Obama’s Buddies At ACORN In Hot Water Over Fraudulent Voter Registrations In Michigan

• September 16, 2008

And guess which state just happens to be a key swing state in the upcoming election?

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.”

Stanley Kurtz detailed Obama’s “intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn)” (as well as Acorn’s radicalism) in National Review:

…along with the reservoir of political support that came to Obama through his close ties with Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, and other Chicago black churches, Chicago Acorn appears to have played a major role in Obama’s political advance. Sure enough, a bit of digging into Obama’s years in the Illinois State Senate indicates strong concern with Acorn’s signature issues, as well as meetings with Acorn and the introduction by Obama of Acorn-friendly legislation on the living wage and banking practices. You begin to wonder whether, in his Springfield days, Obama might have best been characterized as “the Senator from Acorn.”

Will anyone in the media be willing to ask Obama about his connections to Acorn and their consistently deceptive and fraudulent voter registration efforts, or are they all too busy covering Sarah Palin’s tanning bed?

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics, The Loony Left

http://Array Bat One

Chief,

Expect no retort from Oswaldo. There is no other answer to any of those questions other than “Yes.”

The next question that needs to be answered is how did the young Mr. Obama come to head up the Woods Foundation and the Annenberg-Chicago Challenge? Where did those appointments come from, who made them, and on whose recommendation were they made? How did Barack Obama and William Ayers come to sit on these boards, handing out millions of dollars… most of which seems to have accomplished very little, if anything?

I suspect that at the bottom of that puzzle we will find Chicago scion, philanthropist, political insider, and devoted father, Thomas G. Ayers.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

These people must be prosecuted. The integrity of our right to vote is in jeopardy if dead people and fictitious beings are allowed to vote. That dilutes the purpose of voting. Stuffing a ballot box along with disallowing our Servicemen their right to even cast a ballot is un American. Where is the ACLU?

That is the problem if you go after these groups then the left will claim the right is disenfranchising poor minority voters. This is why you should have to have a ID to vote.
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

There is no excuse for not allowing service men & women to vote. (Other than dems trying to pad the votes toward them.)
http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

These people must be prosecuted. The integrity of our right to vote is in jeopardy if dead people and fictitious beings are allowed to vote. That dilutes the purpose of voting. Stuffing a ballot box along with disallowing our Servicemen their right to even cast a ballot is un American. Where is the ACLU?
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

The Obama Campaign (which he claims as his executive experience) has contributed $800,000.00 to ACORN.

What do you think he’s going to get for his $800,000 Rodney?
carrick

It would be nice if the trolls posting here could refrain from behaving like a horde of unyielding leftwings radicals who find it inconceivable for their Leftwing/Liberal/Socialists to be wrong on any issue…
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

It would be nice if the people posting here could refrain from behaving like a horde of unyielding rightwing radicals who find it inconceivable for their Republican/Conservative/Neocon cohorts to be wrong on any issue, and would stake their lives on the conviction that our Democrat/Liberal/Progressive elements are in fact wrong and evil on every issue.

Wow! Take a breath, Osweirdo! Your hyperventilation aside, most of us don’t attribute “evil” where mere “fuzzy headed thinking” will do! You serve as a prime example!

Having said that, I find it hard to believe that anyone of either party can make an honest or legitimate apology for voter fraud. When you say you believe in “One man- one vote”, it entails “One man- Only one vote!”

The fact is, the leading proponent of voter fraud in recent times is: ACORN.

But, throw the word “Neocon” around a few more times! It makes you sound much more erudite than you really are!
Bat One

Oswaldo,

You sound like some delinquent 6th grader caught throwing eggs at a school bus, trying wriggle out by plaintively crying, “Well, Johnny did it too!”

In the first place, without some sort of reasonably authoritative citations, your own accusations are worthless.

More importantly, ACORN, as Sol Stern points out, is a direct offshoot of the National Welfare Rights Organization, which Stanley Kurtz labels “one of the silliest and most destructive” radical far Left groups to come out of the 1960s.

Even if this was ACORN’s first brush with charges of willful voter fraud, your response would be more pitiful than pertinent. But this is at least the 6th or 7th state in which an official criminal investigation of ACORN has been brought… and that doesn’t include several federal investigations as well.

Kinda sucks getting caught doesn’t it? Again… and again… and again.
Bat One

ACORN bills itself as

…the nation’s largest community organization for low- and moderate-income families. Created more than 30 years ago, it has branches in 100 cities and claims 350,000 families as members. It works to help create affordable housing and health care, and to improve job conditions and neighborhood schools.

There is not much evidence to support its claims regarding affordable housing and health care, improved job conditions, or neighborhood schools.

ACORN, however, is the single known client of “civil rights attorney” Barack Obama during the time he practiced law.

