EXCLUSIVE: How ACORN Got Me Into Vote Scam »
Posted By Wolfie2007 9 months ago in NewsCLEVELAND - Two Ohio voters, including Domino' s pizza worker Christopher Barkley , claimed yesterday that they were hounded by the community-activist group ACORN to register to vote several times, even though they made it clear they' d already signed up.
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Wolfie20079 months ago
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Barkley estimated he'd registered to vote "10 to 15" times after canvassers for ACORN, whose political wing has endorsed Barack Obama, relentlessly pursued him and others.-
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MRCOFFEECAKE8 months, 4 weeks ago
Did he know the gay guy who had homosexual sex and cocaine in a limo with Obama, or the guy who belonged to Obama'a Mosque when they agreed to a jihaad against America,
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or the guy who said that Obama never pledges allegiance to our dflag and who will want to be sworn in on a Koran??
Oh no, he's the guy who's related to Chalabi, who told us why we needed to go into Iraq..
You people would listen to a homeless drunk..You really are pathetic!
(By the way) 15 extra votes in Ilinois mean nothing..Nweither do 150,000.
Obama is gong to win Illinois 2,2000,00o to 900,000,,so why would ANYONE cheat in a state where they are already going to win??
Ask the Republican: You only cheat in Ohio or Florida, and you do it mechanically.
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MSHELENA8 months, 4 weeks ago
I would be worried if people were VOTING many times, not registering. . . . Registering many times doesn't help Obama--so it's not to Obama's advantage when people register more than once. I smell a GOP rat behind this. If the young man from the pizza establishment registered too many times, then that's HIS problem, not Obama's. The young man should have known better because he knew he'd registered the first time.
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hyperbola8 months, 4 weeks ago
This story is typical of GOP scam attempts. There is nothing in it that indicates ANY voter was regisitered illegally. Thereafter it is all ugly innuendo without any evidence.
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The question you should ask yourself is whether you are gullible enough to be suckered by the kind of scams Wolfie posts here.
GOP's ACORN 'Voter Fraud' Lie Ramped Up
I had been intending to post an answer to the ongoing -- and quickly escalating -- ACORN smears being issued of late by the GOP enemies of democracy out there, who have decided to intensify their unsubstantiated assaults on the community organization, given its effectiveness at registering millions of low-income voters across the country....
... Doubtless you've heard the smears by now: that ACORN is committing "voter fraud", on behalf of Obama, in hotly contested swing states. The media has been all too happy to pass that garbage on, without bothering to note that, in fact, the organization attempts to authenticate every registration form their workers submit and by law they must turn in every form to election officials -- even if they find a registration to be fraudulent when they call the phone number submitted on the form, or if the forms are otherwise suspect or incomplete.
They do so, and they flag all questionable registration forms as being suspect before turning them in to officials.
The thanks they receive for registering millions of new voters that nobody else has bothered with, and for notifying officials about questionable registration forms when they turn them in, is that the GOP's democracy-hating propagandists and election officials run to the media shouting, "ACORN is committing voter fraud! They've turned in hundreds and thousands of fraudulent registration forms!"
Of course they have. They have to by law. But what those GOP despots of democracy always forget to mention is that it was ACORN themselves who notified officials about the potentially fraudulent and/or incomplete forms in the first place!
For the quickest idea of how the GOP ACORN scam has run amok, dutifully forwarded by the often clueless corporate media, and then the rightwing wankers in the blogosphere who are only to happy to help enable those who are lying to them -- by putting truth, democracy and country second -- take a look at the following game of rightwing "blogosphere telephone" concerning a recent news conference called by a Lake County, Indiana GOP chair in order to sound the phony alarm about "fraud" committed by ACORN....
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/10/gops-aco...
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Wolfie20079 months ago
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"You can tell them you're registered as many times as you want - they do not care," said Lateala Goins, 21, who was subpoenaed.
"They will follow you to the buses, they will follow you home, it does not matter," she told The Post.
