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		<title>New McCain/Palin Ad targets Obama ties to ACORN, Voter Fraud, and Mortgage Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McCain is finally hitting back against Obama on his ties to the mortgage crisis and voter fraud. Lets hope he keeps it up.
 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>McCain is finally hitting back against Obama on his ties to the mortgage crisis and voter fraud. Lets hope he keeps it up.</p>
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		<title>Hillary supporters share evidence of RICO case against Obama and ACORN</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary supporters, upset about Chicago fraud politics invading their party are breaking ranks and working with republicans to provide evidence for RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) cases being filed against ACORN and Obama campaign in Chicago and across the country. Interestingly enough in the same article, Clinton supporters divulge that McCain is leading [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joakley.wordpress.com&blog=4627196&post=159&subd=joakley&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Hillary supporters, upset about Chicago fraud politics invading their party are breaking ranks and working with republicans to provide evidence for RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) cases being filed against ACORN and Obama campaign in Chicago and across the country. Interestingly enough in the same article, Clinton supporters divulge that McCain is leading in their internal polling of battleground states, contrary to the cooked polls advertised by national polling outfits.</p>
<blockquote><p>Republicans and centrist Democrats are joined together on this effort to get the truth out about Obama before the November election. We firmly believe in McCain’s victory and do not believe it hinges on any developments with RICO.  The polls, in our opinon, are wrong, and the internal numbers we see coming out of NC, VA, PA, OH, IN and FL show McCain wins in all of those states (there is no mathematical possibility for Obama to win without taking PA, OH, or FL). We believe after McCain’s win there will be a continued prosecution of Obama and members of the Democratic party for voter fraud under RICO statutes in the months and years ahead. ACORN and leftist Democrats have gone too far this time — for years ACORN has engineered deliberate election fraud using taxpayer dollars funneled to it by Democrats. This time, with both Democrats and Republicans joined against them, ACORN Is going down…and we believe it will ultimately take Obama, Axelrod, and most of today’s Democratic leadership down with it.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>There IS a RICO investigation of ACORN and the Obama campaign underway &#8211; this has now been established by the mainstream media. Right now it’s rumored here in Chicago that Patrick Fitzgerald is heading it (confirmation on that has not come yet). There is a lot of activity in Chicago right now, with a lot of IRS agents looking into the finances coming in and out of this city, and across state lines (this was established on Monday when the GOP issued emergency press releases that much of Obama’s campaign contributions could very well be illegal foreign contributions &#8211; what appears to be deliberately poor record keeping designed to hide the true identities and monetary sources of online donors is at issue here). We see in 15 states now that ACORN is being busted for attempted voter fraud, and for fraudulent, illegal voter registratons in the hundreds of thousands, if not a million. The article below states, and we have confirmed this with people who know for sure, that the people who gathered evidence of Obama’s fraud and voter intimidation techniques during the primaries against Hillary Clinton are sharing everything they have with the Republican Party and the federal government.</p>
<p>What’s happening here is something we have never seen before: centrist Clinton Democrats and Republicans are working together to expose the DNC and Obama campaign’s illegal activities and orchestrated, coordinated fraud. Both parties are working with federal agents to investigate ACORN, which has been funded with upwards of $800,000 in questionable donations from the Obama campaign (in what appears to be the expressed and explicit direction to engineer voter fraud in the general election). The tactics being employed now in the 15 states currently under investigation are the VERY SAME TACTICS we saw on the ground in Iowa, Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Indiana, and other states working for Hillary Clinton in the primaries.</p>
<p>And all of this ties back to Chicago.</p>
<p>Where the Obama campaign and DNC are now based.</p></blockquote>
<p>Excerpts from HillBuzz, <a href="http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/clinton-supporters-sharing-evidence-for-rico-case-against-obama-campaign/">read the full article.</a></p>
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<blockquote><p><strong>ACORN suspected of voter fraud</strong><br />
<strong>AR 1998</strong><br />
A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.<br />
<strong>CO 2004</strong><br />
An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.<br />
2005 Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.<br />
<strong>FL 2004</strong><br />
A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.<br />
<strong>MI 2004</strong><br />
The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.<br />
<strong>MO 2007</strong><br />
Four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election.<br />
2006 Eight ACORN employees in St. Louis were indicted on federal election fraud charges. Each of the eight faces up to five years in prison for forging signatures and submitting false information.<br />
2003 Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.<br />
<strong>NC 2004</strong><br />
North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.<br />
<strong>NM 2005</strong><br />
Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”<br />
2004 An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.<br />
<strong>OH 2007</strong><br />
A man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties.<br />
2004 A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.<br />
<strong>MN 2004</strong><br />
During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.<br />
<strong>PA 2008</strong><br />
An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.<br />
2004 Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.<br />
<strong>TX 2004</strong><br />
ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.<br />
<strong>VA 2005</strong><br />
In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.<br />
In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. &#8220;Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia.&#8221;<br />
<strong>WA 2007</strong><br />
Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.<br />
<strong>WI 2004</strong><br />
The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.<br />
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<p>Excerpts from HillaryClintonForum.net, <a href="http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?p=406525">read the full comment.</a></p>
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		<title>ACORN Bribed Cleveland Man to Register 72 Times in Last 18 Months</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freddie Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio admits that he was approached and bribed by ACORN activists 72 times over the last 18 months to register to vote.  When interviewed by New York Post corespondent Jeane MacIntosh; 19 year old Johnson stated:
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<p>Freddie Johnson of Cleveland, Ohio admits that he was approached and bribed by ACORN activists 72 times over the last 18 months to register to vote.  When interviewed by New York Post corespondent Jeane MacIntosh; 19 year old Johnson stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they&#8217;ll give me a dollar to sign up,<br />
The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I am already registered. The girl said, &#8216;You are?&#8217; I say, &#8216;Yup,&#8217; and then they say, &#8216;Can you just sign up again?&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10102008/news/politics/1_voter__72_registrations_132965.htm">Read the full article at nypost.com</a></p>
<p>ACORN has endorsed Obama for President. <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&amp;pid=289192">More info on endorsement.</a></p>
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