In photos: 'USA Presidential Elections - October 9th'
By James Wray Oct 9, 2008, 19:31 GMT
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ACORN has been implicated in voter-fraud schemes in 15 states - including Ohio, from where The Post’s Jeane MacIntosh reports today that a Board of Elections investigation has unearthed evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Two voters told MacIntosh they had been dragooned by ACORN activists into registering several times - one reporting having signed up “10 to 15″ times.
ACORN canvassers “would ask me if I was registered,” he said. “I’d say yes and they’d ask me to do it again.”
Meanwhile IBD asks how much Obama knows about ACORN and its illegal shenanigans:
A radical group Barack Obama used to work for is committing voter-registration fraud in several states, ahead of the election. What does Obama know about this scam?
It’s a legitimate question to raise now that the FBI has raided the offices of the nonprofit Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in Nevada and North Carolina, two states where Obama and John McCain are running neck-and-neck. ACORN has registered bogus voters in both states.
The group’s voter-registration fraud is rampant, and authorities plan a nationwide sweep of ACORN offices to collect records.
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In North Carolina, where Obama has been running nonstop ads, ACORN has registered a record number of new voters, many of them suspicious. Statewide, Democrats are doing better than the GOP in new converts — even in traditionally Republican counties.
There have been 218,749 newly registered Democrats in North Carolina since January — more than five times the 38,337 new Republicans, state records show.
The numbers show a startlingly close political battle even in Republican-dominated Union County, with 4,233 new voters registering as Democrats and 4,362 as Republicans. In previous election years, new Republicans have outnumbered Democrats 2-to-1 in the fast-growing Charlotte-area county.
In Missouri, one ACORN registrant named Monica Rays showed up on no less than eight forms, all bearing the same signature.
Suspicious election officials sent letters to some 5,000 ACORN registrants in St. Louis, asking the letter recipients to contact them.
Fewer than 40 reponded.
The editorial then notes that ACORN has endorsed him for President, and that Obama has paid the group 800 grand to register new voters. The kicker is that the 800 grand donation was never accurately reported by the Obama camp, instead they were disguised as payments to a ACORN front group called the Citizens Services Inc. and that the payments were for “advance work.”
Something more to think about:
…Obama worked as executive director of ACORN’s voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992. Joined by two other community organizers on Chicago’s South Side, Obama conducted the voter-registration drive that helped elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the Senate that year.
The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal “Motor Voter” law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud.
So do you think he knows what’s going on?
Do you think he knows about the million dollar embezzlement case against ACORN executives, especially when its Michelle Obama’s old law firm representing the crooks?
Does he know about these shananigans as reported on by Michelle Malkin:
* Missouri - Officials now have to sift through hundreds of bogus applications submitted last August.
* Connecticut - A criminal investigation has been opened into ACORN fraud.
* Wisconsin - Registering convicted felons.
* Ohio - ACORN tells Cuyahoga County’s election board that they can’t stop themselves from committing fraud.
* Indiana - Over a thousand new applications from ACORN appear to investigators to be fraudulent, and that should be no surprise, since Indianapolis now has 105% of its population registered to vote.
We shouldn’t be surprised about this. Obama has a long history of strong arm tactics and shenanigans. But the MSM is in full court defense mode by spinning these illegal vote stories as Republicans wanting to silence the Democrat voters. Doesn’t matter that there are fictional people registered to vote. Doesn’t matter if there are real people registered to vote a dozen times over….no, its the Republicans fault.
www.floppingaces.net/2008/10/09/stealing-the-election/
Your October surprise.
“There’s no doubt there’s an investigation. The only question is do they have the evidence to shut down ACORN before Nov 4th or will they just do these state-coordinated raids to try to keep the vote clean until they can indict the national organization?”
UPDATE #2: We don’t have a transcript yet, but apparently Rush Limbaugh is talking about this story today too. So, something must be happening with this that’s bigger than we originally thought.
Original Post: Tonight we talked to someone who works in the federal courts here in Chicago.
The buzz in those corridors is that federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been leading a team of FBI investigators in 10 states working on a RICO case.
Today, it was announced that ACORN is being investigated in 10 states.
That’s one Hell of a coincidence.
We asked why Fitzgerald would be involved in this, because he’s the prosecutor on the Tony Rezko case and we aren’t aware of ACORN being investigated in Illinois.
