Re: Obama Group Raided by Police
firefly
WHEN THEY CALL REPUBLICAN CRIMINAL, IT IS PART OF DEMOCRATS BEING CRIMINALS.
---firefly
"Harry Dope" <ret...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> ACORN Vegas Office Raided in Voter Fraud Investigation
> ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters has been raided by Nevada authorities
> looking for evidence of voter fraud.
>
> Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the
> Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income
> people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud.
>
> Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told
> FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about
> "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the
> Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called
> ACORN.
>
> 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.
>
> "Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and
> anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot
> on Nov. 4," Miller said.
>
> Walsh said agents from both the secretary of state's office and Nevada
> attorney general's office conducted the raid at 9:30 a.m. local time,
> and "took a bunch of stuff." Miller's office reported seizing eight
> computer hard drives and about 20 boxes of documents.
>
> Bertha Lewis, interim chief organizer for ACORN, released a statement
> saying the group has for months been turning over any suspicious
> registration information to elections officials. She said those
> officials routinely ignored their tips, and called the raid a
> "stunt."
>
> "When we have identified suspicious applications, we have separated
> them out and flagged them for election officials. We have zero
> tolerance for fraudulent registrations. We immediately dismiss
> employees we suspect of submitting fraudulent registrations," she
> said. "Today's raid by the secretary of state's office is a stunt that
> serves no useful purpose other than discredit our work registering
> Nevadans and distracting us from the important work ahead of getting
> every eligible voter to the polls."
>
> Neither the group, which hires canvassers to register voters, nor any
> employees have been charged or arrested for fraud or other crimes,
> said Miller, a Democrat.
>
> But it's not the first time ACORN's been under investigation for
> registration irregularities. The raid is the latest of at least nine
> investigations into possible fraudulent voter registration forms
> submitted by ACORN -- the probes have involved ACORN workers in
> Wisconsin, New Mexico, Indiana and other states.
>
> In response to the Las Vegas raid, Republican Nevada Sen. John Ensign
> and seven other senators penned a letter to the Federal Housing
> Finance Agency calling for the suspension of taxpayer dollars to
> "controversial groups like ACORN." The letter referred to
> contributions that potentially could come from Fannie Mae and Freddie
> Mac under the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.
>
> In 2006, ACORN also committed what Washington Secretary of State Sam
> Reed called the "worse case of election fraud" in the state's
> history.
>
> In the case, ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration
> forms, and all but six of the 1,800 names were fake.
>
> More recently, 27,000 registrations handled by the group from January
> to July 2008 "went into limbo because they were incomplete,
> inaccurate, or fraudulent," said James Terry, chief public advocate at
> the Consumers Rights League.
>
> FOX News' Eric Shawn, Judson Berger and Cristina Corbin and The
> Associated Press contributed to this report.
>
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