ACORN’s Vegas Office Raided in Fraud Investigation
October 7th, 2008 at 06:23pm Matt Margolis
Look your left, look your right. Look up and look down. Everywhere you look, the left is trying to steal this election for Barack Obama.
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.
Secretary of State Ross Miller said the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
“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,” Miller said.
Walsh said agents from both the secretary of state’s office and Nevada attorney general’s office conducted the raid at 9:30 a.m. local time, and “took a bunch of stuff.”
In a race expected to be close on Election Day, this is serious stuff.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008
29 Comments
1. js | October 7th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
so when is this going federal?
9 states so far…its alot deeper than just an occasional mishap…
2. OCKerouac | October 7th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Just come out and say it. You don’t want lower income Americans voting because they’re going to vote for the guy who will lower their taxes and create jobs for them. This whole ‘voter fraud’ angle is a farce.
There is no minimum income requirement to vote. What you SHOULD be asking yourself is why is John McCain so afraid of voter turnout? Could it be that he KNOWS he doesn’t represent a majority of the American people?
Where I come from (America) that’s kind of the biggest prerequisite to becoming President, a majority of the votes…
3. Leo Pusateri | October 7th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
More evidence on how elements of our nation don’t give a damn about cheating in elections.
The ends justify the means.
We, friends, as a society, are headlong on the highway to hell, and the liberals are driving the bus.
4. Leo Pusateri | October 7th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
OCK–that’s all fine and dandy if it’s one person, one vote… but somehow you and your democrat friends find a way to make it one person, three or four votes.
The rule of law means absolutely nothing to you, does it?
5. Some Assembly Required | October 7th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
“but somehow you and your democrat friends find a way to make it one person, three or four votes. “
Thats all fine and dandy but then somehow you and your republican friends manage to get five of those votes eliminated. Then follow it up by a supreme court decision which is only vaild once (unprecedented). So please, spare us the victim cries.
6. Leo Pusateri | October 7th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Thing about it is, the original democrat version that is the albatross of the bailout bill included at least another $700 million for these bozos.
They, and anyone connected to them within the DNC, need to go to jail on racketeering charges.
I’ve had enough of this crap.
7. Leo Pusateri | October 7th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Oh spare me your blindness, Tarryl Owens. You make me sick.
8. Some Assembly Required | October 7th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Did the supreme court not select president Bush in 2000? Blindness? Silly Leo, history is made of facts.
9. js | October 7th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
cheap excuses…when you make up trash talk to cover criminal activity…it only shows that you are part of the mental midget club that really needs the constitution for protections because you cant protect yourself…
10. js | October 7th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Some Assembly Required | October 7th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
“but somehow you and your democrat friends find a way to make it one person, three or four votes. “
Thats all fine and dandy but then somehow you and your republican friends manage to get five of those votes eliminated.
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like i said…its beyond you to even compete here…go back to moveover org…they are more in line with your 67 IQ level…
11. Leo Pusateri | October 7th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
No, the Constitution and the Electoral College elected Bush in 2000. In every subsequent recount, Bush still won Florida…
Go suck wind. Your lame attempt at moral relevance don’t hunt here.
12. Some Assembly Required | October 7th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
“No, the Constitution and the Electoral College elected Bush in 2000. In every subsequent recount, Bush still won Florida…”
That would be a lie. They stopped the final recount dead and then selected Bush. They did it as an unprecedented one time only ruling.
No matter what way you spin it, the supreme court selected Bush. They stopped a recount dead and selected him. Where was your outrage then Leo?
13. SEW | October 7th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
That’s why Pelosi, Schumer and Reid wanted $millions$ for ACORN in the financial bailout, so they could hire better workers to cover tracks and not be so obvious about their fradulent intent. Maybe Casper can work for ACORN while his students play games during instruction or while taking multiple guess tests with answers provided.
14. Eric T | October 7th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
SAR - Check out this link!
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/07/acorn-vegas-office-raided-voter-fraud-investigation/
From the article-
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.