We were told that ACORN was investigated in Illinois years ago, and it was a Fitzgerald case then. This means ACORN’s activities today, involving a conspiracy to commit multi-state voter fraud on SoetorObama’s behalf, are an extension of that previous ACORN case.
Our source in federal courts said, “Any crime that involves more than two people and is carried out across state lines qualifies as a corrupt organization. The fact that those “Goodwill” donations were made in Texas and received at Obama headquarters in Chicago or Washington means it qualifies for RICO.”
The “Goodwill donations” referred to above are the $228 million in undocumented, unverified campaign contributions the SoetorObama camp has received — which the McCain campaigned filed a complaint to the FEC on this past Monday.
We’ve also heard that the Clinton campaign filed complaints to the FBI and other federal agencies over SoetorObama’s fraud in the Iowa, Texas and other caucuses: voter intimidation, registration fraud, and other illegal activities.
The last thing we were told tonight in regards to all of this was that “the meme here is a tying together of all these various threads. That’s what you will see in the last weeks of the campaign: all things being tied together”.
If everything rumored here is true, it looks like David Axelrod, Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, SoetorObama himself, and possibly even Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were all involved, together, in massive RICO violations, and thus federal fraud, if the DNC and party leadership knew what the SoetorObama campaign and ACORN were up to and allowed it to proceed. Knowledge of federal crimes being committed makes all parties accessories to those crimes — and part of the conspiracy to defraud the public.
NYPost’s Jeane MacIntosh is doing great work exposing ACORN’s standard operating procedures in Ohio.
The latest:
A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.
“Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they’ll give me a dollar to sign up,” said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
“The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I am already registered. The girl said, ‘You are?’ I say, ‘Yup,’ and then they say, ‘Can you just sign up again?’ ” he said.
of the corporate world government that is why the media is selling him to us.
He is a dream for developers who want to build more and more high density infill housing and the only outcome will be sooner or later that we pay for it while others profit
that and global warming fueled by massive overpopulation
Wave to the camera, sweetie, while you have the chance - your 5 minutes of fame are almost up!
Jane got interviewed by Howard Stern recently:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyvqhdllXgU
That's probably the only place you go to for your info! There's a whole other world out there to enlighten someone with your arrested development!
One can only hope. McSame is for sure not the answer.
With a possible President Palin, the U.S. would resemble a giant sink hole!
Gee Jackie/Jane/morbadly obese sock puppet generating loser welfare case... thanks for your opinion, posted over and over again with different names in the box.
You are just jealous because she is attractive and successful and you are an ugly cow loser. That is the heart of the leftist mentality: Jealousy and an inability to produce anything other then complaints.
Palin has proven over and over how uninformed and dumb she is, but some people have wool over their eyes. Not many any more, but some! They refuse to face facts, but that's ok - you're forgiven!
Geez, I dont want a 'brilliant speaker' as my President. I want a tough, sharp and disciplined and experienced man who can look our adversaries in the eye and tell them to go to hell if need be. Obama couldn't keep his balance in the same room with the likes of the 'wing nuts' in South asia and the mid-east. For crying out loud, Condoleeza Rice would be a tougher opponent to Putin and Chavez in her running clothes than Obama would be on his best day! (Obama's going to be another appeaser like Neville Chamberlain was in the late 1930's vs. Hitler)
Give me McCain or start over.
'Palin has proven over and over how uninformed and dumb she is,'
So have you.
'but some people have wool over their eyes.'
You are a needy follower who is too uninformed to have a legitimate opinion so you adopt that of your favorite celebrity or peer group. People like you have sought out the message that you want to hear and have adopted it as 'truth'. It is too bad your stupidity, intellectual laziness and desire for 'belonging' rather then an honest examination of the situation are going to drag the rest of us down.
I don't deserve to be dragged down to your lowest common denominator. Neither does the country.
I beg to differ about who is uninformed, and if Palin as an attractive woman is as good an argument as you've got for her, then your head has been firmly planted in the sand!
'I beg to differ about who is uninformed,'
You are probably used to begging.
' and if Palin as an attractive woman is as good an argument as you've got for her,'
It isn't.
' then your head has been firmly planted in the sand!'
Want to know where yours is planted?
Your responses are SO predictable! McCain and Palin are toast, so guess you'll have to be drug down with the rest of the country...........Palin didn't do McCain much good with her hate speeches and getting the crowd in a frenzy. She WOULD have made it big in the old south, no doubt.
'so guess you'll have to be drug[sic] down with the rest of the country....'
It seems that you are on drugs.
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