acorn org is airing ads about how new law passed permitting voter ID disenfranchises the blaclk and poor--
ioronic as they are one of primary reasons for law -as several were convicted of felonies in submitting 1800 fictitious voter regerstrations in 06 election :nono:
http://www.metrokc.gov/proatty/news/2007/Voter Registration Statement.htm
Today I am announcing the filing of criminal charges against seven defendants for submitting over 1,700 fraudulent voter registration forms to King County Elections Department in October of 2006.
While the actions of these individuals are extremely serious, I want to begin by assuring the public that no one has voted under these false registrations in any election.
Indeed, a joint federal and state investigation has determined that this scheme was not intended to permit illegal voting.
Instead, the defendants cheated their employer, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or ACORN), to get paid for work they did not actually perform. ACORN's lax oversight of their own voter registration drive permitted this to happen.
Voter fraud will not be tolerated in King County.
This is a crime that undermines public confidence in our democratic process, and we take it very seriously.
Both the group of individual defendants and the ACORN corporation will be held to account by our actions today.
The individuals will be criminal defendants -- facing felony charges.
ACORN will be the subject of a strict Settlement and Compliance agreement, designed to ensure that this type of negligent supervision does not occur again. ACORN has also agreed to pay King County $25,000 in compensation for the time and effort it took to clean up our voter rolls of these false registrations------
ioronic as they are one of primary reasons for law -as several were convicted of felonies in submitting 1800 fictitious voter regerstrations in 06 election :nono:
http://www.metrokc.gov/proatty/news/2007/Voter Registration Statement.htm
Today I am announcing the filing of criminal charges against seven defendants for submitting over 1,700 fraudulent voter registration forms to King County Elections Department in October of 2006.
While the actions of these individuals are extremely serious, I want to begin by assuring the public that no one has voted under these false registrations in any election.
Indeed, a joint federal and state investigation has determined that this scheme was not intended to permit illegal voting.
Instead, the defendants cheated their employer, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or ACORN), to get paid for work they did not actually perform. ACORN's lax oversight of their own voter registration drive permitted this to happen.
Voter fraud will not be tolerated in King County.
This is a crime that undermines public confidence in our democratic process, and we take it very seriously.
Both the group of individual defendants and the ACORN corporation will be held to account by our actions today.
The individuals will be criminal defendants -- facing felony charges.
ACORN will be the subject of a strict Settlement and Compliance agreement, designed to ensure that this type of negligent supervision does not occur again. ACORN has also agreed to pay King County $25,000 in compensation for the time and effort it took to clean up our voter rolls of these false registrations------
