This should scare the bejeezus out of any sane, freedom loving American who values our right to free and honest elections.

The Complete Guide to ACORN Voter Fraud

They register dead people. But that's not all.


October 14, 2008 - by Jim Hoft


And you thought 2000 was bad.

This year’s election is shaping up to be one of the most controversial in history. Just this week, a federal judge ordered Ohio’s top elections official to verify the identity of newly registered voters by matching them with other government documents. The very next day a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set aside the federal judge’s order on verifying registrations.

Further igniting the voter fraud/voter registration debate was the news that a national community organizing group is being investigated in at least 14 states and several swing states for massive irregularities. 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.

What is ACORN?

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is a community-based organization that advocates for low and moderate income families founded in 1970 by Wade Rathke and Gary Delgado. Rathke, one of the most powerful hard-Left activists in America, is a former member of a radical 1960s group, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The Weathermen terrorist group split off from the SDS in 1969. ACORN says its priorities include better housing and wages for the poor, more community development investment from banks and governments, and better public schools.

ACORN is also known for its voter registration efforts.


This year alone ACORN has registered 1,315,037 voters.

Although the organization prides itself for its registration efforts, it also has a long history of scandal. In the state of Missouri in 1986, 12 ACORN members were convicted of voter fraud. But that case was not an isolated incident in the state. In December 2004, in St. Louis, six volunteers pleaded guilty of dozens of election law violations for filling out registration cards with names of dead people and other bogus information. Authorities launched an earlier investigation after noticing that among the new voters was longtime St. Louis alderman Albert “Red” Villa, who died in 1990. The volunteers worked for “Operation Big Vote” — a branch of ACORN — in St. Louis.

On February 10, 2005, Nonaresa Montgomery, a paid worker who ran Operation Big Vote during the run-up to the 2001 mayoral primary, was found guilty of vote fraud. Montgomery hired about 30 workers to do fraudulent voter-registration canvassing. Instead of knocking on doors, the volunteers sat at a St. Louis fast food restaurant and wrote out names and information from an outdated voter list. About 1,500 fraudulent voter registration cards were turned in.

In October 2006, St. Louis election officials discovered at least 1,492 “potentially fraudulent” voter registration cards. They were all turned in by ACORN volunteers.

In November 2006, 20,000 to 35,000 questionable voter registration forms were turned in by ACORN officials in Missouri. Most all of these were from St. Louis and Kansas City areas, where ACORN purportedly sought to help empower the “disenfranchised” minorities living there. But the ACORN workers weren’t just told to register new voters. The workers admitted on camera that they were coached to tell registrants to vote for Democrat Claire McCaskill.

In 2007, in Kansas City, Missouri, four ACORN employees were indicted for fraud. In April of this year eight ACORN employees in St. Louis city and county pleaded guilty to federal election fraud for submitting bogus voter registrations.

And, that was just Missouri.

This year there have been several accusations of fraud against ACORN. Over a dozen states are investigating the organization already. Here is a complete list of the ongoing investigations:

North Carolina — State Board of Elections officials have found at least 100 voter registration forms with the same names over and over again. The forms were turned in by ACORN. Officials sent about 30 applications to the state Board of Elections for possible fraud investigation.

Ohio — The New York Post reported that a Cleveland man said he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times. The complaints have sparked an investigation by election officials into the organization, whose political wing has supported Barack Obama. Witnesses have already been subpoenaed to testify against the organization.

Nevada — Authorities raided the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now on Tuesday October 7, 2008, after a month-long investigation. The fraudulent voter registrations included the Dallas Cowboys starting line-up.

Indiana — More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana’s Lake County filled out by ACORN employees turned out to be bogus. Officials also stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

Connecticut — Officials are looking into a complaint alleging ACORN submitted fraudulent voter registration cards in Bridgeport. In one instance, an official said a card was filled out for a 7-year-old girl, whose age was listed as 27. 8,000 cards were submitted in Bridgeport.

Missouri — The Kansas City election board is reporting 100 duplicate applications and 280 with fake information. Acorn officials agreed that at least 4% of their registrations were bogus. Governor Matt Blunt condemned the attempts by ACORN to commit voter fraud.

