There have been numerous reports of voter registration fraud this year because of the National election, but ACORN has been in the news for this kind of activity since 1989.
Yesterday agents raided an ACORN office in Nevada, AP reported. Ohio is having trouble in Cuyahoga County with suspicious registration cards- and Missouri who was in the news with Acorn fraud in 2006 is in the news again. I’m sure Obama would ike to distance himself from them, but he has ties to them.
Obama hid $800,000 payment to ACORN through “Citizen Services, Inc.”
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat’s campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.
An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. — a subsidiary of ACORN — worked in “get-out-the-vote” projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary. http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/22/acorn-watch-pt-ii-obama-hid-800000-payment-to-acorn-through-citizen-services-inc/
Barack Obama and Bill Ayers also funded ACORN through hundred thousands of dollar grants when they worked in the Woods Fund and later in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. ACORN had federal indictments in 2006.
ACORN voter Fraud (past few days only)
Yesterday Cuyahoga County Election Board members grilled representatives of a community group Tuesday about their links to suspicious voter registration cards.
In one case, a Cleveland resident was registered to vote three times in a single day, listing two different addresses.
The man’s registration was submitted to the Board of Elections by ACORN.
The board discussed several other cases of multiple registrations at their meeting. ACORN was involved in each case, although not for all entries by the same individuals.
“Problems do occur and we are concerned as you are, perhaps in some cases more concerned because our name is on that,” says Teresa James, an attorney volunteering with ACORN.
Today: October 8, 2008
We just heard from Eric Shawn this morning, about a Fox News exclusive. He’s in Missouri digging up the same thing. He had one woman who registered four or five different times with different addresses. This is happening all over the place.
DOOCY: And the reason it’s coming to light right now is because there was that one-week window in some states where you could register ending on Monday. ACORN, by the way, simultaneously just yesterday announced that this has been their most successful year ever. In 21 states they registered 1.3 million. Now, ACORN was submitting the information through apparently a voter sign-in drive known as Project Vote.
An Anti-Capitalism Agenda 
To understand the nature and extent of Acorn’s radicalism, an excellent place to begin is Sol Stern’s 2003 City Journal article, “ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities.” (For a shorter but helpful piece, try Steven Malanga’s “Acorn Squash.”)
The City, 2003, Sol Stern
If you thought the New Left was dead in America, think again. Walk through just about any of the nation’s inner cities, and you’re likely to find an office of ACORN, bustling with young people
working 12-hour days to “organize the poor” and bring about “social change.”
Community organizing among the urban poor has been an honorable American tradition since Jane Addams’s famous Hull House dramatically uplifted the late-nineteenth-century Chicago slums, but ACORN and Addams are on different planets philosophically. Hull House and its many successors emphasized self-empowerment: the poor, they thought, could take control of their lives and communities through education, hard work, and personal responsibility. Not ACORN. It promotes a 1960s-bred agenda of anti-capitalism, central planning, victimology, and government handouts to the poor. As a result, not only does it harm the poor it claims to serve; it is also a serious threat to the urban future. http://www.city journal.org/html/13_2_acorns_nutty_regime.html
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