While warnings about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, (aka ACORN) have been landing on the deaf ears of the media for years, evidence of how deeply they have penetrated the voting process in this nation is starting to emerge. ACORN has made voter registration one of there main focuses. Now we hear that maybe those registrations weren't as as clean as the left would have you believe.
According to
testimony to be presented before a House Judiciary subcommittee, more than half the voter registrations turned in by ACORN
canvassers during the last election were not valid.
Here is what the ACORN whistle blower has to say:
- ACORN considered 40 percent an acceptable level
of accurate voter registrations turned in by its workers. - ACORN barely trained its workers in how to register voters properly.
- ACORN would fire employees if they did not meet a quota of 20 new voter
applicants daily. - ACORN employees were briefed on how to deny that voter registration fraud existed.
ACORN's exemplary record of voter registrations also include:
- ACORNers in Cleveland registered the same man 77 times despite his protests that he was already registered.
- Washington State filed felony charges against several paid
ACORN employees and supervisors for more than 1,700 fraudulent voter
registrations. - In March 2008, an ACORN worker in Pennsylvania was
sentenced for making 29 phony voter registration forms.
So, if an organization that has this much baggage attached to it with regards to electoral irregularities decides to take the next step, what would it be? How about being involved in the collection of the very information used to redraw electoral districts?
That's right. ACORN has been selected as a partner for the 2010 US Census. This comes after it was revealed that Obama wants to take the Census Bureau out of the Department of Commerce and move them to be under White House authority.
The Washington Times sounds the alarm here.
Want to make sure the left keeps an iron clad lock on the electorate? Redraw the districts with data collected by operatives that have a stake in the game. It is time to crack the shell on ACORN and let the rest of us know what they are really up to.
On a related note, Gov. Bev’s budget proposes spending $750,000 to promote the 2010 Census across the state. An interesting expenditure during a budget “crisis.”
According the the proposed budget, “The (promotional) campaign will support the creation of local Complete Count Committees across the state by providing information and material to inform North Carolinians of the importance of the US Census and encourage their participation.”
Any bets on these “Complete Count Committees” being made up of ACORN members?
Sounds like we ought to go organize the ACORN workers into a union. That will keep them from ever being effective again!
Exposing ease of double voting could land NC woman in jail.
February 21, 2009 by Genn X
Nancy Pasewicz Lever was determined to show how easy it is to vote twice in North Carolina. She accomplished her goal – and may end up in jail for it.
Lever has been charged with a felony for voting twice, a charge that carries a possible sentence of two years in prison.
According to authorities, Lever filed an absentee ballot on Oct. 20 and then voted in person on Election Day. After casting her second ballot, Lever went outside and called a radio station to report what she had just done and the problems with the elections system.
Sgt. Randy Pearson, of the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office, said Lever made officials aware that she had voted twice as soon as she cast her ballot and stated she was testing the system.
http://www.electionjournal.org/2009/02/21/exposing-ease-of-double-voting-could-land-nc-woman-in-jail/