Pat Dollard

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THIS has been going on for several elections in this country. Look back to the 2004 Presidential election. Ohio was rife with this ACORN . Some ACORN members were even put on trial and sentenced to prison time for their voter fraud.

Why? WHY??!! wasn’t this organization investigated fully then? On a national scale … WHY??!!

THE PRO-BARACK VOTE-FRAUD DRIVE

by Michelle Malkin – (NYPost)

SYSTEMIC corruption of our election process continues. Barack Obama and his old friends at ACORN and Project Vote are leading the way. This radical revolution is taking place in your backyard. And as I’ve reported before, this voter-fraud racket is on your dime.

On Monday, the two groups announced the wrap-up of a 21-state voter-registration drive targeting low-income people and minorities in such battleground states as Ohio, Pennyslvania, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Wisconsin.

What’s wrong with that? For starters, these two groups are militantly partisan outfits purporting to engage in nonpartisan activity. And their campaign comes amid an avalanche of fresh voter-fraud allegations involving ACORN in many of those same states.

ACORN has helped register over 1.27 million people nationwide. It gets 40 percent of its revenues from the taxpayers, with the rest coming from left-wing heavyweights like billionaire George Soros and the Democracy Alliance.

Lefty lawyer Sandy Newman founded Project Vote, a 501(c)(3) organization, to register voters in welfare offices and unemployment lines with the explicit goal of turning back the Reagan revolution.

The two groups are inextricably linked – and at their nexus is Barack Obama. Despite his denials of any association with the group, Obama’s political DNA is encoded with the ACORN agenda.

As I’ve noted previously (“ACORN: O’s Ugly Ally,” June 26), Obama trained ACORN members in Chicago. In turn, ACORN volunteers worked on his Illinois campaigns and ACORN’s PAC endorsed him in this year’s Democratic primaries back in February.

And Newman hired Obama in 1992 to lead Project Vote efforts in Illinois. The effort’s motto: “It’s a Power Thing.” Today, the Obama campaign’s “Vote for Change” registration drive is running in parallel with ACORN/Project Vote, targetting the same sorts of people.

It’s an all-out scramble to scrape up every last unregistered voter sympathetic to Obama’s big-government vision. “Our volume,” Obama campaign manager David Plouffe bragged of the voter-registration program, “is going to be enormous.”

Quantity over quality. That’s the ACORN way – and the fraud allegations keep piling up:

* Yesterday, Nevada officials raided ACORN’s Las Vegas office after election authorities accused the group of submitting multiple voter registrations with fake and duplicate names. Among the bogus monikers: names of former Dallas Cowboys players.

* Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected thousands of registration forms ACORN had turned in from its drives this summer. On a conference call yesterday, GOP officials noted that up to 11,000 of the applications were no good – tying up election officials and jeopardizing the voting rights of untold victims whose identities may have been stolen.

In what seems to be ACORN’s standard operating procedure, vote canvassers had pulled names and addresses from phone books and forged signatures. According to a local paper (the Northwest Indiana and Illionois Times), “Large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the same apparent handwriting style” and “apparently the organization’s canvassers broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid.” The fake registrants include dead people and underage kids.

* Milwaukee, Wisc., officials last month discovered at least seven felons employed as voter-registration workers for ACORN and another affiliated group. (State law bans felons from such work.) They also uncovered a raft of problematic voter-registration cards. The state GOP accuses the group of trying to get dead, imprisoned or imaginary people on the voter rolls. Fraud has plagued ACORN’s Milwaukee chapter since the last election cycle.

* In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple, copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. The Miami Herald reports: “One individual had 21 duplicate applications.”

Election officials had flagged ACORN’s negligent practices months ago. But it may be too late: In Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, ACORN has signed up 135,000 new voters, nearly 60 percent of them registered as Democrats – a fifth of all new voters in that region.

* In Ohio, large numbers of homeless people got free van and bus rides to register. Shelby Holliday, a reporter for Palestra.net, filmed ACORN shuttling in some prospects. She told me she spoke with one homeless woman who said ACORN “told her who to vote for if she wanted a ‘better life,’ and told her not to worry about jury duty (one of the reasons this homeless woman didn’t want to register) because the government probably wouldn’t be able to track her down. She was registering with a temporary address.”

Holliday interviewed another homeless man targeted by the registration drive who exulted that he was voting for Obama because “I want him to do his thang. You know, do his thug thizzle.”

“Thug thizzle” is street slang for performing your trademark move. Obama and ACORN have practiced their thug thizzle together for years: Organizing an ever-expanding community of ineligible and marginal voters to expand the Democrat power base. Rules be damned.

ACORN & Voter Registration Fraud In MO
From FOX News
October 8, 2008

STEVE DOOCY: We’ve been telling you here on Fox about ACORN, and you know they are alleged to have been involved in widespread voter fraud in a number of states. Well yesterday out in Vegas the fed – the officials raided an ACORN office because apparently they were registering all sorts of people who were not actually going to be voting in Las Vegas.

