Now Minnesota joins the ACORN parade
posted at 7:06 pm on October 14, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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The little ACORN just keeps growing. Now Minnesota becomes the latest state to suspect that the organization has committed fraud in its voter-registration efforts. Hennepin County, home to Minneapolis, will consider whether to file criminal charges, although in this case the review sounds a bit puzzling:
The Hennepin County Attorney’s office said today it is investigating whether a voter registration processing lapse at the Minnesota ACORN office falls within guidelines for criminal prosecution.
A malfunctioning scanner at ACORN’s St. Paul offices in August created a backlog that caused a batch of cards to be submitted late to the Hennepin County Elections Board.
All of the registrations were processed in time to allow voters to participate in both the primary and general elections. None was discarded for fraud or ineligibility.
So what’s the problem? The backlog itself, apparently. It caused ACORN to dump its registrations on the county board after the deadline, perhaps as many as 1,000 or more. While the county didn’t disqualify any of the applications, one has to wonder why they delayed. Did they want to flood the office at the last moment and keep them from validating the registrations, or was it just a malfunction?
Normally, one would figure that this would result in nothing more than a civil fine if it was just a malfunction. Why, then, is Hennepin talking about criminal charges? Sounds like something more than a bad scanner is going on in Minnesota ACORN.
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McCain is missing the opportunity to tie this around obama’s neck.
lorien1973 on October 14, 2008 at 7:08 PM
Get it on the upside, retard. Come on, Mac.
McCain smash.
lorien1973 on October 14, 2008 at 7:09 PM
We’re screwed! Even if McCain closes the gap in the next few weeks, he’ll never overcome the fraud.
Jim-Rose on October 14, 2008 at 7:12 PM
Giving some thought to reconsidering the American Apolcalypse,
eeyorelorien?ManlyRash on October 14, 2008 at 7:12 PM
ACORN has a history with Minnesota
William Amos on October 14, 2008 at 7:13 PM
Tomorrow nite, next debate. This is McCain’s one chance to show the US what and who the real Obama is. He doesn’t have to spend all nite attacking … just factual comments about ACORN and such directed to America that Obama will have to respond to. The rest of the debate can be on issues.
America has to be told who this man is and who he works for.
darwin on October 14, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Yes
forest on October 14, 2008 at 7:14 PM
No, I’m more in apocalyptic than ever.
I’ve upgraded McCain from jerk off to retard. That’s not an improvement, believe me :)
McCain smash tomorrow and I’ll reconsider his status.
lorien1973 on October 14, 2008 at 7:14 PM
They dumped 8,000 on our county. Somebody’s slacking in Minnesota.
RushBaby on October 14, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Sorry to repeat my self Ed but you need to dig into
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board
ACORN and Obama are both tied to the case
Link
mad saint jack on October 14, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Every issue. 25% mccain, 75% attacking obama.
That’d be my mix.
lorien1973 on October 14, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Common where is the poll AP? The one that shows us getting slaughtered amongst likely voters… Common we are down by 14 now, wheres the post at? Twist the knife.
Cardiganfox on October 14, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Some more info from that Article
William Amos on October 14, 2008 at 7:17 PM
This is chilling…
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_101408/content/01125113.guest.html
reshas1 on October 14, 2008 at 7:17 PM
Remember, Manly.
McCain has had 2 issues with which totally destroy the democrat party:
FMFM and now ACORN
He hasn’t used either – effectively. This could be a republican landslide with these D scandals. But McCain is doing nothing.
lorien1973 on October 14, 2008 at 7:18 PM
These hooligans are acting like third world scum. We need to clamp down on this asap.
No id = NO VOTE
Dye our thumbs like Iraqis.
No absentee voting allowed.
TheSitRep on October 14, 2008 at 7:19 PM
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10142008/news/politics/bogus_voter_booted_amid_probe_of_acorn_133540.htm
You catch that NY Post story of a guy in Ohio who benefited from the early voting and vote several times. Connect with Acorn.
BJ on October 14, 2008 at 7:19 PM
Poll watchers had better be extremely vigilant and large in number. registrations alone aren’t votes but open the door for massive fraud!
Chicago politics going national!
McCain needs to point out Obamas ties to this and hang the financial mess on the Dem affirmative action crowd where it belongs. Time for the Mr. nice guy routine to end it is his last chance/dance else he and Lieberman will be relegated to desks in the senate basement with a single dim bulb!
