ACORN Squashed [UPDATED]
ACORN registers voters the old-fashioned way: they make them up:
In Lake County, Indiana, ACORN turned in 5,000 new registrations. The authorities there started reviewing them, and quit after they found that the first 2,100 were all fraudulent. The mind boggles: ACORN turns in thousands of new registrations, and not a single one represents a legitimate voter.
I wonder how many other recent registrations were bogus? Maybe 1.3 million?
This news would make headlines anyway, but what made it worse was that Barack Obama was a key player in this organization, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, in the past. Obama trained its local leaders, represented the organization in court, and worked to funnel funds to the organization. The Obama campaign also donated $800,000 this year to an ACORN affiliate.
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This year alone ACORN has registered 1,315,037 voters.
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.
ACORN registers voters the way Obama raises money: fraudulently.
UPDATE: The examples are legion, and we shouldn’t forget Obama’s ties to ACORN and other crypto-Communist organizations. Stanley Kurtz hasn’t:
It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. And guess what? Bill Ayers is still palling around with the same bitterly anti-American Afrocentric ideologues that he and Obama were promoting a decade ago. All this is revealed by a bit of digging, combined with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in the late 1990s.
UPPERDATE
As reported yesterday, ACORN meet RICO:
The Buckeye Institute, a Columbus-based think tank, today filed a state RICO action against the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) on behalf of two Warren County voters. The action filed in Warren County Court of Common Pleas alleges ACORN has engaged in a pattern of corrupt activity that amounts to organized crime. It seeks ACORN’s dissolution as a legal entity, the revocation of any licenses in Ohio, and an injunction against fraudulent voter registration and other illegal activities.
Yeah, baby!
JohnRJ08 said,
October 14, 2008 @ 1:49 pm
When a voter shows up to vote who has been registered by ACORN, they have to provide a substantial amount of ID. So the effects of these alleged bogus registrations on the election would be inconsequential. The good that ACORN does in getting the young, disenfranchised and poor to have a voice in our elections far outweighs these kinds of local scandals, which have probably been perpetrated by someone who is trying to discredit that organization. We all remember “dirty tricks” don’t we?
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
October 14, 2008 @ 2:03 pm
Could you be any more wrong?
I’ve never had to show as much as a Kelloggs decoder ring, much less an ID, before I’ve voted. Ever. Whenever such an idea is suggested, in fact, it gets shouted down as, I don’t know, racist (how convenient), anti-immigrant, whatever. Are you saying 1.3+ million ACORN registrants (that’s this year alone) will somehow magically be flagged and required to do so? Isn’t there an equal protection cause in the Constitution somewhere? I coulda sworn there was.
What if the goal of the bogus registrations is chaos on election day? What happens to all the blank ballots for Mickey Mouse and Ebeneezer Scrooge? Can you be certain they won’t be magically cast?
But what are we arguing about? This is fraud. F-R-A-U-D. ACORN can explain all they want from prison.
Carol said,
October 14, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
John-boy, whatever you are smoking, share. That is possibly the stupidest comment I have read on any blog. No one needs to discredit ACORN; ACORN is doing a bang-up job all by its lonesome.
I remember registering to vote when I turned 18 and it didn’t take some damn-fool community organizers to get me to do it. Anyone who cannot manage to register, or to find a person to help him if he is disabled, without help from a “community organizer” does not deserve to vote. Who in hell made the young and poor and disenfranchised so mind-numbingly stupid that they can’t manage this on their own. Mother of pearl, you don’t even have to go somewhere past your neighborhood library where I live. Most likely you don’t even have to know how to read. If you can’t fill out the form, the librarian will do it for you. If you can’t read the ballot, someone will help you.
If John can vote, with his stupidity and paranoia, then it’s definitely time for a test to qualify for a ballot.