ACORN, Project Vote and Voter Fraud
By NancyA on August 29, 2008 at 4:45 PM in ACORN, Current Affairs, Obama, Voter Fraud
Just when I thought I was done with voter fraud stories, I hear about more fraud. Will it never stop? This time the fraud happened right in the backyard of ACORN. This is truly a delicious story. It will leave you clamoring for more! As for me, I just as soon not have to report on ACORN, Project Vote and Voter Fraud anymore because it gives me nightmares.
The end or the beginning of the story can be found at Texas Hill Country (I had the extreme pleasure of meeting him this week.), I am not certain which. Don’t worry we will get to the end in due time.
According to The Times-Picayune:
the group, called Voting Is Power and financed by the national Democratic Party, has been canvassing neighborhoods since February, collecting personal information and signatures from as many new potential voters as possible, said Brian Welsh, a spokesman for Louisiana Victory, the umbrella group coordinating local and national Democratic voter drives. Voting Is Power members also have targeted East Baton Rouge and Caddo parishes.
The Picayune has it wrong. It’s disinformation and lack of thorough investigation has resulted in the smearing of the actual Voting Is Power organization, established by the following society, Muslim American Society. Their whole purpose for Voting Is Power, is education and encouragement. They educate and empower Muslim – Americans on voting rights, registration and even battleground states in this year’s election. MAS has issued statements containing the following language….”we are not connected to the DNC”.
Well our old friend, ACORN is at it again, more voter fraud, right in their own backyard. They have borrowed the name, “Voting Is Power” from (MAS), using it for its get-out-the-vote campaign in Louisiana. Voting Is Power is listed as the actual organization according to MAS, with an address of 1250 21st Street, N.W., Washington, DC.
The problem is that Voting Is Power is a GOTV campaign in Louisiana run by the political arm of ACORN, Project Vote according to the New York Times. The GOTV effort as usual is fraught with fraud and incomplete voter registrations as well as false names and borrowed identities.
Here are some of the problems discovered so far in Louisiana,
In Louisiana, voting drive canvassers are required by law to submit the applications they collect, even if they are obvious pranks, like two cards in Shreveport that listed George Bush as the name of the applicant and 1600 Pennsylvania Drive as the address.
But Jacques Berry, a spokesman for the secretary of state, said canvassers should be “educated enough to not leave the house until the card is in order.”
John Maginnis, a political analyst in Baton Rouge, pointed out that the federal motor-voter law, which allows people to register when they get a driver’s license, had already raised registration to near-saturation levels. The key to winning the election, he said, will rest more on turnout than registration.
“You’re getting down to people that are just hard-core disengaged,” he said. “If you get these voters on the rolls, the question is how many of them are likely voters.”
But Mr. Slater said a component of the motor-voter law designed to reach low-income people who do not drive remained largely unenacted. That provision requires social service agencies to offer people the chance to register.
In Louisiana, the biggest complaints about the drive have come from Republican registrars in Caddo Parish, which includes Shreveport; East Baton Rouge Parish, which includes Baton Rouge; and Jefferson Parish, just outside New Orleans.
The registrar in Jefferson, Dennis A. DiMarco, said that about 35 percent of the 4,000 cards his office had sorted were invalid because they had no address, the applicant was already registered or was a felon, or the signature did not match one on file at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Another group of cards, he said, was missing information that the office hoped could be obtained by mail.
In Caddo, the registrar, Ernie Roberson, said his office had sorted 6,000 cards, of which only about 2,200 had enough information to be entered into the computer. Many of those, he said, had been kicked back because of nonexistent addresses or duplicate registration.
Normally registrars try to correct such problems. But, Mr. Roberson said, “It’s hard to send a letter to people whose addresses don’t exist in the parish.”
“I have one lady, I have five applications on her,” he continued. “A lot of people, we’ll receive the application and then we’ll receive another one with the same name but one day off on their birthday or one digit off on their Social Security number.”
The East Baton Rouge registrar, Elaine Lamb, reported that she had received 22,000 cards, of which 13,000 could be added to the rolls.
But there is a new twist to their fraudulent ways. More on that:
While Voting Is Power has sent in batches of applications for months, registrars have begun to see a disturbing pattern of misinformation on the forms, including duplicates, cards filled out with different colors of ink, or using the names of pets or dead people. In Jefferson, DiMarco sensed something amiss when a new registration card recently crossed his desk.
The card, partially filled out, had his name and listed his office’s post office box on Citrus Boulevard as the address. It also listed him as a male, a Democrat and African-American.
“And I can tell you I’m only one of those,” said DiMarco, who is white and Republican. There was one bright spot, though. “They flattered me by making me younger — I did appreciate that.”
And not only is Obama connected to ACORN, another prominent politician and her campaign are connected to ACORN. Here is that part of the story.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in Washington, paid for the drive because Senator Mary Landrieu, a Democrat, is up for re-election and her voter base in New Orleans was eroded by Hurricane Katrina.
The Democrats and Republicans have different views on the GOTV for Landrieu and the concern for the outcome of the election..
The state Republican Party called the operation “the Dems’ phony registration drive.”
While the Democrats had this to say.
Democrats say the burden is on the registrars to double-check and verify application information.
It is becoming a “broken record” with ACORN and Project Vote, voter fraud, voter fraud, voter fraud…. This time there is an innocent victim, Muslim American Society. Their reputation has been damaged and may never recover from the smear campaign. ACORN/Project Vote is a catalyst for the ” smearing” of MAS.
It is time that someone in DC investigate this organization. That someone should be Congressman Barry Frank. Do your job Mr. Frank, the day of reckoning will be upon you soon!
Once again we are left with a Rotten Acorn, molding on the ground, stinking up the place, ruining the one vote, one person standard!
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