O’Really? started off his bloviation today with “McCain spoke to ACORN in Floria in 2006 on immigration”
Chickens coming home to bite McCain in the butt?
dhunter on October 14, 2008 at 7:19 PM
This is The Obama’s 50 state campaign. You’ll find ACORN fraud in every state before this is over.
Of course, The Obama will deny having anything to do with it, because it will be the fault of those workers out on the street who are defrauding ACORN.
rockhauler on October 14, 2008 at 7:19 PM
You’ll be disappointed.
ManlyRash on October 14, 2008 at 7:23 PM
How can poll watchers be especially vigilant? If Micky Mouse shows up, with valid ID, and is on the registered voter rolls, he gets a ballot.
“Yes, really, my name is Micky Mouse. I love that character.”
“No, my name really is Tony Romo. See, look at my driver’s license.”
rockhauler on October 14, 2008 at 7:25 PM
McCain is concerned about ACORN and the Military vote.
He wrote a letter to John Conyers telling him so.
AnthonyK on October 14, 2008 at 7:25 PM
Beat me to it. This organization is institutionally corrupt from the top to the bottom, that’s what will be found out.
Hog Wild on October 14, 2008 at 7:25 PM
FIFY, but you’re right.
Y-not on October 14, 2008 at 7:27 PM
Yeah, it’ll be found out, but so far Obama gets to dismiss it as just another one of those darn “distractions’
anniekc on October 14, 2008 at 7:27 PM
Really. We’re only lucky that these retards at ACORN couldn’t even spend the time to look up real names and real addresses, though I’m sure more than few have done that. Where are the handcuffs? Many pairs.
progressoverpeace on October 14, 2008 at 7:30 PM
The sad thing is, once Dear Leader Obamassiah is safely ensconced in office, ACORN will be used to discredit future elections (of course the main vitriol will be used against Republicans).
No new elections :-(
rbj on October 14, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Someone please answer me this: Does voter registration fraud lead to voter fraud?
YYZ on October 14, 2008 at 7:31 PM
This is getting ridiculous.
Will it hurt Obama? I don’t know, according to Obama he barely knows the people.
Terrye on October 14, 2008 at 7:33 PM
– Saul Alinsky
We must win or else we are finished.
carbon_footprint on October 14, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Yes. In some places, you can register to vote and then immediately vote. Whether the vote counts after they verify you. I bet that depends on the party in power.
lorien1973 on October 14, 2008 at 7:33 PM
Yeah. He only paid 800,000 to ACORN for gotv efforts and signed onto a lawsuit challenging indiana voter laws.
Hardly knows them.
lorien1973 on October 14, 2008 at 7:34 PM
What was that statement again?
Tell a lie often enough it sounds like the truth.
or… the bigger the lie, the more believable it becomes?
There’s their modus operandi.
tru2tx on October 14, 2008 at 7:35 PM
Also, when (not) working with acorn, he was part of an acorn lawsuit with citigroup that bullied the company into making more subprime mortgage loans for bad credit people.
Hardly knows them.
lorien1973 on October 14, 2008 at 7:35 PM
American Voter Registration Fraud, we are still the top Producers. I don’t care about the claims in old Russian Satelite Countries, about rigged elections. You can’t reproduce this kind of Voter Fraud Registration dedication, say in Pakistan. USA! USA! USA! We are still Number #1 Eat Your Heart out France.
It’s all about perspective GRIN.
Dr Evil on October 14, 2008 at 7:36 PM
The “delay” in turning in the cards was that Acorn decided they should go through all the them and throw out the multiple Mickey Mouse’s and Fran Tarkingtons….
Rovin on October 14, 2008 at 7:37 PM
I wonder if all of the delayed registrations were Republicans. When my felon brother was working for ACORN, he said that if someone registered Republican, they’d just throw it away because they weren’t getting paid for it. Of course, he is a felon, drug-dealer, so you can’t take everything he says at face value.
JadeNYU on October 14, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Trick question?
TheCulturalist on October 14, 2008 at 7:41 PM
You’d think Arizona would be in on the action since illegals have been registering to vote there for some time. It’s not exactly like the Mickey Mouse registrations, they will actually vote and will use the vote by mail option to get around having to show ID.
Shay on October 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM
This country will elect a socialist when hell freezes over.
Drudge headlines:
Doh!
lorien1973 on October 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM
I’m beginning to think Bush probably should have won at least three or four more states back in ‘00 and ‘04.
Maybe the Florida lawyer-up recount fiasco was a purposeful diversion from what was going on in other states.
