ACORN Watch: 1,100 suspicious voter cards in NM
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Barack Obama’s dear friends at ACORN are busy trying to lie, cheat, and steal their way to victory in November.
The latest ACORN Watch entry comes to you from the battleground state of New Mexico, where election officials have notified prosecutors of an estimated 1,100 possibly fraudulent voter registration cards.
The Bernalillo County clerk has notified prosecutors that some 1,100 possibly fraudulent voter registration cards have been turned in to her office.
Some cards in New Mexico’s most populous county have the same name as a voter who’s already registered, but carry a different birth date or Social Security number; some list someone else’s Social Security number; some have addresses that don’t exist, Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver said Wednesday.
In one case, a series of about nine cards appears to have been taken directly from the phone book, she said.
“Those are sort of the big red flags,” Toulouse Oliver said.
Yes, a big red flag for ACORN participation. You’ll recall that ACORN workers used phone books in Seattle to perpetrate voter fraud.
ACORN’s fingerprints are all over this latest incident:
Some of the estimated 1,100 registrations list Social Security numbers for people who already are in the county’s database of registered voters, Toulouse Oliver said. Other cards list the same name — but a different birth date — of already registered voters.
Some of the people whose names appear in the list of possibly phony registrations, when called by the clerk’s office, said they never filled out the new cards changing their voter data, Toulouse Oliver said.
In addition, “We do have a series of cards identified that appear to be (names) taken straight out of the phone book, Toulouse Oliver said.
Toulouse Oliver said the potential scope of the problem has mushroomed since late last month, when the Journal reported on a forged card for Rebecca Sitterly, a former state District Court judge from Albuquerque who has been voting in the same place for nearly two decades.
That card was submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, a controversial nonprofit organization that says it has handled 72,000 new voter registrations in New Mexico since January.
Matthew Henderson, head organizer for the group, said the Sitterly card was set aside as a potential phony by ACORN itself and turned in to the clerk’s office with a batch of other possibly bad cards.
Toulouse Oliver said she did not know how many cards in the current stack of questionable registrations were submitted by ACORN, though she said that group this year has done the majority of so-called third-party registrations — those that aren’t turned in by the voters themselves but are submitted by groups organized to enlist new registrants.
ACORN contract workers in 2005 were investigated in connection with forged signatures on a minimum wage ballot petition, though ACORN supervisors have said political organizers now oversee the registration gathering and the group has beefed up its own quality control.
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McCain can win New Mexico, even on the illegal immigration issue. Interesting thing about New Mexico, a lot of the residents are Hispanics whose families go back for generations. A lot of them aren’t too happy about the influx of illegal immigrants, especially now that Oklahoma and Arizona are cracking down. They must be racists.
Red herrring. “Look how honest we are!! No need to check the rest, we check them ourselves!!”
Legerdemain. The art of misdirection.
No benefit of the doubt for this corrupt group. Scrutinize each and every one submitted by them. If they don’t get done by the deadline, too bad.
Why oh why do we let 3rd parties register anybody for our most important civic opportunity. If it’s not important enough to take the time to go to city hall to register, it sure isn’t important enough to think you have the right to vote.
ACORN stands for Association of COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS for Reform Now.
Why the f@ck is this group still in existence… and NOT in jail?
Is there an investigation underway? If not, why not?? Can we get a status update on this?
If you have been wondering what community organizers do - now you know.
ACORN MUST BE SHUT DOWN. NOW.
I expect we’ll find a few thousand bad ones in San Antonio too, since the city has been paying ACORN for “mortgage counseling services”.
Obama just may steal this election.
Sigh… We need National IDs.
ACORN has been flying under the radar here for a long time. Welcome to Albuquerque.
Gee, and this is just the ones they CAUGHT.
Maybe it’s one of the reasons Obama’s people don’t want any advice. (Besides ego.) If they told old time Democrats what they were doing it might shock even them.
They probably registered Bill Richardson at one time or another, or another, or another.
This is such crap. I totally agree with you, Dimsdale. And, of course, if they reject any cards, ACORN and its minions will be the first to cry, “Disenfra-a-a-a-a-anchisement!!”
I am bugged.
