ACORN registers 105% of the Indianapolis population to vote?

[4sarge]

ACORN Turns In 2,500 Fraudulent Voter Registrations In Lake County

ACORN Turns In 2,500 Fraudulent Voter Registrations In Lake County


REGISTERED A MR. JOHNS JIMMY LIVING AT A JIMMY JOHN'S SANDWICH SHOP
It is absolutely unbelievable that ACORN, the supposed nonprofit group which operates as an extension of Obama's presidential campaign, is permitted to register votes anywhere in the U.S. The Sun-Times reports that the group has turned in as many as 2,500 fraudulent voter registrations in Lake County, Indiana alone over the past two weeks. Abdon Pallasch writes:

As many as 21,000 Hoosiers turned out in the rain Wednesday to cheer on Barack Obama at the state fairgrounds.

But in Lake County, Ind., a nonprofit group Obama once represented as a lawyer, ACORN, filed an estimated 2,500 fraudulent voter registrations in the past two weeks, county election officials say.

Indianapolis and Gary gave Obama his highest vote totals in the Indiana primary, along with college towns such as South Bend and Bloomington.

Lake County, as in other parts of the country, Obama backers say they have signed up thousands of voters inspired by Obama. ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has participated in many of those registration drives. Some Republicans have charged that ACORN members engage in vote fraud. In Las Vegas, federal officials raided ACORN's offices Tuesday as part of a vote-fraud investigation.
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Here's the part of the story I like. ACORN registered a "Mr. Johns Jimmy" at the address of a Jimmy John's in Crown Point:

In Lake County, 18,000 new voters have registered in the last two weeks, about 5,000 of them signed up by ACORN, said Ruthann Hoagland, of the county's board of elections. As they started making verification calls on the ACORN registrations, employees found about half were false, she said. One was for a Mr. Johns Jimmy at the address of a Jimmy John's sandwich shop in Crown Point. Some registrants were dead.

Hoagland said one ACORN official told her that the employees who filed the fraudulent registrations have been fired. ACORN officials could not be reached for comment. Republican officials have taken the issue to federal court.
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The story notes Obama's long-standing ties with the group:

Obama successfully represented ACORN in Chicago in its effort to protect the law that allows people to register to vote when they get their driver's licenses. Obama's campaign had no comment on ACORN's current difficulties.
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[Rattlesnake46319]

And which county took until 2 am to tally their votes on May 6th? Between East Chicago and Gary, I'm not surprised by the news at all.

 

[Episcopus]

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.

There were 644,197 people estimated eligible in 2007. You have to count all of the people that were less than 18 at the time of the estimation who will be 18 by Nov.4. The article doesn't say how many people that is, but I imagine that it isn't insignificant. You also have to account for this being an estimate. What was the margin of error? It is possible that the estimate was low.

If this is voter fraud, hammer the fraudsters hard. It looks like there may be a perfectly reasonable, innocent explanation for this, though.

 

[Bill of Rights]

I'm all for indelible dye on the thumb like they do in all the third world countries.

Kudos to Indiana for winning their SCOTUS case for photo ID at the polls, now we just need a way to keep people from having multiple identities.

Oh, hey... how about indelible dye?!

Would that work when the voting period can be over weeks? (I don't know how long the indelible dye takes to wear off.)

Blessings,
B

 

[rkba_net]

Many of those registered are either deceased or now longer live in the county...

 

[Episcopus]

Many of those registered are either deceased or now longer live in the county...

Since when does being dead keep you from voting?

 

[Pami]

Officials deny illegally purging voters - Decision '08 - MSNBC.com

If voters were wrongfully removed from rolls, the concern is that on Election Day, voters who have been removed from the rolls could show up and be challenged by political party officials or election workers. And because Democrats have more aggressively registered voters, any discrepancy could disproportionately affect them.

Which of course means that Republicans are sabotaging the elections, right?

 

[dclaarjr]

We have some of these issues popping up in Ohio also. Our acting AG is even being implicated in one. It will be interesting to see if they can get this cleared up before the election. I see some real trouble coming with this.

 

[right winger]

No suprise in this. 4000 dead folks voted in Houston

 

[NateIU10]

 

[DRob]

Vote early, vote often

I heard the Marion County Dems tried to set up a polling site in Crown Hill Cemetery because they thought it would make it easier for the dead people to vote..

 

[flagtag]

I heard the Marion County Dems tried to set up a polling site in Crown Hill Cemetery because they thought it would make it easier for the dead people to vote..

I wonder where the "Peoples Republik of Chicago/Crook County have their "DP" poll site(s) set up.
Does anyone know how many cemetaries there are there?

 

[Jay]

2100 out of 5000 voter registrations are frauds


Thousands of voter registration forms faked, officials say - CNN.com

CROWN POINT, Indiana (CNN) -- More than 2,000 voter registration forms filed in northern Indiana's Lake County by a liberal activist group this week have turned out to be bogus, election officials said Thursday.

The group -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN -- already faces allegations of filing fraudulent voter registrations in Nevada and faces investigations in other states.

And in Lake County, home to the long-depressed steel town of Gary, the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the October 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony.

"All the signatures looked exactly the same," Ruthann Hoagland, a Republican on the board. "Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same."

The forms included registrations submitted in the names of the dead -- and in one case, the name of a fast-food restaurant, Jimmy Johns. Sally LaSota, a Democrat on the board, called the forms fraudulent and said whoever filed them broke the law.

"ACORN, with its intent, perhaps was good in the beginning, but went awry somewhere," LaSota said.

Over the past four years, a dozen states have investigated complaints of fraudulent registrations filed by ACORN. On Tuesday, Nevada authorities raided an ACORN office in Las Vegas, Nevada, where workers are accused of registering members of the Dallas Cowboys football team. And the group has become the target of Republican attacks on voter fraud, a perennial GOP issue.

A subsidiary of the group was paid $800,000 by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign to register voters for the 2008 primaries, and ACORN's political wing endorsed Obama back in February. But Obama's campaign told CNN that it "is committed to protecting the integrity of the voting process," and said it has not worked with ACORN during the general election.


yep, he's gonna change things all right...... he's gonna try to change us all into subjects.