Cut: speaking of Palast ... did ya catch this on PBS?
Palast: I know because I have Karl Rove's emails. No kidding. He and his team aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. They sent copies of their plans to GeorgeWBush.ORG instead of GeorgeWBush.COM addresses -- and, heh heh, they ended up in my in-box. Who says this job ain't fun?
Palast: A lot of intelligent folk believe Bush had a secret plan to grab the oil fields of Iraq before the tanks rolled. That's wrong. He had TWO plans. In Armed Madhouse, I show you both -- the result of two years undercover for BBC. The plans conflict. There's the neo-con plan: Privatize -- that is, sell off -- everything, "especially the oil" industry. That's a quote from the 101-page document which I learned was written by the neo-cons. That didn't happen -- because a Jim Baker team -- he's the lawyer for both Exxon and Saudi Arabia -- secretly wrote a 323-page plan that called for CONTROLLING the oil flow, not owning it. The purpose was to LIMIT the supply of oil from Iraq and keep prices high. This would, "enhance [Iraq's] relationship with OPEC" -- the oil cartel. That's a quote from the document you're not supposed to see.
http://www.gregpalast.com/amy-goodman-and-greg-palast-moms-day-broadcast/
Palast: I know because I have Karl Rove's emails. No kidding. He and his team aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. They sent copies of their plans to GeorgeWBush.ORG instead of GeorgeWBush.COM addresses -- and, heh heh, they ended up in my in-box. Who says this job ain't fun?
Palast: A lot of intelligent folk believe Bush had a secret plan to grab the oil fields of Iraq before the tanks rolled. That's wrong. He had TWO plans. In Armed Madhouse, I show you both -- the result of two years undercover for BBC. The plans conflict. There's the neo-con plan: Privatize -- that is, sell off -- everything, "especially the oil" industry. That's a quote from the 101-page document which I learned was written by the neo-cons. That didn't happen -- because a Jim Baker team -- he's the lawyer for both Exxon and Saudi Arabia -- secretly wrote a 323-page plan that called for CONTROLLING the oil flow, not owning it. The purpose was to LIMIT the supply of oil from Iraq and keep prices high. This would, "enhance [Iraq's] relationship with OPEC" -- the oil cartel. That's a quote from the document you're not supposed to see.
http://www.gregpalast.com/amy-goodman-and-greg-palast-moms-day-broadcast/
Palast pushes conspiracy theory and then writes books about it to line his own pockets for left wing sheep.
Its just too funny that people actually believe in paid journalism...when the guy has a vested interest in lining his own pockets.
Only libs would even consider such things news...but then again...they all believe in 9/11 conspiracy too.
Just ignorant sheep.
He only appears on the BBC and PBS...what does that tell you? :lol:
Palast laughs all the way to the bank at all the useful idiots. Unreal.
Just topped the record for idiocy. That takes talent. You are a complete lying ass on the subject of Palast. It's obvious that you are scared of what he writes to lie and deceive at such a level. Anyone that takes you seriously on the subject of Palast is a fool.
Yeah right shorty...and you think ACORN is wonderful for scamming elections with illegal voter registration drives made up of dead people.
We've seen your comments on the subject...you have ZERO credibility.
ZERO.
You would rather cheat and win...thats your agenda...stop voter ID so you can continue with ACORN vote fraud.
Tell us when you turn honest...then you can discuss this stuff.
Palast uses people like you to pad his pockets with book royalty's.
I'll keep pointing it out until you wise up...lefties are so freakin naive it boggles the mind sometimes.
hno:What a lying scumbag! Insert Dick Cheney's catch phrase here. Anyone that insinuates that I'm for cheating and I'm for voter fraud is a dishonest, lying, piece of shit. I trust that most reading this with any knowledge of what I've posted in the past can recognize the level of dishonesty you continue to stoop to. It's basically impossible to miss. At the risk of banishment, if you were in front of me and accused me of being for cheating and voter fraud, do you think you would be safe from physical harm?
I've never promoted ACORN. After doing my own research, all I've ever done is expose you're blatant dishonesty regarding them (what a shock, you did it again in this thread). You prey on others who have little knowledge of the facts and try to fool them into believing your lies. In my book, those that do that are a piece of shit.
I'll address your (baseless) Palast accusations later.
Shorty...you have made excuses for ACORN many times here trying to portray them as some innocent organization.
And you are against voter ID because that would eliminate the illegal voter registration that ACORN does all over the country.
Thats all we need to know...you are FOR vote fraud.
Now you threaten me? Typical.