You can put “lipstick” on voter fraud and call it community organizing, but it’s still illegal - DOJ, it’s time to act!
ACORN is undermining the integrity of American elections and the validity of the ballot. It’s time to investigate and prosecute where necessary.
Just livin’ the dream baby….just livin the dream!
The radio here is talking about it right now.Even without acorns help the dead vote here and they vote often.Good old New Mexico politics year after year.
I agree that this problem is not unique to ACORN. They’re just jumping on the “Get me somma dat” bandwagon.
Why isn’t the Federal Election Commission looking into these crooks…hell, why isn’t the State AG’s looking into ACORN’s “voter registration” activities…
It would be so simple to have the states handle voter registration in the same way - go to the DMV and register there? You go to get a DL there, why not register to vote there?
Unfortunately, the polling firms have yet to sample the dead, the illegal aliens, and the fictitious registered by ACORN who will all vote on Election Day.
chsw
This is election is going to be close. Illegal votes could tip the balance in favor of Obama. ACORN needs to be prosecuted under RICO. That should hopefully put an end to them.
Great aches from little ACORNs grow.
I’m waiting for one state election official to show some spine and simply REFUSE to accept cards from ACORN…period. They are simply not a credible organization.
Proof of citizenship every time you register; photo ID every time you vote; every registered voter gets a card mailed to them before the election and ALL returned cards flagged for review and eligible to challenge on election day.
If we don’t put a stop to this, it will just get worse.
Ah, ACORN practicing old-fashioned Chicago style politics - only nationwide now. Chicago is possibly the only city to have permanent voting registration available at all of its cemetaries.
Make them pay. Make them pay Come Election Day!
I don’t understand why third party groups are allowed to submit voter registrations anyway. If people are not interested or motivated enough to figure out how to register themselves, then they probably are not interested or motivated enough to research the issues and candidates.
Yes, I said it. Uninformed people should not be voting…
Anyone who thinks that outfits like ACORN give a damn about the “disenfranchised” is a fool. They’re a “by any means necessary” collection of people to whom the acquisition of power for *their* side is self-justifying.
About the best we can hope for is for vigilant election officials at the state level, who will understand that where ACORN goes, vote fraud follows.
Yes, Regulus, I realize that crying, “disenfranchisement” is just a shakedown tactic. Unfortunately, far too many government officials are vilified for just trying to do their jobs. Remember Katherine Harris in the 2000 election?
That poor woman.
Acorn is a reprehensible organization with an agenda.
But the calls for a national ID around this smacks too much of big brother.
How the heck can ACORN activists feel good about themselves, or for/by what Acorn volunteers are doing in New Mexico, Seattle and elsewhere? KNowing they are deceiving the electorate, breaking the laws?
I haven’t yet judged for myself ACORN practices; but I am acquainted with Chicago-style politics and underhanded, ghost or dead voter tactics.
If ACORN is participating in something like this– my question is,
‘To what goal?’
Don’t these people have scruples or consciences? Can they be so single minded, or so very desperate, to resort to cheating to win?
Yes, I remember her well. But vigilant state officials are the best line of defense against people who either want to “flood the zone” with bogus ballots, or who subscribe to Stalin’s quip about “It’s not who votes that matters, but who counts the votes.”
The donkeys and their front organizations like ACORN have plenty of both kinds of such people. And they’ll squawk and scream when they’re exposed. But because the donkeys control Congress, no Federal action against ACORN can be expected, so it’s courageous people like Katherine Harris upon whom we must rely.
Why is any county registrar’s office taking registrations from these clowns, anymore?
And where is the MSM in investigating why Obama wanted to associate with this criminal group??
Hello Mrs. Malkin, watch for them to be registering illegal invaders this Friday in Phoenix. details here
Come on! Enough is enough already! How much evidence is needed to shut this operation down? Whether or not it was ACORN, I still think all third-party registration drives have to stop. Ageism and racism play no part in my opinion. One fraudulent vote is too many.
And, I suppose there’s “no comment” from the Odumbo campaign, right?
They’re going to try to steal this election by any means necessary.
ALL registrations entered by a 3rd party are highly suspicious imho. All of the ones submitted by Acorn since the last election should be deleted.