Hmmmmm.
fogw on October 14, 2008 at 7:47 PM
This election needs to be stoped for at least 6 weeks untill the Att. general of the U.S. can fully check all of this out.Anything thing else is going to destory this country for the next 50 years!
thmcbb on October 14, 2008 at 7:49 PM
You really need an answer? I think you know the answer is most definitely yes. Especially when you register and vote on the same day. Wake up or keep trolling, I am not sure which way to go with you.
kahall on October 14, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Trust me, McCain’s got nothing to worry about with the military vote. Too bad most of the absentee ballots in battleground states will get “lost” in the mail.
m064404 on October 14, 2008 at 7:55 PM
O/T:
Did anyone catch Matthew’s this afternoon saying Palin didn’t show him much in the way of experience or impress him in her appearances. California congressman Dan Lundgren reponded by saying: “I’m sure she didn’t send a tingle up your leg, Chris”—–Matthew’s was clearly p**t-off.
Rovin on October 14, 2008 at 7:55 PM
well registration fraud IS voter fraud. If someone is registered 70 freakin times they get 70 ballots.
johnnyU on October 14, 2008 at 7:55 PM
Let’s file a lawsuit against ACORN?
try again later on October 14, 2008 at 7:59 PM
Colmes, you rascal you…
At least have the onions to post under your real name!
TheCulturalist on October 14, 2008 at 8:00 PM
He does, but he won’t.
Cr4sh Dummy on October 14, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Ummm… how many votes does $800,000 buy from ACORN?
Canadian Imperialist Running Dog on October 14, 2008 at 8:09 PM
Does the DOJ have some constitutional amendment like threshold for voter fraud wherein it has to occur in 3/4’s of the states before they actually get humping?
JHC, this isn’t something new. ACORN has been doing this for decades and the longer they gotten away with it, the more brazen they’ve gotten in flouting the law. It’s just this bad now because the people running ACORN probably believe no one will touch them since they think they have sufficient political backing. The sad thing is they are probably right.
Dusty on October 14, 2008 at 8:17 PM
LOL. I have to admit you suckered me with those.
Dusty on October 14, 2008 at 8:18 PM
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Murphy9 on October 14, 2008 at 8:21 PM
I demand a recount using my temperature gauges. I am sure that the ones they were using must have missed some hanging degrees.
- Al Gore
MB4 on October 14, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Instapundit is doing a yeoman’s work on this ACORN thing. He has a CNN video up right now.
lorien1973 on October 14, 2008 at 8:30 PM
Not necessarily. BUT your over riding concern should be that without the first, the second is less likely. Stop the fraud in the registration process and you almost totally eliminate it during the voting process.
csdeven on October 14, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Glenn Beck is reporting that barney Frank snuck language into the Fannie/Freddie Bribeout legislation that mandates a a payment to ACORN and other ‘community activist’ organizations of $420 per $100K of any new mortgage loan.
Home owners are funding ACORN by democrat congressional mandate.
JIMV on October 14, 2008 at 8:45 PM
All those in support of the bailout bill, please raise your hand.
I blame you.
lorien1973 on October 14, 2008 at 8:49 PM
We know that acorn is committing fraud in behalf of Obama. We also know that the indies are turned off by the attacks and that the base is demanding them.
There is a way to accomplish both goals. Here’s how……
There is a sales technique called “forced response” and we have all experienced it. An example would be when a car salesman, rather than ask you if you want the car, he asks you if you want the red one or the blue one. This is called the hard sell because it glosses over the basic premise (do you want this model car) and makes the secondary consideration the main issue.
This is the technique that McCain should use when dealing with Obama’s associations.
IE: “Senator Obama, we know that your associations with Willaim Ayres, Tony Rezko, ACORN, Reverend Wright, and other extremists are problematic. Can you promise the American people tonight that the association you have in the future will not be so problematic?”
The audience naturally wants the question answered, but Obama cannot let the basic premise that he has associated with extremists go unanswered. So, he has to defend his associations. While he is doing so, the audience is still waiting for an answer because they don’t know if it’s true or not and there is enough evidence that they are concerned.They simply want to know if his appointments will have main stream views.
I’m not an expert on this stuff, but you get the gist.
csdeven on October 14, 2008 at 8:51 PM
Why, then, is Hennepin talking about criminal charges? Sounds like something more than a bad scanner is going on in Minnesota ACORN.
Guilt by insinuation again! In fairness, it’s so easy to do.
