... vote fraud schemes are being conducted nationwide under the auspices of the far left extremist group ACORN, the Left's equivalent of the John Birch Society. ACORN is a rogue organization growing out of the 1960s that openly flouts the law as a matter of strategic policy, engaging in physical intimidation, trespass, threatening behavior, even outright violence. It has taken over meetings, throwing out speakers, invaded and occupied businesses, demanding payoffs, and seized unoccupied homes and apartments, forcibly claiming the right to stay.
These same attitudes have been carried over to its so-called voter projects, where ACORN has been caught breaking the law all over the country for years now. ACORN has hired more than 13,000 workers this year to register new voters in 21 states, producing 1.3 million new registrations nationwide. ACORN workers have registered voters in the name of Fruto Boy Crispa, Stormi Bays, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys, in Nevada. In Ohio, where ACORN has conducted a massive voter registration drive this year, 200,000 new registrations have been found with mismatches with state records. Batches of ACORN registration applications are often submitted in the same handwriting, including the supposed voter signatures. A voter registration form ACORN submitted in Connecticut was in the name of a 7-year-old girl. In other places, ACORN has submitted illegal registrations for felons, or even prison inmates, and in the names of pets.
In 2007, after 97% of voter registration applications submitted by ACORN in Seattle were found to be fraudulent, prosecutors indicted seven ACORN workers who later confessed. Another four indicted ACORN workers in Kansas City pled guilty to registration fraud, as did eight others in St. Louis this year. Nevada officials recently raided the ACORN office in Las Vegas looking for evidence of vote fraud.
Nate Toler, an ACORN organizer, is quoted by Ivan Osorio at HumanEvents.com as saying, "There's no quality control on purpose, no checks and balances. The internal motto is 'We don't care if it's a lie, just so long as it stirs up the conversation.'" Former ACORN Miami-Dade field director Mac Stuart reports that ACORN threw out Republican registrations but paid cash for Democrat registrations. "The voter registration project has been operating illegally since it started," he recently told one newswire. Criminal investigations regarding ACORN voter drives are currently under way in 15 states this year, along with an FBI investigation.
Barack Obama has long had close ties to ACORN, with its home base in Chicago. He actually ran ACORN's Project Vote in Chicago. He conducted training seminars on voter registrations and voting practices for ACORN workers and volunteers, as well as on the community organizing principles of openly socialist revolutionary Saul Alinsky. In the 1990s, when Obama was running radical left foundations along with confessed domestic terrorist bomber Bill Ayers, the radical socialist revolutionary from the notorious Weather Underground, he provided funding to ACORN. Obama's campaigns for political office have always been endorsed by ACORN, which has helped him with fundraising. This year Obama's campaign gave over $800,000 to ACORN precisely for voter registration and turnout projects.
In a speech last year to ACORN, Obama said, as quoted by Fund, "I've been fighting alongside of ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it." Fund also reports:
ACORN also runs something called "Camp Obama," which trains campaign volunteers in the same tactics that Obama honed as a community organizer…. Another program, called the Obama Organizing Fellows, is designed to train people in how to "organize in a community, working in conjunction with grassroots leaders and campaign staff." [Jerry] Kellman [of ACORN] has said that the Obama campaign uses elements of both the practical and aggressive Alinsky method.
