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| ACORN Offices in LVegas Raided by State of Nevada |
| 2008-10-07 |
| Nevada state authorities seized records and computers Tuesday from the Las Vegas office of an organization that tries to get low-income people registered to vote, after fielding complaints of voter fraud. Bob Walsh, spokesman for the Nevada secretary of state's office, told FOXNews.com the raid was prompted by ongoing complaints about "erroneous" registration information being submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN. The group was submitting the information through a voter sign-up drive known as Project Vote. "Some of them used non-existent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications," Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev. He said some registrations used the names of Dallas Cowboys football players. Walsh said agents from both the secretary of state's office and Nevada attorney general's office conducted the raid, and "took a bunch of stuff." ACORN spokesman Charles Jackson confirmed the group's Nevada office was raided. |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #4 The ACORN office in Nevada had the whole starting line-uo from the Dallas Cowboys offense registered to vote in Nevada. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-10-07 19:56 |
| #3 "there will be plenty of time to check that those voters are legitimate" You're lucky. Here in Wisconsin the State Elections Board is fighting 'tooth & nail' to NOT check legitimacy (they've had a couple of years to implement the Federal law, but it's "too difficult" for them to do on such 'short notice'). |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2008-10-07 16:26 |
| #2 Registration ended yesterday here in Ohio. It was reported that ACORN was bussing in homeless people, and the registration offices for the counties in this area were very busy. I believe six days earlier they started accepting absentee ballots; it's expected that double the usual number will be sent in... but that also means there will be plenty of time to check that those voters are legitimate. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-10-07 15:47 |
| #1 Related: According to the WA Sec of State, there are 3,515,393 registered voters here. The estimated 2006 state population is 6,395,798, with the average household consisting of 2.53 people. This registered voter number works out to about 1.819 people per household. And there are still over 400k applications to be processed plus any more that are delivered before the end of registration (Oct 20, IIRC) ACORN is busy here,too, it appears. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-10-07 15:03 |