently repeated those accusations on the campaign trail.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/24-4

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[Anvilbrother 0]

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In fact, ACORN never engaged in voter fraud. When ACORN ramped up for its massive voter registration campaigns, it hired thousands of part-time staff, a few of whom tried to beat the system and get paid while handing in phony registrations

From your own link

The article is retarted it says that ACORN never engaged in voter fraud, then tries to cover it by saying it was the part time workers THEY hired that did the fraud......Shit rolls up hill, they work for you, its your problem!

If a contractor you hired to build your house gets a sub to do something at your house, and they mess something up and leave, who is responsible for that?

My boss who is the head of a public department has said many times everything that is done in this department from how the grass is cut, how we dress, bills that are paid, to how we perform for the public.

If somone fucks up they call him, he is the boss he is in charge! The shit rolls up hill but be dam sure gravity is still in effect and when he is dont having his ass handed to him hes coming down to us real fast.

If acorn was flying straight, why did they FIRE the founder....per your article

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[kallend 2,150]

Tell us about O'Keefe, the conservative fingered for trying to frame ACORN and recently arrested for illegally interfering with a Congressperson's phone.

Tell us about the GOP voter registration organization found guilty of fraud.

Or is yours a typical conservative DOUBLE STANDARD?

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[tkhayes 348]

countless former 'everybodies' are in prison for fraud of many kinds

Blackwater is under indictment even though we still spend billions on them

Republicans register fake names all the time (and so do hundreds and thousands of other people

An di bet that the judge would really like to see you call him a 'hack' to his face.

who gives a shit

Like we do not have enough to worry about without giving one fucking shit about ACORN. I bet they have massively cleaned up their act since they got 'exposed'

Did Blackwater? No, they changed their name and kept on going.

ACORN never killed an innocent civilian - get your priorities straight......

[Anvilbrother 0]

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An di bet that the judge would really like to see you call him a 'hack' to his face

What's he gonna do cover me in A1 sauce and eat me?

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ACORN never killed an innocent civilian - get your priorities straight

so as long as I dont kill anyone its ok for me to do anything I want

The big point about ACORN to me is they are a private hyperpartisian group groomed, funded, and with great ties to what is held to believe the most powerful man in the world who got him there on selfish motivated means by some illegal verified not with just charges but CONVICTIONS, and some just unethical ways.

I know there are tons of people convicted for all kinds of fraud, but this group which is/was publicly funded with my and your tax dollars needed to be cleansed.

As with any group be it Red Cross, some republican group, acorn, or some lemonade stand on the white house lawn if it gets public money, and like some huge union has the influence to steer government one way or another it needs to be watched as to not over step its boundries.

Not that you give a shit by the way you and kallend think im republican and play golf with George Bush just because im hammering on acorn, but I dont give a damn about dems or republicans or indepenents or effin purple people eaters from outer space. all I care about is my tax dollars and making sure people in charge do the right thing by what the MAJORITY of the people they work for want from them.

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[kallend 2,150]

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An di bet that the judge would really like to see you call him a 'hack' to his face

What's he gonna do cover me in A1 sauce and eat me?

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ACORN never killed an innocent civilian - get your priorities straight

so as long as I dont kill anyone its ok for me to do anything I want

The big point about ACORN to me is they are a private hyperpartisian group groomed, funded, and with great ties to what is held to believe the most powerful man in the world who got him there on selfish motivated means by some illegal verified not with just charges but CONVICTIONS, and some just unethical ways.

I know there are tons of people convicted for all kinds of fraud, but this group which is/was publicly funded with my and your tax dollars needed to be cleansed.

As with any group be it Red Cross, some republican group, acorn, or some lemonade stand on the white house lawn if it gets public money, and like some huge union has the influence to steer government one way or another it needs to be watched as to not over step its boundries.

Not that you give a shit by the way you and kallend think im republican and play golf with George Bush just because im hammering on acorn, but I dont give a damn about dems or republicans or indepenents or effin purple people eaters from outer space. all I care about is my tax dollars and making sure people in charge do the right thing by what the MAJORITY of the people they work for want from them.

You have a terrible case of DOUBLE STANDARD.

October 2008:October 20, 2008|Evan Halper, Times Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO — The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud.

State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that all signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California. His firm, Young Political Majors, or YPM, collects petition signatures and registers voters in California and other states.

Jacoby subsequently pleaded GUILTY to the charges.


November 2008: John McCain's campaign has directed $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states.

According to campaign finance records, a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy in June for purposes of "registering voters." The managing partner of that firm is Nathan Sproul, a renowned GOP operative who has been investigated on multiple occasions for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and even spearheading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to hinder the Democratic ticket.

In a letter to the Justice Department last October, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said that that Sproul's alleged activities "clearly suppress votes and violate the law."

That Sproul would come under the employment umbrella of the McCain campaign -- the Republican National Committee has also separately paid Lincoln Strategy at least $37,000 for voter registration efforts this cycle -- is not terribly surprising. Sproul, who has donated nearly $30,000 to McCain's campaign, has been in the good graces of GOP officials for the past decade despite charges of ethical and potentially legal wrongdoing.

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[Anvilbrother 0]

Your right if they did that and was convicted/ found it was true let them be delt with.

Your still seeing through partisian goggles I just stated I don't care about party. For me to have double standards I would have to choose a side. I'm just commenting on what is going on these days.

Here it is for you ....wait for it.... Bush was no where near the best president ever....was that good for you;). He was pretty much a tard but at the time I believed he could screw me over less than the others.

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