ACORN Vegas Office Raided in Voter Fraud Investigation

DrHolliday

Wow, this could get really interesting.

http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/1...co-violations/

UPDATE 10/09/08 1300hrs: We just got more on this from someone else we know who works in these same circles here in Chicago. This is a different source than the one who provided the intel below. This person says, “There’s no doubt there’s an investigation. The only question is do they have the evidence to shut down ACORN before Nov 4th or will they just do these state-coordinated raids to try to keep the vote clean until they can indict the national organization?”

SurferGirl

This is an article from wake up America.

Wake up America
ACORN Obama, ACORN Obama, ACORN Obama

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 12:06 PM CDT

Barack Obama's association with terrorist William Ayers is not the only issue that has come to light to the majority of American voters recently.

ACORN otherwise known as Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is under investigation all across the country. This is a liberal group that collects voter registrations and is directly linked to Barack Obama and since they have come to the public eye, Barack Obama has taken to trying to deny his close ties with them, despite monies his campaign has given them ($800,000) his working directly with them in the past and his public statements regarding them such as "I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work."

No surprise to see ACORN in the news yet again today, as they were yesterday and the day before and last week and last month, all for voter fraud, putting though fake registrations, duplicates, dead people and underage children, all in the name of helping elect their old friend Barack Obama.

Today we see ACRON harassed voters into registering multiple times, followed them around, encouraged them to keep registering time and time again.

DrHolliday

If this RICO rumor investigation has legs, this could be a real October Surprise.

http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/1...co-violations/

The buzz in those corridors is that federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been leading a team of FBI investigators in 10 states working on a RICO case.

Today, it was announced that ACORN is being investigated in 10 states.

That’s one Hell of a coincidence.

We asked why Fitzgerald would be involved in this, because he’s the prosecutor on the Tony Rezko case and we aren’t aware of ACORN being investigated in Illinois.

We were told that ACORN was investigated in Illinois years ago, and it was a Fitzgerald case then. This means ACORN’s activities today, involving a conspiracy to commit multi-state voter fraud on SoetorObama’s behalf, are an extension of that previous ACORN case.

Our source in federal courts said, “Any crime that involves more than two people and is carried out across state lines qualifies as a corrupt organization. The fact that those “Goodwill” donations were made in Texas and received at Obama headquarters in Chicago or Washington means it qualifies for RICO.”

The “Goodwill donations” referred to above are the $228 million in undocumented, unverified campaign contributions the SoetorObama camp has received — which the McCain campaigned filed a complaint to the FEC on this past Monday.

We’ve also heard that the Clinton campaign filed complaints to the FBI and other federal agencies over SoetorObama’s fraud in the Iowa, Texas and other caucuses: voter intimidation, registration fraud, and other illegal activities.

The last thing we were told tonight in regards to all of this was that “the meme here is a tying together of all these various threads. That’s what you will see in the last weeks of the campaign: all things being tied together”.

If everything rumored here is true, it looks like David Axelrod, Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, SoetorObama himself, and possibly even Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were all involved, together, in massive RICO violations, and thus federal fraud, if the DNC and party leadership knew what the SoetorObama campaign and ACORN were up to and allowed it to proceed. Knowledge of federal crimes being committed makes all parties accessories to those crimes — and part of the conspiracy to defraud the public.

Jolie Rouge

Voter registration boom favors Obama
By WHITNEY WOODWARD and MIKE BAKER, AP Writers
1 hour, 36 minutes ago

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. - The surge in new voters that helped propel Barack Obama to his party's presidential nomination is carrying over to the general election — 9 million newly registered voters who are overwhelmingly Democratic and could add up to a big victory on Election Day.

If they show up.

In states where registration is recorded by party, including eight key states that could decide the election, voters have signed up Democratic in the past six months by a margin of nearly 4-to-1.

Tonya Barker is among them. The 30-year-old mother of two from eastern North Carolina said it wasn't until this election — when the Illinois senator burst onto the national scene — that she finally found a reason to vote.

"Why would I waste my time on someone I don't believe in?" said Barker. "I think I knew Barack was coming."

Simply registering voters, even when the numbers are skewed so heavily toward one party, is no guarantee of success.

Historically, voter turnout among new registrants has been low. And while candidates have months to run registration drives, they have only a tiny window — several days during early balloting, just hours on Election Day — to get out the vote.

Still, an Associated Press analysis of registration data found that if the millions of newly registered voters turn out at the same rate as in 2004 and cast ballots with their declared party of choice, Obama could have the votes he needs to wrest several battleground states away from the Republican Party and its nominee, Sen. John McCain.

Obama could hold Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, won by Democrat John Kerry four years ago, and go on to pick up three states won by President Bush: Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico. He could also narrow the gap in Iowa, as well as in both Florida and North Carolina: two big Southern states worth 42 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.

