From an ACORN grows a mighty tree of fraud

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ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has a long history of filing fraudulent voter registrations and this election season is no exception. In October, 2006, four workers from ACORN were indicted by a federal grand jury for submitting false voter registration forms to the Kansas City, Missouri, election board. In 2007 Prosecutors in King and Pierce counties (Washington) filed felony charges against seven employees of ACORN, claiming they turned in more than 1,800 phony voter-registration forms, including an estimated 55 in Pierce County. In fact, the fraud charges started as far back as 1998. ACORN has been charged with voter fraud in at least 14 states: SOURCE A recent report shows that ACORN is still up to it’s old tricks, this time in Gary, Indiana : 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. via SOURCE And the state of Michigan: The Michigan branch of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), located in Detroit, is being investigated after several municipal clerks reported fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications coming through. The majority of the fraudulent and duplicate applications are coming from the liberal ACORN group based in Detroit, Michigan, which now has ACORN investigating the problem once again as well as the Secretary of State’s Office turning over some of those applications to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. SOURCE Given the level of fraud ACORN has been engaged in why would Senator Barack Obama pay over $800,000 to ACORN and did the Obama campaign try to hide the actual activity they paid ACORN for? U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Refo
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