There are several things that come to mind in regard to this unfortunate and disturbing news:
"The U.S. Census is supposed to be free of politics, but one group with a history of voter fraud, ACORN, is participating in next year’s count, raising concerns about the politicization of the decennial survey.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now signed on as a national partner with the U.S. Census Bureau in February 2009 to assist with the recruitment of the 1.4 million temporary workers needed to go door-to-door to count every person in the United States – currently believed to be more than 306 million people."
Good thing we know ACORN to be a reputable organization with no political agenda that could benefit enormously from a misrepresentation of census numbers…
People should be afraid. They should be very, very afraid.
Those that support the current administration, should be very, very embarrassed at the thought.
“Those that support the current administration, should be very, very embarrassed at the thought.”
I support the current administration 100% why should I be embarassed?
More embarassing is posting a link to Fox News as if its reputable…also those here who keep perpetuating the ridiculous rumours about Obama…I am embarassed for you.
According to ACORN, the agreement it entered into does not include sending any volunteers door-to-door. They say they are only involved in making information available online.
“Those that support the current administration, should be very, very embarrassed at the thought.”
I support the current administration 100% why should I be embarassed?
More embarassing is posting a link to Fox News as if its reputable…also those here who keep perpetuating the ridiculous rumours about Obama…I am embarassed for you.
Rumors? You mean the fact that ACORN is a shill organization created for the purpose of perpetuating voter fraud across the country. Get you head out of your arse and do some research. These are the facts, which are very inconvenient sometimes so stop pretending you’re an uneducated boob.
This is only a partial list:
This year there have been several accusations of fraud against ACORN. Over a dozen states are investigating the organization already. Here is a complete list of the ongoing investigations:
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*North Carolina — *State Board of Elections officials have found at least 100 voter registration forms with the same names over and over again. The forms were turned in by ACORN. Officials sent about 30 applications to the state Board of Elections for possible fraud investigation.
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*Ohio — *The New York Post reported that a Cleveland man said he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times. The complaints have sparked an investigation by election officials into the organization, whose political wing has supported Barack Obama. Witnesses have already been subpoenaed to testify against the organization.
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*Nevada — *Authorities raided the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now on Tuesday October 7, 2008, after a month-long investigation. The fraudulent voter registrations included the Dallas Cowboys starting line-up.
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*Indiana — *More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana’s Lake County filled out by ACORN employees turned out to be bogus. Officials also stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.
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*Connecticut — *Officials are looking into a complaint alleging ACORN submitted fraudulent voter registration cards in Bridgeport. In one instance, an official said a card was filled out for a 7-year-old girl, whose age was listed as 27. 8,000 cards were submitted in Bridgeport.
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*Missouri — *The Kansas City election board is reporting 100 duplicate applications and 280 with fake information. Acorn officials agreed that at least 4% of their registrations were bogus. Governor Matt Blunt condemned the attempts by ACORN to commit voter fraud.
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*Pennsylvania — *Officials are investigating suspicious or incomplete registration forms submitted by ACORN. 252,595 voter registrations were submitted in Philadelphia.
Remarkably, 57,435 were rejected — most of them submitted by ACORN.
*Wisconsin — *In Milwaukee ACORN improperly used felons as registration workers. Additionally, its workers are among 49 cases of bad registrations sent to authorities for possible charges, as first reported by the Journal Sentinel.
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*Florida — *The Pinellas County Elections supervisor says his office has received around 35 voter registrations that appear to be bogus. There is also a question of 30,000 felons who are registered illegally to vote. Their connections with ACORN are not yet clear.
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*Texas — *Of the 30,000 registration cards ACORN turned in, Harris County tax assessor Paul Bettencourt says just more than 20,000 are valid. And just look at some of the places ACORN was finding those voters. A church just next door is the address for around 150 people. More than 250 people claim a homeless outreach center as their home address. Some listed a county mental health facility as their home and one person even wrote down the Harris County jail at the sheriff’s office.
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*Michigan — *ACORN in Detroit is being investigated after several municipal clerks reported fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications coming through. The clerk interviewed said the fraud appears to be widespread.