Pennsylvania — Officials are investigating suspicious or incomplete registration forms submitted by ACORN. 252,595 voter registrations were submitted in Philadelphia. Remarkably, 57,435 were rejected — most of them submitted by ACORN.

Wisconsin — In Milwaukee ACORN improperly used felons as registration workers. Additionally, its workers are among 49 cases of bad registrations sent to authorities for possible charges, as first reported by the Journal Sentinel.

Florida — The Pinellas County Elections supervisor says his office has received around 35 voter registrations that appear to be bogus. There is also a question of 30,000 felons who are registered illegally to vote. Their connections with ACORN are not yet clear.

Texas — Of the 30,000 registration cards ACORN turned in, Harris County tax assessor Paul Bettencourt says just more than 20,000 are valid. And just look at some of the places ACORN was finding those voters. A church just next door is the address for around 150 people. More than 250 people claim a homeless outreach center as their home address. Some listed a county mental health facility as their home and one person even wrote down the Harris County jail at the sheriff’s office.

Michigan — ACORN in Detroit is being investigated after several municipal clerks reported fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications coming through. The clerk interviewed said the fraud appears to be widespread.

New Mexico – The Bernalillo County clerk has notified prosecutors that some 1,100 fraudulent voter registration cards were turned in by ACORN.

That’s not all. So far this year at least 14 states have started investigations against ACORN. Talk about a culture of corruption. It is so bad that Representatives of Congress have asked for the Justice Department to investigate, and GOP presidential candidate John McCain is bringing it up in his stump speeches. The Obama camp is stealthily altering its “Fight the Smears” website to distance themselves from the organization — quite a challenge considering how close their candidate’s association has been with the group.

The liberal vs. conservative, voter fraud vs. voter intimidation debate will no doubt continue after this election. But this year, with the assistance of scandal-plagued ACORN, it appears that — so far — the voter fraud side is winning.

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I'm surprised at your lack of effort on this one.

SURELY there's an even more biased site out there somewhere.

What, in your opinion, would be a non-biased site? CNN, MSNBC, CBS, The Washington Post maybe??

You are a lazy thinker, Krazy. The article STANDS as is in the absense of any refuting evidence.

There is no need to fret about Jacob. He's just ONE voter. He's not voting twice....that I know of...just ONCE in Ohio.

Besides, he's voting in Franklin County, Ohio and the Republicans can just trick out and/or misallocate the voting machines again as they did in 2004. They are sure to program in way more actual fraudulent votes than one little old campaign worker (who no doubtedly is STUCK living in Ohio for quite some time to avoid the appearance of impropriety hereafter).

Check out the problems in Franklin County here - > LINK.

How about this:


Just as the Republicans have proven they can outspend the tax and spend Democrats...they can out manipulate the elections. One "questionable" vote revealled versus the 1,000's the Republicans have manipulated electronically and by strategic placement of machines (and ill-effective punch out cards) in a concerted effort nationwide to manipulate actual voting results. The Democrats are merely trying to play catch up.


Again...ACORN has not been demonstrated to have resulted in ONE fraudulent VOTE. Registration of Mickey Mouse aside because the rat is surely voting Republican anyway. lol

I'm happy I was able to clear this all up for y'all.

Mr. Wondering

Actually, there have been multiple convictions. There are ongoing criminal investigations in 14 states right now. Here are some of the previous convictions as mentioned above:


That's just the start. Pat Caddell, one-time democrat pollster for Jimmy Carter, stated on Fox News this week that ACORN is an organization devoted to VOTER FRAUD. FOR DEMOCRATS. He said they always have been.


You are kidding, right? You believe democrats are entitled to voter fraud because some moonbats believe in some completely unsupported tinfoil hat conspiracy about machine tampering? OMG! That just affirms what I said earlier; democrats are not fit to run the dog pound.

This whole ACORN thing is a premeditated October attack. It's a Republican hoax being perpetrated with the FBI's assistance.

