Stories like this burn my boots. 😡
The Story Via The Detroit Free Press:
Several municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent and duplicate voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group working to help low- and moderate-income families.
The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program among its many social service programs. ACORN’s Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.
“There appears to be a sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent applications,” said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office. “And it appears to be widespread.”
Chesney said her office has had discussions with ACORN officials after local clerks reported the questionable applications to the state. Chesney said some of the applications are duplicates and some appear to be names that have been made up. The Secretary of State’s Office has turned over several of the applications to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office on Friday declined to confirm whether an investigation was taking place.
In recent years, ACORN’s voter registration programs have come under investigation in Ohio, Colorado, Missouri and Washington, with some employees convicted of voter fraud.
ACORN officials said they were looking into the problem.
The reason why this bothers me so much is this; the good majority of the people in the state of Michigan, are hard working honest people that just want to exercise their constitutional right to vote in this election. Not everyone here is a corrupt Liberal who wants to milk the Government for every damn last dime and nickel it can.
It’s stories like this make the rest of us look bad. 😡
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I have commented on this as well.
http://michigantaxes.com/wordpress/?p=480
This is a real issue, and people should know O-Who (Obama) has helped them as a community organizer.
True. But I don’t think that this should be linked to Obama. He hasn’t been with them in years. Nice try though. 😀
It DOES matter when it is ultimately Obama who will be the beneficiary of this fraudulent largess.
I know O-Who has done enough to distance himself in the public eye, but what remains is funding from grants which he directed and helped obtain.
Normally I cautiously approach WIKI articles, but this is worth a read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noroton/The_case_for_including_ACORN
Okay Fair enough. Cannot one smear Jaun McSame in the same way, because of the roll on Wall St? After all, one of his advisers, the one who called America “A Nation of whiners” was the one who lobbied for the deregulation of the Housing industry, which caused this whole mess on Wall St. in the first place.
I mean, what I am saying is, this whole guilty by association thing, is rather stupid, if you ask me.
I don’t know, if you’ve figured it out, but I’m not drinking the Murdoch Kool-Aid, nor do I read from his script.
-Pat