Allegations Trip Up Voting Rights Group

[DoYouEverWonder]

October 2, 2006

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- An advocacy group that registered more than a million voters two years ago is wrestling with new allegations of voter fraud and sloppy work just weeks before crucial midterm elections.

In Philadelphia, the city's voter registration office has rejected about 3,000 cards submitted by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now since April because of missing information or invalid addresses.

Election officials in three of Ohio's largest counties have cited problems with hundreds of voter registration cards. ACORN is accused of submitting cards with nonexistent addresses, forged signatures and, in one case, for someone who died seven years ago.

"In my opinion, there's a lot of words but little action in terms of fixing the problem," said Matt Damschroder, elections board director in Franklin County in Ohio.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-voter-fraud-charges,0,3311832.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines


I remember hearing bad things about this group in 2004. I get the feeling that Rove's goons have infiltrated this group in order to destroy it from within.

[wakeme2008]

1. Would be interesting to see the bad signups

and which reps put them in. It would only take a couple to do a lot of damage.

[Up2Late]

2. I'm not buying it either, here's a link to ACORN...

...sounds exactly like an organization that ReThugs would love to smear.

<http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2703>

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. This sort of thing happened all over the country in 2004

With this group in particular. Seems to be a Repug specialty to destroy groups that work to get up minority voters.


Here's one story that I remember following at the time:


Attorney: ACORN Never Registered Hundreds Of Florida Voters

November 9, 2004

A South Florida attorney is suing a voter registration group, saying he has 11 clients who were denied the right to vote and thinks there may be hundreds more.

Stuart Rosenfeldt represents 11 people in Miami-Dade and Orange County who learned too late that they were never registered to vote after they signed up with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

The group, the leading organizer of Florida's Amendment 5 ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage, conducted voter registration drives across the state. ACORN is under investigation for not turning in all the registration paperwork.

Rosenfeldt said he'll sue ACORN for punitive damages, $100,000 per disenfranchised voter. Attorneys are looking for more victims to push for a class action lawsuit.

ACORN blames the paperwork problems on a dishonest employee.

http://www.news4jax.com/news/3903177/detail.html