ACORN Watch: When it rains, it pours
Photoshop: Blind Mule
I’ll be discussing my ACORN columns tomorrow on Fox and Friends at around 8:15am Eastern-ish. New voter fraud developments are breaking fast and furiously:
*MISSOURI:
Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.
Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.
“I don’t even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy,” Davis said. “We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don’t exist, people who have driver’s license numbers that won’t verify or Social Security numbers that won’t verify. Some have no address at all.”
The nonpartisan group works to recruit low-income voters, who tend to lean Democratic. Most polls show Republican presidential candidate John McCain with an edge in bellwether Missouri, but Democrat Barack Obama continues to put up a strong fight.
Jess Ordower, Midwest director of ACORN, said his group hasn’t done any registrations in Kansas City since late August. He said he was told three weeks ago by election officials that there were only about 135 questionable cards — 85 of them duplicates.
“They keep telling different people different things,” he said. “They gave us a list of 130, then told someone else it was 1,000.”
FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said the agency has been in contact with elections officials about potential voter fraud and plans to investigate.
The State Elections Enforcement Commission has opened an investigation into allegations that a community activist organization submitted at least 10 false voter-registration cards in Bridgeport.
One of the phony registrations was for a 7-year-old girl in the Marina Village housing complex, whose age was listed as 27 on the voter card.
Another registration came from a man who later said he couldn’t have completed the voter card purported to be his because he was in jail on the date of the document.
Joseph J. Borges, the city’s Republican registrar of voters, filed the complaint with state officials after months of local complaints on the tactics that ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, was regularly filing applications that were ruled ineligible.
In response, a Bridgeport leader of ACORN on Tuesday night called the charges “part of a concerted and coordinated campaign by conservatives and the GOP to attack and discredit ACORN.”
Actually, the “lazy crackheads” are doing the discrediting just fine all by themselves.
Milwaukee County prosecutors Tuesday charged a convicted felon with illegally registering himself and others to vote between his conviction and his sentencing.
The complaint accuses Adam Mucklin, 22, of registering to vote in June, after he was convicted of battery in April, and after a judge told him he couldn’t vote as a convicted felon. Later in June, Mucklin signed up to work as a paid voter registrar for the Community Voters Project, something else he couldn’t do as a convicted felon, the complaint says.
A recent opinion from the staff of the state Government Accountability Board says no one convicted of a felony can ever serve as a registrar, a stricter standard than the previous interpretation that registrars only had to be eligible to vote.
Under Wisconsin law, felons can’t vote until after they have completed their sentences and are off probation or parole. For Mucklin, that would not be until Jan. 10, 2012, the complaint notes.
OHIO: ACORN admits it can’t stop fraud. Now, if they’ll only admit that they don’t want to stop it. It’s standard operating procedure:
The group blamed inefficiency and lack of resources for problems such as being unable to spot duplicate voter-registration cards or cards that may have been filled out by workers to make quotas.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has turned in at least 65,000 cards to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in the last year. The board has investigated potentially fraudulent cards since August.
The group has faced similar inquiries in other large Ohio counties. And Nevada state authorities recently raided ACORN’s Las Vegas headquarters searching for evidence of fraud, according to the Associated Press.
Local representatives of the organization told Cuyahoga board members that they don’t have the resources to identify fraudulent cards turned in by paid canvassers who are told to register low- and moderate-income voters.
Cuyahoga election workers flagged about 50 names on suspicious cards. The cards were to register the same names, raising the possibility that canvassers shared information when trying to make quotas.
“This is not something you can catch with your internal controls, apparently,” said board member Sandy McNair at the meeting.
“Not perfectly, no,” replied Mari Engelhardt, ACORN political director for Ohio.
New voter registrations closed Monday in Lake County with possible record-breaking numbers and simmering allegations of fraud and racial discrimination.
Elections board Director Sally LaSota said more than 12,000 voter registration forms are waiting to be processed from recent days before the county knows how many potential voters are ready to cast ballots in the Nov. 4 general election.
“It may be a record,” she said.
