Nowforthetruth

ACORN has long been a target of Republican Party operatives dating as far back as the 2004 presidential election. But the accusations of malfeasance have never been supported by evidence.

Last weekend, investigative reporter Brad Friedman and former Justice Department official and GOP operative Hans Von Spakovsky engaged in a heated debate over voter fraud in a segment on the Tavis Smiley radio show. [Full disclosure: Friedman is a contributor to The Public Record].

Von Spakovsky, Friedman wrote on his blog Wednesday, "was...instrumental in bringing phony "voter fraud" charges, such as those against ACORN workers in Missouri, filed just days before the razor-thin 2006 Senate election, in violation of the DoJ's own written rules against bringing such indictments just prior to elections where they are likely to affect the race."

ACORN and U.S. Attorney Firings

In fact, two of the nine U.S. Attorneys who were fired in 2006 were targeted because they refused to bring criminal charges against individuals affiliated with ACORN, according to interviews and a Justice Department report issued last week on the circumstances behind the federal prosecutor firings. The firing of another U.S. Attorney was due, in large part, to his refusal to convene a grand jury and secure an indictment against individuals for voter fraud.

http://www.pubrecord.org/nationworld/376-acorn-long-a-target-of-gop-operatives.html

Win at all cost and if the US Attorneys can't follow orders I will find US Attorney's who WILL. I love this the more Nowforthetruth tries to bring up context challenged articles, the more I want to see what is REALLY going on and it keeping getting WORSE for the republicans.

I HOPE ALL DEMOCRATS AND INDEPENDENTS START TO REALIZE TO WHAT EXTENT THE REPUBLICANS WILL GO TO WIN THIS YEAR BASED ON PAST ELECTIONS AND EVENTS LEADING TO THIS ELECTION.

Nowforthetruth

On Oct. 6, ACORN and Project Vote announced the conclusion of the most successful voter registration drive in history with more than 1.3 million new voters registered in 21 states in time for the 2008 Presidential election.

In addition to collecting and submitting voter registration applications, ACORN and Project Vote followed up with county boards of elections to make sure people made it onto the voter rolls. Beginning in August, ACORN began requesting lists of rejected and pending applications from county election boards and notified applicants there was a problem with their registration in order to attempt to fix the problem before the registration deadline. Oct. 6 is the deadline for registering to vote in the upcoming presidential election in most states.

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In your article

And in Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

"All the signatures looked exactly the same," Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. "Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same."

ACORN turns out  1.3 MILLION new voters, your article has a problem with let's say 5,000. A republican on the board notices (or could have placed) bad registrations.  With the deadline ending in Oct 6 the republicans are trying to stop the bleeding anyway they can.

Your article is another example of taking things out of context. Anyway the same signature was used (setup maybe) there is a bad apple in the organization (if it was from ACORN). I cannot imagine ANYONE dumb enough believe someone would  sign 5000 cards exactly the same way and think noone wouldn't have noticed at ACORN but I will role play for the sake of arguement.  

This is how ACORN gets rid of bad apples because they realize things like this CAN happen.

VIII. Performance Problems

1. If Shift Managers or the Call Center determines that a canvasser is not meeting performance standards or has collected applications that are suspicious, an investigation is opened on that canvasser and completed within a day or two. If the problem concerns quality issues, such as collecting incomplete applications or not enough phone number, the canvasser may be retrained or counseled. Repeat offenses will result in termination. If the investigation finds that the canvasser has knowingly collected applications from ineligible applicants, from a person who has already registered to vote or submitted an application, completed and signed an application with another person's name, or committed any other illegal action, the canvasser is terminated.

2. Applications that are suspicious are separated out from other applications when they are turned into election officials. Election officials are given a cover sheet with the canvassers name and the name of the applicants found to be suspicious. The cover sheet contains contact information for the election official if they find the application violated any laws so that they can get identification information on the canvasser and elicit ACORN’s cooperation in any investigation or prosecution.

IX. Election Official Relationship

1. Local ACORN staff maintains regular communication with elections officials when applications are dropped off. State ACORN staff request regular phone or in person meetings. National staff requests election officials to notify them if the officials have concerns about the drive.

2. ACORN requests election officials to provide ACORN with information about the drive's performance and the quality of applications. Information ACORN requests include the number of applications the election office has processed over a week, the number of applications submitted by ACORN that were added to the rolls in the last week and the number of applications submitted by ACORN that were not added to the rolls pursuant to the standard procedure over the last week. In addition, ACORN requests that election officials provide it with up-to-date voter rolls so ACORN can assess the success of the drive.

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CNN Reports Acorn Faking Voter Registrations:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/09/acorn.fraud.claims/index.html?iref=newssearch