Quote:THE PRO-BARACK VOTE-FRAUD DRIVE

Posted: 4:34 am
October 8, 2008

SYSTEMIC corruption of our election process continues. Barack Obama and his old friends at ACORN and Project Vote are leading the way. This radical revolution is taking place in your backyard. And as I've reported before, this voter-fraud racket is on your dime.

On Monday, the two groups announced the wrap-up of a 21-state voter-registration drive targeting low-income people and minorities in such battleground states as Ohio, Pennyslvania, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Wisconsin.

What's wrong with that? For starters, these two groups are militantly partisan outfits purporting to engage in nonpartisan activity. And their campaign comes amid an avalanche of fresh voter-fraud allegations involving ACORN in many of those same states.

ACORN has helped register over 1.27 million people nationwide. It gets 40 percent of its revenues from the taxpayers, with the rest coming from left-wing heavyweights like billionaire George Soros and the Democracy Alliance.

Lefty lawyer Sandy Newman founded Project Vote, a 501©(3) organization, to register voters in welfare offices and unemployment lines with the explicit goal of turning back the Reagan revolution.

The two groups are inextricably linked - and at their nexus is Barack Obama. Despite his denials of any association with the group, Obama's political DNA is encoded with the ACORN agenda.

As I've noted previously ("ACORN: O's Ugly Ally," June 26), Obama trained ACORN members in Chicago. In turn, ACORN volunteers worked on his Illinois campaigns and ACORN's PAC endorsed him in this year's Democratic primaries back in February.

And Newman hired Obama in 1992 to lead Project Vote efforts in Illinois. The effort's motto: "It's a Power Thing." Today, the Obama campaign's "Vote for Change" registration drive is running in parallel with ACORN/Project Vote, targetting the same sorts of people.

It's an all-out scramble to scrape up every last unregistered voter sympathetic to Obama's big-government vision. "Our volume," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe bragged of the voter-registration program, "is going to be enormous."

Quantity over quality. That's the ACORN way - and the fraud allegations keep piling up:

* Yesterday, Nevada officials raided ACORN's Las Vegas office after election authorities accused the group of submitting multiple voter registrations with fake and duplicate names. Among the bogus monikers: names of former Dallas Cowboys players.

* Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected thousands of registration forms ACORN had turned in from its drives this summer. On a conference call yesterday, GOP officials noted that up to 11,000 of the applications were no good - tying up election officials and jeopardizing the voting rights of untold victims whose identities may have been stolen.

In what seems to be ACORN's standard operating procedure, vote canvassers had pulled names and addresses from phone books and forged signatures. According to a local paper (the Northwest Indiana and Illionois Times), "Large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the same apparent handwriting style" and "apparently the organization's canvassers broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid." The fake registrants include dead people and underage kids.

* Milwaukee, Wisc., officials last month discovered at least seven felons employed as voter-registration workers for ACORN and another affiliated group. (State law bans felons from such work.) They also uncovered a raft of problematic voter-registration cards. The state GOP accuses the group of trying to get dead, imprisoned or imaginary people on the voter rolls. Fraud has plagued ACORN's Milwaukee chapter since the last election cycle.

* In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple, copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. The Miami Herald reports: "One individual had 21 duplicate applications."

Election officials had flagged ACORN's negligent practices months ago. But it may be too late: In Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, ACORN has signed up 135,000 new voters, nearly 60 percent of them registered as Democrats - a fifth of all new voters in that region.

* In Ohio, large numbers of homeless people got free van and bus rides to register. Shelby Holliday, a reporter for Palestra.net, filmed ACORN shuttling in some prospects. She told me she spoke with one homeless woman who said ACORN "told her who to vote for if she wanted a 'better life,' and told her not to worry about jury duty (one of the reasons this homeless woman didn't want to register) because the government probably wouldn't be able to track her down. She was registering with a temporary address."

Holliday interviewed another homeless man targeted by the registration drive who exulted that he was voting for Obama because "I want him to do his thang. You know, do his thug thizzle."

"Thug thizzle" is street slang for performing your trademark move. Obama and ACORN have practiced their thug thizzle together for years: Organizing an ever-expanding community of ineligible and marginal voters to expand the Democrat power base. Rules be damned.

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Quote:As most of you probbably know, I am pro-McCain, but I am also pro-facts

Quote:I would think an legal citizen of a country could go to vote in his district where he should show some form of ID after which the people at the voting office cross out his name on the official list of voters. On this list are no dead people or children because this list is made by an official government body.

Quote:* Yesterday, Nevada officials raided ACORN's Las Vegas office after election authorities accused the group of submitting multiple voter registrations with fake and duplicate names. Among the bogus monikers: names of former Dallas Cowboys players.

* Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected thousands of registration forms ACORN had turned in from its drives this summer. On a conference call yesterday, GOP officials noted that up to 11,000 of the applications were no good - tying up election officials and jeopardizing the voting rights of untold victims whose identities may have been stolen.

In what seems to be ACORN's standard operating procedure, vote canvassers had pulled names and addresses from phone books and forged signatures. According to a local paper (the Northwest Indiana and Illionois Times), "Large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the same apparent handwriting style" and "apparently the organization's canvassers broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid." The fake registrants include dead people and underage kids.

