ACORN Las Vegas Office Raided on Charges of Voter Fraud; Ohio Officials Step Up Registration Checks
By Ani on October 8, 2008 at 12:01 PM in ACORN, Nevada, Ohio, Voter Fraud
Wednesday update: A wire report out of Cleveland, Ohio, published at 11:48 a.m. ET:
ACORN says it can’t prevent voter registration fraud
An organization under scrutiny across the country for voter registration irregularities has told Ohio election officials it cannot eliminate fraud from its operations.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, blamed inefficiency and lack of resources for problems including duplicate registrations and workers filling out registration cards to make quotas.
The group, which works to get low-income people to vote, has turned in at least 65,000 cards to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland in the last year. The board has investigated potentially fraudulent cards since August and reviewed the situation Tuesday. …
Okey doke. Uh huh. At the same time that your counterpart in Nevada — on the defensive and boxed in a corner (of Acorn’s own making) — is claiming today that Acorn has “zero tolerance” for counterfeit forms and turns them into election officials, as is required by law.
Here is the first report on the raid of the Las Vegas, Nevada offices of Acorn:
According to reports just filed by AP, FOX News, Washington Post, CBS News, and several other local news sites, “ACORN’s Las Vegas headquarters has been raided by Nevada authorities looking for evidence of voter fraud”.
Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud.
Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state’s office, told FOXNews.com that the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about “erroneous” registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN. The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.
“Some of them used non-existent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications,” Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev. He said some registrations used the names of Dallas Cowboys football players.
And as we know…
It’s not the first time ACORN’s been under investigation for irregularities in registration records.
In 2006, ACORN committed what the Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed called the “worse case of election fraud” in the state’s history.
In [that] case, ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, but there was a problem. The names were made up — all but six of the 1,800 submissions were fakes.
Mary Pat Flaherty of The Washington Post reports:
Charles Jackson, a national spokesman for ACORN, said the group would have a response later Tuesday. ACORN stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
In July, the two Nevada state agencies involved in the raid, along with the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office for Nevada, formed a task force to target voter registration and election fraud and complaints over voter registration practices, potential voter fraud, and enforcement of laws regarding voter intimidation. The federal agents were not part of Tuesday’s search, Walsh said.
ACORN’s Las Vegas office, Walsh said, registers voters mainly in Clark County.
Registration drives conducted by ACORN in several states are under scrutiny by local elections officials for the accuracy of cards gathered by its workers.
The group also has been the object of heated denunciations from the Republican National Committee and the McCain campaign, which contend the group is attempting to overwhelm election officials with new registrations that are carelessly gathered and would enable unqualified voters to get on the rolls.
“It is very difficult to ascribe any other motive to the activities of ACORN other than to swamp the system with registrations cards” that range from illegible to being drawn from names from telephone listings or other public directories, said RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross. Cairncross spoke during a telephone press conference on another ACORN voter drive in northwest Indiana that local news accounts report is under review by elections officers.
The ACORN drives, he said, “point to a lack of control in this organization” and “a willingness to go out and do this relentlessly.”
Associated Press Writer Oskar Garcia reports
No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away.
This is typical, I understand. Whenever anyone calls or shows up to question ACORN workers, the offices quickly become a ghost town.
Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names.
The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities formed a task force to pursue election-fraud allegations in Nevada.
For great reporting on the far reach of ACORN, please check out NancyA’s excellent stories: Consumer Rights League, Obama, ACORN and The SubPrime Mortgage and Senator Graham Mentions ACORN
Please also see Uppity Woman’s excellent report Acorn Nailed Registering Dead People in Indiana.
Since Senator Obama and ACORN seem to have such a symbiotic relationship, thought today’s development in Las Vegas should get a mention.
Interesting that I have not yet seen any mention of any of this on the all-Obama-all-the-time networks, MSNBC and CNN. Please let us know if you do.
Glad to see Nevada state authorities are on the job.
There are at least some people out there who still believe in one person, one vote.


Of course Acorn claims they cant prevent voter fraud.
ACORN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VOTER FRAUD!
They are also in part responsible for the subprime loans that caused the financial crisis we are under. An excellent story just out by good old Stanley Kurtz:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjRjYzE0YmQxNzU4MDJjYWE5MjIzMTMxMmNhZWQ1MTA=
This is a MUST read.
ADOLF AXELFRAUD PRESENTS
A SAUL ALYNSKIZOMBIE MASTERPIECE
A SUBLIME TRILOGY OF VOTER HORROR
DAWN OF THE ACORN DEAD
THEY STEALING THE ELECTION ONE DEAD VOTER AT A TIME!
