(10-7/08) "ACORN Vegas Office Raided in Voter Fraud Investigation" (FOX)

[Sandy in PA]

LAS VEGAS -- Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote.

A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away.

Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names.

The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities formed a task force to pursue election-fraud allegations in Nevada.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/07/acorn-vegas-office-raided-voter-fraud-investigation/

[Horizon]

I hope they find something that goes back to the primary.That would be very indicative of what went on there,and maybe lead them to start looking other places.About Damn Time!!

[mjoynaples]

before anything else goes awry!

[ScottVA]

this should go BEYOND a State level investigation and go FEDERAL......and include all States chapters of ACORN! Time to bust up this bogus group!

[CountryFirst]

ACORN is driving me nuts!!!!!! :D

Go get 'em FEDS.

[Horizon]

ACORN is driving me nuts!!!!!! :D

Go get 'em FEDS.

Me too.I will never look at an Oak Tree the same way again.:rolleyes:

[thebword]

Yippie, I hope many more ACORN offices are about to be raided too.:D

[ragdoll]

They need to get at the root of ACORN. This organization is run by a bunch of squirly rodents..

[Justmy.02]

Halleljuh! I just sent, on Sunday, our ACORN fact sheet and a link to Hillary's campaign's complaint to the publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal in response to a column he wrote about voter fraud in Nevada. While it appears there has been an ongoing investigation here, maybe it will trigger other investigations in other states.

[Horizon]

They need to get at the root of ACORN. This organization is run by a bunch of squirly rodents..

LMAO!! Good one!

[freespirit]

Hot Damn! Finally, democracy at work!

[foxyladi]

I hope they find something that goes back to the primary.That would be very indicative of what went on there,and maybe lead them to start looking other places.About Damn Time!!

hope they do that every where????

[CountryFirst]

LMAO!! Good one!

hee hee. And we all know the nut never falls far from the tree ... I hope this lands in Obama's treehouse!

[LetsHelpAmerica]

this should go BEYOND a State level investigation and go FEDERAL......and include all States chapters of ACORN! Time to bust up this bogus group!

You are TOTALLY right on this! If they cheated in Nevada, they've cheated elsewhere!

[B positive]

Better late than never.... expose the fraudulent caucuses for what they were!!

[SusanfromPA]

I hope they find something that goes back to the primary.That would be very indicative of what went on there,and maybe lead them to start looking other places.About Damn Time!!

Amen. I hope it comes out that Obama STOLE the election from Hillary. People need to see this blazed accross as big headlines.

[freethinker]

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/10/07/ACORN_raided_in_Nevada_vote_fraud_probe/UPI-71801223404111/

Nevada authorities said Tuesday they raided the Las Vegas offices of the controversial voter-registration activist group, ACORN.

The Secretary of State's Office confirmed to the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a search warrant was served at the ACORN office as part of a probe into suspected voter registration fraud.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has been under withering attack from the Republican Party for allegedly signing up unqualified voters in order to boost Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama.

ACORN has stated that while it indeed targets low-income voters, it is required to turn in all of the registration cards it collects to state officials nationwide regardless of any problems with the information provided by the people they signed up.

The Review Journal reported that the Secretary of State's Office said ACORN employees were suspected of using false names or addresses in their registration efforts, including the names of some former members of the Dallas Cowboys

[writerchick]

Wait until the caucus fraud investigations start. The house of cards will come tumbling down.

[foxyladi]

wow!!:eek::eek:

[Horizon]

Merge with SandyinPA.Same article.

[Horizon]

Merge with SandyinPA.Same article.

O.k. that was weird!!! It merged while I was typing.I thought my computer was freaking out!!

[Lealy]

hope they do that every where????

It won't happen in Ohio this time around since Brunner might as well as invited them in.

[Andy_Licious]

This looks as though the state (Sec. of State's office) did the raiding. I think it just depends on how active the Sec. of State wants to be. Apparently in Nevada they believed someone or had some indication there were problems.


This is great, but we need to get each state to act separately...this is not a federal type investigation.

If it were federal, wouldn't that be great: 50 or 100 Acorn offices raided simultaneously. ;)

[FlaDem]

The Fed needs to shake that mighty oak tree so all the ACORNS come tumbling down.