A win for Obama in only a few of those eight states could doom McCain's chances. A victory in all could turn the election into a rout.

"The trend line is really troubling," said longtime Republican consultant Carter Wrenn, who helped North Carolina's Jesse Helms win several terms in the U.S. Senate in a state where there are far more registered Democrats than Republicans.

"That's a sign that this is one of those elections where all the tides are flowing in the Democrats' direction. Those tides are the most important thing in politics."

An AP survey of election officials nationwide found that as of Oct. 1, the number of registered Democrats had grown by nearly 5 percent since 2004 — outpacing overall population growth in the 28 states where information on voter registration by party was available for 2004 and 2008. During the same time, the GOP lost more than 2 percent of its registered voters.

Within the numbers are unmistakable signs that Obama stands to reap the benefits of the registration boom.

Among them: In five states that track registration by race, blacks — who polls suggest almost unanimously support Obama — have registered to vote at nearly twice the rate of whites over the past six months.

"It had a lot to do with negligence on my part, not taking interest in it," Natalie Mattocks, a 26-year-old woman from Jacksonville, said of her previous indifference to voting. She signed up this summer as a Democrat. "Now with an African-American candidate, there's kind of an automatic level of interest for me," said Mattocks, who is black.

And she said she has been adamant that her friends vote, too.

"I'm on them," Mattocks said. "It's become very important for me to make sure they're registered. I'm telling everyone I come across, no matter if I don't know them and they don't know me. They can see it on my shirt, who I'm voting for."

In the eight battleground states where voters register by party, Democrats have added more than 1 million registrants in the past four years — while the GOP has lost roughly 125,000.

In six of the eight, more voters also have recently registered as independents or as members of third parties than as Republicans. Since the start of the year in Florida, 253,294 people have signed up as independents or with other parties, compared to 190,137 Republicans.

Meanwhile, 360,478 Florida voters registered as Democrats.

"The real question is, can the Democrats turn these voters out?" said Erin Van Sickle, a spokeswoman for the Florida Republican Party. "History tells us: No, they can't. Republicans have a time-tested get-out-the-vote machine and that will not change this year."

Four years ago, there were a few thousand more registered Republicans than Democrats in Nevada. Thanks in part to a competitive Democratic caucus between Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the party now has a roughly 90,000-voter edge. Even if a large portion of those new Democrats don't vote, Obama has enough potential new voters to make up the 21,500 vote edge that delivered the state's five electoral votes to Bush in '04.

Said Dan Hart, a Democratic political consultant in Nevada: "If we've got a registration advantage of that size, and independents are leaning Democratic ... there's a point in time when you just don't have enough voters to win an election."

Steve Wark, a Republican consultant from Las Vegas and an expert on getting out the vote, acknowledged he'd rather be on the other side of the registration surge. But he said getting first-time registrants to the polls is especially hard in Nevada, where the population is transient and often new to the state.

"In southern Nevada, you can count on 20 percent of any new registrants to vote in the next regular election," Wark said. "It's very difficult when you do registration drives to make those meaningful within an election cycle."

Among the new voters in Nevada are tens of thousands signed up by Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to register low-income people. Officials there and in other states have accused ACORN, which claims to have registered 1.3 million people nationwide since 2007, of submitting registrations that used false or duplicated information.

ACORN has said it informs election authorities when it identifies a potentially fraudulent registration, and said the relatively few number of problem registrations probably stem from workers — who are paid by the number of registrations they submit — making up false applications, rather than trying to change the outcome of the election.

The lingering nomination fight between Clinton and Obama turned the late-season primaries in Pennsylvania and North Carolina into critical contests, generating enthusiasm and booming registration.

The ranks of registered Democrats has grown by 500,000 in the past year in Pennsylvania, while the GOP has lost about 28,000. The state's 67 counties are still processing the crush of paperwork filed before this week's registration deadline.

Thomas Baldino, a political science professor at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., said many of the registrants recruited by the Obama campaign are college students and other young people. He cautioned that such people are less likely to vote than older, established voters for whom heading out on Election Day is a habit.

"(Obama) needs to mobilize those people," Baldino said. "He needs to turn those numbers into votes."

The registration trend favoring Democrats is dramatic in North Carolina, a state that hasn't voted for that party's nominee since Gov. Jimmy Carter from nearby Georgia was on the ballot in 1976. New Democratic registrations outpaced those for the GOP 2-to-1 this year.

Billy Mills, the Democratic Party chairman in North Carolina's Onslow County, was thrilled this week when Michelle Obama arrived to speak to about 1,500 military families who live near Camp Lejeune, the Marine Corps' main base on the East Coast. This will be the first election for thousand of Marines stationed there, where the average age is 23.

