Do your tax dollars pay for ACORN’s stellar quality control? 11 accused for voter registration fraud in Miami
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office issued arrest warrants for 11 suspects accused of falsifying hundreds of voter registration cards, all of whom worked for the local chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now or ACORN..
By late Wednesday, seven were in custody and being held without bond, authorities said. The 11 workers each face multiple counts of two felony charges: false swearing in connection with voting and submission of false voter registration information. Each count is punishable by up to five years in prison.
The suspects collectively turned in about 1,400 registration cards, of which 888 were later found to be faked. Some contained names of celebrities such as actor Paul Newman, while in other cases the same real voter’s name was used on multiple applications.
ACORN while cooperating with the authorities, claim that turning in these 11 suspects illustrate their quality control mechanisms do in fact work. ACORN Florida spokesman Brian Kettenring said:
Today’s actions vindicate our quality control systems and show that we took the preservation of the integrity of the voting process with the utmost seriousness.
Within the Miami Dade area, 888 of the nearly 1400 registrations turned in by the ACORN office were fraudulent. When you have a 63% fail (fraud) rate, praising system for quality control seems more than ironic.
With ACORN’s past problems with misappropriation of tax dollars for political purposes, its not a stretch that federal funding is used in part for ACORNs ‘voter registration drives’. While overwhelming the county registrars with falsified registrations, potentially misappropriating tax dollars for these political purposes, and most recently, caught up in a scandal, stretching in 3 cities thus far, where workers aid a child prostitution ‘promoter.’ACORN continues to ask for $6 million more in federal funding.
Tags: ACORN, Florida, Fraud, indictment, Voter Registration
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(Via Election Journal.)