Porter County has processed at least 3,500 voter applications since the spring primary in May, officials there said.
However, the large influx has brought new controversies.
LaSota said Monday representatives of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, a grassroots activist group conducting registration drives, dropped off 2,000 new voter applications last week in Lake County.
“About 1,100 are no good,” she said.
And this: More Voter Registration Shenanigans: Indianapolis Has 105% Of Its Population Registered To Vote
I hope Sarah Palin will start talking about this.
You know John McCain won’t.
Wouldn’t want to be labeled a RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST.
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I am glad this is happening now instead of November 5th.
I have it on good authority that an acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Can’t people go to jail for this? Or is punishing these groups considered “unconstitutional”?
They’re just doing their thug thizzle- lay off you racists!!
I guess Indianapolis has 105% of it’s current population registered to vote thanks to ACORN.
Why the hell aren’t all these people in jail? And I mean all the workers in ACORN as well as the people filling out these fraud cards.
Ironic that it seems to be mostly the people who cried “disenfranchisement” in the past two elections are the very ones doing the disenfranchisement.
Solutions are easy:
Require photo IDs to vote EVERYWHERE in the country. And election day should be held only on ELECTION DAY!
Be still my beating heart, someone is FINALLY listening to Michelle, our busy busy Information Highway. Thank You Michelle for hanging in there for us!!!
You have me on the phone on a daily basis trying to right the wrongs being done to our country. Keep on keeping us up to date.
If Hussein manages to pull off stealing the election because of these illegal tactics, can we all collectively give him four years of relentless turmoil calling him the “illegitimate president”?
They did it to Bush; we can do it to Hussein.
Forget about calling this fraud and talking about how Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist. The issue here is SOCIALISM and COMMUNISM. And its not just Obama, its his financial and political backers. The Chicago machine is not just a thug organization, its an off-shoot of the unions. The unions are communist organizations, founded by communists and structured in the communist way. Trade union….Soviet Union…get it?
This is not an election about whether we are going to pay more taxes. If the socialists get control of both houses and the White House, with the help of the media and guys like Soros and Buffett, who will ever be able to challenge them. Didn’t work in Chicago and won’t work in DC.
As long as we talk about these distractions, we are playing their game. These issues won’t change the minds of enough people and McCain is not getting traction on economic issues.
If we are going to choose whether we remain a free republic or descend into socialism, then at least let us be aware of the true choices.
I protest!!! You forgot to mention my state!!
this is getting way out of hand…
I hope the RNC have their legal staff primed, locked, loaded and ready to pounce.
And I again ask WHERE the bleep is the U.S. Justice Department. This organization has obviously crossed state lines. Where are the Feds?
Let me guess; a funding issue?
Never say that ACORN doesn’t have a sense of humor:
I’m NOT laughing.
I’ve been mentioning it on the blog for the past 24 hours. This post just contains the most recent developments.
I’ll say this much, the Acorn corruption shows that Barack Obama’s get-out-the-vote campaign was highly organized in many states. And aggressive, too, since most of the Acorn voters probably a) don’t exist or b) are ineligible or c) are already registered in other districts. Was it a Chicago pol who said, “Vote early, and vote often!”
Absolutley not you filthy racist.
/sarc
Could America elect the first socialist president and the MSM never cover the issue? That’s the issue that is the elephant in the room.
Michelle, have you looked into this business with Odinga that Jerome Corsi just got detained over? Anything there? On the surface, it sounds extremely damning. Probably why it hasn’t been brought up.
Uh, they should.
I’ve been following this for a very long time, and what is different this time is the response from ACORN. In many instances where they have been caught, the response from ACORN “officials” has been snotty, aggressive and accusatory…as if they know they are protected, or can get away with their fraud.
Responses from their “officials” in several states seem similar, as if it were a part of their training.
At what point does the RICO investigation start?
Bueller? Anybody?
……and in the offices of CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC their crack news professionals dig into this breaking story:
http://www.terragalleria.com/asia/japan/nikko/picture.japa6313.html
More on Las Vegas, NV, and that pesky Obama connection:
I knew that “Project Vote” sounded familiar. From our lovely, intelligent, and oh-so-thorough host’s earlier post.
