ACORN Charged in Nevada-- 19,000 Fake Registrations (Video) »
Posted By pc25 9 months, 1 week ago in News
ACORN charged with 26 counts of voter registration violations.
According to the Clark County Nevada registrar ACORN submitted at least 19,000 fraudulent forms during the last election cycle:
The radical ACORN organization worked closely with the Obama campaign during the election this past year although the community organizing group was not open about this.
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pc259 months, 1 week ago
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http://www.lvrj.com/news/44354307.html
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ACORN charged with 26 counts of voter registration violations.
Nevada charges ACORN
Illegal quota system, officials say, spurred 'garbage'
A voter registration drive last year illegally required canvassers to meet quotas to keep their jobs and resulted in thousands of "garbage" registrations gumming up Clark County voter rolls, officials said Monday as they released a criminal complaint against the drive's organizers.
The complaint names the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN; Chris Edwards, the group's former Las Vegas field director; and Amy Busefink, who was regional director for voter registration.
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In all, there are 26 charges of compensation for registration of voters and 13 charges of being a "principal" in the alleged crimes. An initial hearing has been set for 7:30 a.m. June 3 in Las Vegas Justice Court.registrations-
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nostalgia9 months, 1 week ago
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This gives you a trail to follow
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How many of the states will file charges is another matter
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
The Complete Guide to ACORN Voter Fraud-- 14 States Investigate Obama's Community Organization
To further ignite the voter fraud-voter registration debate this week was the news that a national community organizing group is being investigated in at least 14 states and several swing states for massive voter registration irregularities.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/acorn-vo...
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Wolfie20079 months, 1 week ago
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ACORN presented more than 19,000 fraudulent forms in Nevada. How can this be? Weren't we told by ACORN "officials" last fall that they check and double check every form before turning them over? Would they lie about something so important? You bettcha, they lied their azzes off.
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BB649 months, 1 week ago
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Gee, in looking back on Obama's resume, he was a trainer for them. Part of his community volunteer thing. Perhaps instead of teaching them rioting, I mean civil disobedience, perhaps he should have covered voter fraud and that criminal actions have consequences. Oh who are we kidding. No member of the DNC has been sent to jail for fraud. They will find some judge to toss everything.
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BB649 months, 1 week ago
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Gee, in looking back on Obama's resume, he was a trainer for them. Part of his community volunteer thing. Perhaps instead of teaching them rioting, I mean civil disobedience, perhaps he should have covered voter fraud and that criminal actions have consequences. Oh who are we kidding. No member of the DNC has been sent to jail for fraud. They will find some judge to toss everything.
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nostalgia9 months, 1 week ago
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Here is more info on the case:
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Criminal charges filed against ACORN, two employees
The complaint includes 26 counts of voter fraud and 13 counts for compensating those registering voters, both felonies.
Throughout 2008, ACORN employed canvassers to register people to vote in Nevada, the complaint said. ACORN paid the canvassers between $8 and $9 an hour, but made continued employment and continued compensation based on the canvasser registering 20 voters per shift. Those who failed to sign up 20 voters per shift were terminated, the complaint said.
From July 27 through Oct. 2 ACORN also provided additional compensation under a bonus program called "Blackjack" or "21+" that was based on the total number of voters a person registered.
A canvasser who brought in 21 or more completed voter registration forms per shift would be paid a bonus of $5.
The Blackjack program was created by employee Christopher Edwards, field director for the Las Vegas office. ACORN timesheets indicate that corporate officers of ACORN were aware of the Blackjack bonus program and failed to take immediate action to stop it.
Amy Busefink was ACORN's deputy regional director who was also aware of the Blackjack program and aided and abetted the scheme by approving Edwards' bonus program.
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Tangent0019 months, 1 week ago
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Yes, it seems these two are culpable. Let the investigation progress and prosecute if warranted. Further, there should be an investigation into how far up the leadership chain knowledge of these activities went.
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On the other hand, there doesn't seem to be any deliberate malice or attempt to defraud (if the program paid extra money for Democrat registrants vs. Republican registrants, THAT would be pretty heinous).
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bubba29 months, 1 week ago
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You CONTINUE to equate ACORN with Democrats.
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There is NO SUCH connection or equation.
You all like to USE a group like ACORN to throw mud at Democrats, trying to blame "liberals" and Democrats for anything a group like ACORN may or may not do.
THIS is the ROOT of all of your RANTS appended to the posted article.
Did the Nevada ACORN make a mess of their voter registration drives and are the charges valid? Absolutely.
Does that necessarily have ANYTHING to do with "liberal" conspiracies or with Democrat conspiracies?
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djn3nunez39 months, 1 week ago
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How many of the 19,000 voter applications did Acorn itself flag and report? How many Employees of Acorn are charged? 2
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Hahahahahaha
No fraud.
For the real story
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/may/04/crimin...
Another ho-hum hit piece from PC, again.
Oh and how many of the 19,000 applicants actually voted in the election? 0.
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bubba29 months, 1 week ago
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Here are some FACTS for all of you ... not that you will acknowledge them, but they ARE facts just the same.
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http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/does_the_sti...
The House version of the stimulus bill does indeed include about $1 billion in funding for the Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) program and another $4.2 billion ($2.2 billion in the Senate's version) in funding for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).
Neither program is new.
