ACORN & Voter Fraud Attempt To Steal Election

As numerous law suits of voter fraud work their way through the courts. America’s electoral process braces for what might be the longest night of recent memory. To add to this mix, many key states such as Ohio and Virginia have new laws that will change the process.

Let’s start with the lawsuits of alleged voter fraud. Many of the voter registration drives play by the rules and will bring a welcome new group of first time voters into the fold. The legitimate efforts at giving our citizens a voice are not the problem. It is the alleged voter registration fraud that seems to be so pervasive this year. This fraud threatens to result in confusion at our polling stations across the country, and even alter election outcomes.

ACORN has been in the news of late. This Chicago based organization is a hard core supporter for the Democratic Party, and has a history of lawsuits arising from alleged voter registration fraud. This organization gets money from different sources among them the taxpayers. One of its benefactors is the Housing Trust Fund. During the recent negotiations of the economic Bailout bill, the Democrats tried to direct 20% of the profits proceedings for asset sales to the Housing Trust Fund. It was later removed.

The recent fraud includes about a dozen states.

In Columbus, Ohio, one volunteer has been indicted on a felony count of voter registration fraud. A Reynoldsburg, Ohio man was indicted on two felony counts of voter registration fraud. In Cuyahoga County, criminal investigations are ongoing.

A Milwaukee resident was charged Monday with election fraud, the first charge in an investigation into voter registration workers who submitted fake names to the city in what a complaint says amounted to a quota system. (Snip)

The complaint claims Adams “was required to obtain 15 (completed) voter registration forms a day. She could not keep her job with the CVP [Community Voters Project] and she would not be paid unless she met this ‘performance standard,’ which for all practical purposes is a quota.”
In 2006, for example, ACORN registered 1,800 new voters in Washington. The only trouble was, with the exception of six, all of the names submitted were fake. The secretary of state called it the “worst case of election fraud in our state’s history.”
“The ACORN workers told state investigators that they went to the Seattle public library, sat at a table and filled out the voter registration forms. They made up names, addresses, and Social Security numbers and in some cases plucked names from the phone book. One worker said it was a lot of hard work making up all those names and another said he would sit at home, smoke marijuana and fill out the forms.”
ACORN explained that this was an “isolated” incident, yet similar stories have been reported in Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, and Colorado — all swing states, by the way. ACORN members have been prosecuted for voter fraud in a number of states. (See www.rottenacorn.com.) Their philosophy seems to be that everyone deserves the right to vote, whether legal or illegal, living or dead.
In Michigan, ACORN has registered about 200.000 new voters. “There seems to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications”, said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office. “And it appears widespread”. Numerous applications have been filed under one name.
According to the Consumer Rights League, ACORN has been involved in voter fraud, directly or indirectly, in Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia. ACORNs Project Vote, for which Obama was a paid employee in Chicago, is the organization that appears to be most active in voter fraud. ACORN and Project Vote have a rap sheet of voter misconduct and voter registration fraud that extends across the nation, as the following examples show:
Colorado Television station KUSA reported that when hundreds of voter registration forms appeared suspect, election officials investigated and found a woman forging the forms, for which she received $50 a piece. Who was paying her? In January 2005, two ACORN employees were given community service for submitting false voter forms.
Florida When incidents were reported of ACORN issuing fraudulent voter registration cards, a former ACORN field director charged that ACORN submitted thousands of invalid registration cards.
Minnesota Election officials learned that ACORN canvassers were selling voter registration cards for $1 a piece. ACORN denied responsibility and fired the canvasser.
Missouri St. Louis, Missouri election officials claim 1,492 of fraudulent voter address changes have been turned in by ACORN. Also Kansas City, Missouri had similar voter fraud attempts. Eight ACORN employees plead guilty to federal election fraud in Missouri.
Ohio The Federal Election Commission found that, during the Ohio Democratic primary, the Obama presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to a subsidiary of ACORN, Citizens Services Inc. (CSI). The payment apparently was for get-out-the-vote activities rather than the reported polling, candidate advance work, and staging events. The exact payment to CSI was for $832, 598.29 to cover services between February 25 and March 17, 2008.
The Cincinnati Inquirer reported that in 2004, a federal grand jury indicted four ACORN employees for submitting 19 fraudulent voter registration forms all with similar handwriting and false addresses.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported on August 28, 2008, that the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (Cleveland) is investigating 75,000 voter registration forms, many found to be fraudulent and submitted by ACORN.
Pennsylvania In March 2008, ACORN was accused by Philadelphia Election officials of filing fraudulent voter registration forms prior to the Democratic primary.
Washington State ACORN was fined $25,000 by the state of Washington in 2007 for voter fraud committed by Project Vote. Five ACORN workers pled guilty to filing phony voter registration forms.
Wisconsin In Milwaukee, 39 ACORN voter registration workers were referred to the District Attorney for possible voter fraud.
Some people believe that ID on Election Day solves the problem. It is not currently a nationwide procedure
The federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA), passed in 2002, provides all states must require ID from first-time voters who register be mail. Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have additional restrictions on their books. Eighteen require all voters to produce some form of ID, which may be a bank statement or utility bill sent to their address. Two require a photo ID, which may include student or other unofficial IDs. Arizona requires al voters produce either one government issued ID, or two other forms of identification. Indiana stands alone in requiring that the ID have a photo and be issued by the government. Voters who don’t have such IDs are supposed to cast “provisional” ballots, which will be counted only if they show up at election headquarters with a proper ID within a few days of the voting.

In addition to this some states have changed their election laws. Ohio is allowing early voting, now through October 6th. Many canvassers are working the college campuses, providing on the spot registration and a ride to the polls. ID is required.

Virginia now allows out-of-state students to register and vote in the Old Dominion for the first time. This has not escaped the eyes of conservative, Liberty University. The chancellor of Liberty University has an aggressive registration drive underway to register all students for the upcoming election. The university has offered voter registration forms from Resident Advisors and by professors during class.

With the changes to state election laws, the anticipated long lines of new voters, combined with the unknown impact of voter registration fraud, November 4th, may go down as the longest night in memory.