There's a reason that many stated require third parties to submit every voter registration application they receive - back in 2004, a GOP-finded group was sorting out any registration forms where people had selected the Democratic Party, and throwing them in the trash.  In other words, GOP voter fraud is being used to attack ACORN.

You can smell the desperation in the air. 1.5 million new voters who, while are not gauranteed democratic voters, will likely vote that way because of their unemployed status. The republicans are afraid that this election really will be a landslide victory. The fact that their latest round of robo-calls are not only 100% lies but in many cases are proving to be illegal really drives home who the real criminals here are.

Good point to remember that filling out the card does not constitute registration. I have been involved with the Obama registration efforts here in middle Georgia and cann assure everyone that no one touched anything on a filled out card and they were all promptly mailed in to state officials.  On our state public radio yesterday the host reported on 3 days worth of research into allegations of registration and voter fraud in the state by talking to and getting responses from 138 county election officials.  We have 159.  No evidence of any kind of wholesale fraud in registrations ongoing (only 34 documented cases involving some false information;those problems have all been dealt with) and no concerted effort to register dead people (as rural AM radio stations are claiming).  No cases of fraudulent ID in the early voting ongoing since 9/22 in spite of Republican Secty of State ( a real witch, by all accounts)claiming that Dems, in suing to stop mandated requirement of producing STATE-ISSUED photo id's at polls, were actually contributing to chaos at the polls rather than being concerned about voter fraud.

However, GPB is continuing to investigate what is going on with the over 260M voters purged from state rolls based on some kind of feed from the federal government.  That exceeds the 200M new voters that the OBAMA campaign has added to the rolls.  Hope they find out and report to us soon.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential election.

A senior law enforcement official confirmed the investigation to The Associated Press on Thursday. A second senior law enforcement official says the FBI was looking at results of recent raids on ACORN offices in several states for any evidence of a coordinated national scam.

Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because Justice Department regulations forbid discussing ongoing investigations particularly so close to an election.

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, says it has registered 1.3 million young people, minorities and poor and working-class voters — most of whom tend to be Democrats.

Republican accusations about the group were raised during Wednesday's presidential debate between Democrat Barack Obama and GOP candidate John McCain.

Some ACORN employees have been accused of submitting false voter registration forms — including some signed 'Mickey Mouse' or other fictitious characters.

Those voter registration cards have become the focus of fraud investigations in Nevada, Connecticut, Missouri and at least five other states. Election officials in Ohio and North Carolina also recently questioned the group's voter forms.

ACORN has said the "vast majority" of its workers are conscientious, but some might have turned in duplicate applications or provided fake information to pad their pay. Workers caught submitting false information have been fired, ACORN officials say.

ACORN says laws in a number of states require it to submit all registration cards it collects even dubious ones, so its workers segregate applications with missing, suspicious or false information and flag them so state election officials can quickly check them further.

Teenager: I Registered To Vote 73 Times

Ohio ACORN Lands In Hot Water

Monday, October 13, 2008 – updated: 3:31 pm EDT October 13, 2008

A Cleveland teenager who claims he registered to vote 73 times over a five-month period has set of alarm bells among election officials in Ohio's most populous county. Video: Register Early, Often | Compare Candidates   The bipartisan Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland voted unanimously Monday to ask Prosecutor Bill Mason to investigate multiple registrations by four people, including 19-year-old Freddie Johnson. All four said they signed forms at the behest of a community organizing group, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform, known as ACORN. Johnson said he was trying to help paid ACORN solicitors collect signed registrations. He said he has not voted, and said he filled out the cards because he was given cigarettes and about $20. ACORN's Ohio state director, Katy Gall, said ACORN is cooperating with the investigation and would fire anyone soliciting duplicate registrations. He also pointed out that no fraud was committed because the teen had not cast a vote. The fracas is the latest round in a battle over ACORN's impact on voter registration this year. The group says it has signed up 1.3 million poor and working-class voters in a mass registration drive in 18 states this year. In Pennsylavania, the district attorney for the Pittsburgh area is investigating possible forgery and other irregularities on voter registration forms turned in by ACORN. Mike Manko, a spokesman for the Allegheny County district attorney, said fewer than 100 registration forms were apparently forged or otherwise illegitimate. ACORN issued a statement Friday dismissing the fraud allegations in Pennsylvania as an attempt by a relatively small group of political operatives "to orchestrate hysteria about 'voter fraud.'" Nevada state investigators raided ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters last week, seizing documents and computer data. Republican presidential candidate John McCain has called for a federal investigation into ACORN. His campaign manager said that ACORN's connections to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's connections to ACORN should be investigated. ACORN accused Republicans of playing dirty politics and of trying to keep America's less fortunate voters, who tend to be Democrats, from the polls on Nov. 4. Obama and two other lawyers in 1995 represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois to make voter registration easier. During this year's primary, Obama hired a firm with ties to the group for a massive get-out-the-vote effort. ACORN executive director Michael Slater said that most wrongdoing is discovered by the group itself, when employees examine registration cards submitted from the field. Problem cards are flagged and turned over to local election officials, Slater said. Most states, he added, require that every collected card be given to voting jurisdictions. The surge in new voters helped propel Obama to his party's presidential nomination, and it may carry over to the general election -- 9 million newly registered voters who are overwhelmingly Democratic could add up to a big victory on Election Day. In states where registration is recorded by party, including eight key states that could decide the election, voters have signed up Democratic in the past six months by a margin of nearly 4-1. However, simply registering voters, even when the numbers are skewed so heavily toward one party, is no guarantee of success. Historically, voter turnout among new registrants has been low. And while candidates have months to run registration drives, they have only a tiny window -- several days during early balloting, just hours on Election Day -- to get out the vote. Still, an Associated Press analysis of registration data found that if the millions of newly registered voters turn out at the same rate as in 2004 and cast ballots with their declared party of choice, Obama could have the votes he needs to wrest several battleground states away from the Republican Party and its nominee, Sen. John McCain.