She added that she never put down an address on any of the registration forms, just her name.
A third subpoenaed voter, Freddie Johnson, 19, filled out registration cards 72 times over 18 months, officials said.-
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HannibalBarca8 months, 4 weeks ago
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Registering under a fake name is illegal. But officials usually catch multiple registrations and toss them.
ACORN's Cleveland spokesman, Kris Harsh, said his group collected 100,000 voter-registration cards; only about 50 were questionable, he claimed.
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hyperbola8 months, 4 weeks ago
Well Wolfie, your "scare tactic" is revealed by the very quotes you cite. NONE of those voter registration forms would have been accepted and verified. However, ACORN (and any other group registering voters) is required by law to submit even the defective forms (and to notify voting officials that they are defective).
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Frankly, sounds like the GOP has been running a scam by trying to find "volunteers" to fake reigstration multiple times to try to smear ACORN.
Time to label the smear campaigns for what they are Wolfie.
Obama the Subhuman
Increasingly, right-wing conservatives and Republican political leaders are issuing dire warnings to the American public that they – and only they – are the legitimate rulers of the United States and the world. This basic contempt for anything but one-party rule is manifested in a number of dire threats repeated by the party, with its members promising the end of Western civilization as we know it if they lose their dominant status in government. A review of Conservative and Republican contempt for bi-partisan politics is in order....
- On the culture war front, Republicans and conservatives have been unrelenting in their religious fanaticism and racism. Residents of West Virginia and Arkansas have received mailings directly from the Republican National Committee warning that liberals will ban the bible....
- Right-wing pundits, echoed by major conservative political leaders, have warned that a victory for Barack Obama will be a victory for Islam, radical terrorism, and anti-Americanism....
- Conservative legal officials have essentially declared war on the Democratic Party, not for violating the law, but due to their own ideological prejudices. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was recently exposed for allowing politically motivated prosecutions against prominent Democratic political officials....
None of these right-wing hit jobs or smear tactics should strike voters as merely "more of the same" negative politicking in an election season....
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Wolfie20079 months ago
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I don't think they care enough about their voters to consider them intelligent or not. They only want them to vote as many times as possible or have someone else vote for them as many times as possible. It's all about power for the liberal, progressive democrats. If it were about helping people they wouldn't have sacked and looted Frannie and Freddie and all the while telling everyone that Fannie and Freddie were, "just fine" under the guidance of Franklin Raines, democrat and adviser to Barack Obama.-
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DeauxNut8 months, 4 weeks ago
What's really scary, if I understand correctly, one of the voter registration managers said in a TV interview that it is not considered a "crime" to register multiple times but that they have to wait to see if the perp has actually voted multiple times. Something doesn't smell right!!
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nostalgia9 months ago
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It feeds the public perception that there could be [fraud], and that makes the pillars fall down," said local Board of Elections President Jeff Hastings.
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Wolfie20079 months ago
"It feeds the perception that there "could be"(fraud)."
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Yep, it makes you wonder if good old Jeff could smell a bucket of sheet if it was hung around his neck. LOL -
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mesodude8 months, 4 weeks ago
So do mega-churches that fly their clergy members around on Lear jets.
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pc258 months, 4 weeks ago
Front page of the NY POST this morning and BIG news on all the NYC news stations....if Obama should win in a close election plenty of reason for McCain to contest the elections........get ready for 2000 part 2
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jordan118 months, 4 weeks ago
You clowns will fall for anything. I'd bet my last dollar that the filthy and corrupt GOP sends freaks into ACORN offices to illegally register. How's the voter caging going?
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nostalgia8 months, 4 weeks ago
Palestra has inteviews with ACORN workers on tape
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They have interviews with people hounded by ACORN volunteers to register
This isn't a case of people going into offices to register
This is a case of ACORN volunteers going out into areas and bullying people to register over and over - even when the people told them they were already registered
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DeauxNut8 months, 4 weeks ago
Uh .. yah right! If you actually read the news and saw interviews with poll managers, most if not all multiple registrations were democraps. Maybe those repubs checked the wrong box, 'eh?