* Milwaukee, Wisc., officials last month discovered at least seven felons employed as voter-registration workers for ACORN and another affiliated group. (State law bans felons from such work.) They also uncovered a raft of problematic voter-registration cards. The state GOP accuses the group of trying to get dead, imprisoned or imaginary people on the voter rolls. Fraud has plagued ACORN's Milwaukee chapter since the last election cycle.

* In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple, copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. The Miami Herald reports: "One individual had 21 duplicate applications."

Election officials had flagged ACORN's negligent practices months ago. But it may be too late: In Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, ACORN has signed up 135,000 new voters, nearly 60 percent of them registered as Democrats - a fifth of all new voters in that region.

* In Ohio, large numbers of homeless people got free van and bus rides to register. Shelby Holliday, a reporter for Palestra.net, filmed ACORN shuttling in some prospects. She told me she spoke with one homeless woman who said ACORN "told her who to vote for if she wanted a 'better life,' and told her not to worry about jury duty (one of the reasons this homeless woman didn't want to register) because the government probably wouldn't be able to track her down. She was registering with a temporary address."

Quote:Or are you complaining about the fact that poor people are asked to vote? It seems to me that it is their right as american citizens, and you always see that many people (especially lower educated and poor) don't use this right. And if they would choose...I can imagine that they would vote for Obama. On the other hand, if as written in your quote from the registered voters that this 'ACORN' helped only 60 % voted for Obama, I can't see any bad intent in those action.

Quote: This isin't about poor, uneducated people, so I'm sorry we got our wires crossed somewhere.

Quote:But I don't get the whole registering thing. I remember that in the US you need to register before being allowed to vote (which I always heard was a reason why many poor and uneducated people didn't bother), but does this cost money?

Quote:We get a ballot send tho our house but of course there are the homeless people, or the ones that move house often who might run in to trouble here.

Quote:But still, if one person is able to vote more than one time, it is the system that does not work.

Quote:The system should make sure somebody with a certain social security number can only vote once right?

Quote:About my last remark....if these ACORN got 150.000 new voters to register and around 60 % were planning to vote for Obama it seems like hardly being worth the effort 8Assuming that McCain would get the other 40 %.....or is there 35 % Nader voters there as well?

Quote:Hi,

It is this type of thing (ACORN and the like, on both sides) that makes politics compare poorly to an outhouse in August.

--Pete

Quote:On this list are no dead people or children because this list is made by an official government body.

Quote:Because government bodies can not be corrupt. I love liberals, such great ideas that would work perfect if people would just lose their self interest and cooperate!:lol:

(flame on, I just couldn't resist this jab :P)

Quote:So, in making access to the polls as easy as walking up on the same day without ID, you will have much more fraud. I'm afraid that you will get caravans of people going from precinct to precinct voting multiple times.

Quote:I am getting more and more confused. This going from precinct to precinct is actually possible??

Quote:Hi,
Not easy now, a voter's registration puts him in a specific district according to his home address. But if we did away with the registration, it would be more easily done. And districts are pretty small, since the general elections cover everything from federal, to state, county, down to school district.

--Pete

Quote:The issue of voter fraud in the US is, by and large, a bogeyman conjured up to justify vote suppression. This is not to say that it does not occur, but that its actual incidences are both rare and trivial, especially when compared with the enormous number of legitimate votes in play. Fair, non-partisan attempts to keep fraud out of the system are, of course, normal and expected. However, what is much more common is for one party or the other (Republicans tend to be much worse on this, but not alone) launch the "fraud" balloon, stir up public outrage, and then use that as a cover to sit at the polls and scrutinize the ID of every voter they think is probably from the other party. The idea is not to reject those votes in particular, but just to hold up the queue, so that, especially in poorer urban districts where lines are longer, people get demoralized or bored and simply go home. The numbers of people potentially disenfranchised by this kind of dirty operation dwarfs the number of fraudulent votes, and even worse, it often targets minority groups in a discriminatory way.

-Jester

Quote:but I am also pro-facts and this lady's ideas in her article was pretty devoid of factual links, with a lot of inuendo.

Quote:Holliday interviewed another homeless man targeted by the registration drive who exulted that he was voting for Obama because "I want him to do his thang. You know, do his thug thizzle."

"Thug thizzle" is street slang for performing your trademark move. Obama and ACORN have practiced their thug thizzle together for years: Organizing an ever-expanding community of ineligible and marginal voters to expand the Democrat power base. Rules be damned.

Quote:The issue of voter fraud in the US is, by and large, a bogeyman conjured up to justify vote suppression.

Quote:As most of you probbably know, I am pro-McCain, but I am also pro-facts and this lady's ideas in her article was pretty devoid of factual links, with a lot of inuendo.

Quote:Nope. Try again.

Also look at it another way. If you hear about voter fraud, it may induce you to go and vote to try and offset it.

Or maybe not.

See also the law Bill Clinton signed in 1996. This was a catalyst. A good thing has recently happened, the Supreme Court has upheld some states' requirements for a picture ID, with a liberal judge writing the opinion.

The 2000 election exposed a lot of shortcomings in the voting processes, and it irks me that less has been done to remedy more of them. My largest irritation is the short attention span requirement. I see no reason that the results have to be reported before they are all in.

I can wait for someone to count all of the votes.