ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is up to its normal.
What do dead people, cartoon figures, the elderly, celebrities, the mentally ill and illegal aliens have in common? Well, they’re all registered voters for liberals.
House Democrats pushed through a bill (not yet considered by the Senate) to have your tax dollars fund ACORN. Pretty neat, eh? Yeah, the Democrats scream corruption to the Plain Dealer, the Dispatch and every local paper that will listen and while the reporters and editors are burning blue with indignation, they never notice that the democrats have legalized corruption to benefit themselves. Eh, neat pretty?
Acorn and its affiliates have pulled some real stunts in recent years. In
Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for
fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars
of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a
Congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials
from several counties in the state explained Acorn's practice of dumping
thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even
though the forms had been collected months earlier.
"You have to wonder what's the point of that, if not to overwhelm the
system and get phony registrations on the voter rolls," says Thor Hearne of the
American Center for Voting Rights, who also testified at the hearing. "These
were Democratic officials saying that they felt their election system in Ohio
was under assault by these kinds of efforts to game the system."
Given this
history, it's not surprising that Acorn is so hostile to voter identification
laws and other efforts to ensure fairness and accuracy at the polls. In Missouri
last month, the state Supreme Court held that a photo ID requirement to vote was
overly burdensome and a violation of the state constitution. Acorn was behind
the original suit challenging the statute, and it has brought similar challenges
in several other states, including Ohio.
In Ohio, over 344,000 reasons to check.
More signs of potentially large-scale voter registration fraud in Ohio from the Cleveland
Plain Dealer:
In all, the county elections board has received more than 344,000 registration forms this year - up from 103,000 four years ago - including duplicate cards and voters updating their addresses or other information.
Michael Vu, Cuyahoga County's election director, has encountered some problems with registrations. More than 3,700 forms had mailing addresses that could not be verified or simply don't exist, he said.A smattering of those also included suspicious signatures written with the last
name first. Those will be turned over to the county prosecutor's office to be
investigated as a possible fraud, Vu said. Ohio, a key battleground state, is
rife with reports of potential voter fraud.
I am confident that Zack Space is not aware nor will he allow his candidacy to benefit from ACORN’s illegal activities. I mean, if he just is looking the other way, isn't that a violation of his already broken "ethics" pledge?
