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first off, the Swiftvets didnt lieWith No Swift Boat Liars, the GOP is desperately searching for something to suppress the vote.
You mean you have an objection to when the Justice Department attorney in New Mexico refused to investigate election fraud as he was required and was fired for not doing so -even after discovering that employees of several Democrat state senators had paid people to fraudulently register to vote -which is a felony? You consider that to be some kind of effort to "suppress" votes? ROFLMAO! Which vote is being "suppressed" by such an investigation?
I fail to see how opposing voter and election fraud somehow benefits only Republicans as opposed to ALL legitimate voters when NONE of their voices should be diluted by fraudulent votes -unless you believe that Democrats are engaged in a lot of voter and election fraud in the first place and are actually HARMED unless voter and election fraud is ignored. So I guess you believe a democratic republic should turn a blind eye to voter and election fraud regardless of the evidence -because not investigating that is something you think benefits YOUR political side. Which says something really bad about you and those you support, doesn't it?
got a link to that? I believe I've read they've fired those workers who fraudulently filled out registrations but I think I missed where ACORN admitted guilt for these workers and/or paid fines.
ACORN has agreed to pay $25,000 as the result of their "work" in just one county in Washington that included the city of Seattle. 7 employees in that one ACORN office, including the office supervisor, have already been charged with crimes, 3 already sentenced and one who was charged with voter fraud failed to appear in court and is now a wanted man. Of a total of 1,805 registrations submitted by this single ACORN office -only NINE have been confirmed as legitimate. (Hard to claim ACORN has a fraud rate of 33% because those doing the registering committed these crimes on their own - when this one case shows the office supervisor is alleged to have been part of the scheme too.)
Further criminal charges and fines are expected as the result of the investigation into the Tacoma, WA branch of ACORN in the near future.
Voter-registration workers charged with submitting bogus registrations
So far it is voter registration fraud and it is a felony to knowingly register fraudulently -or in the case of ACORN, to knowingly turn in fraudulent registrations.
Their is a special prosecutor investigating the firing of the Justice Department attorneys.
The truth will come out, and some people in the Bush administration will go to jail.
This had nothing to do with voter fraud. It was a case of workers cheating their employer, ACORN....
From your own link....
But the scheme had nothing to do with an attempt to manipulate elections and everything to do with the workers' efforts to keep their $8-an-hour jobs, prosecutors said.
In fact, no votes were cast based on the more than 1,760 fraudulent registrations submitted by workers for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, interim Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said.
"The defendants ... cheated their employers to get paid for work they did not actually perform," Satterberg said. "The defendants simply realized that making up names was easier than actually canvassing the streets."
That was the official explanation by the national ACORN office -NOT what the prosecution says it is. .
SEATTLE TIMES: King and Pierce County prosecutors filed felony charges today against seven people who allegedly committed the biggest voter-registration fraud in state history.
The defendants, who were paid employees and supervisors of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, concocted the scheme as an easy way to get paid, not as an attempt to influence the outcome of elections, King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg said.
Local News | Felony charges filed against 7 in state's biggest case of voter-registration fraud | Seattle Times Newspaper
Wrong.
I really wish you Bush voters would get your information from somewhere besides Limbaugh and Hannity.
I've been telling you for days that the voter registration fraud cases involved workers who were looking to make a fast buck. There was no election fraud, nor was their any intent to cast fraudulent votes.
Guess what? When you hire hundreds of people for 8 bucks an hour, a few of them are going to potentially fill out bogus registration cards with fake names, in order to get paid some fast bucks.
You republicans were fooled by WMD in Iraq, you were fooled by George Bush, and you were fooled by Dick Cheney.
Once again, you're barking up the wrong tree at best, and lying at worst. Rush Limbaugh has really misled you. Its what he does.
Wrong.
I really wish you Bush voters would get your information from somewhere besides Limbaugh and Hannity.
I've been telling you for days that the voter registration fraud cases involved workers who were looking to make a fast buck. There was no election fraud, nor was their any intent to cast fraudulent votes.
Guess what? When you hire hundreds of people for 8 bucks an hour, a few of them are going to potentially fill out bogus registration cards with fake names, in order to get paid some fast bucks.
You republicans were fooled by WMD in Iraq, you were fooled by George Bush, and you were fooled by Dick Cheney.
Once again, you're barking up the wrong tree at best, and lying at worst. Rush Limbaugh has really misled you. Its what he does.
Wrong. Its not illegal to turn in bogus registration cards.
Its the law to turn in every registration card you have. Whether they are legitimate, whether they have typos, whether somebody scrawled Mickey Mouse on it as a joke, or whether they were indeed frauduently filled out.
