Posted by
Tomás Aquinas on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:55:07 PM
ACORN's Las Vegas office raided by Nevada law enforcement
"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. He said some registrations used the names of
Dallas Cowboys football players. (Walsh is a spokesman for the Nevada
Office of the Secretary of State).
ACORN has been involved in this kind of thing before. It is nothing new:
In
2006, ACORN 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.
Barack Obama has defended ACORN in the past. From the Chicago Times-Sun in 2006:
In
1995, former Republican Gov. Jim Edgar refused to implement the federal
"Motor Voter" law, which Republicans argued could invite fraud and
which some Republicans feared could swell the ranks of Democratic
voters.
The law mandated people be allowed to register to vote in government offices such as driver's license renewal centers.
Obama
sued on behalf of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for
Reform Now. The League of Women Voters and other public-interest groups
joined in.
"He and his
client were the ones who filed the original case -- they blazed the
trail," said Paul Mollica, who represented the League.
But wait! There's more!
ACORN has been in the sack with Fannie Mae and the Democrats for years. Here is a good rundown on it, over on Power and Control:
The Best Congress Fannie Could Buy
More on ACORN's corruption:
Obama disguising ties to radical leftist group?
Excerpts:
But
the Obama campaign did not address the larger issues of the
presidential candidate's ties to ACORN and why Obama would hire for a
"get out the vote" drive a reported subsidiary of an organization whose
leadership was convicted in multiple voter fraud cases.
and
Last
July, ACORN settled what was described by the Washington Secretary of
State as the "largest case of voter fraud in the state's history."
Government prosecutors had filed felony charges against seven ACORN
workers, who ended up receiving jail time.
and from Missouri:
ACORN
was also investigated in 2006 for submitting false voter registrations
in St. Louis. Nearly 1,500 fraudulent voter registrations were
identified in the case, which was tied to at least one campaign, that
of Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. Four ACORN workers were indicted in the
case.
Also in 2006,
four part-time ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City, Mo., for
voter-registration fraud after being caught, fired and turned in by
ACORN.
and from Colorado:
In January 2005, two Colorado ACORN workers were sentenced to community service for submitting false voter registrations.
and from Ohio:
In Ohio in 2004, four ACORN employees were indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter-registration forms.
and more:
ACORN has been accused in multiple other voter fraud cases in other states. Some investigations are still pending.
and this closing pearl:
Sam
Graham-Felson, Obama's official website blogger, noted when Obama met
with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with
ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a
nonprofit focused on voter rights and education. Project Vote was
connected to ACORN.
"I've been
fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career.
Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter
registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of
it, and we appreciate your work," Obama told ACORN members in November.