Why isn’t the GOP going ballistic on the ongoing voter registration fraud being committed by ACORN? This is systematic vote suppression effort that must be stopped in every election precinct. The few news reports listed below are just the tip of the iceberg.
Some recent news stories floating around about the numerous fraudulent voter registrations being turned in by ACORN and other activist ‘community organizations’.
(Hat tip to Instapundit, and others, mostly via Google)
Court casts doubt on Ohio voter rolls – (link)
the full Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a decision made last week by three of its members. The result: Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must create computer programs to cross check all new voter registrations so that county boards of elections can doublecheck new registrants.
The Secretary of State will now have to verify new registrations by comparing information on them with data from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration.
“As far as we can tell, the problem with the current system (of cross-checking) is not that it is insufficiently user-friendly, but that it is effectively useless,” wrote Judge Jeffrey Sutton, writing for the majority.
Question – how are they verifying voter rolls now? Pencil and paper? Nothing?!?
While duplicate registrations don’t translate into multiple, illegal votes because of other safeguards, [Secretary of State Jennifer] Brunner said county prosecutors or the Ohio attorney general will prosecute people involved in voter registration fraud, Brunner said at a morning press conference
How would you prosecute someone for voting illegally? Even if someone casts a vote as Mickey Mouse, it is impossible to weed out after the vote is cast, the damage has been done. The whole electoral system relies on accurate voter registration information. Once the votes have been cast, it’s too late.
Meanwhile in Seattle:
Felony charges filed against 7 in state’s biggest case of voter-registration fraud – (link)
The announcement of criminal charges came after the King County Canvassing Board revoked 1,762 allegedly fraudulent voter registrations submitted by ACORN employees.
Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Stephen Hobbs told the board that six ACORN workers had admitted filling out registration forms with names they found in phone books last October. The canvassers filled out the forms while sitting around a table at the downtown Seattle Public Library, Hobbs said.
County prosecutors charged the six canvassers with one to eight counts each of filing false information on voter registration, and charged a supervisor with providing false information and making a false statement to a public official.
Two of the ACORN workers were also charged in Pierce County with submitting 55 phony registrations.
In Cleveland, a single voter is registered 72 times:
1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS – (link)
‘ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS’
he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.
“Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they’ll give me a dollar to sign up,” said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
the article includes this nugget, linking Barak Obama to this anti-American organization:
During the primary season, however, the Obama camp paid another group, Citizen Service Inc., $832,598 for various political services, according to Federal Elections Commission filings. That group and ACORN share the same board of directors.
Hmmm, something smells rotten. Maybe they share the same board of directors because C.S.I. is a subsidiary of ACORN?
The Las Vegas office of ACORN, raided by the FBI -
ACORN Vegas Office Raided in Voter Fraud Investigation – (link)
The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.
“Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications,” Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev.
Secretary of State Ross Miller said the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
I know, I know, it was just over-zealous temporary workers filling in all these fraudulent registrations, right? Of course.
Back in Bridgeport, Connecticut:
ACORN’s voter registrations questioned – (link)
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.
and
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.”
ACORN will police their own mistakes right? Here it says they fired ONE employee for this fraud. ONE! I sure am glad they got that guy.
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
Low income people like the entire Dallas Cowboys football team. Right. Really reaching out to disenfranchised voters there.
Even ACORN offices in flyover country are having trouble keeping their employees from committing fraud:
Missouri officials suspect fake voter registration – (link)
“I don’t even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy,” Davis said. “We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don’t exist, people who have driver’s license numbers that won’t verify or Social Security numbers that won’t verify. Some have no address at all.”
My sense is that this is a deliberate tactic to overwhelm the voter registration boards around the country. ACORN isn’t concerned with how much money this fraud ends up costing the taxpayers, they are only interested in breaking down the electoral system. There is no doubt that thousands of their fraudulent registrations get onto the roles around the country. Especially in Democratically controlled precincts.
Even in Milwaukee:
ACORN In The News Again For Workers Registering Dead Voters And Others – (link)
Milwaukee Election Commission says that criminal investigations could be initiated against individuals who belong to a group called Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now aka ACORN, for trying to add dead, imprisoned or imaginary people to the voter rolls.
According to Sue Edman, the commission’s executive director, investigators are investigating 200-300 fraudulent voter registration cards that were supplied by members of ACORN.In this case it was ACORN themselves that brought the problem to the attention of the commission. Even so, it is sparking up the debate about requiring photo ID at the voter booths for upcoming elections.
Without a voter id requirement, the only difficult part of the process is getting names on the voter roles! Once the names are in the computer, and at the voting precinct, people can drive around voting all day under various names. How would you catch them? The jig is up, we need a national requirement for photo IDs at all polling places to cast a vote, and we need paper copies of all ballots. It is imperative that the integrity of the system is maintained to ensure the accuracy of the result, otherwise we are living in a banana republic.
Atlas Shrugs sums it up the best:
SUSPEND THE ELECTION: CALL FOR MCCAIN TO POSTPONE ELECTION DAY – (link)
There is no way, no way, we can have a fair election with legitimate results. No way. The taxpayer is funding this stealth coup against our election system. ACORN is the most egregious but they are hardly singular. We must STOP, verify every voter, confirm their legitimacy. This is CHAOS and it is happening, strangely enough, in every battleground state.
I agree. This is a coordinated attempt to subvert the electoral process through the fraudulent manipulation of the voter rolls. Spend a few minutes reading through some of these articles, especially the responses of the local bureaucrats managing the voter rolls. They are overwhelmed and don’t even know how to sort out the fraud from the real voters in the system. And even if they could, they can’t do it between now and Nov. 4th.
