ACORN

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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.

* 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."

What are you talking about? In a perfect society, you bring a SS card, you vote, there are no "duplicate" votes as is on that list. Bribing someone to vote by giving them goods or services, rather they are homeless or not, is bribery and is illegal. The list didn't specifically mention dead people "showing up" to vote, nor did it mention the infamous ballots get "lost", or even "thrown out" accidently (i.e. Florida), but a company whose premise is to win no matter what, I don't find these tasks to be too far fetched for them. What disturbs me the most about this whole thing is how after our last elections, the voter fraud was, for the most part, swept under the rug after the president took office when he should have done an investigation; don't get me wrong, many good changes have been made to ballot counting, but not nearly enough.

Now I couldn't personally care less if the Democrate or Republican party goes that "extra-mile" to get the vote of the disabled man whom can't leave his house. It's the blatent criminal activity that bothers me about the campaigns, and to think this ACORN entity is responsible for a good deal of voter fraud, well if it is true it upsets me. And like I said before, this is NOT the first time I have heard ACORN and Obama strewn in the same sentence togeather.

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.

I will respect whoever gets elected, make no mistake about that. I did not agree with Bush on many aspects of his presedency, nor did I support his invasion of Iraq whatsoever (I actually felt Sadam knew how to keep those Arabs in check better than the Western mindset ever could), however he is still our president of the US and I will stand behind him. Same goes for Obama if he is elected. You bring up rights and freedom to vote, but I really don't know what your talking about because this topic is about manipulation of voter ballots through illegal means, not rather someone has the right to or not too vote. I know that whichever canditate is elected, he will deem upon each American as per the Constitution the right to vote, and I do not question that, nor do I fear that will even be an issue. This isin't about poor, uneducated people, so I'm sorry we got our wires crossed somewhere.