Obama is also known to have trained ACORN organizers and staff prior to attending Harvard Law, so clearly his association with ACORN in Chicago stretches back over more than a decade.
Oswaldo

Bat one says

In the first place, without some sort of reasonably authoritative citations, your own accusations are worthless

And then gives as his “reasonably authoritative citation” the rightwing City Journal’s Sol Stern. In the context of this debate that reference is totally biased and worthless.
http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

Zsa Zsa. This happened in 2000 and 2004 in Florida and a few other states. The Democrat controlled voter board decided to not allow voting by US servicemen, especially from ships at sea supposedly because they did not have US Postal (union) employees on the ships and therefore did not have the official date stamp.

The dead voting came from former mayor Daily (Chicago of course) during the fraud election when JFK was elected? by votes bought by his father (who got his money bootlegging booze from Canada). If there ever was an invalid election, that was the year.

People sign dead people’s names to voter registration forms or just create IDs in their names and simply vote. Of course, that is a federal crime, but with Democrat Judges (boss hogs) Tammany Hall, etc who cares. President Bush has tried to prosecute these criminals ACORN, etc, but the Democrats have cried about it and falsely accused him of “firing” prosecutors (who refuse to enforce the law).
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Where do you register to vote when you are dead? I want to sign up just in case I die before the election.
Hannitized

Beardsley the ostentatious merkin blames me for his incompetence. Why expect less from the new conservatives?
http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

BatOne: This– is a good question.

Did Obama admit to training ACORN personnel when he was a “community organizer” in Chicago?

A very good question.

Where are the investigations, the tabloid smears and guesses. Bias?
Bat One

Sans attribution I’d say we’d have to call that fiction.

Rodney,

Just throw it on the stack in the corner.
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

How do they get away with not allowing our service men vote?
Hannitized

Why don’t y’all just Google Republican Voter Registration Fraud? That is what I did.

Apparently, someone registered George W. Bush…..oohhh….how terrible. Someone is going to go in and pretend to be George Bush…and vote twice for Obama!!!! Yeah, that is the ticket.

http://www.newshounds.us/2008/08/15/on_fox_voter_registration_fraud_most_newsworthy_of_election_rigging_techniques.php

FOX News is breaking out the quadrennial scare topic of “voter fraud,” bundling isolated incidents and turning it into a coordinated election-theft meme. They do this without ever mentioning election fraud and voter suppression tactics perfected by Republicans like vote caging and voter roll purges that disenfranchise tens of thousands, mostly African-Americans, or manipulation of electronic touch screen tallies. Unlike FOX News, BradBlog follows election tampering year-round and is a treasure trove of articles and facts.

snip.

FOX even has a dedicated email address for viewers to send “suspected or proven” instances of voter fraud to help them make their case. No comparable address exists for voters who have been disenfranchised.

More about nothing….
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Bat One, It is kind of funny because doesn’t Chicago have the haunted Highway or Cemetery famous for ghosts taking rides?
Oswaldo

There’s a lot of monkey business going on in connection with voter registration drives.

In Sacramento, California, there have been complaints that GOP-funded signature gatherers outside stores have registered people as Republicans without their knowledge by asking them to sign a petition against child abuse.

The GOP-funded company called Voters Outreach of America is known to have operated in Nevada, among other places. The company is funded by the Republican National Committee.
VOA has hired scores of temporary workers paid to sign up new voters. But not just any voters. It only wants Republican voters.

Company employees say they were given special training to identify potential GOP voters, and to avoid signing up any Democrats. They were told that if they signed up as many Democrats as Republicans, they would not be paid for the hours they spent in front of shopping malls, grocery stores or government offices.

Two employees of VOA say they personally witnessed the managers of the company removing and destroying the voter registration forms of those who signed up as Democrats. Those forms were torn up and thrown in the trash. The employees managed to retrieve some of the discarded papers and handed them over to reporters. The forms were completely filled out and were signed by people who thought their registrations would be filed officially, which never happened.
Hannitized

Nathan Sproul is the former head of the Arizona Republican Party and of the Arizona Christian Coalition (ah, the irony… a Christian).

Sproul is connected with the Republican National Committee-funded voter registration organization, Voter Outreach, Inc., a group that used paid registrars to register voters in a number of states including Nevada, Oregon, Arizona and perhaps more, including Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maine and Missouri. (Others states pending, particularly swing states.) Sproul’s organization also recruited registrars by fraudulently telling recruits that they would be working for America Votes, a legitimate nonpartisan GOTV operation!

But Nathan Sproul may have made one fatal mistake in his efforts… He got greedy. Yes, he failed to pay many workers and he didn’t pay his rent. He pissed some people off. And he raised suspicions. There is a good chance that this may be fraud on a MASSIVE scale…

According to this story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, additional employees have come forward to verify the complaints of destroying/discarding Dem voter applications. The workers were only paid for turning in Republican registartions.

