Obama's Acorn Busted Again
From:
Mike Schoenberg
Date:
Oct 08 15:19 UTC
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Are we witnessing Republican voter suppression? How many tens of
thousands of voters have been disenfranchised by purging election rolls
of qualified voters? Indeed, are we are witnessing the Republican
election fraud (as opposed to voter fraud)? Some are intentional and
reflect partisan malice; some are unintentional and reflect incompetence
and bad practices. Here are some examples in the news.
Florida Law May Disenfranchise New Voters
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/06/eveningnews/main4505093.shtml
Red Flag On Purging Voter Rolls
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/30/eveningnews/main4490682.shtml
Voter Purges http://brennan.3cdn.net/08a454912ec28b6c6b_fam6bqsnl.pdf
Three States Accused of Illegally Purging Voter Lists
http://www.alternet.org/democracy/92695/three_states_accused_of_illegally_purging_voter_lists_/
Mike Schoenberg
St. Paul
<email obscured> wrote:
> What is funny with this is if you wanted to screw up the election rolls and
disenfranchise a bunch of low income voters, there wouldn't be a better way to
do it than flooding the system with bad requests.
>
> People in Minnesota forget but in most states there isn't same day
registration and you have to have registered usually 30 days in advance, so
that you are on the list of qualified voters. That is way the Dem's go crazy
when states like Ohio or Michigan purge the list of names of people who
haven't voted in x years or houses that were foreclosed on. Because it means
one of us are going to show up at the polls and find out we are no longer able
to vote.
>
> It would be truly stupid for Acorn to have done something like that
deliberately, so I am doubtful that it was a planned action to try to put bad
names on a the voters' list. Let's hope they weren't paying folks to register
people on a "bonus" basis...
>
> JMONTOMEPPOF
>
> Chuck Repke
> Saint Paul
>
>
> In a message dated 10/7/2008 4:15:30 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
<email obscured> writes:
>
> Wow what a coincidence. Obama's beloved Acorn has gotten
> busted again for voter fraud! This is the same
> organization that the Democrats tried to fund thru pork in
> the bailout bill. So now we finally know what Obama did as
> a community organizer. Unbelievable.
>
>
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/07/acorn_nevada_offices_raided.html
>
>
> By Mary Pat Flaherty
> Nevada state officials on Tuesday morning raided the Las
> Vegas office of ACORN as part of an investigation into
> alleged voter fraud by the organization which conducts
> voter registration drives nationally in its work with
> low-income communities.
>
> About seven agents from the offices of the Nevada
> Secretary of State and Attorney General served a search
> warrant and removed boxes and computers after being
> admitted by the landlord, said Bob Walsh, spokesman for
> Secretary of State Ross Miller. No ACORN staff was present
> during the raid, he said. Walsh would not describe what
> prompted the search.
>
> Charles Jackson, a national spokesman for ACORN, said the
> group would have a response later Tuesday. ACORN stands
> for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform
> Now.
>
> In July, the two Nevada state agencies involved in the
> raid, along with the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office for
> Nevada, formed a task force to target voter registration
> and election fraud and complaints over voter registration
> practices, potential voter fraud, and enforcement of laws
> regarding voter intimidation. The federal agents were not
> part of Tuesday's search, Walsh said.
>
> ACORN's Las Vegas office, Walsh said, registers voters
> mainly in Clark County.
>
> Registration drives conducted by ACORN in several states
> are under scrutiny by local elections officials for the
> accuracy of cards gathered by its workers.
>
> The group also has been the object of heated denunciations
> from the Republican National Committee and the McCain
> campaign, which contend the group is attempting to
> overwhelm election officials with new registrations that
> are carelessly gathered and would enable unqualified
> voters to get on the rolls.
>
> "It is very difficult to ascribe any other motive to the
> activities of ACORN other than to swamp the system with
> registrations cards" that range from illegible to being
> drawn from names from telephone listings or other public
> directories, said RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross.
> Cairncross spoke during a telephone press conference on
> another ACORN voter drive in northwest Indiana that local
> news accounts report is under review by elections
> officers.
>
> The ACORN drives, he said, "point to a lack of control in
> this organization" and "a willingness to go out and do
> this relentlessly."
>
> The McCain and Obama camps have been trading blasts and
> Internet alerts over Republican charges that ACORN has
> been closely linked to Barack Obama for years, a
> contention the Obama campaign denies.
>
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