GRETCHEN CARLSON: Are you talking about the entire starting lineup for the Dallas Cowboy football team?

DOOCY: Yes indeed.

CARLSON: Somebody might have been able to figure that out when they see that Tony Romo now lives in Las Vegas.

BRIAN KILMEADE: And Terrell Owens as well. And here’s the thing, Nevada that is a total battleground state that can go either way. Thousands of votes could sway the election, decide who’s going to be the next president. So ACORN’s doing this, and then you look at their track record, in Indiana they had 2,000 voter registration forms submitted, 1,100 were found to be illegal.

CARLSON: We just heard from Eric Shawn this morning, about a Fox News exclusive. He’s in Missouri digging up the same thing. He had one woman who registered four or five different times with different addresses. This is happening all over the place.

DOOCY: And the reason it’s coming to light right now is because there was that one-week window in some states where you could register ending on Monday. ACORN, by the way, simultaneously just yesterday announced that this has been their most successful year ever. In 21 states they registered 1.3 million. Now, ACORN was submitting the information through apparently a voter sign-in drive known as Project Vote. And while some have said, you know Barack Obama may be involved in ACORN, well, I’ve talked to the Obama campaign, and they said look, he was not a trainer, he was not a community organizer the campaign says for ACORN. However, Barack Obama does have a history with Project Vote which is involved in this out in Vegas. Here’s Obama’s connection to Project Vote.

SEN. BARACK OBAMA: Sandy Newman, who was running this national project called Project Vote, contacted me and said we need somebody to help organize voters to make sure that they turn out in the polls in the general election. And so, I started working as the director of Project Vote here in Chicago and our task was simple. It was to get disenfranchised communities, minority communities, low-income communities, to turn out to vote.

DOOCY: Alright, so there you got Barack Obama talking about his involvement in Project Vote which as we understand is involved in ACORN out in Vegas, which was raided yesterday by the authorities.

KILMEADE: And we’ve been telling you about the stories of them picking up homeless people, people on the street, to tell them to register. Hey come down here register and vote the same day. We don’t even know if they’ve been getting forms to show that they even live there, that they are residents of Ohio.

DOOCY: They don’t need ID.

CARLSON: Not in every state which is still unbelievable to me. Now as we mentioned, Eric Shawn has been following this for us, and he’s in Missouri this morning where he’s uncovering some exclusive information for us. Eric what have you found out?

ERIC SHAWN: Yeah, another Fox News voter fraud investigation unit exclusive, we are now inside the Jackson County board of elections headquarters in Independence, MO, of course Harry Truman’s home town. And if you take a look, people are registering now. The deadline is 5:00 Central Time today, they are also casting absentee ballots. You know everyone wants a fair and honest election in just a couple weeks from now. But here like elsewhere across the country, more problems with ACORN. Take a look at these ACORN forms. These are among the more than 800 voter registrations that officials here say they believe are fake, phony, more phony ACORN forms. This is the one that Gretchen you referred to earlier. Under the name Monica Ray, ACORN registered Monica Ray ten times. She has three different birthdates, four different Social Security numbers, six different phone numbers, and they don’t even know if this person Monica Ray is real. This is what they’re finding. It’s really clogging up the system. And, by the way, it’s illegal, a felony in most states. Charlene Davis is one of the directors of the board of elections. She is really angry at ACORN and says that they’re coming across a lot of this.

CHARLENE DAVIS: From an election official standpoint, it makes me mad. Because there’s so many good people out there, and that’s what we’re here for.

SHAWN: Well Brian Moller is an ACORN lawyer, actually he works for Project Vote you were just talking about that, which is associated with ACORN, he told us that it’s not ACORN’s fault. That they are taken in by workers who may do illegal things, and that they are the victim if there is any fraud, and he says that there is no voter fraud. Here’s Brian Moller who is the ACORN lawyer.

BRIAN MOLLER: Most of those people were in low and moderate income communities, they are minority people who have historically been disenfranchised, and we focus on trying to register people in those communities so they can have a voice in democracy.

SHAWN: Well he says it’s like an employee stealing from a store, that they don’t support this at all. By the way, it was news to him that there were more than 800 potentially false and fake forms here. They know of about 89 so far. Well, about these forms and all the 800. Well guess what? Ms. Davis says tomorrow they’re going to go and be given to the FBI, but here at Fox News, we got them first as part of our continuing voter fraud investigation. As far as the registrations like they had out in Las Vegas with the starting lineup of the Cowboys, don’t know yet though if the starting lineup of the Kansas City Chiefs have been registered here in Independence. Back to you guys.

KILMEADE: You know what? They’re such a young team, get a roster to cross-check. They don’t have a lot of famous names like the Cowboys. Ok, Eric?