ACORN RESURRECTION
IN THE GRAVE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM VOTER FRAUD
ACORNZILLA
DEAD VOTES MATTER
Starring
Barack Obama as the Mansourian Candidate
William Ayers the ghostwriter of “Dreams of My Father”
Also Starring
ACORN
A.C.O.R.N.
A. Corn
A. Cornholio
A.C. Orn
Special Appearance by
Aco R.N.
Directed by
N. Roca
OPENING NATIONWIDE IN SWING STATES NOVEMBER 4, 2008
girrrrrrrrl what r u smokin today?
all these NUTS!
lol
Loved JM’s line last night that ACORN was the match that started the fire of the sub-prime mortgage fiasco.
Yes most do not know they are knee deep in the mortgage mess..
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
Obama’s ties to ACORN are the ones that have to be emphasized. “Over half of the ACORN-submitted voter registration forms in Lake County, Indiana turned out to be fraudulent.” And apparently, the investigation is to be extended to 7 states. http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=191293
That and ACORN’s role in the subprime meltdown and Barney Franks and Dodd’s involvement in the meltdown would stop the bleeding for McCain as it became clear that the meltdown is not because of the last 8-years of Bush’s economic policy but of Obama’s type of economic policy.
NOW WE KNOW WITH UTMOST CERTAINTY WHY AND HOW HILLARY WAS PUSHED OFF THE DNC STAGE BY THESE MANIPULATIVE FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE…
OBAMARAMA–SHAME ON YOU AND DAVE AXELFRAUD!
Just like Obama stole the nominating votes from the state of Texas. Here is the proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXNqFQmGxDU
These thugs are attempting to take over the United States of America. They must be stopped!
This is the new Socialist america
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
Can you imagine the Obamarama Chicago Political Sewers Ratpack residing in the corridors of…THE WHITE HOUSE?!
The country’s going to the dogs….and Barky’s riot gangs will rule supreme….what a farce!
I’m glad for one that Hillary’s not going to take over the Titanic…let Obambi sink it it with his rats!
homeless man targeted by the registration drive who A kool aid drinker exulted that he was voting for Obama because “I want him to do his thang. You know, do his thug thizzle.”
“Thug thizzle” is street slang for performing your trademark move. Obama and ACORN have practiced their thug thizzle together for years: organizing an ever-expanding community of ineligible and marginal voters to expand the Democratic power base. Rules be damned.
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Some one forget to tell the Obots this is not the democratic primary.
( I’m Chairman Mao…and I approve of ACORN…I am also voting for Soetero in the election )
THE DEAD HAVE RIGHTS TOO!
Great Article ANI…YOU ROCK!
So … basically …. if ACORN was in the manufacturing business they just have a little quality control problem? PLEASE! Someone save me from laughing myself to death!
Their intent, Bop, is to flood the system, create a new hanging chad scenario and then blame it on racism.
Barry was actually called in to teach the initial members of ACORN who are now their mid-level and higher organizers how to do this and What to do.
His pleas of ignorance are utterly false.
No kidding. Dear Senator McCain, how does it feel to be in Hillary Clinton’s shoes?
Come on Repubs get busy. Acorns roasting on a open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your toes.
yea what the hell r they gonna do in NOV w/no caucuses to challenge?
If there’s nothing they can do to prevent it, then they should stop it!!
stop it now!
Don’t accept ACORN”S registrations. Trash them Shut ACORN down.
What is going on? Has the Democratic party given permission to ACORN to steal the election for Obama becuase they believe the Supreme Court stole it for Bush?
Really!
I think some Acorn folks should be facing stiff jail sentences if this is true. They are not the supreme court.
ACORN didn’t just start this fraud this election cycle, they have been doing it since their conception. It has to be over 10 years ago that they (or one of their affiliates) was caught on tape registerin illegal aliens in the Bay Area. And in areas such as Ohio where the SOS is an obot I doubt that the “register and vote same day” apps are really get a once over. Especially since they were not able to garner the numbers they had wanted. Remember the SOS would not allow observers to watch the proceedings. That tells me they have no intention of checking the early ballots for fraud.
Yes.
And its that sentiment Obama is using to install his socialist overlords in our government.
Good Bye Capitalism.
Hello Big Brother.
What about the intimidation factor that is being used on young in the colleges and older folks who are homebound and alone when Obots come to the door to register them. Precinct Intake Coordinators are NOT ALLOWED TO ASK FOR PICTURE ID. It is totally disgraceful when we need a picture ID to rent a movie or purchase booze, when there is any question of age application. This is just plain wrong, and insulting to all those, who in the past, were always taught that you had to present ID to vote and that it is a right that you have to honestly want and prove that desire by showing ID, to have.
