ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe

[Keeko]

ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe

Oct 7 01:30 PM US/Eastern
By OSKAR GARCIA
Associated Press


LAS VEGAS (AP) - Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote.

A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.
No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away.
Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names. The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities formed a task force to pursue election-fraud allegations in Nevada.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

you got the AP version--

Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud.

Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.

"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.

Secretary of State Ross Miller said the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team.

"Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4," Miller said.

Walsh said agents from both the secretary of state's office and Nevada attorney general's office conducted the raid at 9:30 a.m. local time, and "took a bunch of stuff."

ACORN spokesman Charles Jackson confirmed the group's Nevada office was raided. He would not comment further to FOXNews.com.

Neither the group, which hires canvassers to register voters, nor any employees have been charged or arrested for fraud or other crimes, said Miller, a Democrat.

But it's not the first time ACORN's been under investigation for registration irregularities. The raid is the latest of at least nine investigations into possible fraudulent voter registration forms submitted by ACORN -- the probes have involved ACORN workers in Wisconsin, New Mexico, Indiana and other states.

In 2006, ACORN also 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. More recently, 27,000 registrations handled by the group from January to July 2008 "went into limbo because they were incomplete, inaccurate, or fraudulent," said James Terry, chief public advocate at the Consumers Rights League.

 

[smurphy]

Not to excuse the actions if they took place of course, but perhaps they were just trying to makeup for 2004 when Voter Outreach of America was paying for Republican registrations and destroying Democrat registrations in Las Vegas.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Get out there Smurph and help your base recruit



Ohio Homeless Driven to Polls to Vote Obama
Tuesday, October 07, 2008


CLEVELAND ? Volunteers supporting Barack Obama picked up hundreds of people at homeless shelters, soup kitchens and drug-rehab centers and drove them to a polling place yesterday on the last day that Ohioans could register and vote on the same day, almost no questions asked.

The huge effort by a pro-Obama group, Vote Today Ohio, takes advantage of a quirk in the state's elections laws that allows people to register and cast ballots at the same time without having to prove residency.

Republicans have argued that the window could lead to widespread voter fraud because officials wouldn't have an opportunity to verify registration information before ballots were cast.

Among the volunteers were Yori Stadlin and Vivian Lehrer of the Upper West Side, who got married last week and decided to spend their honeymoon shepherding voters to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.

Early today, Stadlin's van picked up William Woods, 59, at the soup kitchen of the Bishop Cosgrove Center.

"I never voted before," Woods said, because of a felony conviction that previously barred him from the polls. "Without this service, I would have had no way to get here."

 

[smurphy]

Dogs, do you think homeless should be allowed to vote?

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

I have no problem with homeless voting--I have a prob your base recruitment demographics.

Do you think they care about illegals-felons-homeless--

--or do you think their priority is votes for their candidate --

Tough question--isn't it

Before you answer consider the acorn heads and their fictitious registrations- who are looking out for.

--and you did know O is big supporter of the radical acorn group--want the history on O directing funds to Ayers (another radical) and Ayers on to Acorn?

 

[smurphy]

MY base recruitment? What do I have to do with it?

I think that the recruiters care the exact same as every other voter drive. They all target those more likely to vote their side. We could go endlessly back and forth on this with shady examples.

 

[The Sponge]

I have no problem with homeless voting--I have a prob your base recruitment demographics.

Do you think they care about illegals-felons-homeless--

--or do you think their priority is votes for their candidate --

Tough question--isn't it

Before you answer consider the acorn heads and their fictitious registrations- who are looking out for.

--and you did know O is big supporter of the radical acorn group--want the history on O directing funds to Ayers (another radical) and Ayers on to Acorn?

Strange I never saw you mention anything about this. Any reason why?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4088097&page=1
How to Rig an Election:
Convicted Phone-Jammer Tells All
Disgraced Ex-GOP Consultant Allen Raymond Reveals His Dirty Tricks as Party's 'Fall Guy'

 

[Jabberwocky]

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[Keeko]

:00x33

Let me guess. Your graduation pic??:mj07:

 

[Jabberwocky]

spammer boy is back. Oh happy day.

 

[Skulnik]

:00x33

Nice SPAM JABBERWOCKY, Double standard for you?

 

[Skulnik]

Don't get me WRONG, I like a good story, funny pcture and a good youtube video, but some of you guys like to use the SPAM word very selectively. JMO.

:nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono:

 

[Jabberwocky]

posting a pic is not spam. Starting thread after thread after thread cutting and pasting articles from the same site is spam. Posting stupid youtube links of useless nonsense is spam. I am sorry that you are so challenged. Life is not always fair.

 

[Skulnik]

posting a pic is not spam. Starting thread after thread after thread cutting and pasting articles from the same site is spam. Posting stupid youtube links of useless nonsense is spam. I am sorry that you are so challenged. Life is not always fair.

You mean it's spam when it's true? TIA.

 

[smurphy]

Don't get me WRONG, I like a good story, funny pcture and a good youtube video, but some of you guys like to use the SPAM word very selectively. JMO.

:nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono:

You are not wrong here.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Update on situation--for those interested in this outfit
from las vegas

http://www.lvrj.com/news/30613864.html

 

[Skulnik]

Thanks for the update, Voter Id is the way to go.

JMO.

 

[djv]

All Americans 18 and older get your butts to the polls. Do your duty.

 

[treynolds]

The acorn office in ohio had over 50% fraud. Amazingly thier office is closed today. Apparently what they did was just go down the streets put in an address and filled in a name.