Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Not all the nuts are in the nut house: Project ACORN, Obama and fraud
by Charles W. Fairbanks
This map is different than the ones we have seen lately. It is not a red state-blue state horse race map. The map, compiled by rottenacorn.com, is a graphic demonstration of the breadth of the fraudulent activities of Project Vote, one of the allied groups of ACORN. ACORN’s community organizers have been investigated and/or criminally prosecuted for fraudulent political practices in fourteen states. According to news reports, ACORN’s cheesy tactics are under investigation in Wisconsin. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that they are working for their comrade, Barack Obama.
The pundits love to talk about the factors that will influence the results of the presidential election in the various swing states. The seven hundred pound gorilla in the room has been urban voter fraud. The pundits rarely, if ever, analyze in a meaningful way the effects of voter fraud on the outcome of contested elections. Project ACORN is the leading institutional perpetrators of election fraud in the United States. Senator Obama has long been associated with ACORN, so attention to their activities is now very timely and relevant.
ACORN is an acronym for the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now. ACORN operates nationwide, and concentrates its activities in urban areas and among minority groups. Project Vote is one of the groups that operates nationwide under the ACORN canopy. ACORN’s website describes Project Vote: “Since its founding in 1982, Project Vote has provided professional training, management, evaluation and technical services on a broad continuum of key issues related to voter engagement and participation in low-income and minority communities.” In other words, it provides “community organizers” to spur voter registration and GOTV (Get out the vote) activities in urban, low-income and minority areas.
While ACORN may appear to encourage non-partisan activity, Project Vote operates in the most heavily partisan areas of the nation. Precincts in inner cities routinely deliver 95 to 100 per cent of their votes to the Democrats. Indeed, Project Vote has abandoned any pretense of non-partisanship. Its website features an article, published on September 11, 2008, entitled “Project Vote Denounces GOP Plans to Foreclose on the Voting Rights of Low-Income Michigan Residents”.
ACORN and Project Vote have long been tools of liberal political activity. Now, one of their own is running for president. Sen. Obama was a community organizer, and according to “Inside Obama’s Acorn” by Stanley Kurtz (National Review Online, May 29, 2008), Sen. Obama has been very closely associated with ACORN and its allied groups his entire career. He is their favorite son. As such, it is safe to assume that ACORN is right now working overtime to assure him victory.
And how does ACORN and Project Vote help their candidates? Well, they do it the old fashioned way: They cheat.
This list of ACORN’s criminal violations of election law is a mile long, and have been documented by commentators from Sean Hannity to Michelle Malkin and by journalist John Fund of the Wall Street Journal and the landmark book, Stealing Elections. According to http://www.rottenacorn.com, ACORN employees or agents have been investigated by prosecuting authorities for election fraud. ACORN agents have been investigated for registering dead people to vote; registering non-existent people; registering the same person more than once; falsifying information on voter applications; and falsifying signatures on voter applications.
The intended result is to increase Democrat vote totals in ACORN strongholds. The most glaring example of the impact of fraud on an election is the 2004 general election in Washington state. In 2004, the gubernatorial race between Democrat Christine Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi was apparently decided by 133 votes out of 2.8 million votes cast. The urban area of King County (Seattle) produced myriad irregularities, including 875 phantom absentee ballots and absentee ballots from over 1,400 felons who were ineligible to vote. While ACORN’s role in the theft of the Washington gubernatorial election is not clear, this episode illustrates how effective the left’s fraudulent activity can be in a close election.
According to news reports, ACORN is now active in the battleground state of Wisconsin. The Democrats won hard-fought battles over President Bush in 2000 and 2004. Obama can ill afford to allow the McCain-Palin ticket to win there. On August 12, 2008, Larry Sandler of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Milwaukee election officials had referred 15 workers associated with ACORN to the prosecutor for “falsifying Milwaukee voter registration forms” and “trying to sign up dead, imprisoned or fictitious voters.” On August 20, the Journal Sentinel reported that the total number of workers referred for proseuction had risen to 39.
It takes courage to prosecute these cases because there will be accusations of racism and vote suppression. MFP calls on the Wisconsin authorities to have the courage to prosecute these criminals. ACORN is involved in a criminal conspiracy, one which undermines the democracy. The depth and breadth of their crimes goes unreported in the national press.
MFP includes attorneys who have significant experience detecting election fraud and protecting the principle of one person-one vote. All of us need to be vigilant. If you have reason to believe that there is voter fraud happening in your state, then please contact the by email.