What about Provisional Ballots? Those are the ballots that are handed out to someone who they cannot find in the data base because they might have moved or not voted in a very long time, (enought time to have been taken out of the database) and they give them a paper ballot, they fill it out and hand it back in. They DON’T ASK FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN A CURRENT ELECTRIC BILL OR SOME OTHER TYPE OF RESIDENTIAL ID WITH THE SUPPOSED VOTERS NAME ON IT and then link it back to the address that was left and a new voter is applied to the precinct and approved without any actual proof of ID. What an open end way to get a vote that is counted but not accounted for.
When did McCain switch party?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPywKOTQZig
LOL! thats funny!
Not as funny as this though
Thats a 2 fur. lol
oh jezzzzzzzzzz louise
what a bunch of amateurs
Since it’s being reported there is now a law that it is illegal to say Barry Hussein Obama’s middle name [ooopsie, sue me] Biden took care of that problem for us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKTjlAd-GXM
Its important to note that that clip from Harp is the Introduction of the Main Speaker at a Joe Biden rally in Tampa Florida.
Looks like even the Democrats have John McCain on their minds all the time.
That was TERRIFIC, dude!
You can say about Biden: All hat, no cattle.
LOL.
More proof that no one listens at Obama rallies, they don’t care at all what is said, they just cheer like cult followers.
hope they ramp up the investigations and start throwing the Obot morons in prison. If they want to act like criminals, then they can sit in jail w them.
Strange how Acorn is only in the swing states.
The issue of ACORN is where Obama is most vulnerable. He trained them (http://www.socialpolicy.org/index.php?id=838 sign up required)
His campaign gave them $800,000 this year (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_584284.html ).
ACORN has committed many acts of election fraud in the past and are doing so in this election.
Nevada:http://www.lvrj.com/news/24004424.html
Ohio: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/08/cuyahoga_board_probes_voter_re.html
Michigan: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809140383
Florida: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/700310.html
Indiana: http://www.nwi.com/articles/2008/10/02/news/lake_county/doc5399904569d23a75862574d600010e55.txt
I am so freaking tired of hearing about this.
Shut them the fork DOWN! Geez, If I did that, I’d be doing time!
OF courese you would do time!! You are just a lowley peasant. They are the elite and mighty followers of “That One!!
I am sure they will all get a pardon if they were ever to set foot in jail.
These words alone requires the FEC to disqualify ACORN from any form of voter registration across the country and requires a complete investigation as to who was financing their operations and lay heavy charges and fines against those encouraging the voter fraud activities, including Obama’s campaign filing bogus expenses to the FEC on payments to ACORN.
Failure in doing so places these activities above the law and anyone in America has a right then to file false filings with the government if it is acceptable for a political campaign to do so!
Save Michigan from Obama, Donate
http://www.ourcountrydeservesbetter.com/savemichigan.html
Since Obama is such a responsible candidate for president, he will call for a news conference very shortly to speak about these issues of ACORN and voter fraud.
ROTFLOL.
McCain looked in the direction of Vegas to comb his hair. RACIST.
OH GOODY…Barky does another soaring speech…lol
Someone needs to demand that ACORN also be investigated for their part in the subprime loan debacle. I understand that they also had a piece of that. If this is how they handle voter registration, what were they doing with subprime mortgages.
also, can you post again how much money the Obama campaign has paid to the ACORN affiliate this year for voter registration activities. And shouldn’t the RNC add this complaint to their complaint on foreign contributions.
The ACORN issue is McCain’s ticket to the white house. However, he appears to be unable to articulate it to his advantage. He is either getting the wrong information or is not listening to good information.
Due to Obama’s ties to ACORN, ACORN’s ties to the stock market meltdown via ACORN’s involvement in the subprime mortgage debacle through Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (FM & FM), ACORN’s receipt of monies from FM & FM, Obama’s receipt of campaign monies from FM & FM, and investors lost of vast sums of money, this is a home run issue for McCain if articulated in plain terms. McCain and Palin must start the narrative about this issue and make it the centipiece of their campaign against Obama. This should be their overall strategy. Voters will be pissed off when they realize that the dems are the cause of the meltdown more so than the repubs.
Right now they think the repubs are at fault since this is what Obama has told them. If they find out that the dems (Barney Franks, Chris Dodd, black caucaus members) are mostly at fault they will punish them at the ballot box.
