Outside The Beltway: Indianapolis Voter Registration at 105%

re: Outside The Beltway: Indianapolis Voter Registration at 105%

Nowforthetruth — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:36:02 GMT

From: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/rnc-obama--acorn-fact/story.aspx?guid=%7B29569FA1-136D-4B95-9D51-4EF9E87ED547%7D&dist=hppr

Obama's Campaign Paid Over $800,000 To ACORN For Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts, But "Mistakenly Misrepresented" Their Work To The FEC:

Obama's Campaign "Paid More Than $800,000" To ACORN For Get-Out-The Vote Efforts; The Campaign Originally "Misrepresented" The Group's Work To The FEC. "U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports. An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. -- a subsidiary of ACORN -- worked in 'get-out-the-vote' projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary." (David M. Brown, "Obama To Amend Report On $800,000 In Spending," Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 8/22/08)

The link below describes how some in Congress tried to use the original version of the bailout bill to divert money eventually recovered to groups like ACORN, a group Obama has a long association with. See:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122247015469280723.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

re: Outside The Beltway: Indianapolis Voter Registration at 105%

Nowforthetruth — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:57:16 GMT

Even Bill Clinton points to Congressional Democrats failure to deal with Fannie and Freddie as a primary cause.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsynspIqAoE

The link below contains a purported list of the top 25 in Congress who got contributions from the folks at Fannie and Freddie. Obama is listed third, after Dodd and Kerry, even though Obama is just a junior Senator. Obama is followed next by Clinton. Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi are on the list as well.

http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16&artnum=1&issue=20080918

Then there is the Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd who allegedly got special mortgage deals from Countrywide, who gave preferential rates to 'friends' of company's chairman.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25140560/

For an interesting article purporting to detail the House Financial Services Committee Chairs long history with Fannie Mae, See http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2008/20080924145932.aspx

"House Financial Services Committee Chair promoted GSEs while former 'spouse' was Fannie Mae executive."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122247015469280723.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

And then there is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who allegedly has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband's real estate and investment firm.

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/01/pelosis-pac-pays-bills-for-spouses-firm.

re: Outside The Beltway: Indianapolis Voter Registration at 105%

Nowforthetruth — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:57:51 GMT

Obama Formerly Represented ACORN, Taught Classes For Future Leaders Of ACORN, And They Endorsed His 2008 Presidential Campaign:

Obama Directed Project Vote And Later Taught Classes For "Future Leaders Identified By ACORN And The Centers For New Horizons." "He [Obama] says he is drawn to politics, despite its superficialities, as a means to advance his real passion and calling: community organization. ... In 1992 Obama took time off to direct Project Vote, the most successful grass-roots voter- registration campaign in recent city history. Credited with helping elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the U.S. Senate, the registration drive, aimed primarily at African-Americans, added an estimated 125,000 voters to the voter rolls -- even more than were registered during Harold Washington's mayoral campaigns. 'It's a power thing,' said the brochures and radio commercials. ... Obama continues his organizing work largely through classes for future leaders identified by ACORN and the Centers for New Horizons on the south side." (Hank De Zutter, Op-Ed, "What Makes Obama Run?" ChicagoReader, 12/8/95)

Obama Was Part Of Team Of Lawyers Who Represented ACORN In A Suit Against The State Of Illinois. "Obama was part of a team of attorneys who represented the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois in 1995 for failing to implement a federal law designed to make it easier for the poor and others to register as voters." (Mike Robinson, "Obama Got Start In Civil Rights Practice," The Associated Press, 2/20/07)

ACORN's Political Action Committee Endorsed Obama. "[A]CORN's political action committee endorsed Barack Obama for President. ... The endorsement reflects a belief that Obama -- who worked as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago -- understands that change must come from the ground-up, as part of a working coalition, rather than from position papers." (Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Op-Ed, "ACORN: Obama Gets It," The Nation, 2/23/08)

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/rnc-obama--acorn-fact/story.aspx?guid=%7B29569FA1-136D-4B95-9D51-4EF9E87ED547%7D&dist=hppr

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122247015469280723.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

re: Outside The Beltway: Indianapolis Voter Registration at 105%

Nowforthetruth — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:58:04 GMT

Obama's Campaign Paid Over $800,000 To ACORN For Get-Out-The-Vote Efforts, But "Mistakenly Misrepresented" Their Work To The FEC:

re: Outside The Beltway: Indianapolis Voter Registration at 105%

max in fl — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:36:13 GMT

Nowforthetruth

Really???? rule # 1 for Democrats is to NEVER go to sites where republicans send you...why because you will see this at the very bottom SOURCE Republican National Committee

http://www.gop.com/

HMMMM! I guess I should eat the WHOLE slice in one bite.

