On 10/20/2014 8:57 PM, Yoor...@Jurgis.net wrote:
> That's exactly the thinking
Recent Fraud
State Year Details
AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for
falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.
CO 2005 Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for
submitting false voter registrations.
2004 An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering
three of her friends to vote 40 times.
CT 2008 The New York Post reported that ACORN submitted a voter
registration card for a 7-year-old Bridgeport girl. Another 8,000 cards
from the same city will be scrutinized for possible fraud.
FL 2009 In September, 11 ACORN workers were accused of forging voter
registration applications in Miami-Dade County during the last election.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the state attorney�s
office scoured hundreds of suspicious applications provided by ACORN and
found 197 of 260 contained personal ID information that did not match
any living person.
2008 Election officials in Brevard County have given prosecutors more
than 23 suspect registrations from ACORN. The state's Division of
Elections is also investigating complaints in Orange and Broward Counties.
2004 A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was
�singled out� among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage
initiative because it was �the common thread� in the agency�s fraud
investigations.
IN 2008 Election officials in Indiana have thrown out more than 4,000
ACORN-submitted voter registrations after finding they had identical
handwriting and included the names of many deceased Indianans, and even
the name of a fast food restaurant.
MI 2008 Clerks in Detroit found a "sizeable number of duplicate and
fraudulent [voter] applications" from the Michigan branch of ACORN.
Those applications have been turned over to the U.S. Attorney's office
for investigation.
2004 The Detroit Free Press reported that �overzealous or unscrupulous
campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation
for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register
nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered
voters.� ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of
turning in the documents.
MO 2008 Nearly 400 ACORN-submitted registrations in Kansas City have
been rejected due to duplication or fake information.
2007 Four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges
including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006
election.
2006 Eight ACORN employees in St. Louis were indicted on federal
election fraud charges. Each of the eight faces up to five years in
prison for forging signatures and submitting false information.
2003 Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis,
only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to
be attempts to register voters illegally.
MN 2004 During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter
registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had
violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to
the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.
NC 2008 County elections officials have sent suspicious voter
registration applications to the state Board of Elections. Many of the
applications had similar or identical names, but with different
addresses or dates of birth.
2004 North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake
voter registration cards.
NM 2008 Prosecutors are investigating more than 1,100 ACORN-submitted
voter registration cards after a county clerk found them to be
fraudulent. Many of the cards included duplicate names and slightly
altered personal information.
2005 Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially
fraudulent signatures on the group�s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A
local sheriff added: �It�s safe to say the forgery was widespread.�
2004 An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing
this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson
stated that ACORN was �manufacturing voters� throughout New Mexico.
NV 2009 Nevada authorities indicted ACORN on 26 counts of voter
registration fraud and 13 counts of illegally compensating canvassers.
ACORN provided a bonus compensation program called �Blackjack� or �21+�
for any canvasser who registered more than 20 voters per shift, which is
illegal under Nevada law.
2008 Nevada state authorities raided ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters
as part of a task force investigation of election fraud. Fraudulent
registrations included players from the Dallas Cowboys.
OH 2008 ACORN activists gave Ohio residents cash and cigarettes in
exchange for filling out voter registration card, according to the New
York Post. Some voters claim to have registered dozens of times, and one
man says he signed up on 72 cards.
2007 A man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of illegal
voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote
in two separate counties.
2004 A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a
false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County,
two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election
supervisors called �blatantly false� forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN
and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the
highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.
PA 2009 Seven ACORN workers in the Pittsburgh area were indicted for
submitting falsified voter registration forms. Six of the seven were
also indicted for registering voters under an illegal quota system.
2008 State election officials have thrown out 57,435 voter
registrations, the majority of which were submitted by ACORN. The
registrations were thrown out after officials found "clearly fraudulent"
signatures, vacant lots listed as addresses, and other signs of fraud.
2008 An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to up to 23
months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second
ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on
$10,000 bail.
2004 Reading�s Director of Elections received calls from numerous
individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate
information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director
of elections said voter fraud was �absolutely out of hand,� and added:
�Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but
we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.� The Berks County deputy
director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the
Department of Justice.
TX 2008 In Harris County, nearly 10,000 ACORN-submitted registrations
were found to be invalid, including many with clearly fraudulent
addresses or other personal information.
2008 ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who
told reporters �The signature is not my signature. It�s not even close.�
His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.
VA 2005 In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished
Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty
voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations
that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were
submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social
security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or
commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state
and federal election law.
In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of
the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible.
Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required
by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to
be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,� they wrote,
�information appears to have been altered on some applications where
information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched
through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter
registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with �
24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."
WA 2007 Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were
charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington
state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were
submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.
WI 2008 At least 33,000 ACORN-submitted registrations in Milwaukee have
been called into question after it was found that the organizations had
been using felons as registration workers, in violation of state
election rules. Two people involved in the ongoing Wisconsin voter fraud
investigation have been charged with felonies.
2004 The district attorney�s office investigated seven voter
registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of
people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote
employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration
applications he signed, �an apparent violation of state law,� according
to the paper.
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