Democrat Dirty Laundry: ACORN Slapped with 26 Counts of Voter Fraud

ACORN Slapped with 26 Counts of Voter Fraud
Dem-Allied Organization was Run by Convicted Felon and Inmate Who “Rose to a Supervisor Position”

SPIN CYCLE:
President Obama “Defended ACORN’s Practices” Last Year
“In Wednesday night’s debate Obama  attempted as best he could both to defend ACORN’s practices…First Obama insisted that because ACORN was ‘apparently paying people to register voters’ that ‘they just filled out the paperwork.’…Obama has in the past represented ACORN in his home state of Illinois. And during the primary season the Obama campaign gave ACORN some $830,000 to help with a get out the vote drive.” (“ACORN’s Big Scam,” Boston Herald, 10/18/2008)

RINSE CYCLE:
State Officials in Nevada have filed voter registration fraud charges against ACORN and its employees

“Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and Secretary of State Ross Miller announced Monday that voter registration fraud charges have been filed against an organization that works with low-income people and two of its employees in its Las Vegas office.

“The complaint includes 26 counts of voter fraud and 13 counts for compensating those registering voters, both felonies.

“The Association of Community Organization for Reform Now, Inc., also known as ACORN, operated a Las Vegas office that helped register low-income voters last year.

“Throughout 2008, ACORN employed canvassers to register people to vote in Nevada, the complaint said. ACORN paid the canvassers between $8 and $9 an hour, but made continued employment and continued compensation based on the canvasser registering 20 voters per shift. Those who failed to sign up 20 voters per shift were terminated, the complaint said.

“The investigation into the scheme stemmed from a complaint filed with Miller’s office by Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax. Lomax’s office received a significant number of voter registration application forms that appeared to be fraudulent…

“State investigators, armed with a search warrant, sought evidence of voter registration fraud at ACORN’s Las Vegas office on Oct. 7.

“Allegations that some registration applications were completed with false information, while other applications attempted to register the same person several times, led investigators to raid the office, Miller said at the time.

“One ex-employee of ACORN, Jason Anderson, rose to a supervisor position in the voter registration program although he was a convicted felon and an inmate in a medium security facility in Las Vegas at the time, a 19-page affidavit said…” (“Criminal Charges Filed Against ACORN, Two Employees,” Las Vegas Sun, 05/04/2009)

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