Stop the ACORN Scam!
Barney Frank recently reneged on his vote for the original amendment that would stop any group under indictment or convicted of voter fraud to receive federal money/tax payer grants. He reneged because ACORN is a major player on the Hill these days. ACORN has helped elect Democrats for years now, although it attempts to call itself a non-partisan organization. The corruption and fraud only exacerbate the true problems facing this country and fair elections.
We also found out this week that less than 25% of votes coming in from overseas ever get counted. Many of these votes are from expats. or military service men and women, who, more than likely, lean towards the right.
Sen. Charles Schumer, chairman of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, said the study, while providing only a snapshot of voting patterns, “is enough to show that the balloting process for service members is clearly in need of an overhaul.”
The committee, working with the Congressional Research Service, surveyed election offices in seven states with high numbers of military personnel: California, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and West Virginia.
It said that of 441,000 absentee ballots requested by eligible voters living abroad – mainly active-duty and reserve troops – more than 98,000 were “lost” ballots that were mailed out but never received by election officials. Taking into account 13,500 ballots that were rejected for such reasons as a missing signature or failure to notarize, one-quarter of those requesting a ballot were disenfranchised.
The study found that an additional 11,000 ballots were returned as undeliverable.
Schumer’s office said that because a person living abroad must request the absentee ballot and show a clear intention to vote, voter negligence is not thought to be a major factor.
Rather, the New York Democrat said in a statement, there is a chronic problem of military voters being sent a ballot without sufficient time to complete it and send it back. He cited estimates that a ballot can take up to 13 days to reach an overseas voter.
Among the states surveyed, California had 30,000 “lost” votes out of 103,000 ballots mailed out. An additional 3,000 ballots were returned as undeliverable and 4,000 were rejected.
It’s no wonder that conservative politicians are up in arms over the obvious voter fraud that is occurring in this nation, which was supposed to exemplify free and fair elections. We have become so corrupt it seems that we may as well be a third world country. One of the heavy hitters that is lobbying to block funding for groups such as ACORN is Michele Bachmann.
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Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann called on Congress Thursday to block ACORN’s access to federal housing funds, citing repeated charges of voter registration fraud against the low-income advocacy group.
The Republican congresswoman, flanked by an ACORN whistleblower and an attorney who worked on an ACORN case in Pennsylvania, escalated a media offensive against the group, which is a favorite target of conservatives who claim liberals are unjustly protecting a dysfunctional organization by allowing it access to taxpayer money.
“ACORN, as you know, is no stranger to the spotlight,” Bachmann said outside the Capitol. “Yet no matter how many times prosecutors investigate and even indict ACORN and their employees, they emerge unblemished as far as the federal government is concerned from having access to federal tax dollars.”
Bachmann, who hit the same themes in an op-ed in the Washington Times on Wednesday, complained that House Democrats killed her amendment to block organizations indicted for voter fraud from receiving federal housing money. She said ACORN has received at least $53 million in tax dollars since 1994, and that she will have new legislation in the coming weeks.
“We simply believe that the bar needs to be very high,” she said.
The call for congressional action comes after Nevada officials filed voter registration fraud charges against ACORN last week, and Pennsylvania authorities charged seven local ACORN workers with forging voter registration forms.
In the Nevada case, officials alleged the group illegally based employment and compensation on a quota system for voter registration. The group required canvassers to register 20 voters per shift or be fired, officials said, and gave bonus money to canvassers who registered more than 20 people.
ACORN issued a response to Bachmann Thursday accusing the congresswoman of “partisan witch hunts.”
How can there be a partisan witch hunt against a group that is being charged with fraud in various states by state attorneys who are both Democrat and Republic – but just seem to want to do the legal and ethical thing? If we really want to talk about witch hunts maybe we should discuss the Democrats going after the Bush administration with their “truth commission.”
The good news for Bachmann is the latest backing of a very influential Republican, Michael Steele. Steele and the RNC will fully support Michele’s call to present an amendment or legislation that will block funding to ACORN.
Republican National Chairman Michael Steele urged supporters Thursday to get behind Rep. Michele Bachmann’s drive to block public dollars from going to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
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