ACORN-apalooza

This whole ACORN thing just keeps getting better.  And the Republicans are finally getting them in the public's sites.  McCain even spoke out about it today (after being asked though) at a town hall/rally.

(click video below or following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76jdskfy0RM)

First, we heard about ACORN's offices in Nevada being raided, computers and other equipment confiscated, etc...  Well now there's more.

From the WSJ:

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- As most states finalize voter rolls this week, Republican officials are reviving alarms about vote fraud.

One of the biggest instances of suspicious registrations is here in New Mexico, where the Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened a preliminary investigation into 1,400 potentially fraudulent voter registrations in the state's most populous county. ...

The Republican National Committee is trumpeting registration problems on part of its Web site titled, "You can't make this up." Among the incidents: In Virginia, a third-party registration group fired three workers who it said falsified nearly 100 applications.

In Nevada on Tuesday, state election officials raided the offices of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as Acorn, after receiving information about falsified registration cards. ...

In New Mexico, there is a history of razor-thin election margins, magnifying the impact of any potential fraud. At the end of election night in 2000, George W. Bush led by four votes. After discovering a box of misplaced ballots, officials declared Al Gore the winner by fewer than 400 votes out of about 600,000 cast. And in 2004, President Bush beat John Kerry by about 6,000 votes in the state. ...

Looks like past may be prologue if we're not careful.

Pressure to investigate voter fraud in New Mexico contributed to a Bush administration scandal that cost former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales his job last year. An internal Justice Department investigation concluded that David Iglesias, the U.S. attorney in New Mexico, was fired in 2006 largely because he didn't satisfy high-ranking Republicans' calls to investigate alleged vote-fraud cases. President Bush had privately complained to Mr. Gonzales about vote fraud in Albuquerque, blaming it for his loss to Mr. Gore in 2000, the investigation found.

Mr. Iglesias said a task force set up after the 2004 election struggled to find a prosecutable case. ...

I'd say they've just found a case.  No wonder the Dems howled bloody-murder when Bush dumped a guy for not doing his job...since part of the job he wasn't doing was investigating Democrat voter fraud.

More?

Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states. ...

“I don’t even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy,” Davis said. “We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don’t exist, people who have driver’s license numbers that won’t verify or Social Security numbers that won’t verify. Some have no address at all.” ...

FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said the agency has been in contact with elections officials about potential voter fraud and plans to investigate.

From Ohio:

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has turned in at least 65,000 cards to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in the last year. The board has investigated potentially fraudulent cards since August.

The group has faced similar inquiries in other large Ohio counties. And Nevada state authorities recently raided ACORN’s Las Vegas headquarters searching for evidence of fraud, according to the Associated Press.

Local representatives of the organization told Cuyahoga board members that they don’t have the resources to identify fraudulent cards turned in by paid canvassers who are told to register low- and moderate-income voters. ...

And get this, Indianapolis has 105% voter registration:

According to STATSIndiana, In 2007, Indianapolis/Marion County had an estimated population of 876,804. Of that number 232,607 were below 18 years of age, for a total of 644,197 people in Marion County/Indianapolis 18 or over and thus eligible to vote. (Indiana allows felons to vote as long as they are not incarcerated).

So we have 644,197 people eligible to be registered in Marion County/Indianapolis, and 677,401 people registered. Congratulations go to Indianapolis for having 105% of its residents registered!

And guess who's been paying ACORN to to Get-out-the-vote work??  I'll give you three guesses, and the last two don't count...

Via Say Anything...

Five weeks ago, one of our regulars here at SAB took note of a Michelle Malkin piece on ACORN’s nefarious “voter registration” activities, here.  Included was the fact that the Obama campaign had been forced to correct its filings with the FEC regarding payments made from “advance work” to “get-out-the-vote” work instead.  ACORN, which claims to be non-partisan and a non-profit, was paid over $800,000 by the Obama campaign, through its front group, Citizens Services, Inc. for that so-called “advance work.” Obviously, the documentation supporting that “advance work” claim by Obama was fraudulent. ...

Good luck hearing anything about this on the evening news. 

H/T: Michelle Malkin

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