Obama is STEALING this election right in front of us!!
I guess Indianapolis is trying to insert itself into the monthly back and forth battle between Phoenix and Las Vegas as the fastest growing city in the country …
It’s the only issue in my mind. Why people don’t recognize it and talk about it is puzzling.
They see it. They see it all, but the MSM has sold their professional souls for the sake of ideology.
Didn’t mean to jump - I just felt a little left out not having NV in the latest summary.
Maybe it would be easier to just list the 2 or 3 states NOT corrupted by ACORN. Or maybe ZERO??
Good luck tomorrow, Michelle.
Ensuring the integrity of our election process is paramount, regardless of the outcome.
Your tenacity and hard work is appreciated very much.
In every “battleground” state ACORN is currently being investigated for fraudulent registrations …
Dittoes. Too bad M. will get only 5 or 10 minutes to describe this laundry list of absolute corruption. A thorough airing would make a mini-series.
Last I saw, Corsi hadn’t made it home yet. I suspect something will drop in the next day or two.
Sad that a citizen, performing a job of journalist about a seriously important issue, can be detained by thugs in a foreign nation with connections to Obama like that, and not a peep from the drive-by media.
And from an ACORN a Mighty Oak grows.
Outstanding! Let Thug Thizzle done his thang. Come on over for an ACORN roast. I’ll watch an see if ACORN has a booth at the State Fair this year.
…as they should. It’s not often you see Pelosi, Reid and Frank depicted in a relief carving.
Jerome Corsi supposedly was released and was supposed to have a radio interview with Hannity this afternoon but I got pulled away from the radio and missed the rest of today’s broadcast … so can’t personally say whether or not he was on with Hannity …
Easier to launder money when it flows between several shady organizations.
Oh, if this were only true!
Would LOVE to see the MSM feature this “GOP attack” story every hour, with a GOP spokesperson ready with examples of fraud.
Can this be a debate topic next week??
My grandfather was a Republican poll watcher on the west suburban side of Chicago during the JFK/Nixon election in 1960. He noticed that everyone left headed in the same direction. He followed to investigate and found out that every voter was getting a full chicken handed off a truck around the corner from the polling station. He reported this and they fired him on the spot. If you have ever been persona non grata in a hostile neighborhood, you will understand why he then made a very quick tactical retreat.
My Point: Unless Republicans take a vocal stand against vote fraud, this stuff will continue until we are a full-fledged third-world country, with a dictator for life and all…or scarier…we’ll become a second-world country.
I heard it (OOOOOOOHHHHH DOGGYYY)and always knew of Odinga, But Dr Corsi has emails from Obama to Odinga’s campaign with strategy tips. Corsi was detained and a government official packed his stuff before he was deported….they forgot to take the evidence of odumbo’s involvement in Kenya’s presidential elections before deporting Corsi. Hooh Raah!!!
Any other person than odumbo, this info would be the final nail on the coffin for odumbo.
thanks rooster … was hoping someone could confirm that Corsi was on with
Hannity …
When will we be as advanced as Afghanistan, and use indelible ink on voters…
Once upon a time in America, people had to register far enough in advance that records could be checked. You did it yourself, rather than having lazy crackheads do it for you. You needed idsentification, back before we realized that was preventing illegal aliens from purchasing homes they couldn’t afford that we could later buy back from them at inflated prices. And every first Tuesday in November - every other year - the dead would rise and vote early and often in Obama’s adopted city of Chicago. It all seems so quaint.
Corsi was in London during the interview and thought he would never make it out of Kenya. Hannity told him to come on his show monday. This should be thouroughly ignored by the msm, because it is so damaging to odumbo.
SarahCuda…..
Its a good start. I wish it was earlier. Now we need the Justice Dept. to get involved. RICO comes to mind.
touche’ AlohaGuy
Acorn HQ itself should be investigated. The links between the dems and Soros and others are thicker than anywhere else and can really stink up the place.