The raid to uncover alleged registration fraud was the result of a joint investigation by state agencies, the U.S. Attorney's Office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A similar task force, convened in New Mexico in 2004 to investigate "vote fraud" complaints lodged by high-ranking Republicans, found no evidence of illegality. According to an independent government report issued last week, the U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, David Iglesias, was later wrongfully fired by the Bush Administration for failing to prosecute the case despite the lack of evidence.

Tuesday's Las Vegas raid, executed morning by agents of the Nevada Secretary of State and state Attorney General, effectively shut down the ACORN office, at least temporarily. The state officials seized the group's files and computers less than a month before Election Day.

ACORN is a community activist organization involved in registering young, minority, and lower-income voters.

The Nevada raid comes the day after ACORN and another voter-registration group, Project Vote, announced a new initiative to identify and resolve problematic voter registrations to ensure maximum voter participation on Election Day. The Nevada Secretary of State's spokesman, Bob Walsh, told me this morning that he did not know when ACORN would regain access to its files and computers; ACORN officials say loss of their computers may hamper their "get out the vote" effort in Nevada, a key swing state this year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m.s.-bellows/acorn-office-raid-linked-_b_132705.html

IS THIS A NEW FORM OF VOTER SUPPRESSION? Now they can tell people they have a problem on 11/4, and the chance they had to correct it before hand was systematically prevented by strongly going after the groups that were strongly going after voters.

So here's Now it's REALLY time for the truth. Democrats are trying to fix what happened last time and the Republicans like things the way they are. If the Republicans can frustruate the efforts of the ACORN to correct the voter registration problems of 2000 and 2004. Then they can INCREASE the time it will take for each voter to VOTE. Why? Because they same people that did not fix their registration are the ones that will HOLD up the line on November 4th. If you can visualize each Republicans taking an average of 5 minutes to cast their vote and each Democrat averaging 12 minutes to vote, you can see BUSH has a GREAT plan to STEAL the election once again. We are watching it unfold, I think it's brilliant, wrong but brilliant. Demonize ACORN and if Barack wins, they can say the votes were fraudulent. If Barack loses, they can say the votes were fraudulent anyway.

The beauty of the plan is that ACORN will take the fall no matter what. Once again anyone that feels they MAY have a problem (not knowing where to go, location had a problem in 2000, moved lately, or haven't voted in a while) remember to vote early this year because we already see what the Republican have in mind. This way when the person at the desk tells you that you have a problem with your registration, you will have time to get it fixed. (Keep in mind the person may be a Democrat so don't assume that it was on purpose it could be YOUR fault for not getting it fixed beforehand.)

By the way Nowforthetrutch thanks, if you didn't bring so much attention to ACORN I would not have gone to THEIR website to see what whole story not the one that leaves a KEY PART out so the public can come to the WRONG conclusion.

re: Outside The Beltway: Indianapolis Voter Registration at 105%

Nowforthetruth — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:59:49 GMT

CNN Reports Acorn Faking Voter Registrations:

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

re: Outside The Beltway: Indianapolis Voter Registration at 105%

Nowforthetruth — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:02:51 GMT

CNN Reports Acorn Faking Voter Registrations:

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

re: Outside The Beltway: Indianapolis Voter Registration at 105%

Nowforthetruth — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:03:30 GMT

CNN Reports Acorn Faking Voter Registrations:

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

re: Outside The Beltway: Indianapolis Voter Registration at 105%

max in fl — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:15:17 GMT

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.

http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=22364&tx_ttnews[backPid]

=12346&cHash=5b24b1c9dd

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.

http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=22371&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12386&cHash=1f09ce5ca0

re: Outside The Beltway: Indianapolis Voter Registration at 105%

max in fl — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:28:41 GMT

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.