"I'd say the older forces of the county, the retirees, they're still Republican," Mills said. "But there's a lot of younger folks that see it differently and that have registered Democratic as a result of their interest in Obama. This has been the biggest movement that I've seen in a long time."


The Associated Press' Election Research and Quality Control Group in New York, and writers Kathleen Hennessey in Las Vegas, Peter Jackson in Harrisburg, Pa., and Brent Kallestad in Tallahassee, Fla., contributed to this report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/...oh_rNtaiph24cA

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gmyers

Well if things keep going this way are Ya'll ready for Obama to be president? Its looking like a real possibility. And due to dishonest means too.

Jolie Rouge

Elections officials deny illegally purging voters
25 minutes ago


NEW YORK - A newspaper report Thursday said tens of thousands of eligible voters have been removed from rolls or blocked from registering in at least six swing states, but election officials quickly lined up to defend their registration procedures and said they had done nothing wrong.

The New York Times based its findings on reviews of state records and Social Security data, and said it had identified apparent problems in Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina.

The Times said voters appear to have been purged by mistake and not because of any intentional violations by election officials or coordinated efforts by any party. It says that some states are improperly using Social Security data to verify new voters' registration applications, and that others might have broken rules that govern removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of a federal election.

The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

Elections officials in several states disputed that any voters were illegally removed from rolls. Michigan elections director Chris Thomas said the state removed only people who have died, notified authorities of a move or who were declared unfit to vote, which is well within the parameters of the law.

"There is no illegal purging going on," Thomas told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Thomas said only 11,000 voters were removed from Michigan rolls in August — not 33,000, the figure cited in the report.

States have been trying to follow the Help America Vote Act of 2002 by removing the names of voters who should no longer be listed. But for every voter added to the rolls in the past two months in some states, election officials have removed two, the Times' review of the records found.

The six states appear to have violated federal law in two ways, according to the newspaper report. Some are removing voters from the rolls within 90 days of a federal election, which is not allowed except when voters die, notify the authorities that they have moved out of state or have been declared unfit to vote, The Times said.

And some of the states are improperly using Social Security data to verify registration applications for new voters, the newspaper reported.

Under the Help America Vote Act, many states have an agreement with the Social Security Administration requiring them to submit the last four digits of a new voter's Social Security number for verification if the person does not have a valid state-issued ID, such as a license.

Last week, amid concerns about an uptick in the number of requests for verification, Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue sent a letter to officials in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Nevada, North Carolina and Ohio seeking to verify that the checks were run only on new voters who don't have acceptable state-issued identification. States have said the increase in checks is due partly to a stream of new voters coming in to register.

In Georgia, federal officials say some 2 million checks have been completed, but only 406,000 new voters registered. The Department of Justice has questioned the checks, and state officials say they are trying to determine how federal authorities arrived at that figure.

North Carolina elections watchdog Bob Hall, who heads the advocacy group Democracy North Carolina, defended the state's elections board. Hall said he has found that many registration forms are incomplete or partly illegible and that many prospective voters provide Social Security numbers instead of driver's licenses. Because of that, he said it's not surprising that the state would need to run so many verifications through the Social Security Administration database.

Indiana also defended its procedures. "Using all available appropriate technology is our best way to combat voter fraud that we know exists in this state and across the country," Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita said in a statement Thursday.

If voters were wrongfully removed from rolls, the concern is that on Election Day, voters who have been removed from the rolls could show up and be challenged by political party officials or election workers. And because Democrats have more aggressively registered voters, any discrepancy could disproportionately affect them.

In Colorado, the secretary of state's office disputed any wrongdoing and said potentially ineligible voters have been put on "canceled status," which it says isn't the same as taking them off rolls. Officials say voters who have been wrongly put on canceled status can cast provisional ballots, which will be counted if they are found to be eligible.

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janelle

ACORN won't be investigated if Obama is elected.

They interviewed a woman on TV and she said you have about 15 ACORN members confront you when you get off the bus in Clevand to register and they know you are already registered. She told them she registered but they still wanted her to just sign their paper. She said most people did it just to get rid of them and the harrassment. The person from ACORN gets paid for each registration so they don't care if you have been registrated or not.

Jolie Rouge

ACORN's voter registrations questioned
By KEN DIXON Staff writer
10/07/2008

HARTFORD -- The State Elections Enforcement Commission has opened an investigation into allegations that a community activist organization submitted at least 10 false voter-registration cards in Bridgeport.

One of the phony registrations was for a 7-year-old girl in the Marina Village housing complex, whose age was listed as 27 on the voter card.

Another registration came from a man who later said he couldn't have completed the voter card purported to be his because he was in jail on the date of the document.

Joseph J. Borges, the city's Republican registrar of voters, filed the complaint with state officials after months of local complaints on the tactics that ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was regularly filing applications that were ruled ineligible.