The Democrats have made a huge effort to take this election by hook or by crook
Michelle,
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you
And God Bless you and Protect You, as well.
This is just getting utterly ridiculous. How can state’s continue to allow ACORN to register voters after everything we know? At this rate I would not be surprised if there were more votes than voters across the nation. The only thing that I really am surprised about is that ACORN has not tried to register overseas voters (that we know of). I mean after all Obama says he is a world citizen.
Thank you, Jesus, that corruption is being exposed.
Now, let’s move quickly through:
Prosecution
Conviction
Prevention
#5
Sure, but fewer than 1% of dead people are voting there so ACORN still has room to grow.
Dead people are a very attractive constituency for ACORN vote harvesters, because they always vote the way you want them too, and they NEVER want to share your crack stash.
Did Faux Tony Romo get registered there too?
On October 9th, 2008 at 12:49 am, William Amos said:
Agreed.
That would be
Malcolm X.
One of the people who inspired Barack to
“bring an Empire to its knees”.
The pot calling the ket…………
Oh never mind.
It’s time to tell the Communists to get the hell out of this country.
They’ve got lots of places in this world where they can go to “enjoy” Socialism/Communism. We, on the other hand, have nowhere else to go. The USA is the last, best hope for man.
No, you can’t steal an election and bring our country to its knees, Barack. No, you can’t.
NO, YOU CAN’T!
Meanwhile, the San Antonio city council, (which is trying to weaken term limits this election) continues to brag about the work ACORN is doing in the city. I hope the county officials are on the ball, or we’ll have the entire illegal population voting for Obama this election - not to mention the entire population of the military cemetary at Ft Sam.
I’m sure Washington will be on the list pretty soon. Why do I keep having the verse from “V” go throught my head the more I hear about BHO’s associates and ACORN?
Remember, remember the 5th of November.
ACORN’s treasonist plot.
I know of no reason, why ACORN’s treason,
should ever be forgot.
Sarge
Woulda, coulda, shoulda …
From a series of Republican celebrities.
WHY in the WORLD has the Republican local and/or state “committees” stood idly by, all these years, and allowed ACORN to (a) commit voter fraud in state after state (b) be funded by Democrats using taxpayer dollars for MILLIONS each year and (c) stay in business?
There needs to be EXAMPLES made of ACORN, and any/all organizations that allow ILLEGALS to vote, from the “thug thizzle” workers all the way up to the “got mizzle” (aka: got my millions from taxpayers)executives/owners/etc.
Furthermore WHERE are the news organziations DISCLOSING (a) who “owns” ACORN (b) who are the executives at ACORN (c) how much # a and b are paid each year (d) the TAX RETURNS of ACORN for the past few years and (e) EXACTLY which Democrats (names, and amounts) have given EARMARKS to ACORN!
Even though I respect and appreciate ANYONE who is LEGAL, regardless of their command of the English Language - and/or in spite of, to vote AMERICAN CITIZENS need to WAKE UP as your “rights” are being THROWN AWAY by these “bought and paid for” (literally)…organizations.
It is NOT humorous/funny/etc. and the MSM should get off of Michelle Malkin’s “proverbial back” and focus on the ACTUAL FRAUD that is occuring.
The “bottom line” is that EVEN IF the “voter fraud” is only 1/100000th of a percent for every VOTER FRAUD ballot that is allowed it takes the REAL vote away from an American Citizen!
It should not be allowed, condoned, trivialized, etc.
I can assure you that IF anyone took the ballots, after they just voted, from the MSM “journalists” and TORE THE BALLOTS UP RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM there would be “hell to pay” and it would be covered 24/7. Thus…what really is the difference between this “sceanrio” and what is really happening with ACORN?
Nuff said.
Nostradamuslives by Jeffrey Schrembs
Lpcal NBC TV reports ACORN closes office and stiffs 30 employees in Reno.
Also paper reports ACORN alert at registrar’s office.
Everyone should have to re-register with proper identification and verification, even if it means delaying the election. Holding an election under such obviously fraudulent conditions invalidates it completely.