It’s very simple … if a registration card appears with info that matches existing cards in any way - disallow it! Leave it up to the registrant to prove it’s legitimate, and if it’s not, arrest them for forgery, and submitting a false instrument for filling.
The Dims apparently are not satisfied that they can steal an election in the courts, so they intend to try the usual slight of hand kind of Chicago voting.
I agree with the commenter that said ACORN needs to be shut down. The federal authorities need to know the depth of there malfeasance.
They are operating voter fraud boiler-rooms in all of the contested states.
Not only do we need to know how deep this goes into the voter roles… but we also need to know what links exist back to the Obama campaign. No doubt there’s a firewall in place, but people who resort to criminal acts are generally too stupid to cover all their tracks.
This has gone too far.
I don’t think we even need to have the law shut them down, we just need to deprive them of federal funds. They will shrivel up and die.
An entity under endictment should not be allowed to receive federal funds for a decade…..or two.
Political Organizers; Is that like a Community Organizer? Must be where Obambi learned how to steal elections.
Quality Control; Getting the maximum number of fake names and SSN’s per block.
Barack Obama says that voter fraud is something he is going to crack down on seriously with maximum repercussions and a zero tolerance policy once he is in the White House.
A few months ago our local NM news was reporting that ACORN was using convicted felons as workers to collect registrations. One person was known for identity theft and check fraud. The ACORN officials were supposed to start doing “background checks”, but I haven’t seen any followup.
My question was simple: if you apply for a driver’s license, food stamps, assistance or just about anything here, you get asked if you want to register to vote. So why do we need tables at stores and post offices run by ACORN?
Interesting how much mushrooming can happen with $800,000 under the table, and whatever tax dollars can be given them by the rest of the surrendercrats.
Yep in Washington State we have seen what illegal votes can do to an election. In 2004 our current Governor won after 2 hand recounts by 29 votes. Of course there were more than 2,000 illegal votes in the election.
We need to do away with 3rd party registration. Voting is not only a right it is a responsibility and if you are too lazy to go to your counties registrars office then too bad you shouldn’t be allowed to vote period.
Look what else these characters are doing on Friday:
If you live in a battleground state PLEASE get out there and volunteer for Palin/McCain!
Obama has thousands of his crooked ACORN, MoveOn and DailyKos minions waking the dead and registering them, and is spending a fortune on his ground game. And Obama has a big head start.
Even if McCain/Palin lead the polls, they can still lose if Obama gets out the vote, real and fraudulent, better.
I’ve told this story before, but it bears repeating.
A democrat candidate in the town I live in was caught filling in ballots after the polls closed. They filled in ballots of registered voters who did not show up to vote.
The person had someone stand in front of the camera so they wouldn’t be seen, but the idiot didn’t stand in quite the right place. The candidate is currently still in office.
The board of elections is doing nothing at this point. It has been months now.
I live in Kalifornia… and that’s another reason no one should stay home on election day. Make sure your ballot is filled in the way you want.
So fraudulent sign-ups are only a fraction of the real issues here.
Joy be glad you still have polling places. In Washington State it is almost completely a vote by mail state which just leads to the fraud.
I have always maintained the reason why the dems have been steaming and so insane since 2000, is they felt they had cheated enough to win. The “new” rules put in place to check name, address, social security #, multiple registration etc only work IF the people in charge of verifying are not partisan.
What if the entire process is in cahoots from the city they are being submitted in all the way to the govenor’s office?
What if they stop verifying and just ram registrations through?
Side note:
Would like to see little d and r’s after names of who is reporting the fraud what the mayor is in town/city
Gov etc in these stories.
Joy,
WOW! My gosh get the heck out of that town better yet the whole state.
Get those illegals registered to vote. Then make sure the ballots are in Spanish, so they can read them. No wonder politicians shirk away from enforcing any immigration laws.
Fixed AJ!
If the election were held today, BHO would win by a margin of voter fraud.
ACORN is a pillar of this fraud.
Here in Wisconsin, Milwaukee Co. primarily, they have registered enough “new” voters that when you combine them with existing registered voters, the number exceeds the population of elegible voters in the county!
