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MORE ACORN Crookedness?

Mike

Well-known member
Monday, October 13, 2008


CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Election officials in Ohio's most populous county have called on the prosecuting attorney to investigate alleged voter registration fraud by the community organizing group ACORN.

The bipartisan Cuyahoga County Board of Elections voted unanimously Monday to ask prosecutor Bill Mason to investigate four incidents of people signing multiple voter registration forms at the request of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform.

One of those voters, 19-year-old Freddie Johnson, told FOX News that he signed 73 voter registration forms over a five-month period.

The Cleveland resident said he was trying to help paid ACORN solicitors collect signed registrations, and he did not understand the proper voter-registration procedures.

The group was "trying to get signatures so they can make their money, and I was trying to help them," Johnson said.

ACORN's state director, Katy Gall, said the organization would fire anyone seeking to acquire duplicate registrations and is cooperating with the investigation..

ACORN -- which has a history of voter fraud allegations -- says it has signed up 1.3 million poor and working-class voters this year in a mass registration drive in 18 states. Some of those registration cards have become the focus of fraud investigations in Nevada, Connecticut, Missouri and other states.

Johnson, one of four people subpoenaed to testify over duplicate registrations in Cleveland on Monday, told FOX News that the sheriff's department had assured him that the investigation was aimed at ACORN solicitors, and that he would not face criminal charges.

During the board meeting, Johnson said he would sometimes get approached by six or seven ACORN voter-registration solicitors while waiting for a bus. Other canvassers stood 10 feet away while a solicitor approached him, he said.

"They never told me I couldn't stop signing them," said Johnson. He said the solicitors never indicated that he was doing something unlawful.

A second new voter, Christopher Barkley, a pizza delivery man from Cleveland, is also facing questioning for allegedly registering to vote 10 to 15 times through ACORN.

Barkley said he was approached multiple times by ACORN workers while sitting in a public square. He said the group's solicitors told him they were getting paid by the name to sign up voters.

"I 'd be like, 'No, I'm already registered,'" Barkley said.



"Then they just asked me again, like, 'I need a job, I'm just trying to hold on to a job. So would you sign it for me? I need 25 or more. I need a certain amount of them.' So me being the kind-hearted person, I say, 'Yeah.'



"I didn't know that I'd have to be in here for this," Barkley said.



The Associated Press contributed to this report.
 

TexasBred

Well-known member
kolanuraven said:
Sandhusker said:
Seems to me that I heard something once...


You listen hard enough and you can hear anything..............................................

Still waiting for you to make your 1st intelligent post. 7000 post and nothing but nonsense. I thought you were a scientist or something with a huge portfolio of Google stock. . Maybe you taught Gen. Science in Jr. High or something. Anyway...a real thinker. Obviously you have a hard time putting those thoughts into meaningful statements. But don't stop. They keep me LMAO.
 

Mike

Well-known member
Sandhusker said:
Hey Mike, doesn't Obama have direct ties to ACORN? Seems to me that I heard something once...

Why yes, yes he does. :wink:

What do you think of ACORN getting government money to finance their shenanigans and is one of the largest lobbying orgs in D.C. ?

I wonder if there is any way to find out which Dem added earmark ACORN money in the first House bailout proposal?
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
Mike said:
Sandhusker said:
Hey Mike, doesn't Obama have direct ties to ACORN? Seems to me that I heard something once...

Why yes, yes he does. :wink:

What do you think of ACORN getting government money to finance their shenanigans and is one of the largest lobbying orgs in D.C. ?

I wonder if there is any way to find out which Dem added earmark ACORN money in the first House bailout proposal?

Somebody(s) is giving ACORN public funds? Why in the world would somebody want to give a group like ACORN funding?
 

Mike

Well-known member
Sandhusker said:
Mike said:
Sandhusker said:
Hey Mike, doesn't Obama have direct ties to ACORN? Seems to me that I heard something once...

Why yes, yes he does. :wink:

What do you think of ACORN getting government money to finance their shenanigans and is one of the largest lobbying orgs in D.C. ?

I wonder if there is any way to find out which Dem added earmark ACORN money in the first House bailout proposal?

Somebody(s) is giving ACORN public funds? Why in the world would somebody want to give a group like ACORN funding?

Free cigarettes? :D
 

TexasBred

Well-known member
Mike said:
Sandhusker said:
Mike said:
Why yes, yes he does. :wink:

What do you think of ACORN getting government money to finance their shenanigans and is one of the largest lobbying orgs in D.C. ?

I wonder if there is any way to find out which Dem added earmark ACORN money in the first House bailout proposal?

Somebody(s) is giving ACORN public funds? Why in the world would somebody want to give a group like ACORN funding?

Free cigarettes? :D

Naw...that's what you get when you register a dozen times. People that work for ACORN look like the type that would do work for sex and drugs. Just keep both coming.
 
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Anonymous

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Problem is the liberal or Dem groups aren't the only ones guilty of this...Last election we had the conservative group Americans for Limited Government and some others that wouldn't even release their funding sources (Dittmer like) involved in trying to get a whole bunch of state initiatives on the ballot but were found to be using signature gathering fraud with the petitions- which were then thrown out by the courts...

Its the problem that arises anytime you use paid employees or pay people by the number of names they get...But if the state has a verification process it should not affect number of voters....

My understanding, as is being reported on the news, is that ACORN was actually the group that brought forward the fact when they found they were being defrauded- and that in many areas where they can show fraud, the employees involved have been fired....

As far as trying to get voters to register- I see no problems with this- as that is something the government even uses taxpayer money for- promoting registration drive ads and get out to vote ads....In comparison to other countries- the US has had a dismal percentage of population voting record (and its shown by the representation we've gotten)...

Maybe the hope for "change" will stimulate that some this year....
 
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