The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now

ACORN. Community organizers. Ever heard of them? I hope so. You are paying for 40% of their budget. But don't worry, the Democrats call them the good guys. Helping people get registered to vote (because it is SO difficult these days). M. Malkin has a great piece on ACORN and the voter fraud that you are paying for.

Here are the highlights (bolds are my additions).

— Lake County, Ind., election officials this month rejected a large portion
of the 5,000 registration forms ACORN turned in after conducting registration
drives in the area all summer. Some vote canvassers had pulled names and
addresses from telephone books and forged signatures. According to local
reports, “large numbers of voter registration forms bore signatures all in the
same apparent handwriting style” and “apparently the organization’s canvassers
broke rules to meet ACORN-set voter registration quotas to get paid.” The fake registrants included dead people and underage
kids.

On a conference call yesterday, GOP officials noted that up to
11,000 voter applications were no good — tying up election officials and jeopardizing the voting rights of untold victims whose identities may
have been stolen.

– Last month, Milwaukee, Wis., officials discovered at least seven
felons employed as voter registration workers for ACORN and another affiliated
group. They also uncovered a raft of problematic voter registration cards. The
state GOP accused ACORN of attempting to enroll dead, imprisoned or
imaginary people to voter rolls. Fraud has plagued ACORN’s Milwaukee
chapter since the last election cycle.

– In Florida, in Orange County alone, ACORN workers turned in multiple
copycat forms for six separate voters over the summer. According to the Miami
Herald, “One individual had 21 duplicate
applications.” Election officials had flagged ACORN’s negligent practices several months ago, but it may be too late: In Orange, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, ACORN has signed up 135,000 new voters, nearly 60 percent of them registered as Democrats that constitute a fifth of all new voters in that region.

– In Ohio, large numbers of homeless people received free van and bus
rides to register. Shelby Holliday, a reporter for Palestra.net, filmed ACORN
shuttling prospects to the polls. She told me she spoke with one
homeless woman who told her ACORN “told her who to vote for if she wanted a ‘better life,’ and told her not to worry about jury duty (one of the
reasons this homeless woman didn’t want to register) because the government
probably wouldn’t be able to track her down. She was registering with a
temporary address.”

Ah! Corrupt Chicago politics on a grand scale. I actually heard one news report yesterday that of the multitude of fraudulent registrations was fake registrations from the entire Dallas Cowboy football team. Nice.

Corrupt campaign donations and fraudulent voter registration = Change You Should be Afraid Of.