Community Organizers Attempt to Steal the Election
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Even before the late Mayor Richard Daley helped steal the 1960 election for John Kennedy, Chicago was infamous for voter fraud. “Vote early and vote often,” is an apt description of Daley-era Chicago politics.
It seems that at least one community organization is taking this lesson to heart.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which bills itself as “ … a non-profit, non-partisan social justice organization,” claims to have registered 1.7-million new voters since 2004. Certainly, they are active in voter registration in 2008.
In 1992, Project Vote, a branch of ACORN, hired a young Chicago attorney and aspiring politician named Barack Obama to head up its efforts in Illinois. Obama returned the favor earlier this year by funneling more than $800,000 in campaign funds to ACORN during the Democratic primary season.
ACORN rose to the task registering hoards of new voters — Chicago style.
The organization is currently under investigation for voter fraud or registration irregularities in at least 13 states.
For example, in Lake County, Ind., the bipartisan Elections Board has stopped processing a stack of about 5,000 applications delivered just before the Oct. 6 registration deadline after the first 2,100 turned out to be phony. In Indianapolis/Marin County, voter registration now stands at 105 percent of eligible voters.
In Nevada, among those apparently “registering” to vote was the entire starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team. Continuing its pattern of misconduct in Nevada, ACORN seems to have employed at lest 59 felony inmates on work release. It is against Nevada law to employ felons in voter-registration projects.
In Albuquerque, N.M., at least 1,400 registration cards are in question. Officials in Missouri (53,500 new ACORN voters) and Ohio are finding forged signatures and registrations from nonexistent addresses.
The Wall Street Journal reports that ACORN workers in Ohio were “given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. One person in Ohio told the New York Post ACORN registered him to vote 72 times and paid him in cash and cigarettes to register.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Progressives are determined that Barack Obama must win the election — and they will stop at nothing to achieve their end.
Mayor Daley taught them how to win.
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Kip Allen is an award-winning broadcast and newspaper journalist currently residing in Southern California. He is a contributor to CaliforniaConservative.org, and you may read more of his work here.