Over the last six months, at least 15 of the group’s 30 state chapters have disbanded and have no plans of re-forming, Acorn officials said. The California and New York chapters, two of the largest, have severed their ties to the national group and have independently reconstituted themselves with new names. Several other state groups are also re-forming outside the Acorn umbrella, and will not be affected if the national organization files for bankruptcy.
Oct 272010
Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt. It’s the Democrats’ coping mechanism for midterm election voter fraud. Faced with multiple reports of early voting irregularities and election shenanigans across the country, left-wing groups are playing dumb, deaf and blind. Voter fraud? What voter fraud?
More cunningly, these organizations are seeking to marginalize complaints about election integrity by casting citizen watchdog efforts as racist “scare tactics.” Echoing President Obama’s message to the Democratic faithful on the campaign trail, they are accusing political opponents of suppressing the votes of minorities and the poor. On Tuesday, The New York Times quoted a liberal voting rights advocate, Wendy R. Weiser, wringing her hands over individual Americans taking clean elections seriously:
“Private efforts to police the polls create a real risk of vote suppression, regardless of their intent,” said Weiser, director of the Voting Rights and Elections Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. “People need to know that any form of discrimination, intimidation or challenge to voters without adequate basis is illegal or improper.”
Weiser also turned up in a very similar story minimizing voter fraud and voter registration fraud that was published Tuesday by government-sponsored National Public Radio. The NPR report asserted that “most election experts” believe that fears of voter fraud are “overblown.” No word on how many “experts” they surveyed (besides Weiser) to report such a conclusion, which flies in the face of dozens of felony voter fraud convictions across the country over the past two election cycles — and that’s just among ACORN-tied cases.
Overblown?
Oct 262010
A m e r i c a n P o s t – G a z e t t e
Distributed by C O M M O N S E N S E , in Arizona
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Massive number of invalid registrations under investigation
Senator Russell Pearce
This is a follow up to an email blast that went out under my name. I want to send out an update on suspected voter fraud. Today, the state is looking into what appears to be fraudulent registrations and requests for early ballots that were delivered in Yuma. It appears the Yuma Sun Newspaper had some of the terminology wrong and perhaps some of the numbers wrong. The fact that there appears to be fraud is apparent. The numbers are perhaps not correct on the type of fraud. The state GOP and the Secretary of State are looking into it. It appears as much as 25% are very suspicious. The numbers are to be verified. The evidence appears to be clear that there is fraud. Below is some of the info that came in. When we get the full story we will send out an update.
Oct 242010
“The SEIU Agenda Is My Agenda”?
Now we know why.
The same SEIU offshoot group that is accused of turning in thousands of bogus voter registrations in Arizona has come under fire in Colorado.
Mi Familia Vota is accused of turning in 6,000 bogus voter registrations in Colorado.
The Denver Post reported:
A federal judge declined to force the secretary of state to reactivate approximately 6,000 new voters whose registrations were canceled under Colorado’s 20-day rule.
Oct 232010
Talk about denial! A group of liberal activists is making the media rounds, assuring reporters and editors that election fraud is a fairy tale. Nothing serious, they assert, nothing to see here. Too bad for them that citizens in Houston, energized by the Tea Party movement, have formed a group called True the Vote. Their hard work has demonstrated that, in some parts of the country at least, our election system is still infested with problems.
True the Vote is composed entirely of volunteers — hundreds of them. They have pored over election records in Harris County, Texas, looking for signs of fraud. And they have found plenty. Indeed, their initial research into only a very small portion of the voter registration records has led them to ask the U.S. Justice Department’s Voting Section to conduct a federal investigation.
In a letter asking for an official inquiry, True the Vote discusses potential widespread forgery in voter application forms. For instance, it seems from the applications that someone suspiciously signs the letter “J” with a quirky “3” inside the loop. The “3” shows up in multiple signatures for different voters with the names Jenard, Jamark, Jamarcus, and Jones.
