The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now or ACORN is an organization which has registered dead people, ghosts, convicted and incarcerated felons, and in a brazen PR move, the entire Dallas (TEXAS) Cowboys starting line-up as Nevada voters.
In doing this it has violated numerous state and federal laws, has had its offices raided by the FBI, and criminal investigations are currently underway against the organization in about a dozen states.
How is Barack Obama linked to this? Well according to an editorial in Investors Business Daily (IBD) how’s this for a start:
ACORN boasts registering a record 1.5 million new voters so far this election.
What does all this have to do with Obama, besides the fact that he’d be the beneficiary of most, if not all, of these new votes?
For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for “advance work.”)
What’s more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN’s voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992. Joined by two other community organizers on Chicago’s South Side, Obama conducted the voter-registration drive that helped elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the Senate that year.
The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal “Motor Voter” law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud.
Obama downplays his ties to ACORN, and his campaign denies coordinating with ACORN to register voters.
A few of the states where ACORNs activities are under investigation? Courtesty of Hotair and Michelle Malkin:
- Missouri – Officials now have to sift through hundreds of bogus applications submitted last August.
- Connecticut – A criminal investigation has been opened into ACORN fraud.
- Wisconsin – Registering convicted felons.
- Ohio – ACORN tells Cuyahoga County’s election board that they can’t stop themselves from committing fraud.
- Indiana – Over a thousand new applications from ACORN appear to investigators to be fraudulent, and that should be no surprise, since Indianapolis now has 105% of its population registered to vote.
Since Obama’s campaign has finally (albeit reluctantly) admitted to paying (at least) $800,000 to ACORN to register voters during the primary election, it stands to reason that registering non-existing people is neither a new development, nor an exception when it comes to ACORN
However, all that being what it is, let’s talk about one instance where I believe ACORN went from Phase I: registering Ghost Voters, to Phase II, casting ballots on behalf of Ghost Voters. I am talking about Lake County, Indiana.
Let us specifically go back to the Indiana Primary election on Tuesday May 6th, 2008 between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Here is an excerpt from what CNN had to say about that election:
As polls closed in Indiana, Clinton had a double-digit lead over Obama, but by the end of the evening, Clinton’s lead had shrunk, dragging the race out until early Wednesday.
A clear winner did not emerge until 1:15 a.m. Wednesday — seven hours after the polls closed — because results were slow to come in from Lake County, a Chicago suburb in northwestern Indiana with several precincts that went strongly for Obama.
By Wednesday morning, all absentee ballots had been counted in Lake County and the final results showed Obama had taken the county by 12 percentage points.
What has that got to do with anything you may wonder? Well let’s see what’s going on with ACORN in that part of the world right now. In an article from the NorthWest Indiana Times:
New voter registrations closed Monday in Lake County with possible record-breaking numbers and simmering allegations of fraud and racial discrimination.
Elections board Director Sally LaSota said more than 12,000 voter registration forms are waiting to be processed from recent days before the county knows how many potential voters are ready to cast ballots in the Nov. 4 general election.
“It may be a record,” she said.
LaSota said Monday representatives of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, a grassroots activist group conducting registration drives, dropped off 2,000 new voter applications last week in Lake County.
“About 1,100 are no good,” she said.
LaSota said the flawed forms are incomplete or contain unreadable handwriting — similar to hundreds of other forms ACORN produced prior to this week. She said some ACORN vote canvassers apparently pulled names and addresses from telephone books and forged signatures.
Granted Lake County is just one county out of thousands of counties where ACORN is active, but if out of 2,000 thousand registrations 1100 are bogus, that means for every 2 people they claim to register, one does NOT exist. If 50% of those non-existing voters were to vote, their ballot would change the dynamic of any election singificantly. Well, that is exactly what happened in Lake County. Though Obama did not end up winning the state, his “victory” in that County alone changed the whole dynamic of the race, and where did he get his victory? Absentee ballots of course.
How was this pulled off? Speaking from personal experience, even though I now live in NYC, I lived for many years in Indiana, and quite a few times I requested to vote via absentee ballot. All I had to do was send my name, address and drivers license number or the last 4 digits of my Social Security number on the absentee ballot application form, and I automatically got a ballot sent to me.
Now, how difficult would it be for ACORN to compile a database with names, addresses and the last 4 digits of the Social Security Numbers (which are NOT verified by the state) of the ghost voters it registers? A database it then uses to request ballots, which it fills out in favor of its chosen candidates?
I have no proof to back this assertion, but I know for a fact that that is exactly what happened in Lake County, on May 6th, and I know it is bound to happen nationwide in the Presidential election.
As a second aside, Lake County encompasses the City of Gary, Indiana. I’ve never lived there, but went to college with lots of people who were from that area, have “rolled through” quite a few times, and have registered voters in the State. If there is one thing I’ve learnt, it’s that the population of Lake County is neither one that has a game-changing high turn-out on election day or votes overwhelmingly via absentee ballot.
As a third aside, and this is really troubling. Barack Obama gets donations from ghost contributors which it then funnels to ghost companies (Citizens Services Inc) which in turn use the money to register ghost voters, who in turn give him “their” vote. I am sorry, but as a registered voter, I am bewilderd and greatly disturbed that because of Barack Obama, not only my civil rights, but also my most fundamental right to vote and know my vote actually counts is being thrown out of the window in the general election just like it was in the Primaries…
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