This whole ACORN thing is a joke. The fraudulent names were added by people who were trying to pull a fast one on ACORN by adding more names (and thus getting more money) without doing any work.
But, as long as you have insinuation, you’ve got a story!
Tom_Shipley on October 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM
I believe a similar defense was used at Nuremberg.
MB4 on October 14, 2008 at 9:13 PM
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How many ACORNS will it take to wake the American voters from their trance?
dhunter on October 14, 2008 at 9:24 PM
I want convictions, and guilty people going to jail.
Can’t wait for your response when that happens.
‘Course, if your messiah wins, all bets are off. Chicago way and all, you know?
You elect an unexamined malleable marxist and a complicit and utterly incompetent congress into power and we all will suffer.
Obama is not gonna make it all better.
techno_barbarian on October 14, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Has anyone seen the spokesman for ACORN spouting off about the virtues of registering the poor and disenfranchised — I may be showing my south park here… I can’t help but think of the canadian spokesman on TV debating Mrs Braflowski … “can I finish, can I finish…” He sounds just as weaselly … that may not be a word!
jen on October 14, 2008 at 9:26 PM
Let’s see if I get your point…
Schools allow children to leave class and march in lefty endorsed protests, but don’t report it since that would cut into their Fed MONEY. Whose fault? The kids.
Schools have meal programs with a “means test” that almost everyone lies about since they know no one will check and the schools are able to turn a small PROFIT on the income, so they turn a blind eye. Whose fault? The parents.
Food stamp programs find that they are not able to give away all of their budget. Solution? Spend some of it on advertising so as to “get out the stamps”, but don’t vet the applications since that might defeat the purpose of giving away all the MONEY they were given. Thus allowing them to ask for even more next year. Whose fault? The applicants.
“Volunteers of America” has PAID volunteers (oxymoron alert) who provide “free” pre-school, also with a “means test” filter. Almost the entire class is made up of Hispanics (in my area here in SoCal) whose mother’s drive very very nice SUV’s. Whose fault? The parents.
ACORN receives money based on the number of signed voter registration forms they can turn in. The word is out that no one is vetting the forms, so the collectors turn in as many as they can regardless of the “rules” they were supposedly told to follow because they know the rules are not enforced. Whose fault? The collectors.
So, in your world, none of the people actually charged with the responsibility of ensuring the proper administration of the programs they are paid to administer have any culpability.
Right?
TheCulturalist on October 14, 2008 at 9:32 PM
Someone got their wish the Michigan AG is charging an ACORN worker with Felony Voter Fraud
William Amos on October 14, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Obama.
Neck.
Oh, that’s gotta be racist right there!
dugan on October 14, 2008 at 9:44 PM
When I saw Warren Rudman and Dnaforth as the people Mccain has on this I knew we are in trouble.
Even if Mccain knows he is robbed on election night he will proably just let it go for the ‘good of the country’
What he needs to do right now is turn up the heat in a major way.
Make an announcement that goes something like.
My party will not accept a fraudlent election. Period.
Make a speech in front of some army rangers or something and say we are in danger of becoming a bannana republic and this is unacceptable.
When the MSM howls and moans he should then do it again except harder.
kangjie on October 14, 2008 at 9:53 PM
Fear works both ways.
If carville can imply riots if Obama is not elected we can threaten revolt if fraud is committed.
kangjie on October 14, 2008 at 9:55 PM
Even if you think it’s a long shot, why not add your name to the 6,690 already on the PETITION TO THE FEC to make Obama show his real birth certificate and prove his eligibility like McCain had to. We’ve got nothing to lose and it might be our best shot.
NightmareOnKStreet on October 14, 2008 at 10:03 PM
If you’ve ever wondered if voter disenfranchisement is real you have the proof now as your votes are about to be canceled out by an organization that is gung-ho for cheating. If the American people cannot rely on the integrity of our voting system then our government loses legitimacy as the people’s say is not heard. For WE THE PEOPLE are the government and our elected officials are to elected by us to represent us. Not to represent the will of a few who have do not have a majority and need to CHEAT to win.
theguardianii on October 14, 2008 at 10:09 PM
Why was it necessary for ACORN to scan something? Collect the forms and hand them in. Or hand out the blank forms and let people send them directly to the county. Or go to a photocopy shop, make copies of these forms, turn in the originals, and scan the copies when the scanner is fixed.
HotWeaver on October 14, 2008 at 10:15 PM
I don’t know why everyone is so worked up about this.
