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Suspicious election officials sent letters to some 5,000 ACORN registrants in St. Louis, asking the letter recipients to contact them. Fewer than 40 responded.
In Kansas City, 15,000 registrations have been questioned, and last year four ACORN employees were indicted for fraud.
In addition, ACORN officials have also been indicted in Wisconsin and Colorado. Investigations against others are active in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
ACORN has also been registering convicted felons — including inmates — in Florida and other battleground states.
ACORN boasts registering a record 1.5 million new voters so far this election.
It is reasonable to ask whether ACORN is in fact a criminal conspiracy to subvert the voting rights of Americans. Which makes it all the more remarkable that Barack Obama paid ACORN $800,000 to register new voters, and then lied about it, falsely telling the Federal Elections Commission that the $800,000 went to a group called Citizen Services Inc. for "advance work."
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It appears that many of the "voters" that ACORN registered either didn't know they were being registered or were obviously not, in fact, even noted as having human names with real addresses at all.
Common sense tells me it is highly unlikely that this was a sinister case of trying to throw an election (if your name was skimmed from a telephone book then how do you know to vote? And if you're not an actual human, how can you show up and vote?). It seems that ACORN's "in the field" registration gatherers were motivated to collect money, not to steal an election.
I imagine that ACORN did, indeed, gather valid voter registrations, and that not every ACORN staffer was stacking the lists. But it's a shameless crime that ACORN was not accountable for verifying its registrations.
if your name was skimmed from a telephone book then how do you know to vote? And if you're not an actual human, how can you show up and vote?
Obviously you don't. That doesn't mean no vote will be recorded in your name, particularly with 1.) corruption among election officials themselves, and 2.) lax or nonexistent ID requirements at the polls.
Exactly, Tim- and common sense tells me that there is one group of people who do know the names of the people they registered to vote. Guess who? ACORN.
The in the field registration gatherers are motivated to collect extra money. But doesn't common sense suggest that it might be prudent to ask WHY ACORN officials who don't get paid per name are so eager to register thousands of nonexistant people or names in the phone book without asking them? After all, ACORN has had this problem for years- it was a scandal in the last two elections at least that in a batch of a thousand registrations, maybe 100 (or less) would be valid. Yet the continue the same practices, getting the same results. WHY does ACORN send those in? WHY don't they have any interest in having their own people check those lists over before they send them in. WHY are they paying money for worthless pieces of paper?
What's in it for them?
They also registered people who were not eligible to vote- convicted felons, for one, noncitizens in other cases, dead people in some cases. And since Dem politicians resist all efforts to secure the voting booths and make sure that only eligible voters are voting, and they are casting only one vote... you have at the very least a situation created to nurture and protect vote fraud.
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