You are so naive...you think Palast is a journalist....hno::lol:
Just some of the Recent Fraud From the Organization Cut Shorty Sticks up for. Being naive doesn't justify your position.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 border=0><TBODY><TR align=middle bgColor=lightgrey><TD>State </TD><TD>Year </TD><TD align=left>Details </TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>AR</TD><TD>1998</TD><TD>A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>CO</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>CO</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>FL</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>MI</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>MO</TD><TD>2003</TD><TD>Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>NC</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards. </TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>NM</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>NM</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>OH</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>MN</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>PA</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>TX</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>VA</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.
In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia." </TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>WI</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
And you are against voter ID because that would eliminate the illegal voter registration that ACORN does all over the country.
Thats all we need to know...you are FOR vote fraud.
Now you threaten me? Typical.
You are so naive...you think Palast is a journalist....
hno::lol:Just some of the Recent Fraud From the Organization Cut Shorty Sticks up for. Being naive doesn't justify your position.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 border=0><TBODY><TR align=middle bgColor=lightgrey><TD>State </TD><TD>Year </TD><TD align=left>Details </TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>AR</TD><TD>1998</TD><TD>A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>CO</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>CO</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>FL</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>MI</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>MO</TD><TD>2003</TD><TD>Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>NC</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards. </TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>NM</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>NM</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>OH</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>MN</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>PA</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>TX</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>VA</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.
In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia." </TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>WI</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
You are a dishonest, lying, piece of shit. I've stated on numerous occasions why I'm against voter ID laws and the reasons are far removed than what you portray and want others to believe. You know this and you continue to lie and lie and lie. Voter ID laws are a con job on the electorate from the immoral mind of Karl Rove and his cohorts. It's designed to suppress votes of the poor, the homeless, the elderly, and people of color. It's been put into application in the past with great success in suppressing votes that don't usually go to Republicans. That is why they want it so badly in more and more states and they need to con the public into believing that voter fraud is rampant in order to get it approved. I know this, others know it, Rove knows it, and you know it.
You know this because you are part of the con. Your position is one of anti-democracy. You want to keep legitimate voters that aren't likely to vote for your candidate out of the voting booth and you don't give a crap about them and their right to vote.
Nonsense...and cool it with the verbal abuse.
All you can do is attack with the verbal assault...because your position is naive and ignorant.
By far, Americans want voter ID. Its just common sense. Even Carter agrees with me.There are laws to accomodate the poor and elderly. ACORN can drive them all to get free ID"s...instead of registering dead people to vote.
The ONLY people against voter ID are the people who want to cheat...period. There is no other legitimate reason.
Showing ID to ensure fair elections is just common sense...to everybody...except Palast....and a few left wing nuts that buy his goofy conspiracy books.
The only people who are against voter ID laws are quasi-Marxists who want power -- nothing but power -- and believe their holier-than-thou ends justifies their repulsive means.
No voter ID means Mexicans can vote, pets can vote, dead people can vote, criminals can vote, your imaginary friend can vote.... pretty much anyone (and anything) can vote. Americans need to show driver's license to rent a movie at Blockbuster but the loony left thinks voter ID laws are 'unreasonable', 'fascist' and -- oh yes -- 'undemocratic'.
Hey cut across shorty, now that the Spanish parliament has essentially declared apes have the same rights as humans (they are our evolutionary cousins, after all) one wonders how long before you and your loonies on the left will begin lobbying for the same insanity here -- complete full voting rights, of course?
Seriously, is this what you call 'progressive'?
Progressive: because yesterday's insanity should be tomorrow's reality!
No voter ID means Mexicans can vote, pets can vote, dead people can vote, criminals can vote, your imaginary friend can vote.... pretty much anyone (and anything) can vote. Americans need to show driver's license to rent a movie at Blockbuster but the loony left thinks voter ID laws are 'unreasonable', 'fascist' and -- oh yes -- 'undemocratic'.
Hey cut across shorty, now that the Spanish parliament has essentially declared apes have the same rights as humans (they are our evolutionary cousins, after all) one wonders how long before you and your loonies on the left will begin lobbying for the same insanity here -- complete full voting rights, of course?
Seriously, is this what you call 'progressive'?
Progressive: because yesterday's insanity should be tomorrow's reality!
I know more about this issue that 99% of Americans. The idea that my position is naive and ignorant is laughable and since you continue to lie about and distort my position, your statement is on some dimension other than reality. The biggest lie of all is your claim that I'm for voter fraud. If you were to say that to my face, those would be fighting words. I'll offer you one opportunity to apologize and admit that you know that's untrue and that you won't do it again. If that were to occur, there can be a reasonable discussion without any verbal abuse. Until now, any verbal abuse has been completely warranted and took numerous exchanges to get me to that point.
