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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Nevada Vote Fraud Charges for ACORN | But As For Me links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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.
Basil Plumley| 5.5.09 @ 10:27AM
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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Does having mesothelioma necessarily mean that someone will die from it if not treated? I mean there are some forms of cancer that you can live to be in your 90's having the cancer for years and years and die of some other natural cause first.
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Thorp| 11.11.09 @ 9:27AM
Why do not they go to play blackjack live?
Everybody will benefit by that.
Gill| 8.23.11 @ 1:40AM
Funny they should call their operation "http://www.blackjack-on-line.it/">blackjack
. But then again, they are in Nevada, so it is kind of natural.
Roulette | 8.23.11 @ 1:42AM
Why don't they call their next operation Roulette? Wouldn't that be appropriate?