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Nevada Vote Fraud Charges for ACORN

The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that voter registration fraud charges have been laid against the left-wing community activist group ACORN.

From reading the article I am not yet convinced that the charges were laid against ACORN, as opposed to individuals in the employment of ACORN. As everybody in the news business knows all too well, early news reports sometimes get the details wrong. We'll see.

In any event, tThe article says

Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and Secretary of State Ross Miller announced Monday that voter registration fraud charges have been filed against an organization that works with low-income people and two of its employees in its Las Vegas office.

The complaint includes 26 counts of voter fraud and 13 counts for compensating those registering voters, both felonies.

The Association of Community Organization for Reform Now, Inc., also known as ACORN, operated a Las Vegas office that helped register low-income voters last year.

Throughout 2008, ACORN employed canvassers to register people to vote in Nevada, the complaint said. ACORN paid the canvassers between $8 and $9 an hour, but made continued employment and continued compensation based on the canvasser registering 20 voters per shift. Those who failed to sign up 20 voters per shift were terminated, the complaint said.

From July 27 through Oct. 2 ACORN also provided additional compensation under a bonus program called "Blackjack" or "21+" that was based on the total number of voters a person registered.

A canvasser who brought in 21 or more completed voter registration forms per shift would be paid a bonus of $5.

The Blackjack program was created by employee Christopher Edwards, field director for the Las Vegas office. ACORN timesheets indicate that corporate officers of ACORN were aware of the Blackjack bonus program and failed to take immediate action to stop it. [...]

Developing...

Updated later the same day: Yes indeed ACORN itself has been charged, as commenter MR notes below. Voter registration fraud charges were laid in Clark County, Nevada, against the Association of Community Organization [sic] for Reform Now Inc., and ACORN employees Christopher Howell Edwards and Amy Adele Busefink. A copy of the 18-page criminal complaint may be viewed as a PDF file here.

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MR| 5.4.09 @ 7:11PM

Here's the complaint - ACORN, Inc. is in fact a named defendant along with two individual employees. http://tinyurl.com/cdx9mn

Nordstrom| 5.4.09 @ 10:01PM

REGISTRATION fraud is not the same as VOTER fraud. They are two very different things. Stop lying, you desperate wingnuts!

KevlarKevin| 5.4.09 @ 10:12PM

Who's lying, idiot? The first part reads "The Las Vegas Sun is reporting that voter registration fraud charges have been laid against the left-wing community activist group ACORN."
I guess you trolls lack reading comprehension.

Stephen Brink| 5.5.09 @ 7:18AM

Trolls actually read before they post? I thought they were just trained to hit the key with the same funny shape as the one on the paper sent to them by Soros &c.

Deborah D| 5.5.09 @ 7:40AM

Okay, this is a first step. Maybe this can continue around the country. They'll have to use their Swindle Us Bill money from Obama to defend themselves.

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Nordstrom| 5.4.09 @ 10:01PM
REGISTRATION fraud is not the same as VOTER fraud. They are two very different things. Stop lying, you desperate wingnuts!

Perhaps, you can explain the need/desire for ACORN to break any law pertaining to voting? Is it a game or is it a cover for something more insiduous?
I thought you, on the Left, demanded the "rule of law" be obeyed. Instead, you parse the issue.

Of course, the irony here is, if ACORN were a GOP apparatus, you would be really outraged, foaming at the mouth, demanding heads be rolling.

Instead, you are just foaming at the mouth.

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…most from the full mobilization of those not otherwise well connected to society.  Maybe that’s why almost all of the numerous allegations of vote fraud in 2008–in Missouri,  California, Washington , and Nevada, just for starters–involved Democrats. So if vote fraud is already a problem, what will happen when the “vote” is simply an electronic pulse, that could have come, potentially, from anywhere in the US–or…

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Capital Research Center: links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…the ACORN crime family is jumping on the global warming alarmism bandwagon, according to (the left-leaning)  Worldwatch Institute. The radical community group, which is now facing voter registration fraud charges in Nevada, has joined forces with Al Gore and other groups for the ultimate taxpayer shakedown: carbon emission controls. From the Worldwatch article: Brian Kettenring,  ACORN’s deputy director…

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ACORN Climbs Aboard Gore’s Global Warming Bus! - navyvet48’s Diary - RedState links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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ACORN in Retreat « Right Sided American Kafir links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…that hinders the ability of the embattled radical activist group to function. The testimony will come as soon as next month from former ACORN Las Vegas field director Christopher Edwards. Charged with election fraud by Nevada’s Democratic attorney general, he cut a deal last week with prosecutors and has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration…

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Big Government » Blog Archive » ACORN’s Lawless Ways links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…addition to the undercover child prostitution sting videos  revealed in recent days on this website. The testimony will come soon from former ACORN Las Vegas field director Christopher Edwards. Charged with election fraud by Nevada’s Democratic attorney general, he cut a deal last month with prosecutors and has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration of…

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Why ACORN’s usual excuse won’t fly this time « The Skeptical Michigander links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…sounds like a systematic “ends justify the means” philosophy at Acorn, not a few bad apples. And the same goes for at least some of their voter registration fraud issues. For example, their charges in Nevada this year specifically cited Acorn’s quota policy (I don’t know if it’s a national policy or just that office). Basically, if their employees didn’t bring in a certain…

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Bloggers 3 MSM 0 @ In The Eaves of the Blogosphere links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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Capital Research Center: links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…say they plan to challenge the constitutionality of the Nevada state law. The prosecution’s star witness is expected to be former ACORN Las Vegas field director Christopher Edwards. Charged with election fraud by Nevada’s Democratic attorney general, he cut a deal with prosecutors and has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit the crime of compensation for registration of voters.…

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