** New Mexico – The Bernalillo County clerk has notified prosecutors that some 1,100 fraudulent voter registration cards were turned in by ACORN.
“Those that support the current administration, should be very, very embarrassed at the thought.”
I support the current administration 100% why should I be embarassed?
More embarassing is posting a link to Fox News as if its reputable…also those here who keep perpetuating the ridiculous rumours about Obama…I am embarassed for you.
Why don’t you come down off of your horse. Would you expect me to make the same comment regarding CNN; I wouldn’t, you know that, and you know that this is accurate as Fox posted it, just as if CNN had.
Jeez, you liberals spend your time attacking the source, not the message.
Where did you get that as it’s the nearly the opposite of the Fox article…not that that is surprising I don’t see anything on their site though or a quick google.
Not this old canard. First, why do you deliberately conflate voter registration fraud with voter fraud? They are not the same thing.
You do of course realize that ACORN, more often than not, is turning their own employees in. You also realize that, far more often than not, ACORN is legally required to submit ALL voter registration forms it receives, regardless of the facial irregularities/bad information, right? You also realize that ACORN, far more often than not, is the one that segregates the facially inaccurate or questionable forms, right? ACORN is the one getting defrauded by these folks and, to my knowledge, ACORN as an organization has not been indicted on any voter registration claims.
Tim, it’s true. ACORN, like any organization that contracts to do voter registration, is legally required to submit to the governmental agencies all voter registration forms, even those for Mickey Mouse. What ACORN did was separate out from the reasonable registrations all the obviously fraudulent registrations prior to submittal so as to assist in ferreting out the fraud. In addition, ACORN itself didn’t originate those fraudulent registrations; rather, they were created by a very small fraction of the people ACORN contracted to do the actual legwork. Finally, there is no evidence that any voter fraud arose from the voter registration fraud.
If you have any sources indicating that ACORN itself was convicted of fraud, please let us know.
Not this old canard. First, why do you deliberately conflate voter registration fraud with voter fraud? They are not the same thing.
You do of course realize that ACORN, more often than not, is turning their own employees in. You also realize that, far more often than not, ACORN is legally required to submit ALL voter registration forms it receives, regardless of the facial irregularities/bad information, right? You also realize that ACORN, far more often than not, is the one that segregates the facially inaccurate or questionable forms, right? ACORN is the one getting defrauded by these folks and, to my knowledge, ACORN as an organization has not been indicted on any voter registration claims.
Peddle that nonsense elsewhere.
Really, so ACORN is the victim here?
That my friend puts you squarely in the running for the POTW. Congratulations!!
How would you know if there was voter fraud? They don’t even check ID’s here. They can register people illegally (which Acorn has been caught many times doing), and anyone can come in and say they are the illegally registered voter.
I have it by good source that the actual numbers for the ACORN count will be as follows:
Black Man/Woman +2 Black Man/Woman (in prison) +1 Dead Black Man +1 Each member of another states Pro Foot Ball Team +1 Mexican Man/Woman (legal) +2 Mexican Man/Woman (illegal) +1 White Man/Woman (on Welfare) +1 White Man/Woman (with unskilled job) +1 White Man/Woman (skilled job, or white collar) -5 White Man/Woman (in prison) +/- 0 Middle Eastern / Eastern Man/Woman +/- 0
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How would you know if there was voter fraud? They don’t even check ID’s here. They can register people illegally (which Acorn has been caught many times doing), and anyone can come in and say they are the illegally registered voter.
You don’t seem to get it. ACORN is not responsible for voter fraud. ACORN is responsible for organizing voter registration efforts. ACORN gathers voter registration and, as required by law, submits all of them to governmental agencies who handle voter registration. If your locality doesn’t even check IDs, then your local government is complicit in voter fraud. Are there unscrupulous people who fake voter registration forms to earn more money or to further their political aims? You bet. How do you stop it? By validating received voter registration forms. ACORN is not involved in this, by law. By ensuring, when voting takes place, that the person doing the voting is the person who registered. ACORN is also not involved in this. Had ACORN never been involved in voter registration, fraudulent registration forms would still show up.
I don’t see anything on their site though or a quick google.