Why doesn't someone at the NYT interview Ann Coulter on voter fraud since we know she has actually engaged in it.

Antosocialist:

 Could you at least post a link to the articles you re posting? That last one has no facts in it at all. It is one long "some have said" and "the rumors are that" nonsense. Post facts that show these things are happening. The facts are just not on your side on the whole ACORN story. They have to turn the forms in by law. They separate the questionable ones out before turning them in in most cases so those receiving them no which ones to take a closer look at.  None of the people ACORN has registered have actually voted at that point so it is not voter fraud. So far the only one who been held legally responsible was a volunteer. Instead of posting articles next time, explain why you think it is fraud and how you think ACORN is actually doing damage.

From a site keeping track of endorsements

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003875230

JOHN McCAIN
16 newspapers total
1,502,163 daily circulation


BARACK OBAMA
51 newspapers total
6,299,363 daily circulation


THE MSM IS LIBERAL DEMOCRAT!

I love the way racist republicans deal with controversy. Yah, us lib's is the party of hate...

Just as surely as night follows day, violence is being directed at ACORN offices and officials in the wake of the flood of right-wing demagoguery about its vote-gathering efforts:

An ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal activist group's Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized Thursday, reflecting mounting tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans to vote next month.

Attorneys for the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now were notifying the FBI and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division of the incidents, said Brian Kettenring, a Florida-based spokesman for the group.

Republicans, including presidential candidate John McCain, have verbally attacked the group repeatedly in recent days, alleging a widespread vote-fraud scheme, although they've provided little proof. It was disclosed Thursday that the FBI is examining whether thousands of fraudulent voter-registration applications submitted by some ACORN workers were part of a systematic effort or isolated incidents.

Kettenring said that a senior ACORN staffer in Cleveland, after appearing on television this week, got an e-mail that said she "is going to have her life ended."

A female staffer in Providence, R.I., got a threatening call from someone who said words to the effect of "We know you get off work at 9," then uttered racial epithets, he said.

John McCain has played a leading role in whipping up this frenzy of hatred. In Wednesday's debate, he charged:

We need to know the full extent of Sen. Obama's relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.

This is consistent with the hateful language being spewed from the right by the likes of Lou Dobbs, who has taken to routinely characterizing ACORN as a "radical left-wing activist group" as well as "a Democratic Party adjunct".

In fact, the hysteria's being generated across a broad spectrum of the Right, from Outer Malkinite Wingnuttia to Inside Beltway Villagers, from McCain and Palin to the frothiest freepers.

And we can see what's coming, too: We're being set up for a running yammer from the right after Obama wins questioning his legitimacy because of a supposedly "tainted" vote. Conspiracy theories and talking points from the right will circulate, driving up the temperature and feeding the right-wing populist frenzy.

And they're not even waiting until Election Day to begin.

Voter fraud of any kind is wrong and this isn't a GOP conspiracy. I'm so sick of the Democrats throwing that term around when they get caught breaking the law.

If anything this is a Democratic conspiracy to usurp the voters rights. It's committed by ACORN a Democratic supported organization, helped by a Democratic Attorney General and the Supreme Court which is not interpretting laws but trying to skirt laws.

This is like the elections in third world countries you read about in the newspapers. Open election fraud support by the government.

Next we won't have a Constitution, we'll be a dicatorship with censorship of all media.

Here is the precious NY TIMES trolling teenagers for dirt.  Nice

The following Facebook message was sent to a 16 year old classmate of McCain's daughter Bridget.

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I saw on facebook that you went to Xavier, and if you don't mind, I'd love to ask you some advice about a story. I'm a reporter at the New York Times, writing a profile of Cindy McCain, and we are trying to get a sense of what she is like as a mother. So I'm reaching out to fellow parents at her kids' schools. My understanding is that some of her older kids went to Brophy/Xavier, but I'm trying to figure out what school her 16 year old daughter Bridget attends-- and a few people said it was PCDS. Do you know if that's right? Again, we're not really reporting on the kids, just seeking some fellow parents who can talk about what Mrs. McCain is like.

Also, if you know anyone else who I should talk to-- basically anyone who has encountered Mrs. McCain and might be able to share impressions-- that would be great.

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