ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe
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By OSKAR GARCIA â€" 10 hours ago
LAS VEGAS (AP) â€" Nevada authorities seized records Tuesday from a group they accused of submitting fraudulent voter-registration forms â€" including for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys."Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4," said Secretary of State Ross Miller, referring to star players on the pro football team.
State authorities raided the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to register low-income people.
Miller said the raid was part of a monthslong investigation, and he contended the group had submitted registration forms that used false information or duplicated information on multiple forms. He did not estimate how many.
Bertha Lewis, interim chief organizer for ACORN, said the group has been working with election officials to weed out fraudulent forms from those submitted by the canvassers it hires."Today's raid by the secretary of state's office is a stunt that serves no useful purpose other than to discredit our work registering Nevadans," Lewis said.
"For the past 10 months, anytime ACORN has identified a potentially fraudulent application, we turn that application in to election officials separately and offer to provide election officials with the information they would need to pursue an investigation or prosecution of the individual," Lewis said.
She said ACORN had turned in 46 problem applications submitted by 33 former employees to election officials in the Las Vegas area, where it has registered 80,000 people.
According to its national Web site, the group has registered 1.3 million people nationwide for the Nov. 4 election. It has encountered complaints of fraud stemming from registration efforts in Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Mexico, Michigan, Ohio and Missouri.
"The fact is, this is hard work and there were some people that probably sat down on a couch and filled out names out of a phone book," said Matthew Henderson, Southwest regional director for ACORN. "That's really what we're talking about here â€" not an attempt to steal an election."
Miller said no one had been charged or arrested in Nevada.
His spokesman, Bob Walsh, said investigators were using information from various sources, including the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Nevada.
"You don't have to read too many cop novels to know that sometimes people will tell you a grain of truth to try to hide the rest of the truth," Walsh said. "I'm certainly not suggesting that ACORN is that nefarious, but at the same time just because they handed over 50 to you doesn't mean there aren't 150 others out there."
LAS VEGAS (AP) â€" Nevada authorities seized records Tuesday from a group they accused of submitting fraudulent voter-registration forms â€" including for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys."Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4," said Secretary of State Ross Miller, referring to star players on the pro football team.
State authorities raided the headquarters of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a group that works to register low-income people.
Miller said the raid was part of a monthslong investigation, and he contended the group had submitted registration forms that used false information or duplicated information on multiple forms. He did not estimate how many.
Bertha Lewis, interim chief organizer for ACORN, said the group has been working with election officials to weed out fraudulent forms from those submitted by the canvassers it hires."Today's raid by the secretary of state's office is a stunt that serves no useful purpose other than to discredit our work registering Nevadans," Lewis said.
"For the past 10 months, anytime ACORN has identified a potentially fraudulent application, we turn that application in to election officials separately and offer to provide election officials with the information they would need to pursue an investigation or prosecution of the individual," Lewis said.
She said ACORN had turned in 46 problem applications submitted by 33 former employees to election officials in the Las Vegas area, where it has registered 80,000 people.
According to its national Web site, the group has registered 1.3 million people nationwide for the Nov. 4 election. It has encountered complaints of fraud stemming from registration efforts in Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Mexico, Michigan, Ohio and Missouri.
"The fact is, this is hard work and there were some people that probably sat down on a couch and filled out names out of a phone book," said Matthew Henderson, Southwest regional director for ACORN. "That's really what we're talking about here â€" not an attempt to steal an election."
Miller said no one had been charged or arrested in Nevada.
His spokesman, Bob Walsh, said investigators were using information from various sources, including the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Nevada.
"You don't have to read too many cop novels to know that sometimes people will tell you a grain of truth to try to hide the rest of the truth," Walsh said. "I'm certainly not suggesting that ACORN is that nefarious, but at the same time just because they handed over 50 to you doesn't mean there aren't 150 others out there."
ACORN is being investigated in so many states for this same thing.
I'm sure ALL of the phony registrations are being handed over to authorities. RIGHT.
I could believe that possibly IF ACORN hadn't been caught doing this in other states also resulting in investigations. There is a long history of fraud by this group, which is unfortunate because they could be doing something good instead.
Just google "ACORN fraud."
You seem cranky-maybe its time you get some rest ;)
by the way - check out my lastest post.
And just because they have Community Organiz in the name.
There is no excuse for them to be doing this and corrupting the system,especially with federal funds for God's sake.
Through their investigation they have so far uncovered that ACORN contracted with the Nevada Dept of Corrections and hired 59 former inmates to register voters. ACORN has now stopped that.
Miller states they have not been to calculate so far the amount of fraudulent registrations, but they are working on it, with the aid of confiscated ACORN records and computers.
Anyone can file a lawsuit. You can't document shit! Please try.
This is about state and government investigations into ACORN breaking the LAW.
Just nove on Steve. I grow tired of you nipping at my heels incessantly for no reason whatsoever.
Its a waste of time responding to your ridiculousness.
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http://www.connpost.com/localn ews/ci_10661361
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http://findarticles.com/p/arti cles/mi_qn4181/is_20070515/ai_ n19114773
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http://dbe928.newsvine.com/_ne ws/2008/09/14/1866805-bad-vote r-applications-found-obamas-fo rmer-group-acorn-involved-detr oit-free-press
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Not that any of this will matter. You will ignore and believe all the incidents across the nation, going back years, are all just a smear campaign.
That's pretty sad. :-(
http://findarticles.com/p/arti cles/mi_qn4181/is_20070515/ai_ n19114773
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Fraud is out there, not a surprise.
My daughter filled out her registration and I delivered it to the post office myself way ahead of any deadline...guess what? She wasn't listed on the voter log on voting day. Fraud is everywhere. People with special interests are everywhere.
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