ACORN should be served a cease and desist order, all assets frozen, and management prosecuted accordingly.
If it can be proven that Obama tried to fraudulently win this election using Acorn, then he should immediately be removed from office, prosecuted, and jailed for a long long time. Gitmo might be a good start.
..note, a few hundred votes amongst millions is probably not enough to delay an election, but registrations totaling 105% of all eligible voters in an area is grossly fraudulent, and certainly enough to alter the outcome if there are people running around utilizing all those fake registrations. Needless to say, they’d all be democrat votes, considering what Acorn is.
Thr feds are too busy investigating a Florida sheriff for using Obama’s entire name.
http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=22058&z=3
The GOP leadership is to sissified to fight their way out of a paper sack. Speaking of ’sacks’, I for one, would like to see the GOP grow some!
I never thought that I would see the fraud land in my state to such a degree. I am pi$$ed off. Where is the outrage that more people have registered to vote than live in Indy!?!?!?!
I am writing the Atty General of Indiana this morning and will follow up with phone calls. I will also forward the link to everyone I know.
This is B.S.! Those cheating, lying, stinking, liberal, communist ba$tard$. This not the change that my state or my country needs.
At what point and time are we just going to say, “THIS ELECTION IS BEING STOLEN.”
Look, McCain hasn’t endeared himself to my vote. But, when you look at the accumulating evidence (Acorn Nevada, 45,000 more voters in Indianapolis than residents, suspicious donations), a pattern is occurring.
It’s documented history that Kennedy stole the election, and this one is shaping up to be the same.
Where’s the RNC? Why isn’t McCain out there speaking to this now?
Just read a story and I missed some voter fraud investigations:
“It [ACORN] also has encountered complaints of fraud stemming from registration efforts in Wisconsin, New Mexico, Nevada and battleground states like Michigan, Ohio and North Carolina, where new voter registrations have favored Democrats nearly 4 to 1 since the beginning of this year.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_el_ge/voter_fraud
Michelle bnlows me away with this crap. Obama is going to blatantly steal the election right before you eyes.
Your tax dollars at work!
Now we have to start a campaign to get the Federal Government from funding this organization.
When the Dems shout “every vote must count” and that the Republicans are trying to steal the election - hold on to your ballot box because the accusers are actually the criminals.
They scream fraud every election and actually they are correct because it is they who are committing it.
President Bush should annoounce a Federal Task Force to investigate. Senator McConnel and Rep. Bohnner (sp?)should write a letter to the majority leaders asking them to conduct a joint investigation into voter fraud.
Their response will, of course be, “McCain’s desparate,” “smear,” disenfranchisment,” etc. etc.
Our response should then be “cover-up,” “2000 election,” and “Watergate.”
Pound and pound on this thing. It’s BIG!
If Obama wins, this fraud has to be stopped .
If McCain wins, this fraud has to be stopped.
It finally starts now but cannot be allowed to end Nov. 5th.
What we have been observing the past decade with these organizations is that they are growing in numbers and in sophistication of tactics.
I believe that this election will yield the first fraudulent leader of this country.
This is not the ideal I grew up with in my mind and heart.
Revolution is needed. Our constitution mandates it from the people in these instances!
“Racketeering” is suddenly my favorite word.
Obama trained ACORN well when he was a “community organizer”.
I’d equate these actions with treason (not that they are definitionally the same but both are acts against the state). Hence death by hanging would be a good punishment. I’d submit it won’t stop as long as the “punishment” is free room and board complete with security detail.
On October 8th, 2008 at 11:17 pm, LibTired said:
Can’t people go to jail for this? Or is punishing these groups considered “unconstitutional”?
No, Lib, it would be
RAAcciiisssstttt!!!
A spokesman for the DOJ, who asked to remain unidentified, stated that the Department of Justice takes the rumors about ACORN very seriously. However, he told a reporter that the DOJ must stick to its priorities. “We need to wrap up the Ted Stevens(R) thing prior to the November election. We will then move rapidly against Tony Rezko(D) sometime after President Obama’s inauguration. After that we will swiftly move against William Jefferson(D) after his election in 2010. We at DOJ see the possiblility of reprimanding ACORN sometime in the second term of President Obama. We at Justice believe that “justice delayed is justice delayed”.”