[SugnSpicesmom]

I was at the McCain campaign HQ and they announced this. The McCain camp went wild, cheering and clapping. It was great to see the enthusiasm. Of course, I had to put my two cents in and told the campaign manager they need to keep hitting hard at the Obama/Acorn connection.

[Tea toaD]

This needs to be done nationwide. I can't even imagine how many homeless in Ohio are voting for the Obama:mad:

[Den2006]

This needs to be done nationwide. I can't even imagine how many homeless in Ohio are voting for the Obama:mad:It's not only how many homeless are voting for BO but it's also how many times in different locations their voting.

[ImmaSlave4U]

The Las Vegas headquarters of ACORN has been raided by Nevada officials suspecting voter fraud...including using names of Dallas Cowboys!

http://elections.foxnews.com/img/acorn_vegasraid_100708.jpg

Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud.

Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote.

"Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications," Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev. He said some registrations used the names of Dallas Cowboys football players.

Walsh said agents from both the secretary of state's office and Nevada attorney general's office conducted the raid, and "took a bunch of stuff."

ACORN spokesman Charles Jackson confirmed the group's Nevada office was raided.

It's not the first time ACORN's been under investigation for irregularities in registration records.

In 2006, ACORN committed what Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed called the "worse case of election fraud" in the state's history.

In the case, ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, and all but six of the 1,800 names were fake.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/07/acorn-vegas-office-raided-voter-fraud-investigation/

[Hillforceone]

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081007/ap_on_el_pr/voter_fraud_probe;_ylt=An5aNoS_cBa02kKDcY1RCm.s0NU E

ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe

By OSKAR GARCIA, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 43 minutes ago

Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote.

A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away.

Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names.

The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities formed a task force to pursue election-fraud allegations in Nevada.

[LetsHelpAmerica]

Just imagine all the fraud that has been going on all along!

[BillDemo]

LOL. Laughing at all the nut metaphors in this thread :D

Hopefully there will be an investigation into ACORN's office all over the US.

[Horizon]

LOL. Laughing at all the nut metaphors in this thread :D

Hopefully there will be an investigation into ACORN's office all over the US.

Aren't they a crack up??? I love our humorous members! I am a BIG fan of laughter!!

[ggreen]

This needs to be done nationwide. I can't even imagine how many homeless in Ohio are voting for the Obama:mad:

I hope they do it across the nation too. The recent good news is that while Obama had hoped to get up to 20,000 same-day registered voters in Ohio, the actual numbers were around 4,000.

I voted early and did see a few people who looked to be homeless. Hate to say it, but I really am not all so sure these characters would have pushed the right spots on the screens. Who knows how they voted.
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[kathleen]

Wait until the caucus fraud investigations start. The house of cards will come tumbling down.

Agreed. Though I'm aggravated to no end that this was not investigated during the primaries when so many reports went out about it. Hillary brought this to the attention of many and noone did a thing. :mad:

[Ebinger]

Stop the voting fraud, McCain/Palin win easily.

It's not only how many homeless are voting for BO but it's also how many times in different locations their voting.

Don't forget the cemetary crowd.

[Catherine]

Oct 7 01:30 PM US/Eastern
By OSKAR GARCIA
Associated Press Writer


LAS VEGAS (AP) - Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote.
A Nevada secretary of state's office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.

No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away.

Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names.

The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities formed a task force to pursue election-fraud allegations in Nevada.


http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93LPR783&show_article=1

[Horizon]

Merge please.Already posted and commented on.

[Lodi]

Here's the article and my comments. Oh, link first: http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/story.asp?s=9139062

If they scrub my comments, I'll let you know.

Search Warrant Served in Voter Registration Fraud Investigation

Updated: Oct 7, 2008 05:13 PM PDT
Allegations of voter registration fraud led state investigators to search the local office of a nationwide registration program. State agents served a search warrant on the group ACORN, the Association for Community Reform Now because it obtained evidence of phony registrations.

Last week, Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller warned that his office would come down hard on anyone engaged in any hanky panky in voter registration.

Tuesday morning, he made good on that vow.

Read the Affidavit for Search Warrant

State investigators used a search warrant to enter the office of ACORN in Commercial Center, which is a nationwide program designed to empower the poor and get them involved in the political process.

