{"id":6488,"date":"2008-10-09T09:45:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2008-10-09T16:23:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T23:23:53","slug":"gops-acorn-voter-fraud-scam-rolls-out-in-moright-on-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=6488","title":{"rendered":"GOP&#8217;s ACORN &#8216;Voter Fraud&#8217; Scam Rolls Out in MO&#8230;Right on Schedule&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ACORN_NevadaRaid_100708_Missouri.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Remember yesterday when <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6487\">we told you about<\/a> the transcript of the <i>Fox &#038; Friends<\/i> show yesterday morning, discussing the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6480\">bogus raid of an ACORN office<\/a> in Las Vegas, and then implying &#8220;more&#8221; ACORN &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; occurring in Missouri? The RNC actually issued that transcript <i>verbatim<\/i> as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/republican-national-committee-acorn-\/story.aspx?guid={1424B9DD-1977-493F-B9CD-4EC2356B9119}&#038;dist=hppr\">an official RNC press release<\/a>. Remember when we told you that, given the hints within the RNC\/FNC report that swing state MO was likely next on the RNC\/FNC\/FBI hit-list?<\/p>\n<p>Well, late last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.excite.com\/article\/20081009\/D93MKOS80.html\">AP delivered right on schedule<\/a>, open their story with &#8220;Officials in Missouri&#8230;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report quotes GOP tool &#038; Jackson County (Kansas City), MO election director, Charlene Davis complaining they are &#8220;bogged down&#8221; with registrations right now, and insinuating that it&#8217;s ACORN causing the problem for them. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, as with the pageant staged in Las Vegas, the Missouri action is also a scam. Read a little closer into the AP article, and you&#8217;ll see the tell-tale signs of this October &#8220;Surprise&#8221; joke rather clearly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy,&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;We have identified about 100 duplicates, and probably 280 addresses that don&#8217;t exist, people who have driver&#8217;s license numbers that won&#8217;t verify or Social Security numbers that won&#8217;t verify. Some have no address at all.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nJess Ordower, Midwest director of ACORN, said his group hasn&#8217;t done any registrations in Kansas City since late August. He said he was told three weeks ago by election officials that there were only about 135 questionable cards &#8211; 85 of them duplicates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They keep telling different people different things,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They gave us a list of 130, then told someone else it was 1,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said the agency has been in contact with elections officials about potential voter fraud and plans to investigate.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So Davis &#8212; who just happened to have played a key role in the recent arrest of a Missouri election integrity advocate for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6252\">committing the crime of trying to legally cast his vote<\/a> &#8212; doesn&#8217;t &#8220;even know the scope of it&#8221;, but is happy to suggest ACORN has done something amiss. That, even as ACORN <i>hasn&#8217;t done any registrations in Kansas City since August.<\/i> (Not to mention the fact that, as we&#8217;ve pointed out now several days in a row, ACORN verifies every single registration form, and when they can&#8217;t, they flag them as potentially fraudulent before turning them into officials, <i>as they are required by law!<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>And now, the FBI will be investigating. Raid should be coming soon, no doubt. Nope, not a scam at all.<\/p>\n<p>ACORN&#8217;s Midwest director Ordower is not surprised by this wholly stated October &#8220;Surprise&#8221;, and neither are we. We&#8217;ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/ACVR\">reporting on its rollout<\/a> for about 4 years. It was only a matter of time before it showed up again in our old home state of MO &#8212; not coincidentally, the home state of the GOP&#8217;s &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; cappo, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/ACVR\">Thor Hearne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;It&#8217;s par for the course,&#8221; [Ordower] said. &#8220;When you&#8217;re doing more registrations than anyone else in the country, some don&#8217;t want low-income people being empowered to vote. There are pretty targeted attacks on us, but we&#8217;re proud to be out there doing the patriotic thing getting people registered to vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are among ACORN&#8217;s loudest critics. At a campaign stop in Bethlehem, Pa., supporters of John McCain interrupted his remarks Wednesday by shouting, &#8220;No more ACORN.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re sure McCain had no objections to the &#8216;spontaneous outbursts&#8217; of his &#8216;supporters&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re also sure that McCain didn&#8217;t bother to straighten them out, because why start fighting for democracy now? He already spent five years in a prison trying to defend it, so his work must be done.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP is in absolute &#8212; and shameless &#8212; ruin.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Previously&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n<b>10\/7\/08:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6480\">GOP&#8217;s ACORN &#8216;Voter Fraud&#8217; Lie Ramped Up; State Police Raid ACORN Office in Vegas<\/a><br \/>\n<b>10\/8\/08:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6487\">RNC Issues Fox &#8216;News&#8217; Transcript on ACORN &#8216;Voter Fraud&#8217; as Press Release<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"BBTOORepost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> covers your electoral system, fiercely and independently, like no other media outlet in the nation. Please support our work with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=Brad@BradBlog.com&#038;item_name=Support+for+The+BRAD+BLOG&#038;item_number=2008\">a donation<\/a> to help us keep going. If you like, we&#8217;ll send you some great election integrity documentary films in return. <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6472\"><i>Details on that right here&#8230;<\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember yesterday when we told you about the transcript of the Fox &#038; Friends show yesterday morning, discussing the bogus raid of an ACORN office in Las Vegas, and then implying &#8220;more&#8221; ACORN &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; occurring in Missouri? The RNC actually issued that transcript verbatim as an official RNC press release. Remember when we told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acorn"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}