Organizations like ACORN are enabled by the government passing out money. If the government got back to doing ONLY what the constitution prescribes, then this garbage wouldn’t be going on.
Of course, “conservatives” are just as guilty of feeding at the gov’t trough. “Charities” asking (and receiving) the government for money..no matter how noble the endeavor just perpetuate and grow the mess.
I’m glad this is being investigated. But, is it in time? Will anything be done with it, or about it? Will anyone demand Barack HUSSEIN Obama answer for it. Will McShame actually demand BO explain it?
Am I asking dumb questions?
ACORN is Chicago politcs at its
finestworst. BO comes out of the Daley slime machine and is nothing more than a media-designed candidate with no substance.On Nov 4 conservatives need to wake up, vote early and often….
Don’t let the MSM scare you with their “landslide” talk and their poll numbers. Remember, liars figure and figures lie.
Readers;
Stop questioning their right to do whatever it takes–after all, they are an underrepresented minority & have the right to use any means necessary to get their voices heard & their agenda served. Oh, and you are all white devils.
yours etc,
Shelly & B. Hussein
I just wrote my 2 state senators..this is what I said!
Dear Senator DeMint and Senator Graham,
Voter fraud!!!!!
This upcoming election for president is becoming a sham! 11 States have been identified with voter fraud. All 50 states need to be investigated for voter fraud. I am against absentee voting unless you are out of the country or medically unable to make your vote.
Any pre voting before elections should be illegal.
All US citizens must be registered 30 days before the election with voting on election day. If it takes a class action suit by the American citizens to call this election a fraud then so be it. States with partisan administrations should not make up their own voting laws for national elections. Much reform is needed or the basis of this country is in jeopardy.
Sincerely,
Dennis Widner
Anderson, SC
Isn’t it telling that the only party that is against each voter presenting positive ID, the only thing that could really put the brakes on this, is the party that is supported by ACORN?
The silence from the Democrats, as opposed to what the squealing would be like if this were a Republican supporting group, is the final indictment.
Sarah Palin apparently has to be the one to bring it up, because only then will the MSM actually investigate it.
*raspberries*
Hmm. Gazillions in free money (yes, I exaggerate…sort of), and they don’t have a computer with Internet access and Excel? Hey, send me your info, guys, I’ll start figuring it out.
Keep hammerin’, Michelle (and everyone else of like mind). The public needs to understand how big of a deal this is. I already will reap little satisfaction with my vote this year, but the fact that my reluctant vote may not even count in my center-left state bugs me even more. End this third-party registration crap.
Where are our resident liberals? Is this not a topic worth their input?
This is supposed to be a close election, and the fraud will probably tip it to the Obammunist.
Bob Dornan lost his seat to Loretta Sanchez via voter fraud, and Gregoire is governor of WA because of voter fraud.
The Dem Ohio SecState has no problems with Acorn.
BTW, my LLL brother honestly believes Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 were GOP fraud. They project what they will actually do.
BTW, I hope Mr and Mrs. Malkin have been scrupulous on keeping the books and paying the taxes, because when Obama is in office, they’ll get audited a lot, if I had to guess.
Ditto Limbaugh. The ‘Fairness Doctrine’ (equal air time for Air America type ‘progressives’ who can’t get ratings or advertisers) will wipe out the lower rated hosts on poorer networks, like Mark Legin and Bill Bennett, but Limabugh and Hannity will survive that. Thus, they will be targetted.
Dimsdale (#79): or at the very least, Robert “Unprecedented” Greenwald. Naw, he’s too busy going after FNC, McCain, and Giuliani.
In the interest of accuracy, I want to clarify parts of my last comment (#78). When I say that the MSM hasn’t been investigating the voter fraud, I should correct myself by saying that it’s the lack of stories in the major news outlets about it that I consider a problem. Have these and related allegations ever made the front page (above the fold) of the NYT or LAT? Opening story on any of the Big Three networks? That (among other reasons) is why they’re becoming relics.