Ironically, Tuesday was when ACORN had scheduled a potluck meal to reward workers for signing up some 90,000 new voters here in recent months.

But an unknown number of those new registrations are bogus according to election officals.

Some of the registrars working for ACORN submitted the names of voters already registered or names that were essentially made up.

"Some of these forms that were submitted were the starting lineups for the Dallas Cowboys. So, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that some of the forms coming in are fraudulent," said Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller. "In many instances, you see the same individual registering over and over again, day after day. And some of them are just fraudulent."

The exact number of phony registrations won't be determined until state agents have a chance to comb thru the documents and computer files seized, but Secretary of State Miller thinks it could be substantial.

His office was tipped to the problem by the Clark County Election Department, which tracked many of the problem paperwork back to ACORN.
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Comment 1
Julianne

Tuesday, October 07, 2008It's about time. I was lambasted as a guest on KNPR radio's "State of Nevada" last Monday (9/29) for bringing up ACORN; for having the audacity to be a Democrat who won't condone Obama et al.'s corruption with my vote. The mainstream media's bias and unprofessionalism is a blight not only on journalism but on democracy. This is just the tip of the iceberg that will sooner or later sink Obama and the DNC and all the colluders here in Nevada. I witnessed caucus irregularities and intimidation myself, in District 19 (from which I moved after that experience).

I pray that in the spirit of KLAS founder Hank Greenspun, that KLAS will seek the truth about the caucus cheating that transpired here and garnered Obama the nomination. You know, in a case like this, integrity always trumps issues. Dear God, please do your job and investigate fully and further. Go to www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com and watch the previews of the documentary in which DEMOCRATS from all over the country report what they witnessed at their respective primaries and caucuses.

Then go to www.caucusanalysis.org and read firsthand accounts of the countrywide cheating and thugism. Search "ACORN" on the site to read articles about their long, sordid history of corruption, embezzlement, cheating, monetary funding from Obama, and read how Obama was weaned on ACORN's methods and taught them to the folks who run ACORN subsidiary Project Vote.

I can't wait until the truth hits the sunlight and we PUMAs are exonerated. Regardless of who wins or loses the general election, the truth will out itself. Because, let's face it, even the biased mainstream media will drop their partisanship like a hot potato driven by greed for ratings dollars.

You may castigate us now, but in the near future, PUMAs will be called the stewards of democracy.

Comment 2-Julianne
Tuesday, October 07, 2008Oh my God. I just watched George Knapp equivocate with respect to Obama's ties to ACORN and to mollify rightfully worried voters about how such falsified voter apps could never lead to falsified votes.Outrageous! Paula, I saw the look on your face, and I KNOW you are honest. Don't let up!

Obama started his career with ACORN in Chicago. He trained Project Vote coordinators, who are known (whether you want to admit it or not) for their "get in their face" and "by any means necessary" methods. The brother (Wade Rathke) of ACORN's founder (Dale Rathke) embezzled a million dollars from ACORN (OUR taxpayer money!). And what did ACORN do? They hid the theft as a loan in their account books. And what did Maude Hurd, the president of ACORN say after the theft was found out? That she did the right thing by hiding it to protect ACORN. She's unethical and adamant about it.

ACORN has systematically perpetrated fraud at the ballot box for ten years of documented evidence. And thanks to the spineless, ultrapartisan mainstream media, they'll be doing it again in the general election.

What a shame Greenspun died, and relatively young. Without him, the truth will never out until, as I suggested above, it's too late.

Shame, shame on KLAS!

[mjno7777]

Thanks for posting this. I don't understand with all these cases of Fraud in many states, why they aren't CLOSED DOWN.

[Lodi]

I think the end is near for ACORN. You shoulda seen the look on investigative reporter John Knapp's face--scared to tell the truth--and of the coanchor Paula Francis (shocked that Knapp was trying to play this down).

This is sick, sick sh*t, folks, that the media aren't doing their jobs. Anyway, I edited my post. It's clearer now. I will report back if my comments get scrubbed.

[SadStateOfAffairs]

I think the end is near for ACORN. You shoulda seen the look on investigative reporter John Knapp's face--scared to tell the truth--and of the coanchor Paula Francis (shocked that Knapp was trying to play this down).

