11 Accused of Faking Voter Registration Cards in Miami-Dade

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Jennifer Lebovich, Miami Herald, September 9, 2009

Eleven people hired to register potential voters in Miami-Dade County before last year’s presidential election were being sought Wednesday for falsifying hundreds of voter registration cards.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office issued arrest warrants for each of the 11 suspects, all of whom worked for the local chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, (ACORN).

By early Wednesday morning, six were in custody, authorities said.

ACORN came under fire during last year’s presidential campaign when Republicans and other conservative groups accused the national organization of committing fraud in its aggressive voter registration efforts in various cities and counties nationwide, including Florida.

But ACORN officials said they had alerted authorities about the alleged illegal activity among some canvassers in Miami-Dade after finding “numerous discrepancies” on voter cards collected from the Homestead area.

The arrests are “further evidence we’ve been policing our own folks and report people attempting to commit voter registration fraud,” said ACORN spokesman Brian Kettenring. “This was really some individuals who were trying to defraud their employer.”

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The workers, who were paid between $8 and $10 an hour, registered names of nonexistent people—in one case, Paul Newman and James Taylor appeared on cards—or simply filled out several cards for the same real voter, authorities said.

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Email Jennifer Lebovich at jlebovich@MiamiHerald.com.

(Posted on September 9, 2009)

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Comments

1 — Istvan wrote at 9:23 PM on September 9:

When I first registered to vote in 1980 I had to go in person to the county courthouse. There was no mail-in or motor voter registration. Why in heaven’s name is it too much to ask people to register in person and present ID? If it is that much of a bother then that person shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Voting should be considered a valued part of citizenship and anything of value should be protected. But our politicians do not believe in the value of honest elections and neither do most of us.

2 — Strider wrote at 9:35 PM on September 9:

(from the article): … in one case, Paul Newman and James Taylor appeared on cards …

Just further proof that dead people are the Democrats’ 2nd biggest voting bloc (after blacks). Paul Newman really is dead, and James Taylor does a great impersonation of a dead person any time he sings.

3 — Janet wrote at 2:25 AM on September 10:

One must wonder if Obama really won the presidential race or was his victory fixed by the Acorn people.

4 — Al Zolton wrote at 3:03 AM on September 10:

The workers were “defrauding their employer” for an employer actively defrauding the American vote system. Sounds like a double-whammy to me. Modern American Liberals are often crooks operating and hiding in the shadows of lies.

5 — Thomas Jackson wrote at 7:20 AM on September 10:

Obama’s crew knew they would get over 90% of the African votes from the start…however, there just weren’t enough of those votes to ensure a victory.

Therefore, the ACORN criminals were engaged to stuff the ballot box.

Sounds the same as any other third world African country.

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