ACORN: Hiring Criminals as "Registration Deputies"
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
October 2, 2008 8:37am CST
Completely against Wisconsin Election Law, the criminal "grassroots" group ACORN has been hiring convicted felons and deputizing them as registrars for elections.
These "voter registration drives" need to be banned completely. Wisconsin has same day registrations, so there is absolutely no reason for them. Furthermore, criminal groups like ACORN and The New Voters Project should not be able to "deputize" anyone as registrars.
These groups pay people per registration. If a voter registration comes from a deputy registrar, the precincts aren't required to verify the information unless a discrepancy is found.
ACORN and New Voters Project claim that they are helping, but what they are doing is helping perpetuate the voter fraud that they rely on to get Democrats elected in Wisconsin.
Of course, they aren't just in Wisconsin. Obama himself was a big wig in ACORN Illinois. He is neck deep in the stink of these criminal groups.
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@rodney850 (2145)
• United States
2 Oct 08
ParaTed,
My thoughts on this go this way:
1) If a person is not concerned enough to register themselves as a voter, it leads me to believe they are not concerned enough to know the issues or what each candidate does or does not stand for.
2)In regards to what Jerzgirl replied as to people might not know their state allows same day registration, this tells me that these people are not taking an active part in their community or country.
I believe that in order to vote, you, the voter, should be responsible enough to get yourself down to where ever it is you have to register, and register! If someone has to come to your house and cajole you to sign a registration card, you don't deserve the right you recieved when you came of age to vote! If a voter doesn't care enough to take a few minutes and register(even if he/she has to take a bus, walk, ride a bike)then how can they be expected to make ANY kind of an educated decision when they vote?
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2 Oct 08
Agreed. All these policies do is get people who don't give a crap to register to vote. Since they probably won't vote anyway, that helps criminals get more fruadulent votes, which in Wisconsin the Democrats count on.
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@thedogshrink (1266)
• United States
3 Oct 08
rodney, very well put! Liberals like to get the noninterested registered to vote, because they will then vote however they are told, er, um, I mean whatever is "suggested" to them. However, I am all for going to the homes of someone who is interested and wants to vote, but can't get to the polls or to register, because of illness or other legitimate reason.
@jerzgirl (9384)
• United States
2 Oct 08
I have never seen these groups as criminal enterprises. That a few among them cheat in order to get paid more is irrelevant. There are Republicans who cheat - that doesn't make the GOP a criminal enterprise. And, it doesn't matter that Wisconsin has same day registration. The fact is that there are people who don't know this or who don't feel they can get there to register or who might not even consider registering if someone didn't approach them and encourage them. I would help these groups if they were in my area, pay or no pay. We ALL need to do more to encourage people to register and vote and for that I commend them.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2 Oct 08
Give me a break. ACORN and the New Voters Project have been openly encourage voter fraud for years now. They don't even try to hide it anymore.
I would support them if they were out helping people understand how to register and vote, but these criminals are knowingly registering people who aren't eligible to vote, making up names, and voting in more than one precinct.
Federal investigators found more questionable votes in Milwaukee than the margin between Kerry and Bush in the entire state!
Yes, we need to do more to encourage people to vote, but we also need to protect the integrity of our elections.
ACORN and The New Voters Project are part of the problem, not part of any solution.
Before you go backing these organizations, you need to educate yourself to their criminal activities... lest you allow yourself to become one of them.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2 Oct 08
Also, here in Wisconsin, county and state elections boards refuse to even cross reference voter registrations with drivers license records to verify names and addresses. They are required to by federal law.
Wisconsin elections shouldn't even be certified because there is nothing legitimate about them anymore.
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
3 Oct 08
I think my husband told me that Senator Obama was the lawyer for ACORN as it was setting up in the nineties..(?) And yes, there is like tons of dirt in their dealings!
- Hey I like your new avatar! I never thought of it in quite that way, but boy oh boy is that ever true.
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
3 Oct 08
I'm not sure if that's accurate! My memory isn't what it used to be! (And it never was all that great!) But I do remember now he said (hubby, that is) that Senator Obama in the 90's showed demonstrators how to picket banks, blocking the drive thru and doors, demanding the bank give risky loans to inner city folks without requiring info on income and jobs.. a lofty ideal, but in retrospect not a good formula for stability for either the banks or those who depend on them for loans, payrolls, etc.. Whether he was their lawyer or not, I'm not positive of.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
3 Oct 08
Yes, he was not only a lawyer for them, he trained leaders and members of the Illinois chapter of ACORN.
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@missybal (4489)
• United States
3 Oct 08
It's so unbelievable that the democrats actually thought they could sneak in 20% of that bailout money to go to this company with that record. You would think this would tell the American people something about how with the democrats being in the majority for the past two years we have only seen things so from bad to way worse. Two years ago my area was actually peaked. Houses were selling for 20% more then they are today. What happened??? Well though I feel sorry for others, I'm lucky to be in the position that this is not affecting me personally and in fact I'm getting a better house out of it since more is in my price range.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
3 Oct 08
True, some peoples' losses will be other people's gains.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
3 Oct 08
True, his Senate duties don't seem to take up much of his time. ;~D
@nageshnnr (85)
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3 Oct 08
hiii.......sir i am a student pursuing my graduation............i cant make head or tail of what u said ......may be due to my poor understanding on politics........
actually what does acorn abbreviate.??
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
3 Oct 08
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. It claims to be simply a grassroots organization that helps educate people on voting and other issues. But their open support and encouragement of voter fraud belies that innocent front.
@clrumfelt (5597)
• Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee
2 Oct 08
Okay, I am looking for a silver lining here. If it is known this kind of thing is going on, where is law enforcement? There are federal crimes being committed by the Obama campaign and somebody needs to do their job and put a stop to it. I am holding on to the hope that perhaps they are giving Obama enough rope to hang himself and if he comes out ahead in the election, they will step in and strip it away due to voter freud.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
2 Oct 08
Where is law enforcement? Here in Wisconsin the past state attorneys general refused to take on any case against voter fraud. Fortunately our attorney general is taking action this year.
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