The other thing I should clarify is my statement that this is a big deal. What I mean by that is this is a widespread problem, but how out of control it is is still unknown, though we’re starting to find out. More registered names than number of voters. In a major metropolitan area. Good grief.
Gee, wouldn’t it have been great if someone had pointed out the Missouri HERE.
105% of the population registered in Indianapolis, isn’t that what happened in Pennsylvania back in 2000? I seem to remember a quick blurb, but they were so fired up about a hanging chad that everyone kind of let that one slide by, because after all it was in Gore’s favor…hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
I have a way to solve this problem, any registrations from ACORN are now invalid. As an auditor, I see well over 10% of the states have found some fraud. The population of the audit has found that the controls are not working and the entire population of registration from ACORN is tainted. If there was enough time and adequate unbiased auditors larger amounts of registration fraud would be found, of that I am certain.
Can someone please tell me why anyone would accept any voter registration cards from ACORN?
There is an obvious pattern of fraud going on here.
Michelle you missed Nevada:
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=190503
KTNV: ACORN is accused of registering false and duplicate names, including using the names of Dallas Cowboys.
I’m in Dallas, and I wonder how our boys appreciate this?
http://www.ofheo.gov/contact.aspx
“ENSIGN URGES FEDS TO STOP PAYMENTS TO ACORN” [Rich Lowry]
Washington, D.C. – In a letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Senator John Ensign today called for the suspension of taxpayer dollars that ultimately end up in the hands of such controversial groups as ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. ACORN, which is under investigation, is eligible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac affordable housing funds, which add up to hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
“With the government takeover of Fannie and Freddie, the government will be taxing itself to create a backdoor slush fund, and we must prevent these taxpayer dollars from going toward ACORN,” said Ensign. “With the recent news tying ACORN with voter fraud, suspending these funds is even more urgent.”
As part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, Fannie and Freddie are required to provide funding for newly created affordable housing funds. This was signed into law prior to the government takeover of the two agencies. Now that the government owns Fannie and Freddie and may provide them with up to $200 billion, taxing these companies does not help create stability, which is the goal of FHFA.
A search warrant was served today on the ACORN Headquarters in Nevada as part of an ongoing investigation into whether employees used false addresses or false names as part of their voter registration operation.
The letter was sent to James Lockhart, the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency today. As the regulatory agency overseeing Fannie and Freddie, FHFA has the authority to stop these contributions to the affordable housing funds. Senators Michael Enzi, Jon Kyl, David Vitter, Pat Roberts, Tom Coburn, John Thune and Jim DeMint signed the letter with Ensign.
Continue reading this post for the text of the letter.
October 7, 2008
The Honorable James B. Lockhart III
Director
Federal Housing Finance Agency
1700 G Street, NW
Fourth Floor
Washington, D.C. 20552
Dear Director Lockhart:
We write today to urge you to exercise your statutory authority to suspend any contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the newly created affordable housing funds, which could direct federal dollars to controversial groups like ACORN.
The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 requires that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac set aside an amount equal to 4.2 basis points for each dollar of new business activity and transfer those funds to two newly created affordable housing funds. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that such assessments may equal hundreds of millions of dollars a year for each company. Sec. 1337(b) of 12 U.S.C. 1301, however, gives you the authority to suspend those contributions if the assessments would contribute to the financial instability or the undercapitalization of the enterprises.
Less than one month ago, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) placed the enterprises into conservatorship due to concerns over the soundness of the firms and their difficulty in raising sufficient capital to carry out their missions. You said in a Sept. 7, 2008, statement that the companies could not “continue to operate safely and soundly and fulfill their critical public mission” and that “FHFA will act as the conservator to operate the Enterprises until they are stabilized.”
