ACORN Vegas Office Raided in Voter Fraud Investigation

[mekender]

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/07 ... stigation/#

Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud.

Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.

"Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications," Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev.

Secretary of State Ross Miller said the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team.

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[308Mike]

In 2006, ACORN also committed what Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed called the "worse case of election fraud" in the state's history.

In the case, ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, and all but six of the 1,800 names were fake.

More recently, 27,000 registrations handled by the group from January to July 2008 "went into limbo because they were incomplete, inaccurate, or fraudulent," said James Terry, chief public advocate at the Consumers Rights League.

What I want to know is why the hell aren't people in jail for this shit?

[Jered]

Obama's pals.

[SoupOrMan]

Yep. That's why we can't touch them in Illinois. They've got the favor of the Democrats upstate. I'd love to be able to stop dealing with their crap, since we wind up with a good portion of their registrations, which we then have to forward to the various county clerks regardless of what we think is legal or not.

There are times I wish we'd have more law enforcement powers, but then we'd also be a much larger state agency due to needing lots of investigators in each county.

[Termite]

PawPaw gives his experience with voter registration in Vegas: Linky

[308Mike]

PawPaw gives his experience with voter registration in Vegas: Linky

With what he experienced in vegas, I wouldn't be surprised if they checked the registrations and tossed the Independent and Republican ones.

[SoupOrMan]

My suggestions at work about implementing ID & proof of residence checks at the ballot box are usually met with great amounts of agreement by the actual staff, since even though it wouldn't make our jobs any easier it would make the thousands of registrations that we get (and susbsequently pass to the various county clerks since we don't do any processing for registration cards) pretty much null and void. The Board can advise the legislature to implement it, and the Democrat-held legislature can tell us to go kindly pound sand and cut off the agency's funds.

Well, I'd have more time to go to the range, I guess...

[Jered]

I'm surprised they have anything left.



The Obama campaign actually gave them money.