Remember the song, Raindrops keep falling on my head? I'm thinking we need a new version: ACORNs keep falling on my head! (Sing along to the original song's last refrain.)
ACORNs keep falling on my head,
And just like the guy who keeps reg-i-st'ring the dead,
No one seems to care,
'Cause, we're never gonna stop the fraud by complainin'
Because they're free-e-e,
No one's checkin' their ID
I'm sure we could come up with alternative lyrics to the whole song with a different theme for each stanza: multiple registration, fictitious name, underage, felon, non-citizen registrations--you name it, but you get the idea.
Here are just a few newsworthy rotten ACORNs.
Missouri officials suspect fake voter registration:
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Officials in Missouri,
a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through
possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms
submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud
in other states.
Charlene Davis, co-director of the election board in Jackson County, where Kansas City is, said the fraudulent registration forms came from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. She said they were bogging down work Wednesday, the final day Missourians could register to vote.
1 VOTER, 72 REGISTRATIONS: 'ACORN PAID ME IN CASH & CIGS':
CLEVELAND - A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told
The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN
activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in
apparent violation of Ohio laws.
Local 2 Investigates Dead Voters: (And Texas has a voter ID law!)
Texas Watchdog compared Harris County's voter registration roll with the Social
Security death index and found more than 4,000 matches -- registered
voters that, it appears, are already dead.
...Auditors identified 49,049 registered voters state-wide who may have
been ineligible to vote. Approximately 23,576 may have been deceased
and another 23,114 were possible felons. And they found more than 2,359
duplicate records.
Many convicted felons remain on voter rolls, according to Sun Sentinel investigation. The video clip interviewed one convicted felon who was registered by the Democratic party. (ACORN was not mentioned in this case.)
Since January 2006, more than 1.6 million new voters have registered in
Florida. FDLE [Florida Department of Law Enforcement] identified more than 124,000 possible felons.
...Elections workers are now reviewing more than 3,800 possible felon
voters but have more than 108,000 others still to be checked. "We've
not touched those records yet," Browning said.
Yesterday, the 3rd person [was] charged with election fraud in Wisc.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A third person in
Milwaukee faces charges of election fraud after prosecutors say he
turned in 54 fake registrations, including one for a man who died 16
years ago.
Frank Walton, 29, submitted the
inaccurate voter forms to the city Election Commission, according to a
criminal complaint, with errors that also included fake driver's
license numbers and Social Security numbers.
Walton
faces one count of falsely procuring voter registration and faces up to
3 1/2 years in prison and $10,000 in fines if he's convicted.
And, let's not forget that even Mickey Mouse Tries to Register to Vote, The cartoon character's application, which included a stamped logo of ACORN, was rejected by Florida elections officials over summer.
Florida elections officials rejected Mickey's application this summer. It is unclear whether Mickey tried
to register as a Democrat or a Republican. But the application included a stamped logo of ACORN, the community organizing
group that is facing accusations of voter registration fraud.
At least Mickey is a Florida resident!
There are so many incidents of ACORN and other fraudulent voter registration stories, that it is difficult to keep up with them. There is little that can be done at this point because we have not accurately maintained our voter registration rolls and Democrats are unwilling to help remedy the situation. (Remember how the Wisconsin Democrat Senators wouldn't bring Voter ID to a vote last spring? My Senator, Jim Sullivan*, cast a key vote in keeping that measure from the floor.)
Sickening.
*I will help the next conservative Republican State Senate candidate's campaign. How about you?
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