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are clearly financially unstable and face significant capitalization problems. One does not need to wait for financial reports to understand that. We strongly believe that taxing the companies hundreds of millions of dollars a year weakens their financial health and is completely at odds with FHFA’s goal of stabilizing the companies and returning them to normal business operations. We urge you to suspend any contributions to the affordable housing funds until at a minimum the enterprises are no longer in conservatorship and to make such a decision without further delay. Thank you for your consideration in this matter.
“ENSIGN URGES FEDS TO STOP PAYMENTS TO ACORN” [Rich Lowry]
Washington, D.C. – In a letter to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Senator John Ensign today called for the suspension of taxpayer dollars that ultimately end up in the hands of such controversial groups as ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. ACORN, which is under investigation, is eligible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac affordable housing funds, which add up to hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
“With the government takeover of Fannie and Freddie, the government will be taxing itself to create a backdoor slush fund, and we must prevent these taxpayer dollars from going toward ACORN,” said Ensign. “With the recent news tying ACORN with voter fraud, suspending these funds is even more urgent.”
As part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, Fannie and Freddie are required to provide funding for newly created affordable housing funds. This was signed into law prior to the government takeover of the two agencies. Now that the government owns Fannie and Freddie and may provide them with up to $200 billion, taxing these companies does not help create stability, which is the goal of FHFA.
A search warrant was served today on the ACORN Headquarters in Nevada as part of an ongoing investigation into whether employees used false addresses or false names as part of their voter registration operation.
The letter was sent to James Lockhart, the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency today. As the regulatory agency overseeing Fannie and Freddie, FHFA has the authority to stop these contributions to the affordable housing funds. Senators Michael Enzi, Jon Kyl, David Vitter, Pat Roberts, Tom Coburn, John Thune and Jim DeMint signed the letter with Ensign.
Continue reading this post for the text of the letter.
October 7, 2008
The Honorable James B. Lockhart III
Director
Federal Housing Finance Agency
1700 G Street, NW
Fourth Floor
Washington, D.C. 20552
Dear Director Lockhart:
We write today to urge you to exercise your statutory authority to suspend any contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the newly created affordable housing funds, which could direct federal dollars to controversial groups like ACORN.
The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 requires that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac set aside an amount equal to 4.2 basis points for each dollar of new business activity and transfer those funds to two newly created affordable housing funds. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that such assessments may equal hundreds of millions of dollars a year for each company. Sec. 1337(b) of 12 U.S.C. 1301, however, gives you the authority to suspend those contributions if the assessments would contribute to the financial instability or the undercapitalization of the enterprises.
Less than one month ago, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) placed the enterprises into conservatorship due to concerns over the soundness of the firms and their difficulty in raising sufficient capital to carry out their missions. You said in a Sept. 7, 2008, statement that the companies could not “continue to operate safely and soundly and fulfill their critical public mission” and that “FHFA will act as the conservator to operate the Enterprises until they are stabilized.”
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are clearly financially unstable and face significant capitalization problems. One does not need to wait for financial reports to understand that. We strongly believe that taxing the companies hundreds of millions of dollars a year weakens their financial health and is completely at odds with FHFA’s goal of stabilizing the companies and returning them to normal business operations. We urge you to suspend any contributions to the affordable housing funds until at a minimum the enterprises are no longer in conservatorship and to make such a decision without further delay. Thank you for your consideration in this matter.
Hey Trae,
Michelle didn’t miss it. It’s in an earlier post: Acorn offices in Las Vegas Raided
There should be an injunction filed against ACORN, and all activities ceased until this can be cleared up. Allowing them to continue alleged illegal activities, particularly ones that interfere with a national election, is unacceptable.
The talking points to spin this aren’t out yet.
Future story: Senator Obama says, “Those weren’t the ACORN workers I knew. Let’s ensure they get more money in the next bailout to clean up their act.” /sarc
I just find it amazing that the resident libs will go all out to criticize us for trivia like the Palin picture commentaries, but just seem to evaporate in the face of true Democrat corruption.
They call that “tacit approval.”
tick, tick, tick, tick (sound of crickets chirping….)
tick, tick, tick (more crickets…)
Oh where oh where are our fine upstanding liberals on this topic?
Your silence is your agreement.