BULLSHIT. It ought to be illegal for anyone to register another person. And
certainly to get paid for doing it.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:31 AM, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A national voter-registration group admitted to Cuyahoga County
> election officials Tuesday that it cannot eliminate fraud from its
> operation.
>
> The group blamed inefficiency and lack of resources for problems such
> as being unable to spot duplicate voter-registration cards or cards
> that may have been filled out by workers to make quotas.
>
> The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN,
> has turned in at least 65,000 cards to the Cuyahoga County Board of
> Elections in the last year. The board has investigated potentially
> fraudulent cards since August.
>
> The group has faced similar inquiries in other large Ohio counties.
> And Nevada state authorities recently raided ACORN's Las Vegas
> headquarters searching for evidence of fraud, according to the
> Associated Press.
>
> Local representatives of the organization told Cuyahoga board members
> that they don't have the resources to identify fraudulent cards turned
> in by paid canvassers who are told to register low- and moderate-
> income voters.
>
> Cuyahoga election workers flagged about 50 names on suspicious cards.
> The cards were to register the same names, raising the possibility
> that canvassers shared information when trying to make quotas.
>
> "This is not something you can catch with your internal controls,
> apparently," said board member Sandy McNair at the meeting.
> >
>
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