BDKJMU wrote:
9/16/09:
70 former ACORN employees in 12 states convicted of voter fraud
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 61772.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Just some of the examples below:
11/1/06: "
ACORN Workers Indicted For Alleged Voter Fraud
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Four people have been indicted on charges of voter fraud in Kansas City, officials said Wednesday.
Investigators said questionable registration forms for new voters were collected by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now......"
http://www.kmbc.com/politics/10214492/detail.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
11/12/07: "
Felony charges filed against 7 in state's biggest case of voter-registration fraud
King and Pierce County prosecutors filed felony charges today against seven people who allegedly committed the biggest voter-registration fraud in state history.
The defendants, who were paid employees and supervisors of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now....."
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l ... ud26m.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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"Prosecutors: ACORN 2008 Milwaukee Voter Drive "Marred by Fraud"
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A voter registration drive that the community organizing group ACORN conducted in Milwaukee before the 2008 presidential election was marred by fraud and corruption, prosecutors said Monday.
Two former ACORN employees, Maria Miles and Kevin Clancy, were criminally charged Monday. The complaint accuses them of repeatedly trying to register the same voters more than once to meet a 20-signature-per-day quota imposed by ACORN, the embattled group that advocates for low-income people.
ACORN stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
"Miles stated they were 'all hoodlums' working for ACORN and they all had criminal histories, and that they were going to 'do whatever they had to do' to be able to gain their money at the end of each day," Assistant Attorney General David W. Maas and special agent Peter Thelen wrote in the complaint filed in Milwaukee County.....:
http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/86913867.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
11/23/09
Ex-ACORN official gets probation for voter registration plan
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/no ... gistratio/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
4/6/2011 "
ACORN pleads guilty to felony compensation for registration of voters
The grass-roots community organizing group ACORN once drew the ire of conservative groups and the attention of national media.
And when ACORN faced charges in Las Vegas of voter registration malfeasance in 2008, a flock of political spin doctors and lawyers rushed to its defense.
But three years later, with ACORN's two co-defendants already having taken plea deals and the group essentially defunct and in Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the case received little attention as a lawyer on behalf of ACORN pleaded guilty Wednesday....."
http://www.lvrj.com/news/acorn-pleads-g ... 67839.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
4/10/2011:
Judge fines ACORN $5,000 for voter registration scheme
A judge Wednesday slapped the defunct grass-roots community organizing group ACORN with a maximum $5,000 fine for its role in a voter registration compensation scheme in the 2008 election cycle.
District Judge Donald Mosley was confined by statute to fine only the corporation, which pleaded guilty in April to one count of felony compensation for registration of voters.
Mosley said that if there were an individual standing before him, and not a corporation, that person would have been given a 10-year prison sentence, "and I wouldn't have thought twice about it."
The judge chastised the now-bankrupt corporation for making a "mockery" of the nation's election process. "This isn't a banana republic," Mosley said.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/judge-fines-ac ... 67598.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
7/9/08
Funds Misappropriated at 2 Nonprofit Groups
Acorn chose to treat the embezzlement of nearly $1 million eight years ago as an internal matter and did not even notify its board....
...A whistle-blower forced Acorn to disclose the embezzlement, which involved the brother of the organization’s founder, Wade Rathke.
The brother, Dale Rathke, embezzled nearly $1 million from Acorn and affiliated charitable organizations in 1999 and 2000, Acorn officials said, but a small group of executives decided to keep the information from almost all of the group’s board members and not to alert law enforcement....."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/us/09embezzle.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"...as documented in a July 2009 report by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, of the 1.3 million registrations Project Vote/ACORN submitted in the 2008 election cycle, more than one-third were invalid..."
http://www.newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/4268" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
".....In Orlando, home to the Magic Kingdom of Disney, Mickey Mouse tried to register. In Indiana there was an application from a sandwich shop called Jimmy Johns. Authorities in Nevada were surprised to receive voter registration forms from the starting line-up of the Dallas Cowboys.
All these applications were provided by the Association of Community Organisations for Reform Now (ACORN), a group that works to register low-income voters. ACORN has been industrious this year, signing up 1.3m voters in 21 states according to its own tallies. But they have run into some trouble; thousands of their voter-registration applications are fakes. In Connecticut a seven-year-old girl applied. A man in Ohio admitted he had signed up with organisers more than 70 times in exchange for cash and cigarettes. In one county in Indiana ACORN turned in 5,000 applications, 2,100 of which were quickly identified as fakes......"
http://www.economist.com/node/12432392" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