In response, a Bridgeport leader of ACORN on Tuesday night called the charges "part of a concerted and coordinated campaign by conservatives and the GOP to attack and discredit ACORN." The charges date back to the summer, when the Connecticut Post reported that ACORN applications were flooding the registrar's office and resulting in excessive extra hours of research to check their authenticity. "We have many more complaints," Borges said Tuesday, adding that the 10 are just highlights. He said he went to Marina Village personally and interviewed the 7-year-old.

"I talked with the guardian and said I was just trying to verify the name and the girl came down the stairs," Borges said, adding that the Social Security number was different and the child was definitely not 27, as indicated on the voter card.

ACORN filed more than 8,000 voter cards in the city during its registration drive, but Borges said the piles of cards are riddled with duplicates and false information that was found by him and his staff. Borges submitted evidence including the registration of a Stratford woman who said she was "pressured" into completing a card with a Bridgeport address. Another registration contained two voters registration forms with different signatures for the same person.

"We have three boxes of returned letters, with no such address, no such name," Borges said. "It's crazy."

On his complaint, Borges said the flood of ACORN-generated voter cards "has put a strain on my office and jeopardizes our ability to enter legitimate registration cards."

Nancy S. Nicolescu, director of communications for the SEEC, confirmed Tuesday that the commission took the complaint, but declined further comment. "The only thing I think we can say is we've received it, it's been docketed, and it's under investigation," she said.

When the issue first broke over the summer, ACORN officials said that at least one employee was fired for trumping up voter registrations.

Emeline Bravo Blackwood, chairwoman of the East End ACORN chapter in Bridgeport, said in a statement Tuesday night that she is "proud" of the local and statewide drives that have registered 20,000 new state voters. "It is shameful that partisan, right-wing operatives -- who are clearly afraid of our ability to bring low-income people to the polls on election day -- are more interested in slinging trumped-up allegations at ACORN than in working with us in our campaigns to stop foreclosures and predatory lending, win paid sick days, raise the minimum wage, and make sure that low-income, working families have a seat at the table in our democracy," she said.

http://www.connpost.com/ci_10661361?source=most_viewed

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Jolie Rouge

ACORN admits it can’t stop fraud. Now, if they’ll only admit that they don’t want to stop it, it’s standard operating procedure

Voter-registration can't be totally fraud-free, group says
Voter-registration group cites lack of resources
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Joe Guillen - Plain Dealer Reporter

A national voter-registration group admitted to Cuyahoga County election officials Tuesday that it cannot eliminate fraud from its operation.

The group blamed inefficiency and lack of resources for problems such as being unable to spot duplicate voter-registration cards or cards that may have been filled out by workers to make quotas.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has turned in at least 65,000 cards to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in the last year. The board has investigated potentially fraudulent cards since August.

The group has faced similar inquiries in other large Ohio counties. And Nevada state authorities recently raided ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters searching for evidence of fraud, according to the Associated Press.

Local representatives of the organization told Cuyahoga board members that they don't have the resources to identify fraudulent cards turned in by paid canvassers who are told to register low- and moderate-income voters.

Cuyahoga election workers flagged about 50 names on suspicious cards. The cards were to register the same names, raising the possibility that canvassers shared information when trying to make quotas. "This is not something you can catch with your internal controls, apparently," said board member Sandy McNair at the meeting.

"Not perfectly, no," replied Mari Engelhardt, ACORN political director for Ohio.

Once stacks of registration cards are returned to ACORN offices, workers verify information by calling the phone number provided on the card, the board was told. If information is missing or ACORN identifies a suspicious card, it is given to the Board of Elections with a notice that it could be problematic.

ACORN workers who double-check cards can't be expected to remember names and addresses previously verified, said Teresa James, an attorney for Project Vote representing ACORN.

Engelhardt said supervisors sometimes fail to prevent different canvassers from attempting to register the same person.

"We do not have the resources to know if a particular card is fictitious," James said.

Voter-registration organizations cannot, by law, withhold registration cards from election boards. The groups are obligated to report potential errors, a spokesman for Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner told The Plain Dealer.

Kris Harsh, ACORN's head Cleveland organizer, blamed the elections board for not scrutinizing ACORN's suspicious cards. He said the group can't be expected to catch everything.

"None of us have ever achieved perfection," Harsh said.

The elections board will continue its inquiry Monday, when it expects testimony from three people it will subpoena after a review of the ACORN investigation. The names appeared on multiple registration cards submitted by ACORN and other organizations.

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LuvBigRip

Yeah, sure. It is all Republicans fault for bring the fraud to light. Just like any criminal would say. Not my fault

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Jolie Rouge

Felon Accused of Voting Violations

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=803756

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