ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is a community-based advocacy organization founded in 1970. ACORN conducts large-scale voter registration drives, and in October 2008 said that it had registered over 1.3 million new voters in 21 states in 2007 and 2008.
Maybe you recall that President Obama trained ACORN workers and through this organization he was backed and supported financially in all of his elections.
This organization faces fraud claims in 11 states: Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin. In Indiana for example: ACORN submitted 5,000 voter registration forms in Lake County, Indiana in September and October 2008. Local election officials say that about half of the forms are fraudulent. Eric Weathersby, executive director of the group's Northwest Indiana office, said that workers were asked to bring in 20 registrations a day, but "it was not a quota they had to meet". Ruthann Hoagland of the Lake County election board said the first 2,100 cards they looked at were phony. "Everything on the card filled out looks exactly the same."
In Texas: ACORN turned in 30,000 registration cards. ACORN in Harris County, Texas. Tax assesssor Paul Bettencourt reported that 33% are invalid and noted some specifics:
A church was listed as the voter registration address for 150 people. About 250 cards listed the address of a homeless outreach center as their home address.
No earmarks in this spending plan? That's the lie Obama wants all to believe as ACORN will receive $4.1 BILLION in this latest spending account. $4.1 billion. No earmarks?
Can someone read this 800 page bill and see no earmarks? No pork? The American people are being made fools.
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