If you are a company and you hire someone to do work for you, you as the company are responsible for their actions.
In Ohio in 2004, four ACORN employees were indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms.[22][23]
In January 2005 two Colorado ACORN workers were sentenced to community service for submitting false voter registrations.[24] ACORN's regional director said, "we find it abhorrent and do everything we can to prevent it from happening."[25]
On November 1, 2006, four part-time ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City, Missouri for voter registration fraud. Prosecutors said the indictments are part of a national investigation.[26] ACORN said in a press release that it is in part responsible in these individuals being caught, has fired them, and has cooperated and publicly supported efforts to look into the validity of the allegations.[27]
ACORN was investigated in 2006 for submitting false voter registrations in St. Louis, Missouri. 1,492 fraudulent voter registrations were identified.[28][29]
In 2007, five Washington state ACORN workers were sentenced to jail time.[30] ACORN agreed to pay King County $25 000 for its investigative costs and acknowledged that the national organization could be subject to criminal prosecution if fraud occurs again. According to King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg, the misconduct was done "as an easy way to get paid [by ACORN], not as an attempt to influence the outcome of elections."[31][32]
In 2008, the Michigan Secretary of State office told the Detroit Free Press that ACORN had been submitting a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications to vote.[33]
In 2008, the Las Vegas ACORN Office was raided due to voter fraud complaints.[34]
State authorities in Nevada raided ACORN's offices alleging that its canvassers falsified forms with bogus names, fake addresses or famous personalities. The secretary of state's office launched an investigation after noticing that names did not match addresses and that most members of the Dallas Cowboys appeared to be registering in Nevada to vote in November's general election. "We basically had the starting lineup for the Dallas Cowboys," Secretary of State Ross Miller said. "Tony Romo is not registered to vote in Nevada. Anyone trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot."
Just because it's not CORPORATE headquarters involved in the fraud does not mean the company is exempt from the actions that happen OVER AND OVER again from their employees.
If you are a business owner, and your employee cheats someone out of their money, that customer sues you the owner and the company.