This is sick, sick sh*t, folks, that the media aren't doing their jobs. Anyway, I edited my post. It's clearer now. I will report back if my comments get scrubbed.

Holy Toledo! Give em h*ll Julianne! I couldn't be prouder of my fellow PUMA!:D

YES!

[Horizon]

Bump

[Pepper]

Hope the raids spread like wildfire across the nation. They need to!

[Horizon]

Booo ACORN!!!

[Bad Kitty]

Good! One office down, how many more to go?

[Pepper]

Good! One office down, how many more to go?

Hundreds! I hope the feds come after their offices like a mob with torches and pitchforks, yelling, "Bring out the monster".

[ivotedforhillary]

Great News!!

I Hope They All Go To Jail

[Horizon]

Juliane,you are a true American and a great PUMA!!

[Pepper]

Juliane,you are a true American and a great PUMA!!

I'll do the stamp-dance on that statement! Agreed.

[Horizon]

I listened to her and Sug the other night.They were great!

[Mrsawd]

This should be federal because it helps prove asted moneys of the Goverment system once again !

We need Acorn stopped !

[Amy Dugan]

if an athlete wins the gold then it is discovered 6 months later that they cheated (did steroids) don't they lose the medal?

of course they would. so if ACORN helped Obama rack up delegates illegaly in the primaries, shouldn't he be disqualified?

of course he should

[jerseygirl7]

Wait until the caucus fraud investigations start. The house of cards will come tumbling down.



The caucus fraud was a long time ago. Why hasn't anything been done about it. Can't imagine anything ever will at this point.

[Pepper]

Bump

[Adayamo]

I think if they raid every single ACORN office ... they will find something at EVERY place!! :mad:

[SoCal4Hillary]

I just read about this. Do you think people are actually starting to LISTEN to us about all the fraud Obama and his cult members have perpetrated? :confused:

[buffaloboy]

ACORN hired inmates, some experts at identity theft

http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/ralstons-flash/2008/oct/07/acorn-hire-d-inmates-some-experts-identity-theft/

A handful of inmates at Casa Grande had been convicted of identity theft-type crimes and were hired as canvassers by ACORN. Read the devastating affidavit at right.

http://media.lasvegassun.com/media/pdfs/blogs/documents/2008/10/07/ACORN_Affidavit.pdf

[SadStateOfAffairs]

if an athlete wins the gold then it is discovered 6 months later that they cheated (did steroids) don't they lose the medal?

of course they would. so if ACORN helped Obama rack up delegates illegaly in the primaries, shouldn't he be disqualified?

of course he should

Now that's what we need to see happen!

[buffaloboy]

ACORN Nevada Office Raided
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/07/acorn_nevada_offices_raided.html

Updated 8:55 p.m.
By Mary Pat Flaherty

The Nevada office of ACORN had planned a potluck dinner at its Las Vegas office Tuesday night to celebrate the 80,000 newly registered voters its staff had signed up in Clark County as part of its work with low-income communities nationwide.

Instead, their office was raided Tuesday morning by agents of the Nevada Secretary of State and Attorney General who alleged in an application for a search warrant that ACORN had hired 59 felons through a work release program as canvassers and submitted nearly 300 apparently fraudulent voter registration cards as part of the drive.

The submitted voter cards included addresses and names that do not exist in Nevada, duplicate registrations, names culled from telephone books and names of Dallas Cowboys players, an investigator for the Secretary of State alleged in his affidavit for a search warrant.

One ex-employee of ACORN reached by the state investigator told him she began making up names for her forms on days when it was too hot to work outside. ACORN canvassers are paid by the hour. Ex-employees also said they were expected to collect 20 complete forms a shift or risk probation and termination, the investigator said in his affidavit.

The search drove ACORN and its critics to exchange charges of political maneuvering in a battleground state that voted Republican in the 2004 presidential election but is considered in play for November. Mail-in voter registration closed Saturday in Nevada.

Agents removed 20 boxes of documents and eight computer hard drives from the ACORN office in "an ongoing investigation," said Secretary of State Ross Miller, a Democrat. "Now we begin the task of sifting through the material that was seized to determine how widespread any fraud might be."

No arrests were made yesterday and no ACORN staff were in the office during the raid.