15. Eric T | October 7th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
all but six of the 1,800 names were fake.
16. Some Assembly Required | October 7th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Eric,
I’m not defending ACORN here. Truth is I haven’t read up on it. I’m just saying if your going to scream voter fraud you cannot ignore past transgressions of your party and play the victim. You end up look like a little child crying for the titty.
17. Kahn | October 7th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Don’t want lower income Americans voting? What a load of crap! We don’t want cartoon characters and ghosts voting you lying cheating “liberals”.
Why do you feel the need to cheat? I thought the Fuehrer was loved by all?
18. Danish Artist | October 7th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
SAR, go clean your bong.
The Supreme Court upheld ruled that the entire state must be recounted not just selected liberal precincts and it had to be done by the deadline established by Florida state law. The recount could not have happened in the time they had left.
Gore wasted too much time looking at dimpled and pregnant chads, rather than recount the whole state, in highly liberal areas. If he had done the entire state, maybe the outcome would have been different, but he knew it would be a long-shot.
Too bad your recollection is tainted by the loco weed you smoke. Also, it is obvious you do not know how a President is elected, only the Electoral College matters. They do not have to follow the will of the people, also show us in the Constitution where the people elect the President - give article and clause.
19. Fact Check | October 7th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
More evidence on how elements of our nation don’t give a damn about cheating in elections.
The ends justify the means.
Yeah, Republican campaign tactics bug me, too.
20. js | October 7th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
wow…
smack down again….must be that lib’s are suckers…because they never learn to look before thier lips flap….
21. js | October 7th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Call ACORN what it is, an organized criminal organization (Prosecute them under the RICO act)
10-06-08 | jrooney
Posted on Monday, October 06, 2008 6:53:44 PM by jrooney
Acorn is committing voter fraud throughout the United States and has done so in past elections. It is an organized criminal organization attempting to commit fraud that will affect half of the Americans that vote. They should be investigated by the Department of Justice under the RICO act.
If the DOJ will not investigate them, then maybe some conservative voters should band together and sue ACORN for defrauding them from electing leaders through fair fraud free elections.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099040/posts
looks like somebody is paying attention!!
22. js | October 7th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
The Department of Justice needs to open a RICO probe into ACORN. The RICO statutes make the leaders of a criminal enterprise personally responsible for the crimes committed by its members. If the DoJ can establish that ACORN management has encouraged fraudulent practices from the top down, that puts it within RICO territory. The repetition of their fraud in multiple jurisdictions make it clear that it’s not just coincidence at work here.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/15/acorn-commits-fraud-in-michigan/comment-page-1/
23. js | October 7th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
James Terry, Chief Public Advocate for the Consumers Rights League, today testified at a joint House Administration and House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on “Federal, State and Local Efforts to Prepare for the General 2008 Election,” where he highlighted “corruption at every level of ACORN including embezzlement, cover-ups, misuse of taxpayer funds and voter fraud.” An excerpt of his testimony follows:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/crl-testimony-acorns-voter-fraud/story.aspx?guid=%7B573B31D0-6AB7-4353-B8E7-91300F4DFF81%7D&dist=hppr
is it just me…or is the federal government doing nothing to stop this….!!
24. Leo Pusateri | October 7th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Not a lie. I can’t help if if you’re totally ignorant. Even after the Supreme Court after they sided with Florida (per Florida law) there were three recounts afterward (even though they wouldn’t have counted). Each one of those three re-counts still had Bush winning Florida. They could have recounted for years, Bush still would have won.
It was done by the law, by the books. No intent do defraud nor any fraud period.
Again, your lame attempts to draw moral relevance between Florida 2000 and the blatantly illegal and obviously fraudulent activities perpetrated by the democrat party for every friggen election since then is LAME-OH!
It ain’t gonna work, so don’t waste the bandwidth, okay?
25. Faceplant | October 8th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Nice of you to delete my post leo. I guess the truth hurts.