Oct 232010
Yesterday, the Yuma Sun reported that two organizations Mi Familia Vota and One Vote Arizona submitted more than 3,000 voter registrations in Yuma County right before the deadline for registering voters. The groups submitted over 20,000 registrations statewide.
Here’s one of their ads (in Spanish):
Oct 232010
Friends,
There has been an accusation that 65% of 5000 voter registration forms, submitted by Mi Familia Vota and One Vote Arizona, in Yuma County on the last day of filling are invalid due to the registrant not being a citizen, wrong/invalid address, false signature, etc. I also understand that these 2 groups have signed up 20,000 states wide and they have requested that 45,000 be put on the permanent early ballot. If 65% of these last minute registration forms in Yuma are invalid, which may be more as they are still checking the rest, then what is the percentages of invalid in Maricopa, Pima and other counties.
Oct 232010
BY LINDA BENTLEY
‘His office ensures that only legal state residents are able to register to vote’
PHOENIX – Although Arizona voters passed Proposition 200 in 2004, which, in part, was supposed to require proof of citizenship to register to vote and require voters to present ID at the polls, those who shouldn’t register or vote continue to do so unabated.
According to Maricopa County Elections Department Director of Communications Yvonne Reed, unless a felon checks the box on his voter registration form stating he is indeed a felon, there is no system to flag felons to verify if their voting rights have been restored.
Reed said, unless there is something that triggers the search, such as a felon who has not had his rights restored getting called for jury duty, in which case the court will notify the registrar, there is no notification process and the voter registration system is simply not sophisticated enough to flag anyone by social security number or any other indicator.
She also said they no longer “purge” the voter registration rolls. What they do now is if a person has not voted in two presidential elections, they are placed on an “inactive” list.
If they come back and vote again with proof they’re at the same address, they can vote.
This means, with early voting, anyone with multi-state residency, could easily vote in the same national election in more than one state.
Mar 202010
Acorn is holding a teleconference this weekend to discuss plans for a bankruptcy filing, two officials of the group said. They asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak to the news media.
Mar 162010
The demise of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, in Baltimore and across the country, ought to be a sad story. The group’s purpose was to help the poor to gain a voice through grass-roots organizing, and it was taken down by political activists using ethically and legally questionable means.
But it’s not a sad story. The people ACORN was designed to advocate for certainly do need the help, but they deserve a much better partner than ACORN.
The beginning of the end for ACORN nationally was the release last fall of videos secretly recorded by two conservative political activists in which they entered the Baltimore ACORN headquarters, pretended to be a pimp and a prostitute, and got advice from ACORN workers on how to avoid taxes on the supposed brothel they intended to set up with underage, illegal immigrant girls. That video was followed by similar ones recorded in several ACORN offices in cities across the country, making it impossible for the group to claim that the problems were an isolated incident. Congress quickly dumped contracts it had with the group for outreach work, and ACORN’s budget plummeted, forcing its branches to close their doors or reconstitute under different names.
Read the rest | also here
Mar 112010
The Obama Justice Department administration shut down an investigation into ACORN last year, ignoring evidence of fraud at the community group, a government watchdog claimed Thursday, citing investigative documents it obtained.
The watchdog, Judicial Watch, in releasing the documents, accused ACORN of “evident criminal conduct” and suggested that Obama’s past ties to ACORN played a role in the investigation’s conclusion.
ACORN responded by emphasizing that it was cleared of wrongdoing, though the federal investigation found problems with how the organization hires and trains employees.
The investigation stemmed from complaints made in 2008 by two Republican officials in Connecticut. In Stamford, Republican Registrar Lucy Corelli said her office rejected 300 of 1,200 ACORN voter registration cards because of “duplicates, underage, illegible and invalid address,” causing $20,000 in extra work. In Bridgeport, Republican Registrar Joseph Borges said an ACORN drive “produced over 100 rejections due to incomplete forms and individuals who were not citizens.”
