For anyone to believe or promote the belief that the taped incidents of ACORN reps advising people on how to commit felonies is the only slight against ACORN is just wrong.
Van Hollen Charges five with election fraud
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Five Wisconsin residents have been charged with criminal counts of voter fraud in the November 2008 general election, state Attorney General
J.B. Van Hollen announced today.
Two of those charged -
Maria Miles, 36, of Milwaukee, and
Kevin Clancy, 26, of Racine - worked for the
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the embattled community organizing group.
"The complaint alleges that Miles and Clancy submitted multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals, and also were part of a scheme in which they and other (special registration deputies) registered each other to vote multiple times in order to meet voter registration quotas imposed by ACORN," the Van Hollen release says.
Both were charged with one felony count.
Attempts to reach ACORN today were unsuccessful.
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Van Hollen charges five with election fraud - JSOnline
Here is a link to a list of ACORN convictions over the years:
Fraud Map :: Rotten Acorn ::
In a local news story:
The Complete Guide to ACORN Voter Fraud
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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
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.
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Pajamas Media » The Complete Guide to ACORN Voter Fraud
Of course, it is always just a conservative witch hunt. Unless you read between the lines.
Iglesias: "I'm Astounded" By DOJ's ACORN Probe
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David Iglesias says he's shocked by the news, leaked today to the Associated Press, that the FBI is pursuing a voter-fraud investigation into ACORN just weeks before the election.
"I'm astounded that this issue is being trotted out again," Iglesias told TPMmuckraker. "Based on what I saw in 2004 and 2006, it's a scare tactic."
In 2006, Iglesias was fired as U.S. attorney thanks partly to his reluctance to pursue voter-fraud cases as aggressively as DOJ wanted -- one of several U.S. attorneys fired for inappropriate political reasons, according to a recently released report by DOJ's Office of the Inspector General.
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Iglesias: "I'm Astounded" By DOJ's ACORN Probe | TPMMuckraker
Not even all Democratic leaders are staunch supporters of ACORN and its methods.
Conyers suggests probe of ACORN
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Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat and fierce partisan, suggested a congressional probe after scathing testimony about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) during a hearing on various voting issues related to the 2008 presidential election.
Mr. Conyers called the accusations “a pretty serious matter.”
“I think that it would be something that would be worth our time,” he said during Thursday's hearing. “We've never had one person representing ACORN before the committee. ... I think in all fairness we ought to really examine it.”
The testimony by Pittsburgh lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh accused the nonprofit group of violating tax, campaign-finance and other laws by, among other things, sharing with the Barack Obama campaign a list of the Democrat's maxed-out campaign donors so ACORN could use it to solicit them for a get-out-the-vote drive.
She also testified that the Democrat-allied group provided liberal causes with protest-for-hire services and coerced donations from targets of demonstrations through a shakedown it called the “muscle for the money” program.
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Conyers suggests probe of ACORN - Washington Times
But anyone who thinks these guys are just going to go away is also wrong. They will surface again under different names and continue operations.