ACORN officials said they were stunned by the search because they had unilaterally identified and flagged suspicious voter registration cards to the county elections board starting in July and had been cooperating with authorities to cull bad information and fire workers who collected that information, said Brian Mellor, senior counsel for Project Vote.

Project Vote relies on staff from ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, to do field level voter drives.

ACORN's internal checks, Mellor said, included tracking forms assigned to canvassers using serial numbers and worker sign-offs on each form and following up with listed voters by phone to verify they had taken part in the registration drive. The search warrant mentions those procedures.

That cooperation and meetings with state officials also are mentioned in the search affidavit, as is a subpoena from the state that was delivered to ACORN in September asking the group to resubmit information on several employees it had previously turned over to county elections officials. The forms were resubmitted, Mellor said.

"The raid was a stunt designed perhaps to make them look tough on voter fraud," said Matthew Henderson, the southwest regional director for ACORN. "We don't think fraud is a rampant problem. This was a politically motivated stunt, that is all there is to it because those new voters can reshape the electorate of Nevada."

Henderson said many voters registered through ACORN are "working people and people of color and there may be corners of the political world where a high injection of new voters like those is unsettling some."

The state is one of several viewed as a battleground. The Secretary of State and Attorney General are Democrats.

"If this were a stunt I would have put Ross (Miller) out there with a shotgun like Buford Pussey," said Miller's spokesman, Bob Walsh. "I'll grant them their cooperation, though it is grossly dishonest not to bring up the felons in their official statements they released."

But, said Walsh, "at the end of the day, it is our job, not ACORN's, to enforce election law and that is why we acted."

In July, the two Nevada state agencies involved in the raid, along with the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office for Nevada, formed a task force to target voter registration and election fraud and complaints over voter registration practices, potential voter fraud, and enforcement of laws regarding voter intimidation. The federal agents were not part of Tuesday's search, Walsh said.

Registration drives conducted by ACORN in several states are under scrutiny by local elections officials for the accuracy of cards gathered by its workers.

Mellor said that problems with duplicate registrations -- for people already registered who sign on during a drive -- have been a problem that ACORN is working to eliminate because those cards burden local elections boards who must process them. He also noted that the group has worked with local authorities in St. Louis and Kansas City in the past on investigations. But the Nevada search, he said, "is the first raid I can recall."

ACORN has been the object of heated denunciations from the Republican National Committee and the McCain campaign, which contend the group is attempting to overwhelm election officials with new registrations that are carelessly gathered and would enable unqualified voters to get on the rolls.

"It is very difficult to ascribe any other motive to the activities of ACORN other than to swamp the system with registrations cards" that range from illegible to being drawn from names from telephone listings or other public directories, said RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross. Cairncross spoke Tuesday during a telephone press conference on another ACORN voter drive in northwest Indiana that local news accounts report is under review by elections officers.

The ACORN drives, he said, "point to a lack of control in this organization" and "a willingness to go out and do this relentlessly."

The McCain and Obama camps have been trading blasts and Internet alerts over Republican charges that ACORN has been closely linked to Barack Obama for years, a contention the Obama campaign denies.

[Maddie Kaddison]

My dear PUMA's...I'm afraid what the FED's may discover is that Hillary was robbed of her nomination by an even larger margin. Discovering that would be like 'losing' the primaries all over again.

[RE:]

My dear PUMA's...I'm afraid what the FED's may discover is that Hillary was robbed of her nomination by an even larger margin. Discovering that would be like 'losing' the primaries all over again.Your right, Maddie K...but thankfully they are doing something now instead of waiting years to investigate, like they did in Florida/Gore. I hate the baby steps, but at least they are steps.;)

[lynfreedom]

Be glad when they catch them all but they are running out of time. This is outrageous amt of

In 2006, ACORN also committed what Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed called the "worse case of election fraud" in the state's history.

In the case, ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, and all but six of the 1,800 names were fake.

More recently, 27,000 registrations handled by the group from January to July 2008 "went into limbo because they were incomplete, inaccurate, or fraudulent," said James Terry, chief public advocate at the Consumers Rights League.

[Kbentleyis]

Good, the Republicans know how to handle this. That's great! We don't have to sit here and worry how many fraudulent votes are coming through. Good job!

[Kathy1980]

Great News!!:D I hope they are taking down ACORN in every state!!!