The strategy ties in with the overarching narrative of his poor judgement throughout his life. POOR JUDGEMENT is also the stool that Ayers, Wright, etc relationships rest on. MACAIN, GET WITH THIS PROGRAM BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. IT IS YOUR ONLY HOPE FOR VICTORY!!
Agreed, Wisewoman. I was delighted when he started out last night with the accusation leveled at O. However, how much can you cover in a 1-2minute comment? The debates are the wrong venue.
He needs to do an ad and make bold statements of truth about it…not just 30 seconds either.
Democratic lawmaker’s son indicted in Palin hacking
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The son of a Democratic Tennessee state legislator surrendered to authorities in connection with the hacking of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s e-mail, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
David Kernell was indicted in connection with the hacking of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account.
David Kernell, 20, son of state Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis, Tennessee, turned himself in “as soon as we found out about the charges this morning,” his attorney, Wade Davies, told reporters after Wednesday’s arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Clifford Shirley.
A trial date was set for December 16, Davies said
…
The charge carries a maximum five-year prison term, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release upon conviction, according to the Justice Department.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/08/palin.hacker/index.html
Hmmmm…I don’t think CHEETOS is a staple of Prison diet…Hope that little crapper gets the MAX…I mean why should he get off on privilege…Wriiiiight??
And daddy said he had no idea what his kid was doing. RIGHT!! I wonder if that one would work for any of us peasants down here towing the line.
going off topic…daring to speak Obama’s middle name in public is now against the law…
One day after Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott sparked a national controversy by referring to Democratic presidential candidate as Barack Hussein Obama, the federal government is investigating a complaint about his remark and members of the local ACLU and NAACP have called for an apology, saying Scott’s action was racist.
http://www.news-press.com/article/20081008/NEWS01/81008001/1075
With your indulgence I would like to highlight your post for emphasis.
The idea that calling by Obambi ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ is ridiculous. Halloween is coming up, are the little kids wearing sheets also going to be called racist and halted off to jail. I am so sick of them crying the race card and getting away with it. Bunch of losers, if that’s the only way Crybabybarry can win, then this country is in huge trouble.
We all know Adrianne Marsh is another liar to be added to Barfys’ list.
“The use of a name that has a Middle Eastern sound was used to insinuate the Muslim faith,” said Adrianne Marsh, spokeswoman for Obama’s Florida campaign. “The fact of the matter is Sen. Obama is Christian, and always has been.”
I call my Middle Eastern friends by their full names all the time.
They never object because they don’t have anything to be defensive about.
So maybe he should change his middle name to JESUS? He has had a few name chnages throughout his life.
He’s not aplogizing. Good for him. Here’s his email should anyone want to show him support.
sheriff@sheriffleefl.org
OMG….That rumble you heard is a vast herd of independents moving toward McCain…This PC FASCISM HAS GOTTA STOP
Sheriff Scott said that Obama picked out his middle name himself, so why not use it!
LMAO!
Go Sheriff, go Sheriff, go Sheriff.
If the ACLU and NAACP are right, then either BO or his parents are really racist, because they gave him that name and he decided not to change it along with everything else about himself.
Self racism anybody? Or is deciding to live with this middle name just a shrewd way to save up a lifetime supply of race cards?
Since Barry Soetoro picked out his name then Obama is racist.
What the HUSSEIN?
Ain’t this a HUSSEIN?
Very quickly moving into real ‘facism’ if you will.
Biden:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081008/D93MAIU00.html
Very very quickly. This person is running for VP. The other organizations are American institutions.
Now, that should raise an alarm.
Like saying that we are in a recession. We may already be into fascism. What’s missing are the arrests. But all the mischaracterizations are there.
“Fear and loathing?”
Sounds like Hunter Thompson. “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” and all.
Why can’t AP pseudo journalists learn to write without all the silly commentary?
Anyway, I already loathe Obama.
yeah, yeah, yeah, the democrats said this every four years. it seems if Rebublicans talk about terrorists attacks they inject fear, but the democrats have no problem scarring the shit out of us with the economy.
Unbelievable! How many years have Americans been voting???? Why haven’t we been able to figure out how to register people in every single state of the union and let them vote without all this FRAUD and nonsense??!!
WHO THE HELL IS IN CHARGE OF THIS AREA OF OUR GOVERNMENT???? Whoever it is - should be fired. TODAY!
Do we not as a nation have some RULES in place regarding voting? Some simple REQUIREMENTS that tell us if you’re qualified to vote or if you have already registered or if you are freaking DEAD!
Trust me, if I tried any funny business like trying register numerous times or if I tried to vote twice come Election Day, those women sitting behind the table with the big books would have me arrested! NO LIE!