I'm skeptical that you'll ever make that admission (it should have come long ago) and would require you to somewhat abandon the RNC/GOP taking points that the higher ups (like Rove) dispatch to their minions. It would require you to abandon the following talking/lying point in particular:
and would require you to acknowledge that voter ID laws have pitfalls that I've described on numerous occasions and won't redundantly go into here. If voter ID laws could stop 100 illegally cast votes from occurring at the expense of denying 1 million legally registered citizens from getting into the voting booth, would the laws be worth it? The only people that would answer "yes" would be Karl Rove and GOP zealots who only care about winning and not the integrity of the process.
I haven't read fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias's new book, but I believe his writings would be compatible and in line with my position on the subject. I anticipate that you'll attempt to smear and discredit Iglesias, who is honorable american and was fired because he wouldn't do their bidding by prosecuting innocent people so that the bogus voter fraud argument could be fortified.
You've already been made aware of this, but for those reading that aren't aware, the DOJ under the Bush administration has made it a top priority to identify and prosecute voter fraud (No prior administration has made it a top priority). The reasons for this are to justify their desire for voter ID laws. In 6 years, they found very little evidence of voter fraud.
They were able to get 8 convictions of people that were working for ACORN. The GOP/RNC talking points that MR_MJ puts forward attempts to use ACORN as an example of rampant voter fraud and that elections are being tainted or stolen. What the talking point doesn't tell you is that 7 of these convictions were temp workers that were hired off the street and not full-time ACORN employees. These temp workers were tasked with registering new voters and they were to get paid based on how many they could register.
ACORN should've been able to see this coming, but the 7 convicted chose to fill in the registration forms themselves with made up names, names out of the phonebook, etc. and turn the falsified registration forms in so they could collect their pay. These temp workers were subsequebtly turned over to the authorities by ACORN and confessed to what they had done. The 8th conviction was that of a full-time ACORN supervisor. That conviction was overturned on appeal. These are the facts. These facts have been pointed out to MR_MJ before and he justs continues with his talking points that include the accusation that ACORN is stealing elections. There's been absolutely no evidence that anyone has ever attempted to vote using a falsified regitration that was collected by ACORN. ACORN is certainly guilty of horrible quality control (back in 2004 or therabouts) and It's my understanding that these quality control issues have been resolved (note that the list of ACORN related problems that MR_MJ cut and pasted ends in 2005).
So you believe that someone or many that are in this country illegally are willing to commit a felony and risk punishment that would include deportation just so they could cast a vote. You're just another GOP/RNC talking point bullshit artist. You will successfully find some fools who will believe you, but many will be intelligent enough not to fall for it.
Shorty says there is nothing to see here people...now move along.
Do not look behind the curtain....for I am the great and all knowing OZ!
Shorty knows more about this than 99% of you...just ask him.hno:
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 border=0><TBODY><TR align=middle bgColor=lightgrey><TD>State </TD><TD>Year </TD><TD align=left>Details </TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>AR</TD><TD>1998</TD><TD>A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>CO</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>CO</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>FL</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>MI</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>MO</TD><TD>2003</TD><TD>Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>NC</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards. </TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>NM</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>NM</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>OH</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>MN</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>PA</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>TX</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>VA</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.
In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia." </TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>WI</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Do not look behind the curtain....for I am the great and all knowing OZ!
Shorty knows more about this than 99% of you...just ask him.
hno:<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 border=0><TBODY><TR align=middle bgColor=lightgrey><TD>State </TD><TD>Year </TD><TD align=left>Details </TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>AR</TD><TD>1998</TD><TD>A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>CO</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>CO</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>FL</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>MI</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>MO</TD><TD>2003</TD><TD>Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>NC</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards. </TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>NM</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>NM</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>OH</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>MN</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>PA</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>TX</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=lightgrey><TD>VA</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.
In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia." </TD></TR><TR bgColor=white><TD>WI</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Shorty says there is nothing to see here people...now move along.
Do not look behind the curtain....for I am the great and all knowing OZ!
Shorty knows more about this than 99% of you...just ask him.
I welcome anyone to read what I wrote and then read your copy and pasted list. The fact is that ACORN has been investigated by the DOJ to an extent greater than any person or organization. The results of the DOJ investigations are 8 convictions, 1 of which was overturned. In each conviction, they were temp workers who submitting false voter registration cards to justify their paycheck. There is absolutely no evidence that anyone was attempting to file false registrations and then cast a vote using the false registration. I have no problem with ACORN being monitored closely by the powers that be. However, I do have a problem with scumbag, lying, pieces of shit.