We know the Democrats were all up in arms about supposed misdeeds in the 2000 and 2004 elections so I’m sure they will step up to the plate and speak out against these fraud allegations.
Right?
TheCulturalist on October 14, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Were all the late ones non-Democrat registrations by any chance?
PattyJ on October 14, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Gotta tell you William, that made my day.
//rant on
Er, sorry. I have to. Cox had the balls to actually call them criminals.
Finally.
Lately it’s been like getting mugged on a busy street in broad daylight, and having the cop on the beat shrug his shoulders just before turning back to continue his conversation about last night’s dancing with the stars.
Where the hell are our public defenders?
I am so sick of senseless congressional investigations over frivolous stuff and absolutely nothing being done about the many serious issues we have before us right now. I demand action, damnit.
This stuff is critcally important and, for the most part, the people in charge are saying, “Oh well…” and successfully skipping unquestioned off into the distance once again running away from their dutiful responsibilities. And the idiots that put them in power will re-elect them.
It’s long past time for the identification, prosecution, conviction and punishment of the guilty. I pray a majority of the American Public think similarly.
Media! Get a clue. It would be must watch tv. You’d make millions. Bigger ratings than OJ.
Enough is enough, damnit.
//rant off
techno_barbarian on October 14, 2008 at 10:54 PM
It really makes no sense to get all worked up about this. It is now too late to stop it.
Horse. Barn. Gone.
These states with rampant ACORN voter fraud have intentionally allowed it to happen and have put up every roadblock they could to prevent things like mandatory voter ID’s, etc. They have guaranteed that the election results for this election will be as phony as a three dollar bill and there is not a thing any of us can do about it. These tactics are straight out of the NSDAP play book.
Once they get their Obamamessiah “elected” it will be the last election we will have. A Democrat/Marxist stacked Supreme Court, a Democrat/Marxist stacked court system and carefully crafted lawsuits out of Democrat/Marxist “community activists” will guarantee that the Bill of Rights and the Constitution will become little more then the Obamamessiah’s toilet paper and the concept of government of, by and for the people will cease to exist. After all, we are too stupid according to our “liberal/progressive intellectual betters” like Queen Nancy Pelosi, the Dirty Commissioner Harry Reid, the Obamamessiah, his MSM choir, Rappers, race warriors, 1960’s terrorists, Islamofascists, those rocket scientists in Hollywood and the “owners” of the Democratic party know what is good for us and aren’t going to stand for us actually wanting to have a voice in it.
Nahanni on October 14, 2008 at 11:17 PM
Acorn has registered 1.3 million voters at a cost of $16 million. At $12.31 a vote, $800K buys 64,987 and 2/3 votes.
kimsch on October 14, 2008 at 11:25 PM
It really makes no sense to get all worked up about this. It is now too late to stop it.
The second part of this statement is the part I have a real problem with. In my view, this election has been compromised at this point. With over a dozen states reporting heavy voter fraud at the hands of ACORN, it’s to late to reverse the damage.
I don’t care about the (D) or the (R), I care about our free election system (Democracy) have been compromised, esp. by an organized effort by an organization that is funded in part by my tax dollars.
The election of 2008 should be canceled until our government can guarantee us that this organized effort to destroy the integrity of our elections has been completely corrected, and all of those responsible have been punished for their crimes.
Keemo on October 15, 2008 at 8:37 AM
That will not happen.
Why?
Because our “liberal/progressive intellectual betters” and their version of the SA the nutroots will howl and do everything in their power to prevent it.
No, folks.
Face the reality of the situation. We are reliving and are going to relive a very large chunk of history in the coming years.
January, 1933-April, 1945.
Who will be to blame for this?
All of us. The ones who support this much, more then the rest but we will be all to blame and we will pay for it dearly.
Horse. Barn. Gone.
Enjoy your last weeks of freedom and enjoy your last weeks of being able to speak your piece on blogs such as this. Blogs and any other information source that does not spout the party line will be one of the first things to go-they will be categorized as “racist hate speech” and shut down. You can already see them planning that.
Nahanni on October 15, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Nahanni on October 15, 2008 at 10:03 AM
Excellent post!
Didn’t know where to post this. Not only is Acorn helping to cheat for Obama. There have been people calling credit companies complaining that someone took money off of their card and donated it to Obama. All of these are not for Obama. One person had 2,300.00 taken for Obama. This is getting scary when someone has access to personal credit card information and is taking other people’s monies to donate. What is next? If Nobrainerobama wins we are so screwed.
sheebe on October 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM
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