You can't hold onto any registration card the state gives you. You have to turn all of them in.
All the reports are saying that ACORN flagged the ones they thought were bogus, and turned them over to the State. Its the state's job to determine if the bogus ones were crimes, whether they were typos, or whether they were stupid practical jokes.
In any organization as big as ACORN, there's going to be a few jerks they hire who turn in some bogus registration cards as a way of making a fast buck.
There's never been a shred of evidence however, that any bogus card that was filled out for ACORN has turned into a fraudulent vote.
Please post it if you have proof that a bogus registration card actually turned into a fraudulent voter turning up at the polls.
Once again the press going to an ACORN ally in attempt to discount legitimate requests for oversight.
A Republican Convicted Of Election Fraud Had VIP Access To Trump's Michigan Rally | HuffPostCurrent story on Yahoo! News Home:
ACORN controversy: Voter fraud or mudslinging? - Yahoo! News
ACORN controversy: Voter fraud or mudslinging?
By DEBORAH HASTINGS, AP National Writer Deborah Hastings, Ap National Writer Sat Oct 18, 12:37 pm ET
The stories are almost comical: Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, registered to vote on Nov. 4. The entire starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team, signed up to go the polls in Nevada.
But no one in either presidential campaign is laughing. Not publicly, anyway...
"This is all just one big head-fake," said Tova Wang of the government watchdog group Common Cause. "What silliness this is, at this point. It's all about creating this perception that there is a tremendous problem with voter fraud in this country, and it's not true."
On Friday, during a campaign appearance, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin repeated McCain's recent claims that Obama has close ties to ACORN.
"You deserve to know," Palin told thousands in a park north of Cincinnati. "This group needs to learn that you here in Ohio won't let them turn the Buckeye State into the Acorn State."
Obama helped represent ACORN in a successful 1995 suit against the state of Illinois, which forced enactment of the so-called motor-voter law, making it easier for people to register vote. Obama said this week that he had "nothing to do with" ACORN's massive voter registration drive.
ACORN spokesman Brian Kettenring retaliated this week in a series of conference calls and interviews. "What we're seeing is the manufacture of a crisis, and attempts to smear Sen. Obama with it. It gives you an excuse should you lose or if there's a contested outcome of the election."...
Once again the press going to an ACORN ally in attempt to discount legitimate requests for oversight.
Common Cause is another community activist organization and a regular ally of ACORN, which AP reporters should know:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT ACORN, CONNECTICUT COMMON CAUSE, CONNECTICUT CITIZEN ACTION GROUP,
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
ACORN, CONNECTICUT COMMON CAUSE,
CONNECTICUT CITIZEN ACTION GROUP,
CONNECTICUT PUBLIC INTEREST
RESEARCH GROUP, PEOPLE FOR THE
AMERICAN WAY, CONNECTICUT
WORKING FAMILIES PARTY,
DEMOCRACYWORKS, SANDEEPAN
MUKHERJEE, STEVEN CANADY, JOSE
CAMPODONICO, GARVIN ROOS,
CLEONICE RAMALH, JEZEL DUPIGNY,
ROBIN GARRO, NAJLA SHAH, and SUSAN
SORENSEN,
Plaintiffs,
v.
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ, in her official capacity as
Secretary of State for the State of Connecticut,
Defendant
....
You should look at the Chicago votes, there are a lot of dead people who voted in the Obama election as normal. Who knows how many W backs and Sheet heads voted that were not citizens.It's not just AP. Newspapers across the country have been skeptical about the trumped up charges against ACORN. Not to mention, most of us know that Bush's attorneys general got fired last time around because they couldn't find any evidence of voter fraud.
Hell, my own Republican Gov, Charlie Crist, even pointed out that the GOP was full of shit on this.
But feel free to show us any actual proof of fraudulent voting, Kathianne.
I can hook you up with a link to Anne Coulter's voter fraud.
I liked the workers at a Mental inst, who assisted the inmates to vote. That was kind of them to help them with their voting rights.Once again the press going to an ACORN ally in attempt to discount legitimate requests for oversight.
They aren't legitimate. Total factual evidence that ACORN is conspiring to commit voter fraud = ZERO. You seriously think Obama and ACORN sat down together and decided to register a bunch of Mickey Mouses and Donald Ducks to win the election? And I guess all the election workers are either incredible stupid or in on the conspiracy.
If no evidence of voter fraud was found, then why did they plead guilty?It's not just AP. Newspapers across the country have been skeptical about the trumped up charges against ACORN. Not to mention, most of us know that Bush's attorneys general got fired last time around because they couldn't find any evidence of voter fraud.
You twit, they are just showing one side. While trying to paint 'hate' on the other side, when the concern is undermining our electoral system.