If Ap picked it up then it should be on the MSM… aka bhoMSM. But barky’s campaign wil just say “oh we had nothing to do with that!”… Once again the obvious is obvious but everyone just blows it off!
This whole election season is a scam and a pathetic attempt by the dnc to annoint their boy. And a boy he is… as in juvenile and immature!
This is EXACTLY what I wanted McCain to bring up yesterday, intertwine ACORN with Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, and Jamie Gurrelik, I don’t understand how come McCain didn’t bring up ACORN, Obama gave over 800,000 to that group, they were registering Dallas Cowboy players in Nevada, freakin hilarious, LOL Obama knows he can’t win an HONEST election so he has to cheat, unreal
He did Sarracuda. In the first exchange of the debate. He had 1-2 minutes to make his case and linked ACORN to the sub-prime mess as the major culprit and that O was a major recipient of their campaign donations and that he paid them to register voters for him. Obama, as expected, changed the subject on response. He needs to go into this in depth outside the debate and on TV.
ACORN says “it cannot eliminate fraud from its operations.”
Then blames “workers filling out registration cards to make quotas.”
Hmmm. I have a suggestion. I bet all the voter registrar’s offices would be happy if you’d stop clogging their roles with bogus registrations. Here’s a thought: why not stop paying people to do it?
Better yet, hold the people gathering the registrations accountable for doing just a little verification. This needs sto be stopped state by state with more control over registration. The argument that it makes it hard for people to vote if verification is sought is bogus.
Or withhold part of their pay until the cards come back verified, at least. Kind of like a construction holdback.
A simple logical consequence. If you cannot eliminate fraud from your operation then you must cease and desist your operations. Plain and simple. No if or but about it.
If you cannot stop lying you are a pathological liar and not fit for the presidency and thus disqualified. Lets see your medical records.
If anyone cannot live without violating the law, that person must be incarcerated.
If a corporation non profit et al cannot operate without violating the law and knowingly engages in operations that are improper and unlawful, that corporation needs to be disqualified, dissolved, and terminated. Simple as that.
ACORN says “it cannot eliminate fraud from its operations.”
Soon Barack Obama will be making a statement regarding that.
ROTFLOL.
“That’s not the fraud I used to know.”
As uh uh I have uh always uh said uh I do not support voter uh fraud, and uh for the uh record uh I was only uh uh 8 yrs old uh when voter uh fraud stated.
OFF TOPIC (but ref: another kind of fraud). Did BHO even write his own (first) memoir?
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Interesting…
OMG! First I’ve read of this.
good find. And man, that first poem shows a sick mind. But then, we knew that.
Interesting. The first agent for his book said Obama’s being editor of the Harvard Law Review sparked the interest. I think he received an advance, but nothing happened for several years. The book wound up under another agent before being published.
I SWEAR THIS IS TRUE. Go to amazon.com and get excerpts from “Fugitive Days”. Then quotes “Dreams from my Father”:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Archive/Dreams_From_My_Father_Barack_Obama.htm
The style is IDENTICAL in both: First, a general statement that sets a tone or establishes an idea, then a list of colorful poetic details that elaborates on it:
“On the day I was born my family was bundled beneath a heavy blanket of snow in their neat little bungalow in Glen Ellyn, a promising Chicago suburb, they thought — the schools of course, the space to grow, the affordable property…”
“That December morning was cold, cold, cold outside, while inside everything was hot and glowing — the flickering red and green lights on the little Christmas tree, the butter cookies fresh from the oven cooling on a rack, the chestnuts, the steaming cider…”
Now, let’s see the identical style in “Dreams from my Father”. Virtually identical, but
“City services had declined — The boarded up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets…”
“And it was the implications of that fact, I realized, that had most disturbed me — The stories that I had been hearing from the leadership, all the records of courage and sacrifice and overcoming of great odds…”
This style is very distinctive and it is THE SAME in both books, paragraph after paragraph after paragraph.
F’ing creepy . Go to Cahill’s site and read the account of the circumstances around the publication of that book, you will believe — as I do — that Ayers wrote it.
A simple mathematical problem.
Saddam Hussein. Barack Hussein Obama
Obama was opposed to the Iraq war from the beginning.
Any biases?
Hussein = Hussein
Hussein - Hussein = Zero
Barack Zero Obama.
Grade: A plus.
saying obamas middle name is now against the law. /snark. and if barky becomes pres, with the powers of FISA, we all got to be careful. /doublesnark
It could get scary at inauguration time…
I, Barack Hussein Obama do solemnly swear…
…his way of saying FU to the American public.
He can say it but nobody else can…kinda like Yahweh…