Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Another 4,000 ACORN Voter Forms Found to Be Bogus

Yesterday we noted officials in Indiana gave up counting after realizing the first 2100 registration forms they looked at were fraudulent.

Well, now we have a report out of Ohio noting another 4000 suspect forms from the, ahem, left-leaning group.
Investigators probing ACORN have learned that an Ohio man registered to vote several times and cast a bogus ballot with a fake address, officials said yesterday, as they revealed that nearly 4,000 registration applications supplied by the left-leaning activist group were suspect.

The vote of Darnell Nash, one of four people subpoenaed in a Cuyahoga County probe of ACORN's voter-registration activities, was canceled and his case was turned over to local prosecutors and law enforcement, Board of Elections officials said yesterday.

Nash had registered to vote repeatedly from an address that belonged to a legitimately registered voter, officials said during a hearing at which the subpoenaed voters were to testify.

Board officials had contacted Nash this summer, questioned his address and told him to stop repeat registering.

But still, he breezed into Ohio election offices - the state allows early voting for president - reregistered with a fake address and cast a paper ballot, officials said.

"He came in on 9/30 and Mr. Nash again registered to vote at [someone else's] address, and he cast a ballot," said board official Jane Platten.

Nash did not turn up for the hearing.

The Post reported last week on the Cleveland-area probe and the subpoenas, which were sent out to four people - including two voters who said they were hounded by ACORN workers to register over and over, even when they warned they'd already done so.

It's the latest issue in the probe of ACORN's registering voters in Ohio, one of at least nine states where officials are investigating similar reports of phony sign-ups by the group.

At the same time, officials said, some 5 percent, or 3,650, of the 73,000 total registration cards turned in by ACORN in the Cleveland area from its Project Vote initiative to sign up low-income voters were "questionable," Platten said.

There were "egregious acts of registering multiple times," said Platten. "The extent of it is beyond the resources of this board."
And that's exactly the motivation behind this fraud. Overwhelm the system, create chaos and havoc on election day to the point where elections officials just give in and accept the ballots. If they're denied, cry racism and disenfranchisement.

Every day we find out more outrageous attempt at vote fraud by this group. They even tried to register Mickey Mouse down in Florida (H/T Hot Air).
Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote in Florida this summer.

Orange County elections officials rejected his application, which was stamped with the logo of the nonprofit group ACORN.
Want to become any more outraged by this outfit? Well, you're helping pay for them.
Acorn -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- has been around since 1970 and boasts 350,000 members. We've written about them for years, but Acorn is now getting more attention as John McCain's campaign makes an issue of the fraud reports and Acorn's ties to Mr. Obama. It's about time someone exposed this shady outfit that uses government dollars to lobby for larger government.

Acorn uses various affiliated groups to agitate for "a living wage," for "affordable housing," for "tax justice" and union and environmental goals, as well as against school choice and welfare reform. It was a major contributor to the subprime meltdown by pushing lenders to make home loans on easy terms, conducting "strikes" against banks so they'd lower credit standards.

But the organization's real genius is getting American taxpayers to foot the bill. According to a 2006 report from the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), Acorn has been on the federal take since 1977. For instance, Acorn's American Institute for Social Justice claimed $240,000 in tax money between fiscal years 2002 and 2003. Its American Environmental Justice Project received 100% of its revenue from government grants in the same years. EPI estimates the Acorn Housing Corporation alone received some $16 million in federal dollars from 1997-2007. Only recently, Democrats tried and failed to stuff an "affordable housing" provision into the $700 billion bank rescue package that would have let politicians give even more to Acorn. All this money gives Acorn the ability to pursue its other great hobby: electing liberals. Acorn is spending $16 million this year to register new Democrats and is already boasting it has put 1.3 million new voters on the rolls. The big question is how many of these registrations are real.
Indeed, a very big question.

More on this criminal enterprise from Jim Hoft.

Glenn Reynolds asks where the Justice Department is. Good question. Do we even have an attorney general in place? Does anyone care we're having our democracy hijacked by a bunch of left-wing agitators?

Update: Thanks to Gateway Pundit for the link.

Also check out Michelle Malkin's Obamacorn, Mickey Mouse, and John McCain and Gay Patriot's state-by-state breakdown of ACORN fraud.

I've noticed in this post, in others as well as on some other sites there's now a concerted effort by submoronic Obamatons to spin this as to how it will hurt Obama, McCain likes ACORN as well and even though these are fraudulent registrations, well, hey, these haven't voted, so no harm done.

As if. If we can somehow prevent every bogus voter from voter, they might have a case, but since Obama and ACORN will be feverishly working election day to get out the vote, one can only imagine how many dubious "votes" will be cast. And you can bet your ass they won't be voting for McCain.

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