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The Nine Voting Lives of ACORN’s Darnell Nash
Is it ACORN vote fraud if he voted once as a man and once as a woman?
The activist group ACORN, which has long worked with criminals as it preys on the weak and the troubled, is on the verge of yet another public relations catastrophe.
That’s because a cross-dressing Ohio male escort whom ACORN registered multiple times to vote was convicted of full-fledged vote fraud in addition to the lesser crime of voter registration fraud. A spokesman for Cleveland prosecutor Bill Mason confirmed yesterday that a local investigation of ACORN remains wide open.
The conviction of Darnell Nash, apparently known by several aliases including Serina “Sexy Slay” Gibbs, is hugely significant for several reasons, not least of which is the fact that ACORN has long maintained that vote fraud, as opposed to the lesser crime of voter registration fraud, essentially never happens.
ACORN’s Project Vote affiliate has tried to get rid of the problem of vote fraud by defining it out of existence. Lorraine C. Minnite, a political science professor at Columbia University’s Barnard College, argues in an ACORN/Project Vote report called “The Politics of Voter Fraud” that “[t]he claim that voter fraud threatens the integrity of American elections is itself a fraud.” Minnite is also a senior fellow at the liberal think tank Demos.
While ACORN has not yet been charged in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the fact that an individual voter registered by ACORN has been convicted of actually casting a fraudulent ballot appears to be a historic first for the embattled radical advocacy group.
But in the Nash case, the question arises: Who conned whom? Or were both Nash and ACORN to blame?
Nash, the self-proclaimed “Queen of Cleveland Gender Benders,” claimed to make $150 an hour turning tricks, according to the New York Post. Describing Nash, who flashed a TV reporter on camera while dressed as a woman, as a “flamboyant con artist,” the newspaper reported last October that Nash was also “busted for scamming local college students in a fake loan-program scheme that gave him access to the kids’ checking accounts.” It is unclear if the loan fraud allegations were acted on further by authorities.
Mason spokesman Ryan Miday said in an interview last night that ACORN remains on the prosecutorial radar screen. “We investigated the activities involving ACORN and at this point we have found no criminal conduct by ACORN.” [Emphasis added.]
I pressed Miday, whose boss is an elected Democrat, to elaborate and he offered what sounded like a clarion call to whistle blowers.
“Our file remains open, meaning that we’re not closing the case,” he said. “If we receive more information or evidence pertaining to ACORN’s involvement we will pursue it.”
Miday explained that Nash was registered nine times to vote with the assistance of what the spokesman called “ACORN outreach workers.” Nash repeatedly used different names and different addresses to register to vote. He was indicted by a grand jury earlier this year.
Nash cast a fraudulent ballot at the local board of elections office, Miday said.
Nash entered a guilty plea to one count of casting a fraudulent ballot and to several counts of false registration on August 5. On August 19 he was sentenced to six months imprisonment by Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo.
Miday said that Nash, who is in custody in a facility for male prisoners, filed for a petition for early “judicial release” on Oct. 1. Mason entered his opposition to the petition yesterday, the spokesman said.
The conviction of Nash in August was missed by the national media and by this now red-faced reporter.
About the Author
Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative journalist at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Vadum is also author of Subversion Inc: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.
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Deborah D | 10.8.09 @ 6:48AM
Good grief. How many elections do you think ACORN has stolen? I'm beside myself with all of this ACORN stuff.
Did you know ACORN has a high school in Brooklyn? http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolP.....efault.htm
What do you think they're teaching them there?
Matthew Vadum | 10.8.09 @ 7:54AM
Social justice? I wrote about them briefly in the Nov. 2008 Foundation Watch available at capitalresearch.org. Apparently they're not bad schools -- apart from the indoctrination.
Deborah D | 10.8.09 @ 9:01AM
Well, I figured if anyone knew about it, you would, Mr. Vadum. I like the "apart from the indoctrination" part! Makes me feel much better! :) Thanks for all you do.
ted agnew| 10.22.09 @ 7:13PM
What part of:
"We investigated the activities involving ACORN and at this point we have found no criminal conduct by ACORN." [Emphasis added.]
don't you understand? One guy, one fraudulent vote, not ACORN's doing. Get a grip.
Ray| 10.8.09 @ 10:44AM
"his amendment number 2647 to H.R. 2847, the fiscal 2010 spending bill for the Commerce Department, directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to "conduct a review and audit of Federal funds awarded to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now…or any subsidiary or affiliate of ACORN.""
Talk about a bogus amendment! The GAO doesn't NEED a legislative bill in order to conduct an investigation as to the disposition of federal funds. All they need is for a single Senator to request one. Why isn't Sen. Durbin directly making a request? I believe that the answer is that he wants to appear to be doing something while doing nothing at all.
Peggy| 10.8.09 @ 11:48AM
This amendment expires October 31 of this year! Really cracking down, huh??
Son Of Sam | 10.8.09 @ 10:45AM
Is it any wonder that the TelePrompter In Chief said we should "avoid taking sides" in the fraudalent elections over in Iran? It should be obvious by now that this was no more and no less than one vote stealing America hating demagogue helping out a kindred spirit overseas. ACORN is an army criminals, lunatics, traitors and tax cheats. And who stands at the head of that hate filled army of America bashers but the chief ObamaNazi himself?