Of course…..of course.
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

Intersting…

eunuchized the beardless catamite blockquotes a largish chunk (without attribution) and a google search on the string:

“proul is connected with the Republican National Committee-funded voter registration organization, Voter Outreach, Inc., a group that used paid registrars to register voters in a number of states including Nevada, Oregon, Arizona”

returns a null.

Sans attribution I’d say we’d have to call that fiction.
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

Proof asks:

What do you think he’s [B. Hussein Obama] going to get for his $800,000 [contribution to ACORN] Rodney?

The Zombie Vote.
Hannitized

The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN,

I wonder what right wing organization the rest of the problem applications are coming from?
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

Rob,

As I mentined in my post on this last night, the Obama campaign gave more than $800,000.00 to ACORN:

ACORN Watch, Pt II: Obama hid $800,000 payment to ACORN through “Citizen Services, Inc.”

By Michelle Malkin â€¢ August 22, 2008 11:46 AM

There’s much more to the story of Obama’s amended campaign finance reports than what Obama and the Obamedia will tell you. I will fill you in on what’s missing in a moment. What we have here, essentially, is Obama using a non-profit group called Citizens Services Inc. as a front to funnel payments to ACORN for campaign advance work. Obama officials say it’s no big deal. Nothing to see here. Move along. But where there’s left-wing laundering smoke, there’s fire. CSI has been the subject of a little-noticed complaint to the FEC by a Democrat who smelled something rotten going on between CSI, ACORN, and a left-wing 527, Communities Voting Together.
Oswaldo

You’d like me to answer YES? Okay, YES. Obama did not admit to training ACORN personnel.
It would be nice if the people posting here could refrain from behaving like a horde of unyielding rightwing radicals who find it inconceivable for their Republican/Conservative/Neocon cohorts to be wrong on any issue, and would stake their lives on the conviction that our Democrat/Liberal/Progressive elements are in fact wrong and evil on every issue. This applies particularly, with all due respect, to our thoroughly indoctrinated Chief RZ with his Communism is Evil signature. That senseless slogan, which smacks of McCarthyism, is not in keeping with the principles of our proud country. Is he implying that the freely and legally established Communist Party in our country is evil? Isn’t that just as meaningless as saying Capitalism is Evil ?

Also, it seems to me that your collective Florida vote-fudging, count-blocking and disenfranchisement mishugas is precisely what most of the country feels enabled the Republicans, and not the Democrats, to steal the presidential election.
Bat One

Zsa Zsa,

Native Chicagoan Rick Moran has your dead Democrat voters covered in an earlier PM piece on Rezko, Obama, and the corrupt Chicago Machine:

There are even documented instances where the desire to vote Democratic in Chicago carries on even beyond death. Having voted on Election Day all their adult lives, the dead have been known to rise from their graves in cemeteries all across the city, answering some irresistible urge not understood by science, and pull the lever for whoever the Machine tells them to.
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

How… obscure.

Perhaps eunuchized the beardless catamite would care to explain how purging voter roles of those who have moved (including those who have moved on to the next plane of existance, i.e. that reliable democRATic voting block the dead) is a disenfranchisement?
Bat One

Oswaldo,

Actually, your answers would be of little consequence in any case. Barack Obama’s relationship with the corrupt ACORN, like his long time relationships with the corrupt Chicago political machine, with Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, and the Rev. Wright, are all well known and well documented… no matter what you have to say about it.

Still, if you have any information that refutes my answers to any of these questions, by all means, bring it!
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Uh oh! I bet they are channeling all the dead Dems too?
Bat One

Oswaldo,

I’m not the least bit surprised by your tantrum against the City Journal, though I can’t help but think you’d have made the same pointless remark no matter what source I cited, and that you probably know as much about the City Journal as you do about Sanskrit conjugations and declensions.

Still, the fact remains, I have offered a citation for the information I’ve provided, while you have offered nothing to support your petty contentions, and nothing but timorous snark to rebut what I’ve said.

Is ACORN not a direct offshoot of the National Welfare Rights Organization? Has ACORN been accused of voter registration fraud in at least 6 states in the past? Have its employees been found guilty in court? Did Obama admit to training ACORN personnel when he was a “community organizer” in Chicago? Was Obama the attorney of record in the ACORN Motor Voter case? Did Obama shovel huge amounts of money to ACORN from the foundations he headed?

The answers to all these questions is a resounding “Yes!”

And for all your petulant whining, you have nothing to rebut or disprove any of this. NOTHING!

Don’t read the City Journal? That’s okay, really. It’s probably well above your intellectual pay grade in any case.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

along with the reservoir of political support that came to Obama through his close ties with Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, and other Chicago black churches, Chicago Acorn appears

Lets not forget Billy Ayers and his hateful wife.
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

Oswaldo,

The Obama Campaign (which he claims as his executive experience) has contributed $800,000.00 to ACORN.

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