I also love how you point to this latest raid of ACORN’s (an independent organization who’s employees are paid based on how many voters they register) offices as proof that the Democrats are trying to steal the election. Let’s ignore for the moment that fake people by definition can’t actually show up to the polls to vote, and just point out that it was the DEMOCRATIC Secretary of State, and the DEMOCRATIC Attorney General are the ones who launched the investigation into ACORN.
If Democrats were trying utilize ACORN in order to steal the election, it doens’t make much sense that those same Democrats would then launch a voter fraud investigation into ACORN, does it?
Like I said, you don’t have a record to run on. What we are seeing is the shrill, and unhinged rantings of a desperate and dying political movement.
26. js | October 8th, 2008 at 7:56 am
you must be naive as you are stupid face…to think that fake people wont vote…you gotta know they intend to have those votes cast after taking the risk of going to jail for registering them…so that elevates you to the stooge stool…its made of porcelin…you know…im sure…with your naivity you probably worship there…
acorn is/has/was investigated in 1/4 of the states it is active in for election fraud…they are being investigated by the fed’s now…for organized criminal activity…ya…we know…obama’s “community service” was with acorn…he sued banks to force them to make loans to people who should never have gotten them under the “community reinvestment act” and billy boy clintons manipulation of that act…which in reality…only opened up the sub prime mess…so obama did a lot to point the way to this financial meltdown we are in today…but further more…his “community service” with a non profit he donated lots of money too…even after he knew they circumvented federal law and exploited loop holes to register ficticious voters so they could manipulate election results…because they didnt just start doin it in 08….they been at it for the better part of a decade now…
obama’s associations with crime and criminal organization is amazing!! and he thinks that “that” is america?
he needs to be sent back to kenya…where he was born!!
27. phnx | October 8th, 2008 at 9:22 am
“Let’s ignore for the moment that fake people by definition can’t actually show up to the polls to vote.” faceplant
except for Ohio during natioal vote fraud week.
“If Democrats were trying utilize ACORN in order to steal the election, it doens’t make much sense that those same Democrats would then launch a voter fraud investigation into ACORN, does it?” faceplant
Contrary to your misguided belief that all Republicans are evil, we don’t beleive that all Democrats are. There are still many patriots in the Democrat party who believe in the principles that made this country great, and who also believe in playing by the rules. ACORN and its former organozer and attorney B. Hussein Obama do not represent the core values of the democrat party. These coordinated illegal attempts to steal the election will result in convincing many Dems and Independents that Obama and ACORN are wrong for the US.
The GOP needs to tie the ACORN albatross around Obama’s neck.
28. js | October 8th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
acorn affidavit is online;
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100041/posts
29. Faceplant | October 8th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
“Contrary to your misguided belief that all Republicans are evil, we don’t beleive that all Democrats are.”
Who said all Republicans are evil?
“There are still many patriots in the Democrat…”
Nice touch with the insult.
“…party who believe in the principles that made this country great, and who also believe in playing by the rules. ACORN and its former organozer…”
Obama never worked or organized for ACORN. No matter how many times Stanley Kurtz tries to tell you he did.
“…and attorney B. Hussein Obama do not represent the core values of the democrat party.”
Obama represented a broad range of groups in suing the then Governer of Illinois to get him to implement the “motor-voter” voter accessability law. Among those “radical” groups that joined in the suit was the US Department of Justice.
I know you LOVE to play guilt by association but I hardly see how Obama representing a broad coaltion of people and organisations in an effort to get a voter accessability law implemented (a law that actually is now implemented) shows that Obama’s a radical vote fraud guru.
“These coordinated illegal attempts to steal the election will result in convincing many Dems and Independents that Obama and ACORN are wrong for the US.”
I’d love to see how kids making up names on voter registrations so they can make more money is ever going to change the outcome of an election. You might have a point if ACORN had been accused of trying to CAST illegal ballots. But they have NEVER been accused of that, now or in the past. And there has NEVER been a shred of evidence that that was ever their intention.
And you people call Democrats unhinged?