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Seek| 10.8.09 @ 12:15PM
Let's be honest. While the leadership of ACORN is heavily white (yes, I know about Bertha Lewis and Maude Hurd), the rank and file are overwhelmingly black, plus some Hispanics. The untold story of ACORN is that from the start it's been a race reparations racket masquerading as community organizing. All self-respecting whites have a stake in seeing ACORN crushed.
Curtis Rasmussen| 10.8.09 @ 5:04PM
Let's de dishonest is more like it. Your statement excludes me from hoping for ACORN's demise beacuse I am not white. If they were mostly white and pulling off the same crap, would this somehow make them better?
This is about class warfare, not race, numbnuts. Oppressive zealotry is an equal oppotunity employer.
Johan Baumeister | 10.9.09 @ 4:18PM
Clearly ACORN needs to get its house in order, but "all self-respecting whites" should want to see ACORN go down?
You sir are a racist. Indignation at impropriety should not be limited to or encouraged by the color of a person's skin.
California Mama Bear| 10.9.09 @ 5:55PM
Heavens above, I am SO very tired of race this and race that and more race, ad nausem, as well as hyphenated Americans . . . I long and pray for the day when we are ALL color-blind and free at last from the self-imposed chains of race identity . . .
I would paraphrase something I read many years ago that has stuck with me, "God is NOT pleased to be insulted when He wears His different colored suits." ( please don't not think that I am suggesting a personal belief in anything anti-Biblical here about individuals being gods or God Himself; rather it's for illustration that we are all created uniquely by God, and I believe He does get insulted when we have prejudices against some of the colors He chose for others. )
ALL self-respecting people should have a stake in seeing ALL forms of lawlessness crushed, whether it's related to illegal aliens, ACORN workers, fraudulent voting, pedophiles, drug dealers, politicians abusing the Constitution, or whatever. We've become a nation filled with people sorely lacking in love for one another and without a moral compass for guidance in self-discipline, but that's what happens when self is worshiped. America is filled with unrepented, prideful corruption and wickedness; God is surely losing His patience with us. We have choices - God or self, blessings & love or curses & wrath. Individually and corporately, as a nation, we make our choice daily, and the days turn into years . . . .
Tom| 10.8.09 @ 12:49PM
ACORN needs a little RICO
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BREDNG10| 10.8.09 @ 5:39PM
I wonder how many of the thousands of voters registered by Acorn in Minnesota were also frauds and voted???With the small margin of victory for al franken and the vast majority of Acorns voters going to Dem`s it seems more than likely al`s victory was a fraud also.
Maybe the Rep. senator from Mn.should investigate the Acorn voter registrations for more frauds,with the very small margin of frankens victory!
Johan Baumeister | 10.9.09 @ 4:21PM
If there were indications that voter registration fraud took place in MN, I find it hard to believe that Coleman and his lawyers wouldn't have found it and brought the evidence to court. Since they brought no such allegations, I have to wonder what motivates your assumption that Franken's victory was fraudulent.
Also, there is no Republican Senator from Minnesota. Amy Klobuchar, the other Senator, is also a Democrat.
Chris| 10.12.09 @ 3:01PM
I loved that when the recount in MN started several boxes of votes that were like 5-1 in favor of Franken mystically appeared to be added to the counts.
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DTC OF AZ| 10.8.09 @ 8:07PM
Thanks to all the magic tricks from Obama, ACORN staying in business last that long, sucking up ton of dough from taxpayers when committing that many crimes! Sick people they are.
Johan Baumeister | 10.9.09 @ 4:25PM
Ashamed of your grammar, even Yoda would be.
If I understand you correctly, you're implying that Senator Obama somehow had enough pull with the Bush Administration to prevent ACORN's demise during his campaign. You're also implying Obama stole his wide electoral margin if I understand you correctly. Do you really think that the Bush Administration, under whose watch this election took place, would have missed your alleged millions of fraudulent votes?
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JimJam| 10.9.09 @ 3:04PM
Wait until we discover the fix is in for 2010. Limbaugh keeps saying he's amazed at how brazen Obama and his socialists are and don't they know that by pulling all this crap, they risk not being elected next time? ACORN's activities are far deeper and more nefarious than we know. The Dems will get "re-elected" next time no matter what the real election count is. The Republicans are too dumb to figure it out and are doomed, despite all the rhetoric from the conservative heads. Wake up, America!
Johan Baumeister | 10.9.09 @ 4:29PM
Yes, because a "former" prescription drug addict with deep conservative ties is certainly the most unbiased source of information on ACORN's activities.
Unlike, say, the Department of Justice under Bush or under Obama. Neither of which have caught on to this imminent, massive, and well-hidden conspiracy despite having an investigations budget that rivals the GDP of some smaller nations.
Chris| 10.12.09 @ 3:03PM
There is a reason why there was SO much in the "Screwallus" bill. Obama was affraid he would loose the midterm and possibly his second term, so he crammed 10 years of social programs into one bill.
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Sounds like Mr./Ms. Nash will probably be up for and intern position in the White House.
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