Our governor Jim Doy-Doy-Doyle consistantly vetoes all forms and reforms of voter ID bills passed and sent before him.
The only positive I see here is that he may get sent to Washington under a BHO administration and we can start to clean up his mess here in our state.
Who is “Inspired” to “Bring an Empire to its Knees”?
What is his agenda?
Why do we allow ACORN or any ‘third party’ group gather registration cards.
Unless a person is incapacitated they should be required to get off their fat ass and go down and register in person - with proper ID. And they should have to re-register every 4 - 6 years.
We do it with drivers licenses.
Its going to be worse in WA state this time. In Snohomish and King counties you *cant* vote in person - its mandatory mail-in voting so there is no way to verify that your vote was counted (or for whom it was counted).
King County (which includes Seattle), and the elections office there is a fiefdom of the Democratic Country Executive and is where they kept ‘finding’ ballots during the recounts.
An initiative was submitted to sever the ties between the elections office and the Executive but the counsel decided voters need to _vote_ on weather they want to vote on the issue and then they need to vote again on the actual issue. A process which will take a number of years.
If Obama loses any state by a close margin, he and his gang of thugs will not go quietly away. They will try to litigate their way to a win. I just hope John Paul Stevens will be in “conservative mode” that day.
independent tom; when socialists get in charge of things,ie washington state,milwaukee, etc. they immediately pass laws making their continuation a certainty. motor voter, acorn subsidies, chicago machine politics, the new push to have union bosses review your vote, and the fairness doctrine. do you suppose the castro bro’s and chavez have fair elections? the only way we are going to have fair elections in this country again is when every voter has to submit his fingerprint and the justice department arrests non-legal voters.
They feel good about getting their guy into the White House by any means necessary. They see it as “the greater good”. Hitler had a similar philosophy.
Two points here.
1) If you haven’t seen enough to judge ACORN… you haven’t read enough. Start HERE.
That’s all the background you’ll need for an informed decision. If you conclude anything but “They are criminals”… read it all again.
Uhhh…. No.
Oh.. sry.. I left out a point.
To what goal???
The the goal of casting false ballots in swing states so Obama wins the election.
It’s pretty simple.
Exactly why do we allow third party registrations?
One would assume that the plethora of crimed commited by a single organization, that in some way some RICO Laws would warrant a deep investigation.
1,2,3,4 different occasions is one thing, but we are now in the number of “incidents” involving ACORN, that it looks like more a Basketball Score.
I remember. I also remeber how they conviently lost a bunch of overseas military ballots from soldiers serving in Iraq (Bryan Suits brought that up on his show). Just one more reason I have scheduled my vaction so that I can be back in WA (I work in Iraq) just before election day and plan to hand carry my ballot to the County Auditors office there in Thurston CO to make sure they get it (probably request they sign and notorize a receipt of acceptance just to be safe).
So democrat operatives can help steal elections. Same reason congressional district boundaries have been rigged.
Every vote in Colorado will matter. It could decide the election.
And stay safe in Iraq.
Sorry that was supposed to be County not the abrevation for Colorado, but point well taken as every vote is needed in both states and thanks for the stay safe (though it has been really quiet during this years Rammadan so far)
From the article:
No harm done. Florida 2000 was actually thrown by fraudulently tossing people off the rolls whose names had some resemblance to criminals.
YOUR AN IDIOT!
Thank you, Robert Greenwald. So the system’s not foolproof? You don’t say…
Saw the WSJ columnist on Fox this a.m., the one that wrote the book on voter fraud. Flinchy does indeed have a head start with the election.
The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch had an article on all the local Hispanics who can’t wait to vote this year. Whether they’re legal to vote or not, we all know who they’ll be voting for. How ironic that McShamnesty will be hoisted by his own petard. Should’ve done the right thing when you had the chance, Juan.
Where do you come up with this crap? From back issues of Paranoid Conspiracy Theories Weekly?
There really are no limits to the amount of things you’re wrong about, is there?
The DOJ needs to act now. Their is enough evidence to prove ACORN’s shady dealings. They need to be shut down, also 3rd party voter registration should be illegal IMHO.