In doing research for this years voter fraud, I kept encountering a group called ACORN. I knew nothing about this group and was expecting to find some organization with thinly veiled plans to take over the world. What I found was a group that, before this election year, I would have joined.
According to the ACORN webpage ACORN is the nation’s largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the country. They are involved in community organization, issue campaigns, service delivery, ballot initiatives, and voter registration.
It is the voter registration part of their organization that has brought them to not only my attention, but the attention of much of the country. In states across the country voter fraud is being investigated. In many of these instances it appears that ACORN is central to the investigations.
This is interesting, because Barack Obama has ties with ACORN, and not surprisingly ACORN has endorsed Obama. In 1995 Barack Obama represented ACORN in a lawsuit and later was asked to help with triaing some of its staff.
This section will list the states and circumstances behind each instance of ACORN involved voter fraud.
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Barack Obama's campaign has made a mistake in reporting a large sum of money in federal reports. An $800,000 mistake. A mistake in reporting that amount of money was paid to Citizens Services, Inc.
Citizens Services, Inc. or CSI is a subsidiary of ACORN. In the past years it is widely known that ACORN as an organization has been heavily involved in voter fraud cases.
Fraud allegations
Obama's big-government vision. "Our volume," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe bragged of the voter-registration program, "is going to be enormous."
Quantity over quality. That's the ACORN way - and the fraud allegations keep piling up:
* Yesterday, Nevada officials raided ACORN's Las Vegas office after election authorities accused the group of submitting multiple voter registrations with fake and duplicate names. Among the bogus monikers: names of former Dallas Cowboys players.
* Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected thousands of registration forms ACORN had turned in from its drives this summer. On a conference call yesterday, GOP officials noted that up to 11,000 of the applications were no good - tying up election officials and jeopardizing the voting rights of untold victims whose identities may have been stolen.
In what seems to be ACORN's standard operating procedure, vote canvassers had pulled names and addresses from phone books and forged signatures. According to a local paper (the Northwest Indiana and Illionois Times), "Large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the same apparent handwriting style" and "apparently the organization's canvassers broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid." The fake registrants include dead people and underage kids.
* Milwaukee, Wisc., officials last month discovered at least seven felons employed as voter-registration workers for ACORN and another affiliated group. (State law bans felons from such work.) They also uncovered a raft of problematic voter-registration cards. The state GOP accuses the group of trying to get dead, imprisoned or imaginary people on the voter rolls. Fraud has plagued ACORN's Milwaukee chapter since the last election cycle.
* In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple, copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. The Miami Herald reports: "One individual had 21 duplicate applications."
Election officials had flagged ACORN's negligent practices months ago. But it may be too late: In Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, ACORN has signed up 135,000 new voters, nearly 60 percent of them registered as Democrats - a fifth of all new voters in that region.
* In Ohio, large numbers of homeless people got free van and bus rides to register. Shelby Holliday, a reporter for Palestra.net, filmed ACORN shuttling in some prospects. She told me she spoke with one homeless woman who said ACORN "told her who to vote for if she wanted a 'better life,' and told her not to worry about jury duty (one of the reasons this homeless woman didn't want to register) because the government probably wouldn't be able to track her down. She was registering with a temporary address."