Obama Using ACORN For Census

[glockmail]

Looks like Democrat cheating is to be taken to a whole new level.


Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says the Obama administration is partnering with the liberal activist organization ACORN to rig the upcoming census.

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“It has become plain that when candidate Obama talked about change, he was talking about using the system to create permanent liberal control of the federal government,” Steele writes in a fundraising letter.

“President Obama's old friends from ACORN, the leftist, urban ‘community’ organization with a long history of promoting vote fraud, has been chosen by the Administration as a ‘partner’ with the Census Bureau to determine population counts in cities around the country.”

In an ACORN voter registration drive during the 2008 election, 400,000, or about 30 percent, of the registrations proved to be faulty, and some were fraudulent. The activity triggered investigations in 13 states. http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/rove_biden_liar/2009/04/10/201836.html?s=al&promo_code=7DBF-1

[Jagger]

The Truth About ACORN http://washingtonindependent.com/12470/the-truth-about-acorn.

[Jagger]

Which prominent Republican told an audience at an ACORN-sponsored rally two years ago that groups like ACORN are “what makes America special”?

[PostmodernProphet]

The Truth About ACORN http://washingtonindependent.com/12470/the-truth-about-acorn.

the difference is, while a nonexistent registered voter may never vote, a counted nonexistent citizen alters congressional districts......

[PostmodernProphet]

Which prominent Republican told an audience at an ACORN-sponsored rally two years ago that groups like ACORN are “what makes America special”?

and a handicapped child is what makes the Special Olympics special......what's your point?......

[Kathianne]

The Truth About ACORN http://washingtonindependent.com/12470/the-truth-about-acorn.

That wasn't truth, it was really a list of talking points.

Here's a less biased, :rolleyes: source:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/us/politics/24acorn.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin


October 24, 2008
Group’s Tally of New Voters Was Vastly Overstated

By MICHAEL FALCONE and MICHAEL MOSS
On Oct. 6, the community organizing group Acorn and an affiliated charity called Project Vote announced with jubilation that they had registered 1.3 million new voters. But it turns out the claim was a wild exaggeration, and the real number of newly registered voters nationwide is closer to 450,000, Project Vote’s executive director, Michael Slater, said in an interview.

The remainder are registered voters who were changing their address and roughly 400,000 that were rejected by election officials for a variety of reasons, including duplicate registrations, incomplete forms and fraudulent submissions from low-paid field workers trying to please their supervisors, Mr. Slater acknowledged.

In registration drives, it is common for a percentage of newly registered voters to be disqualified for various reasons, although experts say the percentage is higher when groups pay workers to gather registrations. But the disclosure on Thursday that 30 percent of Acorn’s registrations were faulty was described by Republicans as further proof of what they said was Acorn’s effort to tilt the election unfairly.

“We were wondering how many were Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse,” said Danny Diaz, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee. “The group is really tainted, and any work they do is suspect.”

Republicans had been prepared for months to make an issue of Acorn’s registration drive. A year ago, the party’s national committee anticipated the surge of new registrations by putting a map of the country on its Web site, labeled “You Can’t Make This Up! Vote Fraud.”

Democrats and officials with Acorn accuse Republicans of trying to manufacture a controversy to deflect attention from alleged voter suppression activities in several states. Election officials and experts say there is little chance that significant numbers of supporters of either party would actually try to vote through a fraudulent registration.

Over the last few weeks, the Acorn registration drive has become a flash point in the campaign when the flood of new voter registrations prompted complaints from election officials about the high number of improper submissions. State and local officials have begun investigations into possible fraudulent activity in at least 10 states....

[glockmail]

Which prominent Republican told an audience at an ACORN-sponsored rally two years ago that groups like ACORN are “what makes America special”? What's so special about cheating? It happens in lots of voting contests.