Those CDBG funds cannot be used for anything resembling ACORN's controversial voter registration programs. HUD has very strict rules for projects that can be funded through CDBG grants, including promotion of home ownership and micro-enterprise assistance. ACORN has long been eligible for CDBG funds, and Boehner's Web site points out that the group has received almost $1.6 million (NOT billion) in CDBG grants over a four-year span.
We make no judgments about the wisdom of allowing nonprofits to compete with state and local governments for NSP funds. Is this a "payoff" or "goodies" for liberal allies, or for ACORN specifically? Actually, both programs hand out grants only on a competitive basis. ACORN – and any other nonprofit entity – would be eligible to compete for NSP funds (as it already does for CDBG funds), but the key words here are "eligible" and "compete."
John Boehner's Web site proclaims that the bill provides "a taxpayer-funded bonanza" for ACORN. And Republican Sen. David Vitter goes even further, telling Newsmax TV that the provisions amount to "a political payoff." Also, the National Republican Trust PAC has taken up the issue in fundraising pitches. But these claims are wildly exaggerated and rely upon faulty logic.
Boehner and Vitter commit two logical fallacies. Their argument has the form:
- The stimulus bill provides funding for redeveloping neighborhoods.
- ACORN does work in redeveloping neighborhoods.
- Therefore the stimulus bill provides funding for ACORN.
That's an example of what philosophers call the undistributed middle fallacy. It's a common mistake; in May 2008, we caught Sen. John McCain making a similar logical blunder. But Boehner and Vitter compound their error by treating different terms as if they had the same meaning. ACORN does indeed work in redeveloping neighborhoods, but the work that it does is not the same sort of work for which NSP provides funding. By pretending as if the two are the same, Boehner and Vitter commit the fallacy of equivocation. -
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Tangent0019 months, 1 week ago
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They weren't votes, they were registrations. Here's how the process works: ACORN is required by law to return every single registration form the organization was issued, whether fraudulent, or someone made a mistake and had to start over, or the form was never filled out. ACORN reviews the registrations and sets aside the ones it feels are potentially problematic. All forms then go to the state, who vets them again. Not just the ones ACORN set aside, but ALL the registrations. So if Mickey Mouse tried to register, not only would Mr. Mouse have to get through ACORN vetting AND the State's vetting, but Mr. Mouse would actually have to show up with valid ID in order for there to be the commission of voter fraud.
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bubba29 months, 1 week ago
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And here are some FACTS about Obama "working for ACORN" (NOT).
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http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/acorn_accu...
ACORN's political action committee did offer an Obama endorsement. It's also true that Obama has worked with the group in the past. In 1995, Obama helped represent ACORN in a successful lawsuit to require the state of Illinois to offer "motor voter" registration at DMV offices. Obama has said that this is his only association with ACORN, but that's not the case – he has had other, though less direct, interactions with the organization.
When Obama was on the board of directors of the Woods Fund, the foundation gave grants of $75,000 in 2001 and $70,000 in 2002 to ACORN's Chicago office.
The Obama campaign also paid Citizens Services Inc., a group affiliated with ACORN, more than $800,000 for get-out-the-vote (not voter registration) efforts during the primary election. The nature of CSI's services was initially misrepresented on the Obama campaign's disclosures to the Federal Election Commission, which the campaign describes as an oversight. The Obama campaign says it has not been involved with ACORN during the general election.
In addition, after law school, Obama may have had contact with ACORN when he directed a Chicago registration drive for Project Vote in 1992. According to Sanford Newman, who was the program’s national director at the time, ACORN may have been one of dozens of organizations that participated in registration drives that year with Project Vote personnel like Obama.
But Project Vote didn’t begin contracting exclusively with ACORN until after Obama worked for the group in 1992. “Working for Project Vote at the time was by no means working for ACORN," Newman told us. ACORN had no influence on Project Vote policy and no representation on its board. -
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SFCGuyW9 months, 1 week ago
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'Voter REGISTRATION' fraud is not the same as VOTER fraud. They are two completely seperate things. Voter registration fraud occurs nationwide in every election, whether or not an organization helps people register to vote. It has occurred in Motor Vehicle offices where people trying to get a driver's license can also register to vote. It has occured in official Voter's Registration offices. That, an the fact that ACORN openly came out and said that there have been some members of ACORN who have violated the law by fraudently registering uneligible people. Oh yeah, ACORN not only registered hundreds of thousands of Democrats, they also registered hundreds of thousands of Republicans and also registered Independents. I guess the anti-Democrats have forgotten that.
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NoWayMan9 months, 1 week ago
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more regurgitative chewing of the cud by pc25.
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since these registrations are fake, and no one ever even tried to vote under any of these names, this is obviously about a bunch of high school and college kids trying to make registration quotas so they could get paid.
nothing more.
what, are you cons stupid enough to think this was some kind of strategy employed by the Obama camp? cause that's just a shortcut to thinking, especially since Obama would know these fake names wouldn't add up to any votes for him and would only cause problems if it were some sort of plan to rig votes.
if you think you can win withtout cheating, the last thin gyou do is cheat.
look at my thumb.
gee you're dumb.
"What makes America special, is what's in this room tonight. That's what makes America special."
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pc259 months, 1 week ago
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more regurgitative chewing of the cud by pc25.
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hey Bama bot.....you need to disprove the fact that Acorn has not been charged in Nevada.....guess what you cant......
pour yourself a tal cool one and enjoy.........
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_o9OdjxY26rU/SSOEAiagDiI/...
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