Barack Obama: I’ll distract them, you steal the votes
Barack Obama says ACORN and voter fraud are a “distraction.”
Why can’t he look at the camera?
H/T Powerline Blog
In other OBAMACORN news…
Sixth Circuit orders Ohio to implement new system to verify voter registrations
Allahpundit at HotAir.com
A three-judge panel from the same court ruled last week that the Democrat Secretary of State, who’s resisted GOP efforts to implement the new system, could rely on the current procedures. The full panel reversed that ruling today, which means now she’ll have to report mismatches between names on registration forms and names on DMV records to the local county elections boards.
RNC: Barack Obama’s ACORN Tree
Minnesota: Hennepin County looking into ACORN voter registration mistake.
StarTribune.com
The Hennepin County Attorney’s office said today it is investigating whether a voter registration processing lapse at the Minnesota ACORN office falls within guidelines for criminal prosecution.
Nevada: ACORN Investigation Grows Deeper
LasVegasNow.com
There are now two investigations in Nevada into the community advocacy group called ACORN — one by the Secretary of State and the second by the Nevada Department of Corrections. One is looking into possible voter registration fraud and identity theft by ACORN and the other is looking at how inmates were hired to register voters.
ACORN’s Bad Seed
Investor’s Business Daily
ACORN’s links to the Democratic Party are deep, extending back to its 1970 founding. By its own reckoning, ACORN this year has registered 1.32 million voters in 18 states — many in swing states that could have an outsized impact on the outcome of the election.
Obama seeks distance from ACORN
The Boston Globe
Republican John McCain, and today his running mate Sarah Palin, have called on Obama to take control of ACORN’s activities. “Obama has a responsibility to rein in ACORN and prove that he is willing to fight voter fraud,” she told radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh today.
Court documents reveal ACORN’s troubled history
MSNBC
–ACORN hired 59 state prison inmates to collect voter-registration forms. One was Jason Anderson, who currently is imprisoned for burglary and firearms violations at the state’s Casa Grande halfway house in Las Vegas, court records show. Anderson, who became a supervisory “team leader” for ACORN, told state investigators that some of his co-workers “hired by ACORN were ‘lazy crack-heads’ who were not interested in working and just wanted the money.” Anderson is the whistleblower who told state investigators that his inmate colleagues had registered the Dallas Cowboys to vote in Nevada, along with “large numbers” of other fictitious applications.
Obama to amend report on $800,000 in spending
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat’s campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports.
N.C. election officials investigate voter forms
WRAL.com
“They were lazy in that they did not go out an actually ask people to register to vote. They simply made up names and made up addresses,” said Johnnie McLean, a member of the elections board.
Posted in 2008 Presidential Race, Barack Obama, Scandals | 
Tags: ACORN, Barack Obama, Obamacorn, Voter Fraud
I have some problems with all of these ACORN related voter registration scandals and I think the whole thing is a red herring.
First, the scandal is over voter REGISTRATION fraud, not vote fraud. There is a world of difference. Just because someone submitted a registration under the name Mickey Mouse, that does not mean some will be able to vote under that name. Additionally groups that run voter registrations like this (Democrat and Republican alike) are required by law in most states to submit to the state each and every registration they receive, NO MATTER WHAT NAME IS ON THE FORM. Acorn is not a clearing agency, that is the responsibility of the state, reserved exclusively for the state.
Secondly, there are about a million better ways to try to commit voter fraud. Just think about the logistics of trying to pull this off and successfully influence the election. You have to get at least a couple hundred people (more likely thousands of people) to assume false identities with some sort of fake identification, have these people register under the fake name and then successfully vote multiple times under multiple names, without anyone getting caught or turning you in. Even it you get that far with your Rube Goldberg scheme and convince 1000 people to vote fraudulently five times all you have to show for it is 5000 votes. That may have been enough in 2000 in Florida but is anyone really that committed to pull off such a hair brained scheme that may only work once every 50 years?
Finally, the crowning achievement of this red herring is the ruling from the Sixth Circuit court that you are touting. It will potentially disenfranchise 600,000 people. Everyone, Democrat and Republican, who has registered in the past year in Ohio could be on the chopping block. Of course this benefits the Republicans because new Democratic registrations have out numbered Republican ones. I’ll go ahead and assume that my friend in the example above was wildly successful and has fraudulently registered 20,000 people. That still means the Republicans with there lawsuit may keep 580,000 people from voting.
20,000 vs 580,000
I’ll let you decide side has been more successful in improperly influencing the election.
Kyle, distinguishing between “registration fraud” and “voter fraud” is just semantics. The intent in many of these cases was for the new registrants to vote absentee. So maybe Mickey won’t vote. But what was the intent behind the 5000 fraudulent registrations in Indiana? Or an acquaintance of a friend here in Richmond who, though a convicted felon, was registered to vote, and was told that her record “would not be a problem.”
You seem to be writing this off as not that important because it’s too difficult to accomplish. That certainly doesn’t make it any less serious. And, hare brained or not, with investigations in at least 15 states (at last count), somebody thought it would work.
As for the Sixth Circuit ruling, indeed because of the crimes of a few, others may suffer. But that doesn’t invalidate the ruling, or the need for it.
I think I have to side with a Republican on this one. Charlie Crist got it right in these comments in the Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/florida/story/727793.html
I am writing this off because it is all partisan politics, the Republican just want to keep as many new Democrats off the rolls as possible. If you or they were really interested in VOTER FRAUD than you would have raised the flag about Ohio in 2004.
How can ACORN be trying to commit VOTER REGISTRATION fraud, and notify the state of the fraudulent registrations at the same time? Not a very competent fraud operation there.
Well, that’s ONE state out of what now? Nineteen?