From the AP article regarding the Missouri supposed fraudulent registrations you cited way above as an example:



This whole "registration" fraud thing is being purposefully overinflated and blown out of proportion to stir the Republican base.


excerts from : Brad's blog

Again I say...Registration fraud, though illegal, does not necessarily result in fraudulent votes. I'm betting there is one or two examples out there somewhere where a fraudulent registered voter got an absentee ballot and voted illegally (which is a HUGE deal) but absent that ACORN has done a tremendous job registering millions of voters nationwide. Even if one or two illegal votes were cast, it's no where close to the overhyping this story is getting from the Republicans who want to talk about anything but the issues and economy. Nor would it compare to the actual voting machinations executed by the Republicans in 2000 and 2004 (and time will tell in 2008...as in...why the heck is John McSame in Iowa? Could it be that the fact Diabold voting machines are there and he's been promised a stunning result?)

Mr. Wondering

Melody,

FYI, I'm going home and likely won't be responding all weekend.

This politic stuff is a big ole waste of time and energy. The arguments, the spin and even the facts are seriously NEVER ending. It's funny researching this stuff and coming across the exact same arguments and discussions on other blogs and discussion boards. Nearly word for word.

Besides, my inbox reveals that I've only successfully influenced about 3 previously uncommitted MB posters to Obama thus far when I initially hoped I could get 10 or 12 on board by now. It would be real nice if I could get you, MEDC and ForeverHers on my winning team. Help a guy out

Mr. W

Ya know, I bet its a vast right wing conspiracy!

More from St Louis, MO:

From St Louis, MO last week, announcing new investigations of voter fraud: KC ACORN Problems, What About St. Louis?


Ongoing investigations on ACORN:


Thats in addition to the numerous FRAUD CONVICTIONS listed above.


Well, I dare say it doesn't result in LEGITIMATE VOTES. They are not registering to get hair cuts after all.

Sorry, but I repented of my liberal voting ways in 1993 and can't go backwards.

However, I have a tiny confession to make. I have passed on some posts from here to my mother, 2 aunts and a sister, who were once Hillary supporters. They were so ticked off they have decided to vote for SARAH. So, I do appreciate the attacks on Sarah Palin, because that REALLY got those gals riled up!

My mother sent me this last week:



I thank you and the Republicans thank you.

I would LOVE to see SARAH PALIN and HILLARY CLINTON debate! Would SARAH wear her hair UP or DOWN?

I'm sorry. I can't take her serious.

Well, that makes us even; I can't take Obama serious. He is much less qualified than Sarah Palin and doesn't have the experience, character or gravitas to hold such a high office. I think he would be a dreadful president.

That's FAIR!

I can't imagine anyone being more DREADFUL,though, than George Bush. I'd choose McCain over him.

Mr. Wondering - I'll speak for myself and let MEDC speak for himself.

Given your apparent total lack of respect for the LAW, as an attorney, and your "poo-pooing" of ILLEGAL activities on a MASSIVE, STATE-WIDE scale, simply because the group engaging in that illegal activity and undermining THE bedrock core of our democracy (one person, one vote for legally entitled citizens) is doing it to support Democrats and Socialism, I don't think it's likely I'd want to be a part of "winning" by an "at all costs" philosophy that you seem to embrace.

That's also precisely the point with the SDS, the Weathermen, and Bill Ayers/Bernadine Dorhn.

They got off on a technicality (sort like the same miscarriage of justice and "lawyer tricks" that got O.J. Simpson off) and that has somehow made them "okay" people to the Democrats.

That you can "overlook" Obama's HISTORY of poor judgment and "feigned blindness" (or just outright stupidity) in his associations and "advisors," is amazing.

That you think (or wish) that I would support ANY candidate who is so PRO-DEATH PENALTY for innocent children would be "amusing" if it wasn't so terribly sick, especially from a professing believer.

I'm smelling a lot of "ambulance chasing" sort of reasoning going on here.

I think I'm going to enjoy seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls tomorrow.

Something that hasn't changed in over 2000 years. Too bad the USA may not survive this century. "Change," the social mantra Obama learned a long time ago to spur the emotions, but precious little, if any, specifics about what change.

The only thing we know for certain is "tax and spend," which isn't a change. And "income redistribution" (code words for Socialism bordering on Marxism when you add in Obama's idea for INCREASING government control) and the sort of "change" Obama envisions for America is TERMINAL for the USA as the USA. "Citizen of the World" my patootie!

wow....he's further gone than I thought.

I am shocked that this is Mr. W.

yep.