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Nevada ACORN Office Raided By State Authorities
Nevada investigators today raided the offices of ACORN -- a group that works to register minorities and low-income people to vote -- looking for evidence of voter fraud, reports the Associated Press.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform (ACORN) is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names, according to a spokesman at the office of Secretary of State Ross Miller, a Democrat.
Two months ago, state and federal authorities formed a joint task force to pursue charges of election fraud in Nevada.
We're looking into the question of how much credible evidence exists of ACORN's involvement in significant voting fraud, and will keep you posted.
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Say it ain't so!
Hell, if they manage to get one fraudulent ACORN operation, we'll hear about the "vote fraud" excuse Karl Rove has used to justify his cage and suppress tactics to negate legitimate votes.
If this is a bad apple, it will be blasted from every traditional media outlet known to humankind.
How is it that the country wide, consistent, GOPer's vote suppression techniques get a sniff and a pass?
October 7, 2008 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey this ACORN stuff is no joke! Here in Wisconsin they're accused (and apparently guilty of) hiring felons to register voters and then accepting obviously fraudulent registration forms from them. I HATE this since the reps are going to use this brush to tar all voter registration efforts as corrupt. ACORN should be dropped in a hole!
October 7, 2008 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
"felons"? You mean people who are IN JAIL!? Impossible.
Or do you mean EX-felons -- those who've done the time therefore paid for their crime? Is it illegal to hire EX-felons now?
October 7, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
You mean this likely politically motivated investigation?
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/wisc_ags_office_denies_voter_r.php
Why does this issue bring the trolls out?
October 7, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK ex-felons. It is NOT illegal to hire ex-felons by and large but ACORN was hiring them in a capacity in which by state statute ex-felons are not allowed to be employed.
BTW, ohiomeister: I'm hardly trolling. Anything that lends the least bit of credibility to the right wing argument that these dang lefty communist voter registration drives are corrupting the system is a shame. that's all I'm saying.
October 8, 2008 12:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is all bullshoot.
This is a COINTELPRO OPERATION.
PROVOCATEURS are sent into volunteer...and then they set up ACORN FOR THE FALL.
SD AG MARK BARNETT tried some of this crap in South Dakota when RICH GORDON became a political target. Of course the "opening of the investigation" was the harassment used to discredit...and of course...THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE OF ANY WRONGDOING ABOUT ANYTHING.
IT'S A WAY FOR THE FBI HQ TO GET NY TIMES to print a derogatory story that painted RICH GORDON as some kind of a criminal.
Rich's brother told me that..."...RICH GOT ARRESTED..."??????????????????
FALSE ARREST BY COPS AND PROSECUTORS FAMOUS FOR RUNNING A VERY CORRUPT POLICE GESTAPO.
SD AG was also instrumental in "OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE" WHEN THOMAS S. BEAN filed numerous STATE BAR ETHICS COMPLAINTS and Medical Board complaints.
Looks like GOP is attacking Dems on their strength...honestly getting out the vote.
Some US ATTORNEYS were either fired or resigned when they refused to go along with this heavy handed smear campaign crap.
October 7, 2008 2:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funds Misappropriated at 2 Nonprofit Groups - NYTimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/us/09embezzle.html By STEPHANIE STROM
Published: July 9, 2008
Two prominent national nonprofit groups are reeling from public disclosures that large sums of money were misappropriated in unrelated incidents by an employee and a former employee.
The groups, Acorn, one of the country’s largest community organizing groups, and the Points of Light Institute, which works to encourage civic activism and volunteering, have dealt with the problems in very different ways.
Acorn chose to treat the embezzlement of nearly $1 million eight years ago as an internal matter and did not even notify its board. After Points of Light noticed financial irregularities in early June, it took less than a month for management to alert federal prosecutors, although group officials say they have no clear idea yet what the financial impact may be.
A whistle-blower forced Acorn to disclose the embezzlement, which involved the brother of the organization’s founder, Wade Rathke.
The brother, Dale Rathke, embezzled nearly $1 million from Acorn and affiliated charitable organizations in 1999 and 2000, Acorn officials said, but a small group of executives decided to keep the information from almost all of the group’s board members and not to alert law enforcement.
October 7, 2008 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
8 years ago?
My, how relevant.
Next you'll be blaming Clinton for 9/11, despite the fact that the person alleged to be "in charge" on that day was election-thief G. W. Bushit.
October 7, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
That sucks but is totally irrelevant to the issue at hand. Posting it seems pretty trollish.
October 7, 2008 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I suggest that in articles of this kind you are more careful to distinguish between vote fraud and registration fraud. Since no one has actually voted, this cannot be a vote fraud investigation. However, the perpetrators of this kind of voter suppression tactic like to call it vote fraud. In fact, what we have is registration fraud. Yet all available evidence shows that registration fraud almost never leads to vote fraud.
October 7, 2008 3:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Watch this ACORN stuff. This is the next master villian to be propped up by the unendingly loony right. Now, of course, they choose their targets carefully, and ACORN wouldn't be the fairest of them all if it weren't ripe to be exploited for conservative purposes. The deception is the import of all these investigations, not whatever the hell one group of community organizers is doing.
Also a red flag, we have what looks to be a paid right wing propagandist registering at this cite to post here. Thanks for stopping by and earning yourself a few cents Michael.
Say what you will about the right- they are most certainly motivated when it comes to deluding the American people.
October 7, 2008 4:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans are losing, so they use the government to both intimidate and subvert the political process.
After the election is over, and the harm is done, the investigators will come up with nothing.
In the meantime, the neocons will use the investigation as "proof" that the Dems are in the wrong.
We can expect more of these trumped-up charges with the politized DOJ and the corrupt Republican state governments leading the way.
October 7, 2008 5:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't figure out how to post this on its own, but:
Get researching the Community Reinvestment Act. From all the Republicans I know (plenty, I used to work in oil) the facebook posts and chain emails are all blaming the economy on the Democrats' "Community Reinvestment Act," which supposedly "forces" banks to make subprime loans.
I'm certain that's where John McCain is going to attack Obama tonight. Be ready.
http://www.gazette.com/opinion/home_41511___article.html/lending_obama.html?
October 7, 2008 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink