ACORN - Not a Bad Nut After All

[rayboyusmc]

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/acorn-broke-no-laws/

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~A15

 

[Article 15]

Post your link, Rayboy.

~A15

 

[Truthmatters]

It was used as a whipping boy to trump up false vote fraud cases by the politizied Bush DOJ.

They refused to prosicute the real fraud and tried to force false cases against ACORN.

 

[chanel]

It's from the dailykos. Who else? I never felt they "stole the election" like the cuckoo kerry freaks, but I still believe they are a criminal enterprise. And they have no compassion for those they pretend to represent. They enable them to be leeches. Read their original mission statement.

 

[Oddball]

In other news, Arthur Andersen today released Bernie Madoff's books and found them all in order.

 

[chanel]

Ha ha. And kevin Jennings found that the biggest threat to school safety was fudge packer jokes.

 

[Truthmatters]

Every time they have been investigated there has been no wrongdoing found.

Republicans just keep refusing Facts they dont like.

 

[chanel]

The truth will come out "truthmatters" Voter registration fraud and campaign finance may not be as provocative to most folks as the ex slave business,, but in times of recesion a couple mil extorted from the taxpayers is still a big deal. Keep making excuses for scumbags. It empowers the decent people.

 

[Truthmatters]

THEY have not done anything you idiot.

LYING wont make it so either.

EVERY TIME they have been investigated they have been cleared.

Why do you refuse facts?

 

[del]

THEY have not done anything you idiot.

LYING wont make it so either.

EVERY TIME they have been investigated they have been cleared.

Why do you refuse facts?

must be one of those damn *politizied* bushies, eh?

whatever the fuck that means.

It was used as a whipping boy to trump up false vote fraud cases by the politizied Bush DOJ.

They refused to prosicute the real fraud and tried to force false cases against ACORN.

run, forrest, run.

 

[Truthmatters]

More right wing fact denying.

This is why facts have a liberal bias

 

[Navy1960]

AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.

CO 2005 Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.

2004 An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.

FL 2009 In September, 11 ACORN workers were accused of forging voter registration applications in Miami-Dade County during the last election. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the state attorney’s office scoured hundreds of suspicious applications provided by ACORN and found 197 of 260 contained personal ID information that did not match any living person.

2008 Election officials in Brevard County have given prosecutors more than 23 suspect registrations from ACORN. The state's Division of Elections is also investigating complaints in Orange and Broward Counties.

2004 A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.

IN 2008 Election officials in Indiana have thrown out more than 4,000 ACORN-submitted voter registrations after finding they had identical handwriting and included the names of many deceased Indianans, and even the name of a fast food restaurant.

MI 2008 Clerks in Detroit found a "sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent [voter] applications" from the Michigan branch of ACORN. Those applications have been turned over to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation.

MN 2004 During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.


NV 2009 Nevada authorities indicted ACORN on 26 counts of voter registration fraud and 13 counts of illegally compensating canvassers. ACORN provided a bonus compensation program called “Blackjack” or “21+” for any canvasser who registered more than 20 voters per shift, which is illegal under Nevada law.

WA 2007 Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.

Fraud Map :: Rotten Acorn ::

All of those are verified with just an easy research on whatever search engine you wish. If all these are just mere instances of rougue employee's as Acorn would now have you believe based on their recent claims of " only our former employee's have been convicted", then why the following;

ACORN, the troubled community service organization, recently considered changing its name in a bid to rehabilitate its image, according to an internal memo obtained by POLITICO.


The document, which will be released Tuesday as part of a Republican congressional forum on ACORN, illustrates the internal deliberation the group has undergone after a year of embarrassing scandals.


The document was found in Dumpster outside of an ACORN office in San Diego, a House Republican aide said. Derrick Roach, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for statehouse in California, took thousands of documents last week from the trash outside the office. An ACORN spokesman confirmed the veracity of the document.
ACORN considered name change - Jake Sherman - POLITICO.com

If a group is as innocent as some would claim then they would not spend so much time defending themselves for the same issue for the last decade.

 

[Big Black Dog]

ACORN is a good organization just as a rattlesnake is a good pet for children.

 

[Truthmatters]

They have been cleared every time.

They also were attacked by the right wing at every turn.

The Bush DOJ fired people for NOT smearing them with false charges right befor the elections.

 

[chanel]

THEY have not done anything you idiot.

LYING wont make it so either.

EVERY TIME they have been investigated they have been cleared.

Why do you refuse facts?

Refuse facts? I've seen the videos and unlike YOU, I have not seen their tax records, nor do I pretend to understand them. Only an "idiot" would accept an "internal investigation" as fact. No that truth matters.

Congress stopped funding. Despite their "affiliation" and fondness for human slavery. But I guess you know more than them. Liar?

 

[hjmick]

They have been cleared every time.

They also were attacked by the right wing at every turn.

The Bush DOJ fired people for NOT smearing them with false charges right befor the elections.

And O.J. didn't murder Ron and Nicole.

 

[Truthmatters]

Congressional Research Service Report On Acorn

It is a congressional research service investigation you fools.

 

[Navy1960]

ACORN workers were criminally indicted and later concivted of voter fraud. These convictions came as part of a Federal Investigation. ”There is some motive behind it — this is not accidental,” said Ray James with the Kansas City Election Board. Election officials said some of the application cards had false addresses, signatures and phone numbers. the announcement of criminal charges came after the King County Canvassing Board revoked 1,762 allegedly fraudulent voter registrations submitted by ACORN employees. ACORN Workers Indicted For Alleged Voter Fraud - Politics News Story - KMBC Kansas City

….in interviews with King County Sheriff’s Detective Chris Johnson, several of the defendants – while freely admitting they forged the forms – insisted that they had been told ACORN would shut down their office in Tacoma if they didn’t improve their numbers, Johnson wrote in a probable cause statement.

One, Ryan Olson, said another worker in the office told him “do what you have to do” to turn in more cards.

ACORN’s oversight of the workers was virtually nonexistent – to the extent that civil charges could have been warranted, Satterberg said.

In a settlement agreement announced Thursday, ACORN, which cooperated with the investigation, agreed to pay $25,000 and to make improvements in its management, training and oversight of suspect voter registrations throughout the state. Seallte Times


On Monday, Nevada officials charged Acorn, its regional director and its Las Vegas field director with submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms last year. Larry Lomax, the registrar of voters in Las Vegas, says he believes 48% of Acorn's forms "are clearly fraudulent." On Thursday, prosecutors in Pittsburgh, Pa., also charged seven Acorn employees with filing hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations before last year's general election.

More Acorn Voter Fraud Comes to Light - WSJ.com

Christopher Edwards, a former Nevada ACORN executive, received a sentence of three years probation and a $500 fine today for his role in an illegal voter registration conspiracy, the Las Vegas Sun reports.

In August the former ACORN field director pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime of compensation for registration of voters. The newspaper reported ; Las Vegas Sun

 

[Truthmatters]

Yes their temp workers were guilty of defrauding ACORN.

Cant you figure out that means ACORN was the victim or are you too stupid or partisan to accept that fact?

 

[California Girl]

Congressional Research Service Report On Acorn

It is a congressional research service investigation you fools.

Your username makes me laugh.... Truth matters, not to you it doesn't.