October 12, 2004

ACORN Key Player in Voter Registration Fraud?

The name of the left-wing organization ACORN is surfacing in more and more stories around the country about evidence of widespread voter registration fraud. Today, I have reports from Colorado and Minnesota.

From Denver's 9News:

The 9News I-Team has uncovered voter registration fraud that could cause chaos on Election Day for hundreds, possibly thousands of Colorado voters. 9News has documented 719 cases of potentially fraudulent forms at county election offices across the metro-area that show fraudulent names, addresses, social security numbers or dates of birth in Denver, Douglas, Adams, Boulder and Lake counties. Information from other counties is still coming in. Some voter registration application forms are completely bogus. Others belong to legitimate voters, who have had one or two facts changed that could affect their registration when they show up at the polls November 2nd.

Most of the fraudulent forms can be traced to paid workers approaching voters to register on the street or at grocery stores. Some of the workers earn $2 per registration form or $10 an hour. One woman admitted to forging three people's names on about 40 voter registration applications. She says she was helping her boyfriend earn more money from a get-out-the-vote organization called ACORN or Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

Sunday's Denver Post reported that Colorado's voter registration rolls include as many as 6,000 felons who should be ineligible to vote, both prisoners in state custody and and parolees. The Post says, "Records show felons have voted as recently as the August primary, despite a law forbidding it." The usual lefty groups are appalled that the Secretary of State is taking steps to prevent felons and other ineligible voters from voting.

From Minnesota, there is yet another story of possible voter registration fraud involving ACORN, this time in Minnesota, where an ACORN employee kept hundreds of filled-out voter registration forms stuffed into the trunk of his car instead of turning them in. Where they Republican registrations? The story doesn't say, although ACORN was involved in just that kind of attempted fraud in Florida this year, where a whistleblower revealed the organization had failed to turn in boxes filled with Republican voter registrations. A left-wing organization, ACORN seems to keep popping up in these kinds of voter fraud incidents around the country.