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RedRiverJ8 months, 4 weeks ago
and they say they (Acorn) can't stop voter fraud! They are voter fraud!
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Wolfie20078 months, 4 weeks ago
Read about Obama suing Citibank.
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dandt16128 months, 4 weeks ago
Wow, you would think Obama is part or head of some mob gang the way he and he groupies do things. I wonder where he got his training? Obama IS A FRAUD and a dangerous person to this country.
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You know even Bush didn't go around suing people or companies who didn't support him. At least he could take it like a man and not whimper and whine about it. Obama is PATHETIC!!!-
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Jimjn28 months, 4 weeks ago
This "Acorn" scam group was the group the House Dems tried to slip money to in the first Bailout package bill. That was the bill that the republicans walked out on. Yea!!!
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If Obama gets in, kiss the USA goodbye and get ready for the new politically correct world order. It will be like the Jimmy Carter years, only worse. -
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Wolfie20078 months, 4 weeks ago
Voter fraud is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ACORN.
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Check out more of their activities.
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bubba28 months, 4 weeks ago
GOOD GRIEF, this "spam" thing is INSANE ...
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Even if this posts, I GIVE UP. This only PROVES that this propeller format does S-U-C-K ....
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No concrete evidence of systemic voter fraud in the United States has ever surfaced. Many election integrity experts believe claims of voter fraud are a ploy by Republicans to suppress minorities and poor people from voting.
ACORN has long been a target of Republican Party operatives dating as far back as the 2004 presidential election. But the accusations of malfeasance have never been supported by evidence.
Three or four former U.S. Attorneys out of the nine fired in 2006 were targeted because they refused to bring criminal charges against individuals affiliated with ACORN.
The GOP has, through state GOP governments, attempted to purge tens of thousands of legitimately registered voters in 6 battleground states in the past few weeks.-
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orndorffter8 months, 4 weeks ago
Hey bubba2. Dont sweat it, I'm new at this And I sure am trying to do things right, I just hope when I post my story I get it done right Ya all may be hearing yealing for help when I began it. I have several but afraid I'm gona flub up, any way the govermments is so toren they dont even know what thire suspose to be doing.there is no voter fraud in the United States the people are finaly wiseing up to our so call goverment,never have I saw an election like this one.
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donald518 months, 4 weeks ago
Wow, but for Bubba and Jordan, this article just by its title sure brought out all the bigots to pat eachother on the back with their lies and spin! You right wingers have no scruples or a conscience!
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Heaven forbid that poor and middle class Americans who work a steady job and just want a part of the American dream have an organization help them buy a house!-
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corl648 months, 4 weeks ago
"Heaven forbid that poor and middle class Americans who work a steady job and just want a part of the American dream have an organization help them buy a house"
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It takes more than just having a steady job to own a home. This is where the mortgage companies were wrong in handing out money to people who just can't afford homes. Financial responsiblity is more than just holding down a job, no matter how much you "want a part of the American dream". Your comment about "scruples" is just ignorant. How are scruples involved in getting someone a mortgage that they can't afford to begin with, just so you can pat yourself on the back and have a clear conscience about showing some compassion by helping somebody who is just looking for a handout. -
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slate8 months, 4 weeks ago
Donna, do you still think that anyone against Obama are racists? Psst Obama is just as white as he is black, so it must be double racism if anyone says anything negative about him, depending on their color. What a sad way to live alife, being a race baiter and all. If 80% of Americans hate Bush and Obama is only ahead by a small margin, that would mean that 60% of Americans must be racists. Do you really think that?
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Heaven forbid ANY voter get more than one vote is more like it Donna. You do understand how it's supposed to work?
Heck by your stadards, I think the ultra rick could by mutiple million ref. cards and have them flood the process for McCain, how would you feel about that?
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