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Smashing Acorns

by Hal_10000

I’ve been doing a lot of McCain bashing lately.  That’s mainly because the Left often makes it too easy:

Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.

The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN’s Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.

“There appears to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications,” said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office. “And it appears to be widespread.”

Chesney said her office has had discussions with ACORN officials after local clerks reported the questionable applications to the state. Chesney said some of the applications are duplicates and some appear to be names that have been made up. The Secretary of State’s Office has turned over several of the applications to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

As Morrissey points out, this isn’t exactly their first offense:

The spokesman for ACORN says that they’ll “do an investigation”, but after dozens of complaints in several states — most of them battleground states in presidential elections — the pattern certainly has established itself.  Either the leadership of ACORN encourages fraud, or it hasn’t the competence to keep it from happening.  Given the convictions of some of its workers for fraud and the continuing instances of it, it doesn’t appear that ACORN has any desire to stop fraud, and indeed operates for the purpose of committing it.

The Department of Justice needs to open a RICO probe into ACORN.  The RICO statutes make the leaders of a criminal enterprise personally responsible for the crimes committed by its members.  If the DoJ can establish that ACORN management has encouraged fraudulent practices from the top down, that puts it within RICO territory.  The repetition of their fraud in multiple jurisdictions make it clear that it’s not just coincidence at work here.

Once again, this calls into question why Barack Obama pays ACORN for his GOTV efforts.  With criminal investigations underway in several states and now hopefully a federal investigation about to start, Obama shows extremely poor judgment in associating himself with such fraud — as well as paying $800,000 to fund it, unwittingly or not.  As President, he would have the responsibility for enforcing voter-fraud laws.  This

I first became aware of ACORN when they burst into a Newt Gingrich speech and banged on lunch trays to protest the (non-existent) cuts in school lunch funding.  I’ve watched them over the last decade and my impression is that they are the community organizer equivalent of PETA—an extremely radical organization that persuades many people that they are just a mainstream grassroots group.  It’s rare to see a political organization that is so incredibly wrong about everything.  Even the ACLU and Nader’s PIRGs are occasionally right about something.

I can tell you this.  If a right-wing group had been caught committing voter fraud so often, you know there would be national headlines and calls for a federal investigation.

Comments

Posted by HARLEY on 09/15/08 at 04:06 PM from

they pulled some voter fraud here in Missouri during the last 2 elections. Dead people on the roles, vacant addresses, Thousands of ppl signing up to vote in small districts in one day.

Posted by on 09/15/08 at 04:59 PM from

The fact that a Chicago ward heeler like Obama is involved with an organization that specializes in voter fraud is hardly surprising.

Like I’ve said before, if you got rid of the dead people, household pets, and crack whores, the Democrats’ voting base would drop by half.

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