ACORN hounds Voters to Register more then once. New Video

by politisite | October 9, 2008 at 07:57 am

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ACORN hounds Voters to Register more then once. New Video

Video 1: Testimony of Voter who registered several times due to Pressure from ACORN Workers

Video 2: Stealing Elections: Concerns about ACORN causing problems with election results on Nov 4

Video 3: Rep_ Maxine Waters (D-CA) Speaks At ACORN National Convention About Obama

Video 4: OBAMA CAUGHT SAYING ACORN AND FRIENDS WILL SHAPE HIS PRESIDENTIAL AGENDA

Video 5: ACORN Obama and the Bailout

Video 6: Obama says he Doesn't Need ACORN

CLEVELAND - 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.

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.

Claims such as his have sparked election officials to probe ACORN.

"I kept getting approached by folks who asked me to register," Barkley said. "They'd ask me if I was registered. I'd say yes, and they'd ask me to do it [register] again.

"Some of them were getting paid to collect names. That was their sob story, and I bought it," he said.

Barkley is one of at least three people who have been subpoenaed by the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections as part of a wider inquiry into possible voter fraud by ACORN. The group seeks to register low-income voters, who skew overwhelmingly Democratic.

"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.

"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.

Registering under a fake name is illegal. But officials usually catch multiple registrations and toss them.

The major risk of fraud growing out of mass canvassing involves the possibility of ineligible voters filing absentee ballots, and thus avoiding checks at polling places, said Republican National Committee chief counsel Sean Cairncross.

The subpoenas come as Republicans have ramped up criticism of ACORN. Officials in Nevada raided ACORN's Las Vegas office Tuesday, accusing the group of signing people up multiple times - in some cases under phony names, like those of Dallas Cowboys.

ACORN's Cleveland spokesman, Kris Harsh, said his group collected 100,000 voter-registration cards; only about 50 were questionable, he claimed.

As for workers, "We watch them like a hawk," he said.

ACORNS Responce (provided by Karen Hatter)

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Karen Hatter

at 15:08 on October 13th, 2008

A point of interest. In a statement released today, October 13, 2008, by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), it notes:

As recently as February 20, 2006, Senator McCain was the keynote speaker at an ACORN-sponsored Immigration Rally in Miami, Florida at Miami Dade College – Wolfson Campus.

The rally, co-sponsored by ACORN in partnership with the New American Opportunity campaign (NAOC), Catholic League Services – Archdiocese of Miami, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, Florida Immigrant Coalition, Miami Dade College, People for the American Way/Mi Familia/Vota en Accion, the Service Employees International Union, and UNITE/HERE, was intended to call attention to the need for comprehensive immigration reform.

Senator McCain spoke at the rally attended by hundreds of ACORN members, most of whom were dressed in the red shirts typical of its members. Senator McCain's speech focused on the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act, a bipartisan, comprehensive reform bill, which McCain sponsored with Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA).

The site also has a statement, dated October 10, 2008, that addresses the issue of voter fraud, stating:

ACORN has just completed the largest, most successful nonpartisan voter registration drive in U.S. history. We helped 1.3 million low-income, minority and young voters across the country register to vote.

Unfortunately, just as in 2006, that success in bringing people into the democratic process, have been greeted with unfounded accusations to disparage our work and help maintain the status quo of an unbalanced electorate.

After a similar spate of charges against ACORN in 2006, we learned that then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had fired Republican U.S. Attorneys because they refused to prosecute ACORN and other voter assistance groups on trumped up fraud charges. This was the heart of the U.S. Attorney-gate scandal that led Karl Rove, Gonzales and other top Department of Justice officials to resign. Because the press didn’t catch on until long after the election, it was part of a successful strategy to create an unfounded specter of voter fraud and to suppress voting.

Tina Kells

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at 15:48 on October 13th, 2008

politisite, I like this story. It's good stuff.

politisite

at 15:58 on October 13th, 2008

Thank You Tina

politisite

at 16:18 on October 14th, 2008

It costs 18 million dollars to register 1.2 million voters? Are you saying that McCain is guilty by association? Not a good trail to go down with Obamas associations with Ayers, Rezko, and others.

McCain also spoke at the NAACP convention. Does that mean he agrees with everything they stand for? probably not. What it means more then anything is that he considers People of color and important block of voters.

McCain spoke at Acorn. He did not Fight a Case that caused lenders to be forced to do affirmative Loans and have taught classes on how to push banks to provide NINJA loans knowing full well that they would cause foreclosures. It has come to light that Obama's Community Organizing was neck deep in ACORN which is supposed to be a non-partisan organization. The have enforced Obama. Video Tape evidence shows that members ask people to vote Obama. They are not allowed to do so. They are supposed to help the poor register to vote. On their teleconference last week (which I was a Part) they could not give me accurate statistics of white voters that have registered. The guessed 30-40%. The problem with that is that is they are focusing on people of color in the 10 swing states which makes anyone who asked questions or heard the full teleconference where they had exact statistics from the swing states they are working on.

This basically means they are trying to swing the election for Obama. Another thing a non=partisan group cant do.

So throwing at me that McCain spoke to a group of ACORN does not mean he endorses them. It means he was asked to speak and he spoke. Much more than most republicans would do, Maybe McCain isn't is racist as John Lewis is saying.

BTW, I lived in Georgia for 15 years, I have heard John Lewis, Cynthia McKinney, along with Mayor Jackson on a commercial call a candidate a man who would bring back people burning down churches and police with water canon and dogs. That Atlanta would return to the 60s if the people of Atlanta elected this white man. I am sorry, John Lewis is a great man, but he is a race baiter.

Lets just call truth.. truth. ACORN is a partisan organization who are receiving Tax dollars who are focusing on Blacks to vote for Obama in 10 swing states. They are unethical and are corrupting the fair election process by asking people to register more then once. Why does it take 18 million dollars to register 1.2 million people. Id take that job in a heart beat.